Well I must admit it wouldn't be a very inspiring management decision. 'Now we need someone with patience and understanding to babysit all the Waygooks in the office who can't speak Korean or use the latest phone aps. How about Martin?'
Doesn't make it right, especially when that teacher is assigned the duty to help the foreign teacher. It's part of the job they're being paid to do. If those handlers can't be bothered to make a phone call on their NETs behalf, then they're literally not doing their job. It's something like a shift manager not bothering to tell the new employee how to operate the deep fryer. Not only is it lazy and unprofessional, it's also counterproductive. I was a regional coordinator for a couple years in Japan, and there were a *lot* of dumb questions, but answering them was part of the job. Understanding that they're not necessarily dumb questions/problems to the person asking was definitely key to becoming a better coordinator! (I mean, I was still sarcastic and snarky, but I was *sympathetically* sarcastic and snarky ).
I like how you assume the worst of us while giving everyone else massive benefit of the doubt
Agreed. If it's just some random guy in the office who's unhelpful fine you won't ask them for help again. If it's someone's specific role in their job description, that's a different matter. I guess problems arise when someone with an attitude problem, like DM, gets assigned a role to help people unofficially or against their will and ends up resenting it. Makes you wonder what these people are like as teachers though, considering virtually their entire job day in day out is to help people with stuff they probably should have spent more of their own time trying to get the hang of .
Come on, do you actually believe DMart had that role? Not for a second do I buy that. Just trying to bolster his argument with his usual horsesh*t. He was king of that on Dave's Cafe. Whatever the discussion topic was he either had personal experience in the field or had a close relative that was a pilot, banker, union activist, bookie, CEO, male escort etc. It's why he can be so entertaining and never gets the boot. Truth is no barrier for him to hold court on any given topic.
Does Martino even speak Korean? I mean he'll probably come along now and claim he's fluent, but in truth world, I don't think he speaks the tongue of those he defends so tirelessly.
Of course you help but at some point you gave to take off the training wheels and the cubs have to learn how to figure things out for themselves.Long-term people need to learn not to be dependent. If you ask for help as a last, rather than a first resort, you will develop the ability to use things.
Of course you help but at some point you gave to take off the training wheels and the cubs have to learn how to figure things out for themselves
What? As opposed to your scintillating personality which has drawn rave reviews here on waygook.org?
Is there a review section on here, must have missed that. Is it a bit like this? DeMartino's treatment of the sensitive statue issue was particularly insightful, can't wait for the next installment. ****Has Mayorhaggar's White Supremacist series finally jumped the shark? *Aristocrat's new gym ramble splendidly re-defines egocentricity. *****
ooooh do one for gloob @stoat
hey man dont forget to worry about the things that could go wrong ON thursday. did u see that flight over colorado where the engine caught fire? so don't worry mister t, there's always something to worry about
*cough*Mr. C is not a bad person, in fact is quite a good person here. One of the best people on this forum if you really look at it
I've never been the type to ask people for help, so, I can't draw from too many personal experiences. I can only comment on culture.
Didn't people do that here, just the other way around? Also, I put in qualifiers to make it clear I wasn't talking about everyone.