My first 3 years I worked at an all boys high school. It was so great. Kids were hilarious. Had my own office where I had a kettle, microwave, and privacy! I controlled the heat or aircon!! I even had tissue for the bathroom! Then EPIK was like no more high schools! and here I am teaching middle school/elementary school in the teachers office, never get a chance alone, kids are brats, and everyone has a comment because I bring my own damn lunch. Nice co teachers but would do anything to go back ㅠㅠ I like teaching in Korea but wish I could do it how I once did.
I get that. I lived in Japan for a few years and that was my first experience with them. Very scary to start with. But I guess like anything, you get used to it.
Quote from: z80 on September 21, 2016, 11:59:09 amQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 21, 2016, 11:50:56 amBut - anyone who says this job is 'easy' probably either a) doesn't care about their job very much, or b) is really bad and lazy at their job. I think a large majority of people who have previously worked in professional fields may find this job very easy.Yes. I've worked in three industires and if you truly think this job is hard than you obviously havent had much work experience in other professional fields.I've been teaching now for 10 years and yes this job is absolutely easy. It has nothing to do with laziness. I have taught in 4 countries, to students of about 30 different languages, from ages to 1 to 90. The Korean method makes it even easier and concurrently more boring.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 21, 2016, 11:50:56 amBut - anyone who says this job is 'easy' probably either a) doesn't care about their job very much, or b) is really bad and lazy at their job. I think a large majority of people who have previously worked in professional fields may find this job very easy.
But - anyone who says this job is 'easy' probably either a) doesn't care about their job very much, or b) is really bad and lazy at their job.
Quote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 03:23:57 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 20, 2016, 01:45:52 pmQuote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 01:09:22 pmthis is a minor annoyance but i really wish they would keep the toilet paper in the bathrooms stocked at my school. no hand dryers or paper towels i accepted easily. i keep my own TP at my desk now but sometimes i've had to go to like 4 or 5 bathrooms just to find some, and it'll stay that way for days and days. are they trying to save? is it just not in the budget? do the people here just not care about kids running around with no access to toilet paper at school? i know the cleaning ladies go in there more often than they restock the toilet paper because they empty out the trashes. just.. do better, c'mon. and if someone is going to reply to this with some annoying word vomit about how constant access to toilet paper is a wasteful western invention and we really don't need it as evidenced by how koreans have magically self-cleaning asses, i don't care. i really don't care.Anyone who would literally call access to toilet paper 'western intervention' is silly.Actually, 99% of homeroom teachers keep some toilet paper in their classroom, and most students keep some or have a friend who keeps some in their little cubby locker or bag. So, the school doesn't stock it because dumb kids will make a mess out of it and waste it, and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal.I was lucky, I've always had washrooms for teachers at all my schools, and they always have toilet paper, because teachers aren't going to grab it and run through the halls or cover the bathroom in it.That's fine for when they are in homeroom, but I often see kids in between classes run into the stalls with absolutely nothing, do their business, and then run out. No one is giving them toilet paper in those situations. My coteachers don't give students toilet paper when they leave in the middle of class and they never ask me for it. Granted, it's the younger students I see doing this. I'm sure the 6th graders are a little bit more conscientious. "and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal." Yes I know, as everyone knows access to toilet paper isn't just a western thing. It was a joke about how completely useless the majority of responses on here are. Kind of like telling someone who has lived in Korea for three years that people generally carry toilet paper on them.My point was I wish the bathrooms had toilet paper, I don't care about their reasons or how they make up for it sometimes.There's a lot of toilet paper everywhere in this country. But damn you if you flush it down the toilet. I have seen messages on stall doors for ages in both Korean and English: Don't flush the toilet paper down the toilet. I understand that Korea has small pipes, but toilet paper is made to dissolve. And ok, I understand that sit toilets instead of squat toilets were put in during the Olympics in 1988. And the toilet paper at that time clogged up a lot of pipes. But that was 1988! Toilet paper has evolved man. Modern toilet paper is supposed to dissolve in about 30 seconds. It's the least offensive thing you could flush other than your own piss. But the belief prevails anyway. Where are the scientific experts in this country? Certainly not in the news. Food and other solids are ok to flush, by the way.