Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on April 05, 2019, 07:06:50 amQuote from: oglop on April 04, 2019, 08:12:48 pmi've been in the uk for the past month. during that time i enjoyed watching a variety of interesting programmes on tv.since being back, i must have watched people eating instant noodles on tv about 4 times, and i've only been back 2 days. what is with this? it's the same shit over and over again. if it's not eating noodles its cleaning the house or even worse - watching people watch people cleaning the house.nothing interesting is happening. it's 9pm - prime time - and this is tv at its best? i've clearly forgotten how incredibly inane korean tv is. i just cannot get my head around why this would be entertaining to.......anyonehomes under the hammer? I will hear nothing against 'Homes Under the Hammer'.
Quote from: oglop on April 04, 2019, 08:12:48 pmi've been in the uk for the past month. during that time i enjoyed watching a variety of interesting programmes on tv.since being back, i must have watched people eating instant noodles on tv about 4 times, and i've only been back 2 days. what is with this? it's the same shit over and over again. if it's not eating noodles its cleaning the house or even worse - watching people watch people cleaning the house.nothing interesting is happening. it's 9pm - prime time - and this is tv at its best? i've clearly forgotten how incredibly inane korean tv is. i just cannot get my head around why this would be entertaining to.......anyonehomes under the hammer?
i've been in the uk for the past month. during that time i enjoyed watching a variety of interesting programmes on tv.since being back, i must have watched people eating instant noodles on tv about 4 times, and i've only been back 2 days. what is with this? it's the same shit over and over again. if it's not eating noodles its cleaning the house or even worse - watching people watch people cleaning the house.nothing interesting is happening. it's 9pm - prime time - and this is tv at its best? i've clearly forgotten how incredibly inane korean tv is. i just cannot get my head around why this would be entertaining to.......anyone
I like 'Come Dine with me', when one of the guests has some sort of mental illness. And the narrator takes the piss out of everyone.
I have 6 damn classes today and recovering from a nasty flu. It's critical that I have my break between lessons to recover and prepare. Between the 2nd and 3rd periods sit a 20min break, which I desperately need. Just as 2nd period ends, I'm cleaning the board and preparing for some quiet time, in barges 25 4th grade students, their HR teacher saw it fit to send them to wait in the damn English class as if it's a bloody playground.In the typical spineless fashion I've come to expect here, my CT is trying to placate and downplay the whole thing, but I'm seriously going to give this selfish **** of a HR teacher a piece of my mind during lunch.
On the plus side my main colleague is cool but that's not really in the spirit of this thread.
The new textbooks were published in 2018 and they have 11 authors, including an American who apparently edited the English. And yet there are still clunky, awkward, and just f*ing incorrect sentences littered throughout. Also, the 'Listen and Repeat' function for songs and chants does not sync up with the rhythm. It's hard to overstate how jarring that is.
Quote from: robin_teacher on April 05, 2019, 01:59:52 pmOn the plus side my main colleague is cool but that's not really in the spirit of this thread.Get that shit out of here, you raving, happy Robin!Seriously though, that all sounds maddening. Keep yo head up, bro.
I imagine he'd just say I was fortunate in the past that I had schools/principals who were nice enough to not make me take a vacation day for it. It isn't that the rules have changed, it's that they've been applied inconsistently. I worry that if I press the issue, I'll just end up causing trouble for other NETs. If I make a fuss, sure, I might end up not having to take a vacation day. OR, I might end up prompting the POE to crack down and force all schools in the province to require their NETs to take a vacation day for it. Remember, it used to be up to the school's discretion whether or not NETs had to come in to deskwarm during winter and summer breaks. The teachers who had to deskwarm complained about it to their POEs, and rather then allowing those teachers to stay home, they told all the schools that NETs have to deskwarm. It'd be cool to not have to waste a vacation day on this, but it would be a fair bit less cool to screw every other NET in my province out of a vacation day.
holy hell man, you seriously need to learn how to stand up for yourself. i can't believe you're just going to roll over on this.
"but i don't wanna cause problems for other NETs!"what problems are you going to cause? everyone will be forced to use a vacation day to renew their ARC/visa? they won't. why? because it's a BUSINESS RELATED MATTER.
as someone else said, they can't let you work illegally. the reason why it's probably now written into the Gangwon contract that those trips must be registered on NEIS as business trips is because the POE was probably getting so many emails every year from NETs complaining that they were being forced to use vacation days for work-related matters.
The new textbooks were published in 2018 and they have 11 authors, including an American who apparently edited the English. And yet there are still clunky, awkward, and just f*ing incorrect sentences littered throughout. Also, the 'Listen and Repeat' function for songs and chants does not sync up with the rhythm. It's hard to overstate how jarring that is.I'm editing this into a rant list.- Was offered 2 side-gigs for my city. Accepted both on the condition they run sequentially. Signed up officially. They run concurrently.- Was misquoted time and pay for both programs.- Had to do a lot of extra work for both programs due to general disorganization and mismanagement. - New colleague is incompetent. Cannot-use-a-computer level. Cannot speak English. Cannot manage a class.- Found out new colleague took the position from another colleague who is competent. Incompetent colleague is apparently unfireable because she's a teacher and uncriticizable because she's old. Wants to be a homeroom teacher but was denied for fear of parental complaints and inability to do the corresponding paperwork. Now she's my problem.- Lost several afternoons worth of planning time due to meetings with and about new incompetent co-teacher.- Had to break my 'don't take work home' rule.- Korean progress is slow. Regretting not taking a year as a student to buckle down and earn the points F-visa.- Can't marry into F-visa because "Ew, 2 guys. Sick."On the plus side my main colleague is cool but that's not really in the spirit of this thread.
Students come in to my room 30 minutes before class starts. I'd rather they didn't, but fine. I don't own the room. They then proceed to have shout talking conversations across the room. 2 or 3 guys at one table and another guy at a table across the other side of the room, booming voices, shout talking. Shut up. Please.Imagine entering a quiet room, with your teacher doing paperwork and then just sit there and start screaming at each other. And these aren't children. 20 year olds.
Quote from: zola on April 08, 2019, 02:47:06 pmStudents come in to my room 30 minutes before class starts. I'd rather they didn't, but fine. I don't own the room. They then proceed to have shout talking conversations across the room. 2 or 3 guys at one table and another guy at a table across the other side of the room, booming voices, shout talking. Shut up. Please.Imagine entering a quiet room, with your teacher doing paperwork and then just sit there and start screaming at each other. And these aren't children. 20 year olds.if only someone had created a thread about this kind of thing. like something about Koreans possibly being immune to noise or something like that. if only....