Quote from: Chinguetti on October 22, 2018, 09:58:05 amTaxi drivers who know how to use GPS but refuse to so that they can feign ignorance when they try to take the long way around.I HATE THAT! XX초등학교 가주세요 Where is that? It's next to XX Catholic church. on XX Road (yes, XX are all the same hangeul symbols, it's a 5 min drive away, it's not obscure) I don't know. You havce navi, yes? Yes. Use that, my pronunciation is not the issue, just type it in. Aiiishhhhhhhhhhhhhh hWHY THE FCCK IS TYPING 8 HANGEUL SYMBOLS A HUGE DEAL??? FFS
Taxi drivers who know how to use GPS but refuse to so that they can feign ignorance when they try to take the long way around.
Quote from: CO2 on October 22, 2018, 11:32:20 amQuote from: Chinguetti on October 22, 2018, 09:58:05 amTaxi drivers who know how to use GPS but refuse to so that they can feign ignorance when they try to take the long way around.I HATE THAT! XX초등학교 가주세요 Where is that? It's next to XX Catholic church. on XX Road (yes, XX are all the same hangeul symbols, it's a 5 min drive away, it's not obscure) I don't know. You havce navi, yes? Yes. Use that, my pronunciation is not the issue, just type it in. Aiiishhhhhhhhhhhhhh hWHY THE FCCK IS TYPING 8 HANGEUL SYMBOLS A HUGE DEAL??? FFSCan't be bothered with a few more seconds worth of effort
My mum bought my wife a birthday present via amazon and had it sent to us here.Amazon uses Apex shipping agents for delivery and Apex seem to change who they use on the final delivery every month. Recently it has been Hanjin Express Delivery. Hanjin are the most useless delivery company I have ever seen. I'm not in the least bit surprised they went bankrupt last year.Tracked the package. Took three days from Wisconsin in the USA to Incheon airport. Three days across the US and then the Pacific, pretty good. It then sat at Incheon for 12 days, then just disappeared from the tracking system for another 5 days. 17 days in Korea, doing lord knows what. Apex shipping refuses to admit it's their fault. Accuse us of not writing the address correctly. Swear up and down that we didn't write our city or province, which is just a direct lie. Refuses to even consider it may be their problem. The manager eventually does admit something has gone awry on their end. They give US a number to call for the Hanjin delivery woman. The delivery woman says her father died so she couldn't make any deliveries. Fair enough, I'm not going to get angry with someone who has lost a family member. But what kind of company doesn't have some kind of system to cover these situations. "Kim is deathly ill. He has a van load of packages, some of which may be perishable. Should we assign someone else to do their deliveries? Nah. Wait till he gets out of hospital next month. People can wait."Package turns up 20 days after landing at Incheon. I've had problems with Hanjin before. They seem to have massive problems. But what pissed me off most of all was the woman at Apex shipping refusing to believe us, accusing us of ****** up somehow and doing everything possible to deflect the blame away from her. I wasn't aggressive in the least, I just wanted to know where my missing package was. Serious problem with a lack of accountability.Called them back and took photos of the address label to show it had our full address, city, province, zip code, phone number etc in English AND Korean. The guy this time was apologetic and said they get complaints about Hanjin everyday and they wont be using them anymore. And that he would give more training to the woman who called us liars. Bullshit.
Quote from: zola on October 22, 2018, 03:53:09 pmMy mum bought my wife a birthday present via amazon and had it sent to us here.Amazon uses Apex shipping agents for delivery and Apex seem to change who they use on the final delivery every month. Recently it has been Hanjin Express Delivery. Hanjin are the most useless delivery company I have ever seen. I'm not in the least bit surprised they went bankrupt last year.Tracked the package. Took three days from Wisconsin in the USA to Incheon airport. Three days across the US and then the Pacific, pretty good. It then sat at Incheon for 12 days, then just disappeared from the tracking system for another 5 days. 17 days in Korea, doing lord knows what. Apex shipping refuses to admit it's their fault. Accuse us of not writing the address correctly. Swear up and down that we didn't write our city or province, which is just a direct lie. Refuses to even consider it may be their problem. The manager eventually does admit something has gone awry on their end. They give US a number to call for the Hanjin delivery woman. The delivery woman says her father died so she couldn't make any deliveries. Fair enough, I'm not going to get angry with someone who has lost a family member. But what kind of company doesn't have some kind of system to cover these situations. "Kim is deathly ill. He has a van load of packages, some of which may be perishable. Should we assign someone else to do their deliveries? Nah. Wait till he gets out of hospital next month. People can wait."Package turns up 20 days after landing at Incheon. I've had problems with Hanjin before. They seem to have massive problems. But what pissed me off most of all was the woman at Apex shipping refusing to believe us, accusing us of ****** up somehow and doing everything possible to deflect the blame away from her. I wasn't aggressive in the least, I just wanted to know where my missing package was. Serious problem with a lack of accountability.Called them back and took photos of the address label to show it had our full address, city, province, zip code, phone number etc in English AND Korean. The guy this time was apologetic and said they get complaints about Hanjin everyday and they wont be using them anymore. And that he would give more training to the woman who called us liars. Bullshit.1 - F*ckup task2 - Refuses to take responsibility/lies3 - shifts blame to you or someone else4 - if the situation doesn't go away, either continues to lie5 - Finally, get the youngest junior to apologise for the f*ckup of his dumbass, ajushi boss.Face saving culture, you can't beat it.