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 20, 2016, 01:45:52 pmQuote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 01:09:22 pmthis is a minor annoyance but i really wish they would keep the toilet paper in the bathrooms stocked at my school. no hand dryers or paper towels i accepted easily. i keep my own TP at my desk now but sometimes i've had to go to like 4 or 5 bathrooms just to find some, and it'll stay that way for days and days. are they trying to save? is it just not in the budget? do the people here just not care about kids running around with no access to toilet paper at school? i know the cleaning ladies go in there more often than they restock the toilet paper because they empty out the trashes. just.. do better, c'mon. and if someone is going to reply to this with some annoying word vomit about how constant access to toilet paper is a wasteful western invention and we really don't need it as evidenced by how koreans have magically self-cleaning asses, i don't care. i really don't care.Anyone who would literally call access to toilet paper 'western intervention' is silly.Actually, 99% of homeroom teachers keep some toilet paper in their classroom, and most students keep some or have a friend who keeps some in their little cubby locker or bag. So, the school doesn't stock it because dumb kids will make a mess out of it and waste it, and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal.I was lucky, I've always had washrooms for teachers at all my schools, and they always have toilet paper, because teachers aren't going to grab it and run through the halls or cover the bathroom in it.That's fine for when they are in homeroom, but I often see kids in between classes run into the stalls with absolutely nothing, do their business, and then run out. No one is giving them toilet paper in those situations. My coteachers don't give students toilet paper when they leave in the middle of class and they never ask me for it. Granted, it's the younger students I see doing this. I'm sure the 6th graders are a little bit more conscientious. "and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal." Yes I know, as everyone knows access to toilet paper isn't just a western thing. It was a joke about how completely useless the majority of responses on here are. Kind of like telling someone who has lived in Korea for three years that people generally carry toilet paper on them.My point was I wish the bathrooms had toilet paper, I don't care about their reasons or how they make up for it sometimes.
Quote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 01:09:22 pmthis is a minor annoyance but i really wish they would keep the toilet paper in the bathrooms stocked at my school. no hand dryers or paper towels i accepted easily. i keep my own TP at my desk now but sometimes i've had to go to like 4 or 5 bathrooms just to find some, and it'll stay that way for days and days. are they trying to save? is it just not in the budget? do the people here just not care about kids running around with no access to toilet paper at school? i know the cleaning ladies go in there more often than they restock the toilet paper because they empty out the trashes. just.. do better, c'mon. and if someone is going to reply to this with some annoying word vomit about how constant access to toilet paper is a wasteful western invention and we really don't need it as evidenced by how koreans have magically self-cleaning asses, i don't care. i really don't care.Anyone who would literally call access to toilet paper 'western intervention' is silly.Actually, 99% of homeroom teachers keep some toilet paper in their classroom, and most students keep some or have a friend who keeps some in their little cubby locker or bag. So, the school doesn't stock it because dumb kids will make a mess out of it and waste it, and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal.I was lucky, I've always had washrooms for teachers at all my schools, and they always have toilet paper, because teachers aren't going to grab it and run through the halls or cover the bathroom in it.
this is a minor annoyance but i really wish they would keep the toilet paper in the bathrooms stocked at my school. no hand dryers or paper towels i accepted easily. i keep my own TP at my desk now but sometimes i've had to go to like 4 or 5 bathrooms just to find some, and it'll stay that way for days and days. are they trying to save? is it just not in the budget? do the people here just not care about kids running around with no access to toilet paper at school? i know the cleaning ladies go in there more often than they restock the toilet paper because they empty out the trashes. just.. do better, c'mon. and if someone is going to reply to this with some annoying word vomit about how constant access to toilet paper is a wasteful western invention and we really don't need it as evidenced by how koreans have magically self-cleaning asses, i don't care. i really don't care.
