RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

I am not sure how the TALK contracts read, but I would be careful about that "order to get paid" stuff. It could even be that she has to turn in documents, but wants you to get them done on her behalf, so tells you that. It wouldn't be the first time that I've seen that done. They could however want you to turn in papers as part of your duties, but not as criteria to get paid.

I read that contract front to back multiple times, and I don't recall it mentioning the "you must turn in documents to get paid" aspect. And yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm being had here and that you're right.

Actual vent for the vent thread from me instead of endless bitching (sorry guys)

Yesterday my MT told me I needed to turn in the worksheets with the attendance sheet for my pay at the end of the month.

Today my MT told me that I need to turn in the attendance sheet, and worksheets and I need to take photos during class of the kids doing work/videos of them speaking English and turn them in.

I asked why, because that's an odd request. She said "It is for your...achievement. It is also....my achievement."

...What? Your achievement? You haven't done anything for me! You didn't help me get my Korean phone number, you aren't helping me get my online banking set up, you don't do anything for me in terms of making my life easier. What achievement have you earned? You don't even print papers for me anymore.

So now, I have to teach 80 minute classes with no CoT and no textbook, I have to force worksheets and now play paparazzi in my class for my, no wait, our achievement. Godspeed future me, good luck on getting photos/videos and worksheets from 16 3rd graders who won't sit down long enough for me to say "Hello class!"

I'm probably coming off really fking bratty right now. But this makes no sense to me on why I have to solo everything and benefit someone else. Is this normal?? Am I being unreasonable?

Welcome to Korea! My first co-teacher was like that. Don't let her walk over you - as you've said, you've read your contract multiple times so you know what is expected of you. Anything 'beyond the call of duty' and I'd call her out on it. For example, the photos - say you're too busy teaching / managing the students. Suggest if she wants some photos of the class maybe she can take them herself?

Bingsu, are these regular classes or after-school classes?

I'm all after school classes Mon-Fri. I know I can't complain too much since others have it a lot worse but I just feel exhausted. It feels like every time I ask for their help or for a CoT, they just add something else for me to do. I guess asking for help results in the bureaucratic method of telling me to shut up.

You're not being unreasonable at all. Is your "MT" a licensed public school teacher or someone working for a private company that supplies after-school classes?

@ Bingsu: There's nothing unreasonable about your expectations. What you're asking for is the bare minimum. Just because someone else has it worse than you doesn't mean you're not allowed to have it better. Believing otherwise is like telling someone they should be grateful for only being made to cut off one hand over being forced to cut off two. Don't let anyone try to talk you down from expecting that you shouldn't have to do either. While it's true that you'll need to develop a thick skin and learn to pick your battles, you should be on the offense over anything regarding your pay and major components of your contract. There are people all over the world who'll try to take advantage of any perceived weakness, and the fact that you're a foreigner here makes you an easy target to those who don't know the law, don't care about the law, or who believe YOU don't know your own rights. Standing up for yourself is a necessity. The only thing that really differs from here to there in that regard is tactics and methods.

It never fails to blow my mind whenever I come across a student who forgets that I'm an adult with life experiences beyond their own, and that I'm more educated than they are because they're still in ****** middle school. The arrogance of some kids at this age is beyond just a phase, I swear to gawd. 

Makes for some really hilarious moments whenever I beat them at their own games, though. xD

It never fails to blow my mind whenever I come across a student who forgets that I'm an adult with life experiences beyond their own, and that I'm more educated than they are because they're still in ****** middle school. The arrogance of some kids at this age is beyond just a phase, I swear to gawd. 

Makes for some really hilarious moments whenever I beat them at their own games, though. xD

Go on................. ......... I smell a juicy anecdote.

It drives me nuts when one kid will be talking to another kid relatively quietly and discreetly, and then 5 other kids will scream out
"조용히해~~~~~!!!!!"

Like, dammit, you are being 10 times louder and 30 times more annoying than the other kid. STFU.

So annoying. And they always say it in the whiniest voice.

