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Grand Fromage posted:Even worse, his hagwon banned its employees from Hongdae and Itaewon. I thought you were ignoring that dumb poo poo man, gently caress them. It's not like they hired PIs to track you. Or that it's any of their business what you do outside of school. What is the straw. How strong is the camel's back.
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Did that sexy bitch win new breasts or get a prize for having new breasts? I need this resolved.
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John Sheehy posted:Did that sexy bitch win new breasts or get a prize for having new breasts? I need this resolved. Why is she holding that card so high if it was a prize for her (future) breasts? And how do I sign up for the breast rating committee?
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AmbientParadox posted:I'll be in Hongdae this weekend. What show is it Friday night? I was just planning on checking out the jazz club, Club Evans, and going from there. terivinix posted:I'm assuming you're a soldier then... (also hostels) Grand Fromage posted:Even worse, his hagwon banned its employees from Hongdae and Itaewon. I thought you were ignoring that dumb poo poo man, gently caress them. It's not like they hired PIs to track you. Or that it's any of their business what you do outside of school. John Sheehy posted:What is the straw. How strong is the camel's back.
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DontAskKant posted:The camel's back is pretty drat strong. It can bear sexual harassment, grossly unsafe working conditions, a third of minimum wage, and all sorts of fuckery. A third of minimum wage?
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 13:45 |
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John Sheehy posted:A third of minimum wage?
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DontAskKant posted:Lived in a state that didn't always enforce the minimum wage so if I wanted work I had to accept some lovely jobs. That third of instance comes from 100 hours a week as a carpenter/metal worker/electrician at $250 per week before taxes. Ah right, thought you meant in Korea. That'd be fairly abysmal!
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DontAskKant posted:Yeah, it's the Toro y Moi show? When are you going to Club Evans? I will be needing something to do after around 1AM. I wonder if I still have your number/Kakao. I'm in the big kakaotalk gangbang, but due to needing wifi for it, I only make guest appearances. My plans for Friday night are pretty up in the air, but will definitely revolve around Hongdae.
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AmbientParadox posted:I'm in the big kakaotalk gangbang, but due to needing wifi for it, I only make guest appearances. My plans for Friday night are pretty up in the air, but will definitely revolve around Hongdae. Also, for those keeping track we are starting to suspect that they just made up the whole reason for not going into Hongdae. Nobody else in any of the other branches has heard of anything and I haven't seen any news reports on it. I assumed that foreigners + weed would be all over the news for a bust of 6 people. I have no idea why they would make it up, other than it would be fun for management.
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Making poo poo up for no reason seems to be a hobby of anyone with any power here. We had one guy busted for hash in Ulsan and it was unavoidable, news coverage, co-teachers talking to you, a mandatory police orientation nonsense, I can't imagine six people not making the news. That's at least a solid week of gently caress foreigners editorials, would be a waste. The only reasoning I can think of is they want an excuse for 11 month firings, and so they decide to ban you from the two areas they can be reasonably certain you will go to at some point. Then they can lie about seeing you there and hey, we warned you. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at Feb 16, 2012 around 15:32 |
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The only thing stupider than banning you from going to certain parts of the city because of what other people did is actually going along with it. No one is even going to remember that rule in a week anyways, so remembering over it for more than 4 more days is pretty much a waste of time. Hell, you could probably even mention how you went to Hongdae on the weekend to your boss and he or she wouldn't even think about it.
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Oh, they have stuck to the story pretty consistently. It's been brought up for the past two and a half weeks. Though they are pretty fast and loose with really vague written warnings so they have their 11 month firing angle pretty wrapped up there. I wouldn't be surprised if all 7 of us have one by now and we are one of the more reserved branches. e: are there bed bugs in Korea? The very thought is making me itchier. Just dry skin?  e again: That was a fun bit of hysteria, but seriously why am I itchy with little red spots in some of the itchy spots. DontAskKant fucked around with this message at Feb 16, 2012 around 17:48 |
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MY school has just done one really blatantly offensive thing the whole 5 months I've been here and is otherwise run like a Mom and Pop organization. I honestly don't know how to feel about it when I see all these other horror stories.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:MY school has just done one really blatantly offensive thing the whole 5 months I've been here and is otherwise run like a Mom and Pop organization. I honestly don't know how to feel about it when I see all these other horror stories. I know what you mean. I have worked in 3 different hagwons in 3 different cities. I was treated really well in all my situations. Granted, I could find small things to bitch about. But all in all, they respected me, treated me fairly, and stayed out of my personal business. I guess I have just gotten lucky. I do wonder sometimes if it is because I am married and have a kid. That puts ne up on a higher social scale, and maybe I get treated accordingly. But I know that the other teachers in my hagwons have been treated well too, so maybe I have just gotten lucky and have been in good schools.
