When your "peers" are having a conversation right next in Korean regarding America, Foreigners etc... with words like urinara thrown in etc... without mentioning to you at all what they are talking about.... not knowing you understand more than you they think you do...Also, since they ALL can speak English at some level.... (all English staff.)
Quote from: Hot6^ on September 14, 2015, 09:33:01 amWhen your "peers" are having a conversation right next in Korean regarding America, Foreigners etc... with words like urinara thrown in etc... without mentioning to you at all what they are talking about.... not knowing you understand more than you they think you do...Also, since they ALL can speak English at some level.... (all English staff.)I had to re-read as I was sure that wasn't an English word. 우리나라 just means Korea ultimately. Anyway, Personally, I do not mind it when Koreans speak in Korean in front of me. Most are not proficient enough to hold an in-depth conversations in English fluently. Speaking English can be really taxing. What I cannot abide is when Afrikaners do it. You're here to teach, bru. You should be able to hold a conversation about most things without reverting back to your mother-tongue. So stop it.
Quote from: Space on September 14, 2015, 09:52:45 amQuote from: Hot6^ on September 14, 2015, 09:33:01 amWhen your "peers" are having a conversation right next in Korean regarding America, Foreigners etc... with words like urinara thrown in etc... without mentioning to you at all what they are talking about.... not knowing you understand more than you they think you do...Also, since they ALL can speak English at some level.... (all English staff.)I had to re-read as I was sure that wasn't an English word. 우리나라 just means Korea ultimately. Anyway, Personally, I do not mind it when Koreans speak in Korean in front of me. Most are not proficient enough to hold an in-depth conversations in English fluently. Speaking English can be really taxing. What I cannot abide is when Afrikaners do it. You're here to teach, bru. You should be able to hold a conversation about most things without reverting back to your mother-tongue. So stop it. It isn't an English word, I just didn't type in Hangul, but good for you. It's more like "our country," not Korea.You're right, most, but these are my 4 CT's who have good English speaking ability. If it's too taxing for them to even tell me what they are talking about (when it's obvious they are talking about things regarding foreigners, and my home country), then why are they teaching English?
The building friction between my CT and I...She wanted me to make lesson plans for her, regarding the classes we have together. I asked why, she stated because we need it in case the BoE comes for inspection..? Yet not of the other teachers mention this at all. I sorta figured she was just trying to get me to do lesson plans for her. Whatever, takes like 5 min to just change some things on the template I wrote the week before.Now, "I want the plans to be more detailed." How? I write the process for everything we do... "I want you to write what the teacher should be saying." So you want me to write you a script? Are this for you? I thought these were just for archive purposes in case BoE comes... She sorta starts to stumble on her words.... well you don't have too etc.....Yeah that's what I thought, you just want me to be writing Scripted lesson plans for you, so you don't have to write them. Maybe it's Monday and I am just a little bit more on edge or something.....Also, the constant spying over my shoulder. EVERY TIME she walks by she starts reading over my shoulder, or investigating what I am doing on the computer... Sometimes it's so blatant, she had no reason to walk by, but only to glance at my screen.It's come to the point of; I just swivel in my chair and stare and say "yes......" And she continues to just watch, and I just stare at her, and she just stands there waiting for me to continue whatever it is I am doing...I'm not doing anything wrong, so it's not like I should really care, but it's just intrusive, obviously more of a cultural thing. I actually wish I HAD a cubicle.Then the constant little outburst of urinara-isms....It's all sorta snowballing.
Just want to vent this here, since I don't take out my anger on the road.Driving into work today -- in no hurry because I'm just going to work -- and I need to make a right turn at a green light, problem is there is a taxi parked in the right lane/blocking the intersection, so I decide to pull around him into the left lane (after all, turning into the wrong lane is as commonplace as kimchi in Korea). He chooses this moment to begin pulling away from the curb, so I give him a little friendly beep, just to let him know I'm there/be safe.Well, apparently he didn't like being beeped at, because about a block later, we came to a stop (me in the left lane, him in the right, slightly behind) and he blasts his horn at me. There were no left turns at that intersection, so I was in no way blocking any move he wanted to make, he was clear to turn right, and we both had to wait to go straight. he had no signal on either way.20 meters down the road, he comes up behind a parked van, begins turning towards me and blasts his horn at me again, as if I put the van there, or he wants me to drive into oncoming traffic just to let him squeeze by.Just...FFS. The irony of this whole ridiculously childish display was that he was driving one of those taxis with the "Best Driver" thing on top.
