RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

people don't *purposely* smoke where there is a No Smoking sign--they smoked there for years, and then someone came along and put up a sign. 

right. so they purposely smoke next to a no smoking sign

No, the whole point of your post is suggesting they go looking for a No Smoking sign to smoke next to. 

no it's not. my point is that they smoke next to smoking signs even though they know the signs are there. just like people stand on the walking side of the escalator when they know people are behind them and want to walk up, or go through a red light when they know they should stop, or drive their motorbike on the pavement, etc, etc

but it all comes down to the fact they know they can get away with it. nobody calls them out on their shitty behaviour, and they know they aren't going to get a ticket for smoking in the wrong place or driving on the pavement

A) Trying to upload docs to the Recruiting website. Gyeonggi doesn't use Microsoft anymore, just HanWord. So my docs for GEPIK forms, nor the Recommendation letters will upload. Jesus.

B) My principal had me write MY OWN recommendation letter and then she signed it. So............. I sent her the HanWord doc, she added "Sincerely XYZ" and then sent it back. She typed her name.

I'm thinking I need a little more than that........ people are gonna think I wrote the bloody thing if it just has her name typed at the end (never mind the fact that I did actually write it, that's not the point hahahaha .

C) And then I get asked, "Well, what school am I putting on here? Hmmmmmmmmmmm, none? I could become a plumber, it's still good to have whoever hires me in the future to see the letter and think "Alright, decent chap. Does his work well."

We go through recruiters, there's no point in asking for a super specific one, anyway.

JUST GIVE ME THE BLOODY LETTERRERRRRRRR

I love writing my own recommendation letters. If the person green-lights it, you're then free to do whatever.  I once wrote the recommendation, added an official letterhead, and even signed it for an employer who couldn't be arsed to scan a copy of their signature and send it back via email. So long as they know what you're doing on their behalf, it's all good.

   Also, a small suggestion:
   Go to your school's website and find the school logo. Copy and paste the tastefully faded image (which you can do in Word by playing with brightness and contrast values) at the top of your LoR. This makes it look nice and official without actually requiring the school's permission to use their official letterhead seal (which is a big deal here in Korea, apparently).

B) My principal had me write MY OWN recommendation letter and then she signed it. So............. I sent her the HanWord doc, she added "Sincerely XYZ" and then sent it back. She typed her name.

To whom it may concern

I heartily recommend CO2 for a job at your company/school.  If only for the awesome sight of seeing how he can drink a whole bottle of tabasco sauce and not even flinch.  We have on many occasions sat down with a bottle of mackeolleee (which he chose, he knows the quality ones) and a bunch of shit-hot food.  I asked 'do you like spicy?'  He just laughed at me and ordered the donnggaass with the spicy sauce on top.  He ate the donnggaasss and snorted the spicy sauce on top.  I flipped, seriously.  The guy is a legend.  Please hire him.

Sincerely,

Principal

no it's not. my point is that they smoke next to smoking signs even though they know the signs are there. just like people stand on the walking side of the escalator when they know people are behind them and want to walk up, or go through a red light when they know they should stop, or drive their motorbike on the pavement, etc, etc

but it all comes down to the fact they know they can get away with it. nobody calls them out on their shitty behaviour, and they know they aren't going to get a ticket for smoking in the wrong place or driving on the pavement

1) As far as smoking, the perception that smoking is being overlegislated influences smokers to not respect those boundaries. When you put no-smoking signs EVERYWHERE, including where smokers used to congregate, you're going to get people who just say "eff it" to what is seen as a nuisance law by them. That and chemical addiction leads to lawbreaking behavior.

Also, not all of those non-smoking signs are actually that enforceable. "Hello Police, there is someone next to the GS25 in Wherever-dong who is smoking next to the no smoking sign. Please send someone immediately." WTF do you want them to do? Immediately dispatch a squad car to deal with someone who will likely be gone by the time they get there? Demand that the cops dust the area for prints and take in butts to have them DNA tested down at the crime lab? Have a cop on permanent duty by the spot? A lot of cops themselves are smokers and they probably see some of the smoking regulations as about as ridiculous as Prohibition.

Finally, if you look at the areas where it IS a big deal not to smoke, like the designated streets in certain neighborhoods, people are pretty good about NOT smoking there.

2) For every person I see that blocks the escalator, there are like, hundreds that let things flow. And as someone who lives near a heavily-foreigner populated subway station, it's not just Koreans who do it.