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My hagwon hasn't done anything offensive, but one of the teachers has consistently been kind of a bitch. I dont know if it's on purpose or if she's just kind of stupid and doesn't realize she makes teaching harder. She told one of my classes that I smoke for some reason, which they went on about for a while until another teacher made up an excuse (now they think I only smoke special nicotine free cigarettes because I'm trying to quit.) And she told every class about the middle schooler pizza party. The middle school class is only 4 kids and later in the evening when there are no other classes so sometimes we get pizza. She told every single class so now I have to deal with huge classes of 10 year olds asking for pizza all the time. The kids don't really like her either. One of the kids left the other day and the other kids told me its because she's a bad teacher.
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I'll probably be at the code s finals, especially if its a DRG final. Is it definitely in Seoul?
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BrainDance posted:I dont know if it's on purpose or if she's just kind of stupid and doesn't realize she makes teaching harder. No, it's on purpose. Bitches are bitches everywhere.
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AmbientParadox posted:No, it's on purpose. Bitches are bitches everywhere. Yeah, that pizza thing seals it. She knew precisely what would happen if she told a bunch of kids you were giving something to their peers that they weren't getting. There's no way in Hell that was an accident.
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DontAskKant posted:Nope, well not yet anyway. I am holding out for the cheap 4000-5000 won ones. Then why would Hongdae be off-limits to you? EDIT: Cameron posted:The only thing stupider than banning you from going to certain parts of the city because of what other people did is actually going along with it. No one is even going to remember that rule in a week anyways, so remembering over it for more than 4 more days is pretty much a waste of time. Hell, you could probably even mention how you went to Hongdae on the weekend to your boss and he or she wouldn't even think about it. Oh, your school banned you from going? Just...don't tell them. terivinix fucked around with this message at Feb 17, 2012 around 01:08 |
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The important thing to remember about Korea is that Kim Jong Il was not that dissimilar from your average office manager. He just had the ability to indulge his fantasies more completely.
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I figured as much. I don't mean to sound cocky but I think she's kind of jealous. The kids are really vocal about who they like and who they don't. They really like one other teacher and me, are neutral about the others, and don't like her. About a month ago some kids were comparing me to her when she was in earshot. Then I bought a bunch of chicken for everyone, stepped out to smoke a cigarette, and she threw away my chicken  I think I just have to put up with it. I thought about confronting her but I'm sure that would just cause more problems.
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frozenpeas posted:The important thing to remember about Korea is that Kim Jong Il was not that dissimilar from your average office manager. He just had the ability to indulge his fantasies more completely. It's amazing how much more sense North Korea makes once you've been here for a little while.
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Grand Fromage posted:It's amazing how much more sense North Korea makes once you've been here for a little while. Careful with that.
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When looking for dentists and dermatologists near Seoul does anyone have any suggestions or should I just look on Waygook or Dave's? I suppose I could just pick one and try and speak in English and if it is close and they can speak English some choose that one.
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Doctors and dentists in Korea are probably the profession that's most likely to be conversant in English and/or educated abroad (including English teachers, ironically) so it isn't really that hard. There's a couple places that specialize in foreigners, but it mostly seems like an excuse to overbill. Just do a waygook search and choose one at random. I go to http://www.dentistkim.co.kr/index.htm because we are both men of San Francisco, which makes us morally superior to the lot of you.
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BrainDance posted:I figured as much. I don't mean to sound cocky but I think she's kind of jealous. The kids are really vocal about who they like and who they don't. They really like one other teacher and me, are neutral about the others, and don't like her. Wow. e: I'd say confronting someone like that without a high enough level of Korean wouldn't even be worth the trouble. John Sheehy fucked around with this message at Feb 17, 2012 around 04:17 |
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BrainDance posted:I figured as much. I don't mean to sound cocky but I think she's kind of jealous. The kids are really vocal about who they like and who they don't. They really like one other teacher and me, are neutral about the others, and don't like her. Just for clarification, is she a Korean or foreign teacher? I agree with the others that it sounds like she isn't very fond of you, though if I were in that situation personally, I would probably confront her with a "Do you have a problem with me?" and cite the things she has done if she denies it, especially when she told everyone about the pizza thing.