Quote from: DLJL on September 11, 2015, 02:17:48 pmQuote from: waygo0k on September 10, 2015, 03:57:10 pmPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!How should I respond to this post regarding pedantic, petty and irritating individuals? I'll think about it later, first I'll just point out a grammar error.*Spelling error*
Quote from: waygo0k on September 10, 2015, 03:57:10 pmPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!How should I respond to this post regarding pedantic, petty and irritating individuals? I'll think about it later, first I'll just point out a grammar error.
PRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!
Quote from: kyndo on September 14, 2015, 08:31:14 am*Spelling error* A spelling error would be if I said "princippal." In that instance I chose the correct word but didn't spell it correctly. YAY BEING A SNARK ON THE INTERNET
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Quote from: kyndo on September 14, 2015, 08:31:14 amQuote from: DLJL on September 11, 2015, 02:17:48 pmQuote from: waygo0k on September 10, 2015, 03:57:10 pmPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!How should I respond to this post regarding pedantic, petty and irritating individuals? I'll think about it later, first I'll just point out a grammar error.*Spelling error* A spelling error would be if I said "princippal." In that instance I chose the correct word but didn't spell it correctly. When you're dealing with homophones and you use the incorrect of the two that would be a grammar error; the language usage was incorrect, not its construction. YAY BEING A SNARK ON THE INTERNET
Quote from: DLJL on September 11, 2015, 02:17:48 pmQuote from: waygo0k on September 10, 2015, 03:57:10 pmQuote from: DLJL on September 10, 2015, 03:50:26 pmI have to bow and greet my principle and vice principle every day, and any time I see them in the hall, as I hear a lot of other teachers have to do. I end up seeing my principle six or seven times a day just around the school and bow/greet every time. Every single time he just dead-pans straight ahead and doesn't even acknowledge that I exist. One time I walked through a busy area of the school and missed him, totally by accident. He called my co-teacher the next day and complained that I did not bow. I'd bowed to him about six times that day already.Students also wave and shout hello at me in the halls. I wave and say hello back. He called to complain that he has seen me waving and I should be bowing. Waving is not korean.Another time I bowed to him, the vice principle and another teacher who were all stood talking together. He called my co-teacher and complained that I bowed to the three of them collectively and should have bowed to him individually.Today he called my co-teacher to complain that I bowed to him too deeply while he was standing next to parents and I made it look as if he is a difficult man who demands deep bows from his teachers.BOWING POLITICSPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!How should I respond to this post regarding pedantic, petty and irritating individuals? I'll think about it later, first I'll just point out a grammar error.Not a grammar error.Haha, pedant joke.
Quote from: waygo0k on September 10, 2015, 03:57:10 pmQuote from: DLJL on September 10, 2015, 03:50:26 pmI have to bow and greet my principle and vice principle every day, and any time I see them in the hall, as I hear a lot of other teachers have to do. I end up seeing my principle six or seven times a day just around the school and bow/greet every time. Every single time he just dead-pans straight ahead and doesn't even acknowledge that I exist. One time I walked through a busy area of the school and missed him, totally by accident. He called my co-teacher the next day and complained that I did not bow. I'd bowed to him about six times that day already.Students also wave and shout hello at me in the halls. I wave and say hello back. He called to complain that he has seen me waving and I should be bowing. Waving is not korean.Another time I bowed to him, the vice principle and another teacher who were all stood talking together. He called my co-teacher and complained that I bowed to the three of them collectively and should have bowed to him individually.Today he called my co-teacher to complain that I bowed to him too deeply while he was standing next to parents and I made it look as if he is a difficult man who demands deep bows from his teachers.BOWING POLITICSPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!How should I respond to this post regarding pedantic, petty and irritating individuals? I'll think about it later, first I'll just point out a grammar error.