For every person I see that blocks the escalator, there are like, hundreds that let things flow. And as someone who lives near a heavily-foreigner populated subway station, it's not just Koreans who do it.

Actually, in Korea, there has been a fairly big push by the gov to get people to *not* walk on the escalators. So by blocking the escalator, you're actually doing a public service!
 

To whom it may concern
I heartily recommend CO2 for a job at your company/school.  If only for the awesome sight of seeing how he can drink a whole bottle of tabasco sauce and not even flinch.  We have on many occasions sat down with a bottle of mackeolleee (which he chose, he knows the quality ones) and a bunch of shit-hot food.  I asked 'do you like spicy?'  He just laughed at me and ordered the donnggaass with the spicy sauce on top.  He ate the donnggaasss and snorted the spicy sauce on top.  I flipped, seriously.  The guy is a legend.  Please hire him.

Sincerely,

Principal

I really, really want to add this.

Reminds me of Laowhy86 (American Youtuber in China, pretty popular and worth watching. ADVChina is his partner channel with his SA buddy and it's really good)

 He'd do public performances with kids and do little dances and songs with the kids on little stages to promote the academies that he worked at and he knew that no one knew what was going on, so he'd end with absurd things like.

"Thank you everyone! Today's performance has been brought to you by Detroit Tire Centre. Driver home safe, knowing you're on the wings of Detroit! *James Dean HEEYAW*"

Just the most absurd stuff and the audience would EAT. THAT. SHIT. UP. hahahahahaha 

EDIT Wrong Dean. HOWARD DEAN. hahahaha
 

Reminds me of Laowhy86 (American Youtuber in China, pretty popular and worth watching. ADVChina is his partner channel with his SA buddy and it's really good)

Haha. C-Milk. What a legend.

I'm pretty certain I've transported this to the correct thread, B Farrell, haha.

So my main co-teacher has decided she hates me now, for some reason, and I cannot figure out why.  As far as I know, Monday last week everything was fine;  then I got sick that night with food poisoning so I ended up taking Tuesday off and when I came back Wednesday, everything had changed.

~I wasn't aware of anything wrong at first until Thursday during lunch hour, when I went to brush my teeth in the teacher's bathroom.

~Friday, the next day, I'm usually at my secondary school but I had received a message from my co-teacher at the secondary school that I wouldn't be needed there, so I was at my main school on Friday deskwarming and getting lessons done.

~Yesterday during a class with her, I was having problems with the students and I made the mistake of accidentally saying her name without adding 'teacher' at the end (I honestly make this mistake with my other cts, not just her, but the others usually let it go.

-Today I'm not even in the office for 10 mins in the morning when she calls my name (WITHOUT adding 'teacher' at the end, may I add?)

I'm not even hurt or anything that she doesn't like me (I honestly couldn't care less about it) but it's the random suddenness of it all. I literally was helping her decided which jacket/vest looked best on her two weeks ago and now she hates my guts and is undermining me in front of our students every-which-way. She's been teaching for like 25 years and apparently has a reputation from all of her schools about getting into fights and arguments with all of the teachers and I truly have been waiting for my day to come cause she's done this with the other teachers in department, but this is just ridiculous. I really can't wait for school to end in 6 weeks. I'm over this woman.

CO2 you are a gem!

Thank you!

UPDATE: just received a text message from my other G2 co-teacher about why my main has been so snappy and hateful towards me this past week and it turns out the the homeroom teacher for one of the second grade classes was out on sick leave for 3 days and main co-teacher (who is one of the only second grade teachers with no homeroom class) was substituting as homeroom teacher for that class. She was stressed out and decided to take that stress out on me - instead of any of the other 60+ teachers at the school.

While I'm happy to know why she was snappy the whole time, still doesn't explain everything but oh well.

no it's not. my point is that they smoke next to smoking signs even though they know the signs are there. just like people stand on the walking side of the escalator when they know people are behind them and want to walk up, or go through a red light when they know they should stop, or drive their motorbike on the pavement, etc, etc

but it all comes down to the fact they know they can get away with it. nobody calls them out on their shitty behaviour, and they know they aren't going to get a ticket for smoking in the wrong place or driving on the pavement

1) As far as smoking, the perception that smoking is being overlegislated influences smokers to not respect those boundaries. When you put no-smoking signs EVERYWHERE, including where smokers used to congregate, you're going to get people who just say "eff it" to what is seen as a nuisance law by them. That and chemical addiction leads to lawbreaking behavior.

