Yeah I usually play support too, seems my destiny when everyone else instapicks the Shimada bros. Brigitte seems pretty OP to me, almost impossible to kill if played right.
Not a teaching related rant but:Sweet unholy raptor Jesus do I hate other people. I've gotten back into competitive Overwatch, and while I'm not that good (average as best), I've gone on a massive losing streak (25 losses in a row), most of which could have been avoided with just a bit of teamwork. I've dropped 2 tiers, and have almost dropped a 3rd, because people don't want to work together to try and win, they just do their own thing and ruin things for everyone else on the team. :\This has put me in a very bad mood the last 2 days. >.<
Quote from: StillInKorea on April 12, 2018, 07:49:32 amWTF is it with people thinking native speakers are the weakest link that they can take advantage of?The cupboards for slippers were reorganised such that I didn't have one. As a result, I got to work on Tuesday to find another teacher's slippers on top of mine. I immediately found a Korean English teacher and let her know how pissed I was. That worked, because the shoe cupboards were rearranged so that I had one by lunch.Today, I get to work to find them rearranged again, although this time I do have a cupboard. However, there is already a pair of women's shoes and guest slippers in there. They are now on the floor, and they are going to be moved ever increasing distances from the shoe cupboard each time I find them in there. Or maybe I'll just wear my shoes.Too many foreign teachers act like pathetic little mice in Korea. I wish people would make Koreans realise they can't screw us around just because we don't fit into their retarded 10th century hierarchy.I wear my shoes, and I quite like it. I was told originally that I needed slippers, but I said everyone walks outside with their slippers, so it is all dirty just the same. They just looked at me. I never bought slippers.
WTF is it with people thinking native speakers are the weakest link that they can take advantage of?The cupboards for slippers were reorganised such that I didn't have one. As a result, I got to work on Tuesday to find another teacher's slippers on top of mine. I immediately found a Korean English teacher and let her know how pissed I was. That worked, because the shoe cupboards were rearranged so that I had one by lunch.Today, I get to work to find them rearranged again, although this time I do have a cupboard. However, there is already a pair of women's shoes and guest slippers in there. They are now on the floor, and they are going to be moved ever increasing distances from the shoe cupboard each time I find them in there. Or maybe I'll just wear my shoes.Too many foreign teachers act like pathetic little mice in Korea. I wish people would make Koreans realise they can't screw us around just because we don't fit into their retarded 10th century hierarchy.
Quote from: Kayos on April 12, 2018, 09:08:13 amNot a teaching related rant but:Sweet unholy raptor Jesus do I hate other people. I've gotten back into competitive Overwatch, and while I'm not that good (average as best), I've gone on a massive losing streak (25 losses in a row), most of which could have been avoided with just a bit of teamwork. I've dropped 2 tiers, and have almost dropped a 3rd, because people don't want to work together to try and win, they just do their own thing and ruin things for everyone else on the team. :\This has put me in a very bad mood the last 2 days. >.<I stopped playing Overwatch several months ago. I know the feel. Even if you have a few friends, it only takes one bad teammate to ruin a game for you. Overwatch is fantastic, but god is it frustrating.
We have a student who had an English for the whole year until last week. She has always hated the name, didn't pick it for herself, and finally said that she wanted to change it. We've all switched and started calling her by the new name, except one teacher who is antagonizing her, calling her "Not-new name." It's making her grumpier in his class and just making her upset.
I taught Kindergarten once, and there was a girl whose name was Tianna. We ( the aide & I) called her "Tee-ahna" for six months. It wasn't until her mother came in for a conference that we learned her name was "Tie-ahna". I can't believe the girl didn't correct us after all that time. She was easygoing. Maybe she didn't care what she was called.
Names are an important part of our identities, and I'm pretty leery of giving kids "English names" because of it. My name is pronounced differently in English as it is at home, and when I first moved to Canada, I remember the difference being pretty jarring.
Quote from: kyndo on April 13, 2018, 10:17:47 am Names are an important part of our identities, and I'm pretty leery of giving kids "English names" because of it. My name is pronounced differently in English as it is at home, and when I first moved to Canada, I remember the difference being pretty jarring.If the kids wanna pick English names or request to be given a nickname, I don't see the harm as long as you're not forcing a new name onto them when they might not want it.
And then there was another supervisor who had a super unusual, super difficult name to both remember and to pronounce. It had a strange spelling, too, so looking at the written name yielded no clues. Despite knowing this, this supervisor always, ALWAYS got very angry whenever someone mispronounced his name. Always made a really big deal out of it. It eventually got him into a lot of trouble later after he got reported for abuse over it, lol (he would literally launch into 5-10 minute rants anytime anyone got his name wrong, even if the person was new, and god help you if you couldn't remember his weird name after hearing it one time). So yeah, lots of variation on importance from one person to the next.
