RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

Pretty sad how just asking a recruiter to list their pay deserves purge and lock. Is it not standard to advertise pay for your job?

He knows he'll get crapped on for posting too low of pay.  But he chose to be a recruiter, so, if he doesn't want to get called out, he had better tell hogwans that he'll only advertise jobs from 2.8 and up.  Otherwise, I'll feel no pity for him.  The market is flipping.  English teacher power!!!

https://youtu.be/CMH2NgLcVsQ

So I saw an anonymous post in one of the expat FB groups from someone asking if a school or hagwon can have a NET pulling a midnight run detained at the airport. I was in a rush at the time so I didn't pay attention to a lot of the details, and now I can't find the post, but I think this person's director or hagwon owner had made this claim and had also claimed that they'd done it before, I guess to help give weight to their claims.

I know a lot of the NETs who end up here are young and naive, but who actually believes this crap?

Maybe I'm just being a grumpy-pants, but for ffs.

Part of me wonders if the anon poster was secretly a hagwon owner trying to find out just how much we know.

I know a lot of the NETs who end up here are young and naive, but who actually believes this crap?

IT's possible, but only in the sense of the director calling the police and accusing the teacher of some serious crime. Which is illegal a la "filing a false police report."

IT's possible, but only in the sense of the director calling the police and accusing the teacher of some serious crime. Which is illegal a la "filing a false police report."

Even then, they'd have to have proof of the crime, and like you said, it would have to be a pretty serious crime. They can't just make the accusation and expect the police to detain anyone on their word for it, lol.

And of course that would only come around to bite the accuser in the ass later, even if they'd managed to pull it off. Which they wouldn't.

About a dozen posts in the last two days--some of them spambots.

About a dozen posts in the last two days--some of them spambots.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/teachinginkorea/comments/13x9tux/covid_and_working/

Please come out Friday even if you are sick. This is not a request, it is something you must do... even if COVID-19 is confirmed, it will not be quarantined. It's decided by Korea!
You're sick...but there are children waiting for you!

 

A predictable outcome of quarantine becoming "recommended" instead of mandated. I enjoyed my week off when I got covid. Probably would have been fine to work the second half of the week, but the first few days I definitely needed the rest. Will public schools have the same attitudes as hagwons?

Hagwons don’t believe in sick days. They wouldn’t give any vacation days either if there wasn’t a law preventing them from doing so.

Hagwons don’t believe in sick days. They wouldn’t give any vacation days either if there wasn’t a law preventing them from doing so.

The second part of that post.

And again, June 6th is a public holiday, but we are going to have classes without a break.

Luckily, my favorite poster is there to offer some sound advice.

Foreigners have to be willing to demand high wages or not come here. Go work at home instead or go teach in China (for much better money)

Working on a public holiday? I’d tell them “Thanks but see you the day after”.

Working on a public holiday? I’d tell them “Thanks but see you the day after”.

Please understand. The children are waiting. Please fulfill your responsibilities.

Please understand. The children are waiting. Please fulfill your responsibilities.

My apologies. I love working there so much that I will teach for free on weekends. No need for a break as working for you gives me all the energy I need.