Quote from: DLJL on September 10, 2015, 03:50:26 pmI have to bow and greet my principle and vice principle every day, and any time I see them in the hall, as I hear a lot of other teachers have to do. I end up seeing my principle six or seven times a day just around the school and bow/greet every time. Every single time he just dead-pans straight ahead and doesn't even acknowledge that I exist. One time I walked through a busy area of the school and missed him, totally by accident. He called my co-teacher the next day and complained that I did not bow. I'd bowed to him about six times that day already.Students also wave and shout hello at me in the halls. I wave and say hello back. He called to complain that he has seen me waving and I should be bowing. Waving is not korean.Another time I bowed to him, the vice principle and another teacher who were all stood talking together. He called my co-teacher and complained that I bowed to the three of them collectively and should have bowed to him individually.Today he called my co-teacher to complain that I bowed to him too deeply while he was standing next to parents and I made it look as if he is a difficult man who demands deep bows from his teachers.BOWING POLITICSPRINCIPAL!!PRINCIPAL!!PRIN-CI-PAL!!!!!!!
I have to bow and greet my principle and vice principle every day, and any time I see them in the hall, as I hear a lot of other teachers have to do. I end up seeing my principle six or seven times a day just around the school and bow/greet every time. Every single time he just dead-pans straight ahead and doesn't even acknowledge that I exist. One time I walked through a busy area of the school and missed him, totally by accident. He called my co-teacher the next day and complained that I did not bow. I'd bowed to him about six times that day already.Students also wave and shout hello at me in the halls. I wave and say hello back. He called to complain that he has seen me waving and I should be bowing. Waving is not korean.Another time I bowed to him, the vice principle and another teacher who were all stood talking together. He called my co-teacher and complained that I bowed to the three of them collectively and should have bowed to him individually.Today he called my co-teacher to complain that I bowed to him too deeply while he was standing next to parents and I made it look as if he is a difficult man who demands deep bows from his teachers.BOWING POLITICS
Since I've been in Korea I've become pretty obsessive about germs, especially in bathrooms. The bathrooms at my school are absolutely filthy.Whenever I use the toilet at school, I always pre-flush; that is, I always flush it BEFORE I go as well as after because there is always, ALWAYS pee/poop in there from whoever used it before. Seriously, no one at my school flushes or uses toilet paper (they don't wash their hands either but that's pretty much a given). I know this because I routinely see even teachers going in there sans tissue and they just walk out without washing after. Well, one day last week I pre-flushed and the nasty water immediately overflowed and splashed onto the floor and a little on my legs. I didn't notice that it was going to overflow right away because I always close the seat first to prevent splash-back. So I had to awkwardly maneuver my way out of that tiny, cramped stall to avoid stepping in more pee water as best I could, while also avoiding touching the walls and pretty much anything else in the stall. The walls, doors, everything is covered in poo smears that haven't been cleaned once in the year I've been at this school.Anyway, after that toilet flooded, all the water seeped into the middle of the bathroom toward the drain, so of course I went downstairs to use the other bathroom. The exact same thing happened. Apparently the plumbing in the entire building is messed up. So now I have to make the trek to a completely different building that still has flushing toilets every time I have to go and it's annoying AF as I'm walking throughout the buildings carrying a giant handful of TP which I need extra of to cover the toilet seats first and/or wipe them down because they're covered in pee drops. The rage I feel...
Quote from: taingray on September 15, 2015, 03:17:40 pmSince I've been in Korea I've become pretty obsessive about germs, especially in be they're covered in pee drops. The rage I feel...I didn't think women had to worry about stained seats/rims.Seriously...how does one stain the seat if you're sitting down??? That has to be some awkward trajectory angle
Since I've been in Korea I've become pretty obsessive about germs, especially in be they're covered in pee drops. The rage I feel...