Quote from: zola on September 21, 2016, 12:17:55 pmQuote from: z80 on September 21, 2016, 11:59:09 amQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 21, 2016, 11:50:56 amBut - anyone who says this job is 'easy' probably either a) doesn't care about their job very much, or b) is really bad and lazy at their job. I think a large majority of people who have previously worked in professional fields may find this job very easy.Yes. I've worked in three industires and if you truly think this job is hard than you obviously havent had much work experience in other professional fields.I've been teaching now for 10 years and yes this job is absolutely easy. It has nothing to do with laziness. I have taught in 4 countries, to students of about 30 different languages, from ages to 1 to 90. The Korean method makes it even easier and concurrently more boring. Yeah, I've worked a variety of jobs and find Korea is, by far, the easiest most stress free job that I've ever had. Anyone who finds this job even a smidge difficult has obviously never had to work very hard in life.
Quote from: Somebody on September 21, 2016, 12:13:11 amQuote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 03:23:57 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 20, 2016, 01:45:52 pmQuote from: sevenpm on September 20, 2016, 01:09:22 pmthis is a minor annoyance but i really wish they would keep the toilet paper in the bathrooms stocked at my school. no hand dryers or paper towels i accepted easily. i keep my own TP at my desk now but sometimes i've had to go to like 4 or 5 bathrooms just to find some, and it'll stay that way for days and days. are they trying to save? is it just not in the budget? do the people here just not care about kids running around with no access to toilet paper at school? i know the cleaning ladies go in there more often than they restock the toilet paper because they empty out the trashes. just.. do better, c'mon. and if someone is going to reply to this with some annoying word vomit about how constant access to toilet paper is a wasteful western invention and we really don't need it as evidenced by how koreans have magically self-cleaning asses, i don't care. i really don't care.Anyone who would literally call access to toilet paper 'western intervention' is silly.Actually, 99% of homeroom teachers keep some toilet paper in their classroom, and most students keep some or have a friend who keeps some in their little cubby locker or bag. So, the school doesn't stock it because dumb kids will make a mess out of it and waste it, and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal.I was lucky, I've always had washrooms for teachers at all my schools, and they always have toilet paper, because teachers aren't going to grab it and run through the halls or cover the bathroom in it.That's fine for when they are in homeroom, but I often see kids in between classes run into the stalls with absolutely nothing, do their business, and then run out. No one is giving them toilet paper in those situations. My coteachers don't give students toilet paper when they leave in the middle of class and they never ask me for it. Granted, it's the younger students I see doing this. I'm sure the 6th graders are a little bit more conscientious. "and also it's just expected that people will have their own toilet paper, or borrow from a friend, because that's normal." Yes I know, as everyone knows access to toilet paper isn't just a western thing. It was a joke about how completely useless the majority of responses on here are. Kind of like telling someone who has lived in Korea for three years that people generally carry toilet paper on them.My point was I wish the bathrooms had toilet paper, I don't care about their reasons or how they make up for it sometimes.There's a lot of toilet paper everywhere in this country. But damn you if you flush it down the toilet. I have seen messages on stall doors for ages in both Korean and English: Don't flush the toilet paper down the toilet. I understand that Korea has small pipes, but toilet paper is made to dissolve. And ok, I understand that sit toilets instead of squat toilets were put in during the Olympics in 1988. And the toilet paper at that time clogged up a lot of pipes. But that was 1988! Toilet paper has evolved man. Modern toilet paper is supposed to dissolve in about 30 seconds. It's the least offensive thing you could flush other than your own piss. But the belief prevails anyway. Where are the scientific experts in this country? Certainly not in the news. Food and other solids are ok to flush, by the way.When I moved in with my wife I told her that having a bin full of poopy toilet paper was pretty disgusting, especially when you're sitting there and you can smell it. She did her little head tilt thing she does when she's contemplating something, and then told me 'yeah, I guess that is pretty gross isn't it?' She's been a flusher ever since.