It never fails to blow my mind whenever I come across a student who forgets that I'm an adult with life experiences beyond their own, and that I'm more educated than they are because they're still in ****** middle school. The arrogance of some kids at this age is beyond just a phase, I swear to gawd. 

Makes for some really hilarious moments whenever I beat them at their own games, though. xD

These are the same kids who will get a hard slap from reality when they actually have to grow up.

Go on................. ......... I smell a juicy anecdote.

Sorry, really can't, I have coTs who get on this site and they would know exactly who I am, and I like having my Clark Kent persona kept alive.

I will say that one of my students thinks he's a literal genius, but that a certain something that's meant to be kept on the down-low absolutely proves that he is, in fact, just a Korean Pauly Shore. Let your imagination run wild.

It never fails to blow my mind whenever I come across a student who forgets that I'm an adult with life experiences beyond their own, and that I'm more educated than they are because they're still in ****** middle school. The arrogance of some kids at this age is beyond just a phase, I swear to gawd. 

Makes for some really hilarious moments whenever I beat them at their own games, though. xD

These are the same kids who will get a hard slap from reality when they actually have to grow up.

No, these are the same kids who hole up in PC rooms to binge-play LoL or Overwatch, troll around on forum boards to vent their frustrations because ****-it-that's-why, then go on to blame specific groups or humanity in general for their own shortcomings. They never grow up because nothing is ever their fault.

That, or they're coming from enough money that being told your shit is made of gold is somehow a fact of life.

I actually feel sorry for a couple of them, though. They're good kids, just spoiled as **** and way too sheltered.

i must have accidentally left a fan on low setting after i left the classroom last night.

there was just a 4 teacher meeting with the principal and the korean teacher who i teach with in my after school program to find out what happened. now i am, apparently, in "big trouble". err sorry guys, i'll pay the 50won electricity fee if that's what the problem is 

i must have accidentally left a fan on low setting after i left the classroom last night.

there was just a 4 teacher meeting with the principal and the korean teacher who i teach with in my after school program to find out what happened. now i am, apparently, in "big trouble". err sorry guys, i'll pay the 50won electricity fee if that's what the problem is 

You left a fan on at night?

You could've killed someone!

He couldn't help it, you guys, he was drunk.

i must have accidentally left a fan on low setting after i left the classroom last night.

there was just a 4 teacher meeting with the principal and the korean teacher who i teach with in my after school program to find out what happened. now i am, apparently, in "big trouble". err sorry guys, i'll pay the 50won electricity fee if that's what the problem is 

At my old shcool in Gwangmyeong, I left my computer on when I left. Co-T kakaoed me,

  Kevin, you left your computer on.

  Oh, sorry.............. ........ So, what now?

  Oh, I turned it off. Just remember to turn it off in the future. Bye.

Sooooo............. ........ this couldn't wait until the next morning when we all came in to work again? hahaha I admit I should have turned it off, fair play, but this is the farthest thing from texting someone outside work hours. 

Sooooo..................... this couldn't wait until the next morning when we all came in to work again? hahaha I admit I should have turned it off, fair play, but this is the farthest thing from texting someone outside work hours.

You never get a drunk text from a coT or boss?

Because I have. Not sure if it makes a difference, but all of them were men, too. xD

i must have accidentally left a fan on low setting after i left the classroom last night.

there was just a 4 teacher meeting with the principal and the korean teacher who i teach with in my after school program to find out what happened. now i am, apparently, in "big trouble". err sorry guys, i'll pay the 50won electricity fee if that's what the problem is 

You left a fan on at night?

You could've killed someone!

haha. that's true

to me this whole non-incident is totally korean

if this happened in england it would go

"you left the fan on last night btw"
"ah. sorry. didn't know"
"it's ok"

or, even more likely, it wouldn't have even come up.

a few days ago i was "scolded" for not "tidying up" the classroom at the end of the day. turns out, there was a single pencil on the floor. this was a big deal for the teacher who used the classroom the next morning. who the hell cares? do these people have nothing more important to get bothered by?

do these people have nothing more important to get bothered by?

Nailed it.

Have you ever told someone to pick their litter up before?

I told a guy who threw his cigarette packet on the ground to pick it up and he basically said '**** off'.