RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

It annoys me that even though the desks in our office are ABSOLUTELY HUGE (honestly they couldn't be bigger), my coworker's stuff always ends up on mine.  It is ridiculous.

I think she's covertly trying to build Dwight's megadesk 

On the desk next to mine, there is a big jar of new pens, and it is a desk that isn't used by anyone.
Yet, people keep taking my only pen (which was a gift from someone, and is sorta fancy) and it ends up missing for days - weeks at a time. Last time someone returned it (while I wasn't at my desk) it showed up broken a bit

I literally get my new desk at my new school, and it has a bunch of new staplers, scissors, highlighters, pens, you name it. "These are for you." they tell me.

Come back the next week to find half of it gone. 

What can ya do?

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

Trump's shoes SUCK

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

The same news source that LIC is referring to also states that Mr. Obama is covertly homosexual, and only married his wife so that the Kenyan gay-police wouldn't imprison him.

Heard a rumor that Obama was sucking off or getting sucked off in the back of a limo. Think Chester Jim told me.

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

But, he was an activist in the Chicago black community before he served.  I've heard that he felt dating a white woman was not good for his image as a black activist a number of times and it makes sense.  No idea whether it's true or not.  And I'm absolutely not a Trump fan. 

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

But, he was an activist in the Chicago black community before he served.  I've heard that he felt dating a white woman was not good for his image as a black activist a number of times and it makes sense.  No idea whether it's true or not.  And I'm absolutely not a Trump fan.

"I've heard..." doesn't really cut it, though, does it?

This is super petty, but I don't care.

When there's a facebook article and some just writes their friend's name as a comment.

Joseph Smith Lisa Lionheart

You know you can share a post as a PM, right? I click on the article and 75% of the comments are just iterations of the format above.

If you're gonna do that, at least write something to start a conversation, oi vey. 

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

But, he was an activist in the Chicago black community before he served.  I've heard that he felt dating a white woman was not good for his image as a black activist a number of times and it makes sense.  No idea whether it's true or not.  And I'm absolutely not a Trump fan.

"I've heard..." doesn't really cut it, though, does it?

The info is out there.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/new-biography-obama-dumped-white-girlfriend-race-political-liability/

My rant...people who self-identify as liberals yet tear apart and insult anyone with a differing opinion usually with "phobe" or "racist" or "bigot" attached somewhere.

Generally speaking,Liberals are the most closed-minded people I have ever met . Especially these days. Most can be found blindly giving Obama a pass on everything including being a bit of a racist (he dumped his white girlfriend for Michelle cuz it played better to the public) while universally trashing Trump or his wife, or his kids, for anything from opinions to shoes.

What? They have been married since 1992 and started dating 3 years prior. He didn't even serve until 1996, that's quite the long game to get married for.

But, he was an activist in the Chicago black community before he served.  I've heard that he felt dating a white woman was not good for his image as a black activist a number of times and it makes sense.  No idea whether it's true or not.  And I'm absolutely not a Trump fan.

"I've heard..." doesn't really cut it, though, does it?

I thought this was old news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/05/02/before-michelle-barack-obama-asked-another-woman-to-marry-him-then-politics-got-in-the-way/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.47ee72161ab2

This forum is infested with frogs!

This is super petty, but I don't care.

When there's a facebook article and some just writes their friend's name as a comment.

Joseph Smith Lisa Lionheart

You know you can share a post as a PM, right? I click on the article and 75% of the comments are just iterations of the format above.

If you're gonna do that, at least write something to start a conversation, oi vey.

Wunna hear something super petty?
A friend of mine contacted me a few months ago to catch up (over facebook), she's living in the Phillipines, pregnant with her Fiancee's baby.
The Fiancee got super jealous, thinking I was an ex-bf of my friend, logged onto her account after she went afk for a moment, sent me threatening messages from her account then deleting them.

Then a month later, after not really talking to my friend in that time (mostly due to both of us being busy), he done it again, this time my friend noticed and spoke to me about it; then spoke to her partner to not do it again.

A couple days ago, after not hearing from my friend since last time, the guy does it AGAIN, this time, blocking me on my friend's account, and her instagram account so I can't contact her at all. Even though, I have never been interested in her romantically, and even though he was told, repeatedly, I'm only a friend and have no interest in her as more than a friend.

In this case, the guy is super petty. :p

I have to  go to immigration to renew my ARC tomorrow, and my principal won't allow anyone to accompany me because the rules don't say he has to. Based on my past experiences with my local immi office, it's going to be a bit of a crapshoot whether or not anyone there speaks English well enough to address any issues that might come up. I doubt I'll have any problems, but I'm still annoyed that His Royal Highness forbids anyone from helping me.

To make it even more fun, I've just been told I have to use a vacation day to do it, because my school is far enough away from immi that I wouldn't be able to make it there and back without missing all of my classes. I have to use one of my days to go take care of official documents that are required for me to continue to live here (and by extension teach here), nevermind that I'm only going tomorrow because we have to have appointments ahead of time to see anyone at immi now and tomorrow was the earliest appointment I could get despite making the appointment weeks ago.

Ugh. That was a rambling mess, but I'm too grumpy to sort it out.

