RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

What is a dance group?

The Backstreet Boys were a weird sensation but considered bad musicians. I can't recall a "dance group" before them in all of history.

I guess "dance group" is a way of seeing them as doing entertainment rather than making music: watch them rather than listen to them, except to copy their moves.

A dance group in this case is like a cover band, but instead of playing a famous band's music, they perform a famous group's dance routine. The Backstreet Boys wouldn't have been considered a dance group, but if a group of people decided to learn the choreography to a Backstreet Boys song and then perform it, they would be.

Maybe...

1. You haven't seen people scream in agony as they burn up in a helicopter crash (details minus video on the 6pm evening news);

2. You weren't right there in the other lane when dozens of people died in a runaway downhill truck crash in front of the hospital;

3. You didn't play soccer with one of the guys who died in the Bali bombings;

4. You didn't interview - prior to your first job here - a foreigner who vouched for the position, the recruiter and the city, then you accepted his word, only to later hear he suddenly went to work in China where he jumped off an apartment building to his death;

5. You didn't lose your father to lung cancer, mother to heart attack, only sibling to breast cancer;

6. You haven't lost two children in their earliest years to SIDS, and your wife insufferably to divorce;

7. You ...

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Apropos of .......?

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Apropos of .......?

Yeah, I saw this on Friday and I have no idea where this comment came from.

Maybe...

1. You haven't seen people scream in agony as they burn up in a helicopter crash (details minus video on the 6pm evening news);

2. You weren't right there in the other lane when dozens of people died in a runaway downhill truck crash in front of the hospital;

3. You didn't play soccer with one of the guys who died in the Bali bombings;

4. You didn't interview - prior to your first job here - a foreigner who vouched for the position, the recruiter and the city, then you accepted his word, only to later hear he suddenly went to work in China where he jumped off an apartment building to his death;

5. You didn't lose your father to lung cancer, mother to heart attack, only sibling to breast cancer;

6. You haven't lost two children in their earliest years to SIDS, and your wife insufferably to divorce;

7. You ...

Ummm.

Apropos of .......?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYcfIrI5CEc

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

i just learnt to never ask and just go. if i ever got caught i'd just apologise afterwards. nowt ever happened

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Tell your co-teacher it's 병외출 (byeong-wae-chool) and then tell them to fukc off. 

even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Honestly, just go.

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

She sounds like a cnut.

Please please please call in sick tomorrow and say you caught the flu.

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Tell your co-teacher it's 병외출 (byeong-wae-chool) and then tell them to fukc off. 

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even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

What would a DayNinja wear?

even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

What would a DayNinja wear?
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Oh, me, me, me!!  It's a popular misconception that ninjas always wear black.  At night maybe, but their main aim is to blend in, so they wear normal clothes so as not to look conspicuous. 

even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

What would a DayNinja wear?

Oh, me, me, me!!  It's a popular misconception that ninjas always wear black.  At night maybe, but their main aim is to blend in, so they wear normal clothes so as not to look conspicuous. 
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So, fluo hiking clothes?

lovely Monday morning conversations

me: Can I leave 10 minutes early today to get a flu shot? (4:30 instead of 4:40, because I need to drive 15 - 20 mins away to get it)
cot: You don't need it....it's not sick leave either, so you will have to use vacation time
me: They close at 5pm so I cannot do it afterschool.
cot: Yeah, use your vacation time
me: nevermind.......


even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

In the West, a person usually gets promoted when they show some gumption, a solid work-ethic etc.
In Korea, you get promoted based on your age your relationship with your seniors and you ability to stick to the rules... essentially, "maintaining the Confucian harmony".

When you ask your CT if you can leave early, even if it's 10min, by agreeing she officially gives you permission to break the rules. Should another staff member ask where you're off to and you blab, you could jeopardize her career. Petty and ridiculous, I know, but that's how Korea works. When you ask, unless you've got a really good relationship and your CT really trusts you, she's going to give you the official spiel.

As others have said, DON'T ASK... I haven't stuck around till 4:30 in years... On Tuesdays I leave at 2pm (after my final class), it's a small school and they use the English class for afterschool activities. Everyone knows I leave early. If I have to ask if I can leave early, I'll probably be told to wait in the library or staff room till 4:30.

Of course, there are times when you work with absolute assh*les. The principal at my wife's rural school (on Tuesdays) wanted her to deskwarm, during vacation, at a school that is a 40min drive from our place. There wasn't another soul in the school. The principal was adamant that she deskwarmed at THAT school, he didn't want her to deskwarm at her main school (5min walk from our place). The education office literally had to tell him that she was allowed to deskwarm at whichever school was closest.

I'm now asked to provide my customs clearance code and other details for EVERY damn package! I've saved the code on Amazon, but still get asked for every single package. In the past, you'd do it once and your code was kept on the database.

Now, you've got to do it every damn time.

even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

What would a DayNinja wear?

Oh, me, me, me!!  It's a popular misconception that ninjas always wear black.  At night maybe, but their main aim is to blend in, so they wear normal clothes so as not to look conspicuous. 

So, fluo hiking clothes?

  Yes, I am at my highest state of cat-like readiness when hanging around near a 'North Face' shop.  When I was hiking last weekend the local mountaineering group got off a bus, I nearly had a heart attack.  Ninjas have also been known to drive Santa Fes or Grandeurs.  We'll never know they're here.   

I'm now asked to provide my customs clearance code and other details for EVERY damn package! I've saved the code on Amazon, but still get asked for every single package. In the past, you'd do it once and your code was kept on the database.

Now, you've got to do it every damn time.

Korea, sparkling.

even though I see others leaving early all the time.....

Too bad you're not a DayNinja, you could sneak out.

What would a DayNinja wear?

Oh, me, me, me!!  It's a popular misconception that ninjas always wear black.  At night maybe, but their main aim is to blend in, so they wear normal clothes so as not to look conspicuous.
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Ninja also wore red. Red in battle can/has a psychological effect, which can cause hesitation in battle.
Learnt that in ninja training in Japan. I've done ninja weapons training in Japan. :D (Although. I'm not very good )

According to Wikipedia, Jesus was a ninja. His miracles included all the signs of Ninjinity:

"Ninjas figured prominently in legend and folklore, where they were associated with legendary abilities such as invisibility, walking on water and control over the natural elements."

Look at the number of vents! Five hundred-and-thirty-six pages worth! Oh there's enough material here to write a book. Or an entire Ph.d.