Tell me what other job you could constantly fail at but as long as the people in charge of personnel are happy, you get to keep your job?
Quote from: Action Jackson on September 21, 2016, 09:37:02 pmTell me what other job you could constantly fail at but as long as the people in charge of personnel are happy, you get to keep your job? Being Wayne Rooney?
Game's over, we have a winner. And possibly a bitter Man U fan.Quote from: sligo on September 22, 2016, 08:36:37 amQuote from: Action Jackson on September 21, 2016, 09:37:02 pmTell me what other job you could constantly fail at but as long as the people in charge of personnel are happy, you get to keep your job? Being Wayne Rooney?
Quote from: alexrathy on September 22, 2016, 08:49:21 amGame's over, we have a winner. And possibly a bitter Man U fan.Quote from: sligo on September 22, 2016, 08:36:37 amQuote from: Action Jackson on September 21, 2016, 09:37:02 pmTell me what other job you could constantly fail at but as long as the people in charge of personnel are happy, you get to keep your job? Being Wayne Rooney?If winning the premier league five times,champions league once, league cup twice and Fa cup once is what you call failing... Not a fan of Utd by any means but i'd call that a pretty successful career
Quote from: JackRoxby on September 22, 2016, 08:54:41 amQuote from: alexrathy on September 22, 2016, 08:49:21 amGame's over, we have a winner. And possibly a bitter Man U fan.Quote from: sligo on September 22, 2016, 08:36:37 amQuote from: Action Jackson on September 21, 2016, 09:37:02 pmTell me what other job you could constantly fail at but as long as the people in charge of personnel are happy, you get to keep your job? Being Wayne Rooney?If winning the premier league five times,champions league once, league cup twice and Fa cup once is what you call failing... Not a fan of Utd by any means but i'd call that a pretty successful careerI doubt he is talking career wise. Even Fergie was trying to get rid of Rooney towards the end. Moyes coming in and offering him 300 000 quid a week changed all of that. He has been awful since he was 27, and that should be a player's peak years, instead he is playing every game and slowing everything down going through him. As an Arsenal fan, I say let it continue because he is ruining the team. Mourinho and United failing together! Brilliant!
Dang guys. DANG.So, I've been buying the Homeplus brand Colombian Blend whole bean coffee for about four years. It's like 18,000 for 1kg, and it's seriously decent. But I went in and I see this new McNulty Origin Colombian Supremo bag life and that life is 16,000 and it looks fancy, so I think "Dang! Gonna try a new thing instead of getting what has been totally satisfactory for four years. Maybe it will be better."DANG! That was a mistake. It tastes like hella stale and gross, and like... dried out and acidic and it's terrible. Literally, instant coffee is better than this. SO! Don't buy that wack life. Unless you like bad coffee. 'Cause it's bad.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on September 22, 2016, 11:50:00 amDang guys. DANG.So, I've been buying the Homeplus brand Colombian Blend whole bean coffee for about four years. It's like 18,000 for 1kg, and it's seriously decent. But I went in and I see this new McNulty Origin Colombian Supremo bag life and that life is 16,000 and it looks fancy, so I think "Dang! Gonna try a new thing instead of getting what has been totally satisfactory for four years. Maybe it will be better."DANG! That was a mistake. It tastes like hella stale and gross, and like... dried out and acidic and it's terrible. Literally, instant coffee is better than this. SO! Don't buy that wack life. Unless you like bad coffee. 'Cause it's bad.+1Only thing worse it their Hazelnut flavoured coffee.
Dang guys. DANG.So, I've been buying the Homeplus brand Colombian Blend whole bean coffee for about four years. It's like 18,000 for 1kg, and it's seriously decent.
why is there always a freaking cleaning ajjuma in the men's bathrooms whenever i want to take a pee? doesn't matter which bathroom at my school i go to at which time but they're always there. like the freaking Batjjuma or Ajjuninja that just appears out of nowhere.i wouldn't mind so much if the bathrooms were actually clean but they always seem filthy too