I have to  go to immigration to renew my ARC tomorrow, and my principal won't allow anyone to accompany me because the rules don't say he has to. Based on my past experiences with my local immi office, it's going to be a bit of a crapshoot whether or not anyone there speaks English well enough to address any issues that might come up. I doubt I'll have any problems, but I'm still annoyed that His Royal Highness forbids anyone from helping me.

To make it even more fun, I've just been told I have to use a vacation day to do it, because my school is far enough away from immi that I wouldn't be able to make it there and back without missing all of my classes. I have to use one of my days to go take care of official documents that are required for me to continue to live here (and by extension teach here), nevermind that I'm only going tomorrow because we have to have appointments ahead of time to see anyone at immi now and tomorrow was the earliest appointment I could get despite making the appointment weeks ago.

Ugh. That was a rambling mess, but I'm too grumpy to sort it out.

Can't you talk to someone at the education office about it? Whenever I've needed to do that stuff, it had to be put in as a business trip. :o
Granted, I had to go by myself last time to renew my ARC too, and I'm 2 hours away from my nearest immi office. Luckily, when there was a problem, the immi guy called my co-T and they sorted it out on the phone :D

I have to  go to immigration to renew my ARC tomorrow, and my principal won't allow anyone to accompany me because the rules don't say he has to. Based on my past experiences with my local immi office, it's going to be a bit of a crapshoot whether or not anyone there speaks English well enough to address any issues that might come up. I doubt I'll have any problems, but I'm still annoyed that His Royal Highness forbids anyone from helping me.

To make it even more fun, I've just been told I have to use a vacation day to do it, because my school is far enough away from immi that I wouldn't be able to make it there and back without missing all of my classes. I have to use one of my days to go take care of official documents that are required for me to continue to live here (and by extension teach here), nevermind that I'm only going tomorrow because we have to have appointments ahead of time to see anyone at immi now and tomorrow was the earliest appointment I could get despite making the appointment weeks ago.

Ugh. That was a rambling mess, but I'm too grumpy to sort it out.

with regards to the 'taking a vacation day', could you not do a half-day holiday? a '조퇴' (go out but not come back)? so have school in the morning or until 11am for example and then take the rest of the day off to do your stuff?  in a one year contract you need to have a full 8 hours of 조퇴/외출 for it to be considered a vacation day. with 외출 you're expected to come back to school.

with regards to the 'taking a vacation day', could you not do a half-day holiday? a '조퇴' (go out but not come back)? so have school in the morning or until 11am for example and then take the rest of the day off to do your stuff?  in a one year contract you need to have a full 8 hours of 조퇴/외출 for it to be considered a vacation day. with 외출 you're expected to come back to school.

Nope. I'm familiar with that possibility, but my school is far enough away that it wouldn't be feasible to go to work a half day and still make the appointment on time.

with regards to the 'taking a vacation day', could you not do a half-day holiday? a '조퇴' (go out but not come back)? so have school in the morning or until 11am for example and then take the rest of the day off to do your stuff?  in a one year contract you need to have a full 8 hours of 조퇴/외출 for it to be considered a vacation day. with 외출 you're expected to come back to school.

fwiw, this was changed and isn't true anymore (at least in busan). if you take one hour, it takes away the vacation day. you then have 7 hours to use before they'll take the second day (ex. 9 hours would take away 2 vacation days).

I find it strange how so many teachers are willing to believe that students are super innocent, even the teachers with a ton of experience. A lot of them believe that the best way to understand these kids is to think the best of them, no matter what they do, and it's such a naive way of thinking. You can't just ignore certain behaviors and accept any excuse a student may give for them. Kids ****** lie, and they're not always so benevolent. And it isn't always the most obvious problem students who are the biggest troublemakers.

But that's an old story.

Also:

I have to  go to immigration to renew my ARC tomorrow, and my principal won't allow anyone to accompany me because the rules don't say he has to. Based on my past experiences with my local immi office, it's going to be a bit of a crapshoot whether or not anyone there speaks English well enough to address any issues that might come up. I doubt I'll have any problems, but I'm still annoyed that His Royal Highness forbids anyone from helping me.

To make it even more fun, I've just been told I have to use a vacation day to do it, because my school is far enough away from immi that I wouldn't be able to make it there and back without missing all of my classes. I have to use one of my days to go take care of official documents that are required for me to continue to live here (and by extension teach here), nevermind that I'm only going tomorrow because we have to have appointments ahead of time to see anyone at immi now and tomorrow was the earliest appointment I could get despite making the appointment weeks ago.

Ugh. That was a rambling mess, but I'm too grumpy to sort it out.

First, if you work for EPIK or SMOE, a trip to the immigration office to renew your visa is 출장. It's explicitly stated in the Korean guide for managing native teachers. He legally can't make you use a vacation day. Call your local MOE. Don't take that nonsense from him.

Second, you've been here for a pretty long time. You've gone to immigration at least once a year during that time, I'd estimate. Why would you need someone to go to immigration with you? I've been here for almost nine years and literally only had someone go to immigration with me the very first time, to collect my ARC. No wonder the VP has a bad attitude about it - if your school is far away from immigration, and he sends someone with you, then that person's going to be away most of the day, too, so suddenly there are two instructors out of work instead of one. I feel like you're probably competent enough that you could do it yourself.