Quote from: Aristocrat on October 22, 2018, 06:53:35 pmQuote from: zola on October 22, 2018, 03:53:09 pmMy mum bought my wife a birthday present via amazon and had it sent to us here.Amazon uses Apex shipping agents for delivery and Apex seem to change who they use on the final delivery every month. Recently it has been Hanjin Express Delivery. Hanjin are the most useless delivery company I have ever seen. I'm not in the least bit surprised they went bankrupt last year.Tracked the package. Took three days from Wisconsin in the USA to Incheon airport. Three days across the US and then the Pacific, pretty good. It then sat at Incheon for 12 days, then just disappeared from the tracking system for another 5 days. 17 days in Korea, doing lord knows what. Apex shipping refuses to admit it's their fault. Accuse us of not writing the address correctly. Swear up and down that we didn't write our city or province, which is just a direct lie. Refuses to even consider it may be their problem. The manager eventually does admit something has gone awry on their end. They give US a number to call for the Hanjin delivery woman. The delivery woman says her father died so she couldn't make any deliveries. Fair enough, I'm not going to get angry with someone who has lost a family member. But what kind of company doesn't have some kind of system to cover these situations. "Kim is deathly ill. He has a van load of packages, some of which may be perishable. Should we assign someone else to do their deliveries? Nah. Wait till he gets out of hospital next month. People can wait."Package turns up 20 days after landing at Incheon. I've had problems with Hanjin before. They seem to have massive problems. But what pissed me off most of all was the woman at Apex shipping refusing to believe us, accusing us of ****** up somehow and doing everything possible to deflect the blame away from her. I wasn't aggressive in the least, I just wanted to know where my missing package was. Serious problem with a lack of accountability.Called them back and took photos of the address label to show it had our full address, city, province, zip code, phone number etc in English AND Korean. The guy this time was apologetic and said they get complaints about Hanjin everyday and they wont be using them anymore. And that he would give more training to the woman who called us liars. Bullshit.1 - F*ckup task2 - Refuses to take responsibility/lies3 - shifts blame to you or someone else4 - if the situation doesn't go away, either continues to lie5 - Finally, get the youngest junior to apologise for the f*ckup of his dumbass, ajushi boss.Face saving culture, you can't beat it.Read his post again. The company in question is based in the US.
Amazon - US, did their part no problemApex - Korea, didn't know what was going on and lied about itHanjin - Korea, a complete shitshow that couldn't deliver a turd into a toilet bowl.
Learning any new language is hard. But "How are you?" is not ****** rocket science that takes years to master.
This is also all packages coming into Korea now. My boyfriend called the Incheon post office and apparently there are too many packages for Incheon to handle (even though this has been going on for about a year now) so everything usually sits there for 3 weeks or a month before they even get it out to the shipping companies.
Quote from: Chinguetti on October 26, 2018, 10:15:31 amLearning any new language is hard. But "How are you?" is not ****** rocket science that takes years to master.Selemat pagi=good morning Selemat sore=Good day Selemat malam=good eveningIt took me 4 mins to learn this.If you can't respond to "How are you" in middle school, you're an absolute moron.
Quote from: CO2 on October 26, 2018, 10:31:48 amQuote from: Chinguetti on October 26, 2018, 10:15:31 amLearning any new language is hard. But "How are you?" is not ****** rocket science that takes years to master.Selemat pagi=good morning Selemat sore=Good day Selemat malam=good eveningIt took me 4 mins to learn this.If you can't respond to "How are you" in middle school, you're an absolute moron.After 30 minutes of practice (On a ppt and in the book) my 3rd grade middle school kids couldn't learn "You're kidding!" I got fed up and made them copy it out of the book for a while. Really 30 minutes and you can't learn 2 words......(technically 3 but contraction) My KT is like you are too hard on them. No I am not. It is 2 words after 6 years of English education.
Quote from: CO2 on October 26, 2018, 10:31:48 amQuote from: Chinguetti on October 26, 2018, 10:15:31 amLearning any new language is hard. But "How are you?" is not ****** rocket science that takes years to master.Selemat pagi=good morning Selemat sore=Good day Selemat malam=good eveningIt took me 4 mins to learn this.If you can't respond to "How are you" in middle school, you're an absolute moron.Them: But this is Korea. In Korea, they don't use English, so they can't learn it.Me: But what about the students who do learn it?Them: They study it. Me: Exactly. Them: No, no, English is too difficult.
It's something that every person in a teaching position has to accept, that there will always be those students who are so invested in not learning that it requires actual active effort to avoid it. What frustrates me is when people try to excuse and enable it, as if this is not something they can help. Hold them accountable, ffs. You may not be able to change their attitudes, but you can sure as **** make sure they know it's their own goddamn choice.
Quote from: hayleebb87 on October 26, 2018, 10:27:47 amThis is also all packages coming into Korea now. My boyfriend called the Incheon post office and apparently there are too many packages for Incheon to handle (even though this has been going on for about a year now) so everything usually sits there for 3 weeks or a month before they even get it out to the shipping companies.I've placed overseas orders all year, and it's never taken more than two to three weeks for me to receive a package. Once the package arrives in Incheon, I normally receive my package in a couple of days, less than that if customs doesn't decide it needs extra info from me.But I don't doubt what you're saying. I'm just kind of wondering what Incheon's setup is and if it has different departments catering to different types of packages or whatever. zola's problem isn't with Incheon, though, it's with the shipping companies themselves.
It's something that every person in a teaching position has to accept, that there will always be those students who are so invested in not learning that it requires actual active effort to be so ignorant.What frustrates me is when people try to excuse and enable it, as if this is not something they can help. Hold them accountable, ffs. You may not be able to change their attitudes, but you can sure as **** make sure they know it's their own goddamn choice. Don't ****** pat them on the backs when they didn't even try.