Quote from: Chinguetti on April 13, 2018, 01:54:41 pmAnd then there was another supervisor who had a super unusual, super difficult name to both remember and to pronounce. It had a strange spelling, too, so looking at the written name yielded no clues. Despite knowing this, this supervisor always, ALWAYS got very angry whenever someone mispronounced his name. Always made a really big deal out of it. It eventually got him into a lot of trouble later after he got reported for abuse over it, lol (he would literally launch into 5-10 minute rants anytime anyone got his name wrong, even if the person was new, and god help you if you couldn't remember his weird name after hearing it one time). So yeah, lots of variation on importance from one person to the next.He honestly sounds full of himself. Just correct people and move on, nobody cares how mad you are that nobody gets your name right. Can you imagine him getting teased in grade school once kids found out he hated it?
OH BOY HERE WE GOI got almost all the way to school and realized my key wasn't in my pocket. Turned around and walked the 20 mins back, got the key. My fault, it's fine.Head to the taxi stand to save some time and as I was getting up to the last taxi, this older woman hopped in and off they went. That's fine, I can use the exercise.Walk the 20 mins to school, rocking up 30 mins later than normal so I can't get lunch. But it's cool, I grabbed a kimbap from the corner store knowing I'd miss it. Did not expect to have rocked up smack dab in the middle of an evacuation drill. I actually have no idea what to do in case of emergency, they seemingly forget to tell me every single time we have a drill. That's fine, whatever.Start prepping my materials, my external decided to brick itself. 1TB of data just in limbo right now. Getting to be less cool.As I'm prepping physical materials for my youngest class, with scissors in my hand and glue on the desk, my MT breezes through the doors and drops a stack of about 50 papers on my table. She got them last week and just...forgot to tell me that I needed to hand write every single lesson plan I've done since school started and submit them. Really starting to be not that cool anymore.Oh, by the way you need to come with me NOW and attend club meetings. Cue being pulled upstairs to be teased with illustration club and then given the ole switcharoo and tossed into traditional Korean drumming club who happen to be in the middle of their choreography for a drumming routine. Put in the middle of the room with sticks, no clue what I'm meant to be doing as my MT is playing hovering paparazzi while I flounder and take up their time with my presence.I'm extremely embarrassed to be wasting their time, having everyone stare at me wondering why I'm there and why I can't play the drums and why the teacher is struggling in English trying to explain. My face is burning hot and I'm so embarrassed I'm almost in tears before the teacher says "you can stand, picture is ok" and I stand off to the side hiding my face as they breeze through their moves.Because I was stuck in the club lamenting my life choices, I couldn't finish prepping materials for the next class that was a grueling 80 minutes.How was your day?
Quote from: Bingsu on April 17, 2018, 06:34:04 pmOH BOY HERE WE GOI got almost all the way to school and realized my key wasn't in my pocket. Turned around and walked the 20 mins back, got the key. My fault, it's fine.Head to the taxi stand to save some time and as I was getting up to the last taxi, this older woman hopped in and off they went. That's fine, I can use the exercise.Walk the 20 mins to school, rocking up 30 mins later than normal so I can't get lunch. But it's cool, I grabbed a kimbap from the corner store knowing I'd miss it. Did not expect to have rocked up smack dab in the middle of an evacuation drill. I actually have no idea what to do in case of emergency, they seemingly forget to tell me every single time we have a drill. That's fine, whatever.Start prepping my materials, my external decided to brick itself. 1TB of data just in limbo right now. Getting to be less cool.As I'm prepping physical materials for my youngest class, with scissors in my hand and glue on the desk, my MT breezes through the doors and drops a stack of about 50 papers on my table. She got them last week and just...forgot to tell me that I needed to hand write every single lesson plan I've done since school started and submit them. Really starting to be not that cool anymore.Oh, by the way you need to come with me NOW and attend club meetings. Cue being pulled upstairs to be teased with illustration club and then given the ole switcharoo and tossed into traditional Korean drumming club who happen to be in the middle of their choreography for a drumming routine. Put in the middle of the room with sticks, no clue what I'm meant to be doing as my MT is playing hovering paparazzi while I flounder and take up their time with my presence.I'm extremely embarrassed to be wasting their time, having everyone stare at me wondering why I'm there and why I can't play the drums and why the teacher is struggling in English trying to explain. My face is burning hot and I'm so embarrassed I'm almost in tears before the teacher says "you can stand, picture is ok" and I stand off to the side hiding my face as they breeze through their moves.Because I was stuck in the club lamenting my life choices, I couldn't finish prepping materials for the next class that was a grueling 80 minutes.How was your day?I'm sorry that you're being treated so badly. You really need to find it withing yourself to just say NO to the teachers at your school. Their constant demands are ridiculous.