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Welp.quote:Police said Friday they have arrested and detained five people, including a Korean man with Canadian nationality, suspected of dealing marijuana in two separate drug rings.
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I don't smoke but I know the major difference between hemp and marijuana. Come on! I just received notice that GEPIK's orientation is 1 month after I arrive. Uh, good effort, I guess.
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Arctic Baldwin posted:I just received notice that GEPIK's orientation is 1 month after I arrive. Uh, good effort, I guess. We had teacher training four months after my group of teachers arrived and orientation at ten months. 
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AmbientParadox posted:Careful with that. That guy's a friend of mine. Totally not a communist. A few years ago, his nickname was inexplicably Donald Rumsfeld.
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Arctic Baldwin posted:I don't smoke but I know the major difference between hemp and marijuana. Come on! It's better this way. No one learns anything even halfway useful, but if you arrive when it starts you don't get paid for it. I had to do a week, classes 9-5, three breaks, lights out at 11, booze prohibited (except for Koreans who could get drunk as gently caress and hoot and holler well into the wee hours) If I'd had started before orientation at least I would have made like $800
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Oh, and if anyone is interested, the Seoul Survivors Rugby club is starting practices up again. Check out http://facebook.com/seoulsurvivors to see upcoming practices and a meet and greet in a week. We take tours down to Manila, to China and Japan and such. It's a good time. No experience is necessary and there is a less competitive team for people who just want to play for fun. Unfortunately, I won't be there until the first weekend of March or else you could see what a warrior truly aspires to be. Practices are going on now at Yonsei and will be at the Han River park near Apgujeong station in the near future.
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lol@ the teachers getting busted. Heaven forbid you forgo smoking weed for 1-2 years. I have no qualms about throwing these guys under the bus.terivinix posted:That guy's a friend of mine. Totally not a communist. A few years ago, his nickname was inexplicably Donald Rumsfeld. I feel like the poor guy is being made an example of. It's bullshit, but this country takes North/South security very seriously. I think people tend to forget that the war is still technically ongoing.
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quote:as well as to an employee of a local industrial conglomerate I'm not even offended by the attempt so much as the execution. Have some professionalism. Just because you're breaking the law doesn't mean you have to be retarded. quote:I'll probably be at the code s finals, especially if its a DRG final. Is it definitely in Seoul? I don't know about DRG, but if it's going to be a TvT again I'm staying home and ordering a pint of ice cream or whatever the hell it is you're supposed to do in mourning. And yeah, it'll be Seoul, though they haven't announced the venue yet. tirinal fucked around with this message at Feb 17, 2012 around 06:43 |
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AmbientParadox posted:lol@ the teachers getting busted. Heaven forbid you forgo smoking weed for 1-2 years. I have no qualms about throwing these guys under the bus. I'm just annoyed at the rest of us having to catch poo poo because these guys smoked a harmless drug. I wonder if they'll start doing hair tests... a positive hair test is possession here from what I've read, so between teachers who smoked at home (where it might even be legal) before coming or did it in Cambodia or something, might be a whole hell of a lot of people deported for something that wasn't even illegal.
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AmbientParadox posted:I feel like the poor guy is being made an example of. It's bullshit, but this country takes North/South security very seriously. I think people tend to forget that the war is still technically ongoing. Technically, yes, but in my opinion the best strategy in winning it is by trying to be as unlike North Korea as possible, through sane governance, justice, and prosperity.
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It still doesn't make sense even with the ongoing technical war. In the 60s, sure, North Korean infiltration was a serious threat and since NK was better off economically, there was a real chance people might switch loyalties and revolt against the government. Now? There is absolutely zero chance that any significant number of South Koreans are going to defect or start a revolt or whatever. There is nothing good about NK, there is no threat. There is still an external military threat, but somebody making sarcastic remarks on Twitter has gently caress all to do with that.
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Here's a fun game, try to get your co-teachers to pronounce "crawl". It's not a good idea for her to get my class to repeat it the way she does and have them learn it that way that way. I guess the best text approximation is "Can this turtle kerr?"
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