Also, not all of those non-smoking signs are actually that enforceable. "Hello Police, there is someone next to the GS25 in Wherever-dong who is smoking next to the no smoking sign. Please send someone immediately." WTF do you want them to do? Immediately dispatch a squad car to deal with someone who will likely be gone by the time they get there? Demand that the cops dust the area for prints and take in butts to have them DNA tested down at the crime lab? Have a cop on permanent duty by the spot? A lot of cops themselves are smokers and they probably see some of the smoking regulations as about as ridiculous as Prohibition.

Finally, if you look at the areas where it IS a big deal not to smoke, like the designated streets in certain neighborhoods, people are pretty good about NOT smoking there.

2) For every person I see that blocks the escalator, there are like, hundreds that let things flow. And as someone who lives near a heavily-foreigner populated subway station, it's not just Koreans who do it.

it's getting better, yeah. the people that walk on the street and smoke are the worst. nobody who walks behind you wants to constantly get hit in the face with your second hand smoke, mate. most signs are there for a reason though. perhaps someone put one up because people smoke directly under their window (used to happen to me). it's just a lack of consideration that bugs me, really (not just smoking- most things here)

and i'm not saying it's just koreans that block the escalator. where did you get that from?

Old computer was working OK. Was replaced by a new one with a 2019 decal. New computer is slow and crashes a lot. Any ideas as to what could be causing that?

Old computer was working OK. Was replaced by a new one with a 2019 decal. New computer is slow and crashes a lot. Any ideas as to what could be causing that?

Vice-Principal looking at porn/gambling websites.

Old computer was working OK. Was replaced by a new one with a 2019 decal. New computer is slow and crashes a lot. Any ideas as to what could be causing that?

Any number of issues.

A 2019 sticker means absolutely nothing, computers are assembled, not made. Does the sticker imply that the PC was assembled in 2019? Even if that's the case, you could simply assemble it from old hardware, crappy hardware, weak hardware relative to the tasks you're doing.

Most likely, it's a software issue and probably Korean plugins, bloatware and "anti-virus" software bogging down already limited RAM and a weak CPU.

- Check what processes are running in the background and close any unnecessary ones
- Check which programmes run at startup and disable them
- Check to see that you have enough HDD space (my CTs PC has been running on 500mb of free space and about 200 icons on
  her desktop for the past year)
- Do a virus, malware, bloatware and adware scan with a proper virus checker

The radiator is set at 30 Degrees (86F) today in the office area that I share with about 4 other people.  I get that it's chilly out, but do we need to be tropical indoors? During the summer when we didn't use the AC to "save on electricity costs," I was all in because a little sweat won't hurt me. Why aren't we using the same logic during the winter? Heat up to 21-23 and if you're still cold put on a sweater! I don't know, maybe I'm turning into my father

The radiator is set at 30 Degrees (86F) today in the office area.

Same here.

Why does the setting go up that high?

Even number?

There's no need for heating to go above 22 degrees.

Sometimes a student or teacher is cold and will thus turn on the heat to the highest setting (and forget about it).

Temperature set to 30  with the door open is so wasteful.

The radiator is set at 30 Degrees (86F) today in the office area that I share with about 4 other people.  I get that it's chilly out, but do we need to be tropical indoors? During the summer when we didn't use the AC to "save on electricity costs," I was all in because a little sweat won't hurt me. Why aren't we using the same logic during the winter? Heat up to 21-23 and if you're still cold put on a sweater! I don't know, maybe I'm turning into my father

I sweat more in the winter here than in summer

Think of all the natural resources being used to make that heat.

Turn down the thermostat setting if you get a chance.

Try to convince others to do the same.

No sweat lodge at my school. The thermostat's set to 20 in my office, and a fair percentage of the teachers here are unfamiliar with the concept of closing the door when they enter a room. I miss being in my old office, where my desk was close enough to the door that I could just scoot over a bit, reach out, and close it without getting up.

No sweat lodge at my school. The thermostat's set to 20 in my office, and a fair percentage of the teachers here are unfamiliar with the concept of closing the door when they enter a room. I miss being in my old office, where my desk was close enough to the door that I could just scoot over a bit, reach out, and close it without getting up.

Yeah this is the second school i have been at where they have replaced the standard door that would always close by itself with a sliding door that often will stay open unless you push it closed. In winter a cold draft with come into the room with the door open. I seem to be the only one who will ever get up and close it.