mother of god. Murder them all, the courts will see your side.
mother of god. Murder them all, the courts will see your side.
Not if they're Korean courts.
My office was fucking FREEZING today. We have 3 heaters in our office. The following:
This Korean teacher walks in saying the Korean word for cold (sounds like "Choo-ah") over and over and over chooahchooahchooah.
"It's cold in here!"
"Yes, very cold."
"Why don't we turn on the heat?"
"Then we would become very warm"
Meanwhile everyone is sitting around in gloves and jackets
The important thing is the murdering, really..
Learning English is all about repetition and that makes a robot an ideal teacher, according to Jang Byoung-ok, the principal at the Hagjeong School. He added there’s another reason to choose robots over foreign teachers. They’re cheaper. Jang said it costs around $40 thousand a year to support a foreign English teacher in Korea; it’s about half the price to build an Engkey and contract with a teacher in the Philippines.
The page isn't loading for me. :-\
Isn't that the robot that shows a picture of a white person, but is actually connected to someone in the Phillipines?
Edit: Ah, yes, it loaded.QuoteLearning English is all about repetition and that makes a robot an ideal teacher, according to Jang Byoung-ok, the principal at the Hagjeong School. He added there’s another reason to choose robots over foreign teachers. They’re cheaper. Jang said it costs around $40 thousand a year to support a foreign English teacher in Korea; it’s about half the price to build an Engkey and contract with a teacher in the Philippines.
My office was fucking FREEZING today. We have 3 heaters in our office. The following::lol Jesus Christ, it's the same everywhere you go here!
This Korean teacher walks in saying the Korean word for cold (sounds like "Choo-ah") over and over and over chooahchooahchooah.
"It's cold in here!"
"Yes, very cold."
"Why don't we turn on the heat?"
"Then we would become very warm"
Meanwhile everyone is sitting around in gloves and jackets
What are your plans afterward, GilloD?
My office was fucking FREEZING today. We have 3 heaters in our office. The following::lol Jesus Christ, it's the same everywhere you go here!
This Korean teacher walks in saying the Korean word for cold (sounds like "Choo-ah") over and over and over chooahchooahchooah.
"It's cold in here!"
"Yes, very cold."
"Why don't we turn on the heat?"
"Then we would become very warm"
Meanwhile everyone is sitting around in gloves and jackets
Our school is always fucking freezing. The Koreans in the office apparently prefer to sit there and say 'oh chooah, nuhmoo chooah' over and over rather than turn up the fucking heat. The office heater is constantly broken anyway and the hallways aren't heated at all. I've never seen any other country in the world where people constantly dress indoors in the winter exactly as they do outside--with scarves, overcoats, earmuffs, the whole works. It's ridiculous. I would link to photographic proof on my school's website, but Chrome and Firefox warn that it's malware-ridden like every other godforsaken website here. Do Korean people know you can fucking upgrade Internet Explorer 6? No seriously, IE6--fucking SIX--still has over 50% marketshare here. And then the Korean web is a fucking MESS of ActiveX and Flash bullshit and pop-up ads. I just go with Firefox and noscript that shit, but then they're totally not fuctional. All the computers here are so ridden with malware that a few take 25 minutes (I swear up and down that's not exaggeration; I timed it) to boot. And then the anti-virus programs they use (in shitty Konglish, BAIRO-BOT and PEESHEE BEHKSHEEN*) do nothing except install more malware.
Oh, today was my last day. 8) Back in the States on Monday. Oh how I've missed thee, USA. :usacry
*Translator's note: Virus-Bot and PC Vaccine.
It's a good thing you're getting out of Korea soon, because this thing would fucking kill you and take your job.
(http://www.theworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Engkey-150x150.jpg)
http://www.theworld.org/2011/03/south-korean-students-learn-english-robot/
In Korea, you turn 1 year old the day you're born. Then you get another year older on New Years Day. So if you're born on December 30th, you're 2 years old on January 1st.
"You will teach in young child room and that teacher will help you"
"Does she speak English?"
"No."
"Then how will she help me?"
"She will also learn from your lesson and then learning the English and then help you".
QuoteIn Korea, you turn 1 year old the day you're born. Then you get another year older on New Years Day. So if you're born on December 30th, you're 2 years old on January 1st.
Is this serious?
But the guy they got to play the white teacher on the CD is TERRIFYING. He's like a 7 foot, bleach blonde, super thin skeleton. He looks like an acid-casualty AIDS victim.
What are your plans afterward, GilloD?
Well, my wife has to finish her graduate thesis before 2/12. So we'll head to Illinois and chillax for the Fall of '11 while she works andI aply to grad schools. I finally decided to go back for game design, which is what I should have done 8 years ago. I hve friends here who work at a game company and, whatever, it's a job and it's not all like fun and rainbows, but it does require a kind of detail-oriented, lke. Well. They were working on this new game and we spent like 2 hours brainstorming settings which is pure imagination, then talking economics in terms of how to balance play and then a bit of philosophy in terms of difficulty curves and what fun is blah blah. I love jobs that kind of require multiple intelligence like that. So! That's that. Plus, I'm all into that McGonigal "games ca solve problems" kind of thing.
Anyway, I'd apply for Fall of '12 and the winter/spring of '12 I think we're going to Hungary to teach English until June, thetaking a month in France to work on a farm. Phew.
Earlier this year I cut like hundreds of bingo cards, printed and made copies of lots of commonly used worksheets and templates and sorted them all in my supply closet. Folders, tabs, the whole thing. Just now I go to the closet to get my stuff to find out that they threw away EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT. Fuck them, fuck this school, fuck this stupid job. What is wrong with my co-workers?
Earlier this year I cut like hundreds of bingo cards, printed and made copies of lots of commonly used worksheets and templates and sorted them all in my supply closet. Folders, tabs, the whole thing. Just now I go to the closet to get my stuff to find out that they threw away EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT. Fuck them, fuck this school, fuck this stupid job. What is wrong with my co-workers?
Plsu I have no co-teacher because the old one quit and they didn't hire a new one
Then you remembered the remote control
<Principal> WHYEE YOU QUIT ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE-U
<GilloD> Please understand.
<Principal> WHYEE YOU QUIT ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE-U
<GilloD> Please understand.
<Principal> WHYEE YOU QUIT ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE-U
<GilloD> Please understand.
DO THIS
AND UPPER DECK EVERY TOILET YOU COME ACROSS ON YOUR WAY OUT OF THE COUNTRY
Goddammit, it can't end this way. I expected a murderous rampage.
THE SHOCKING TWIST ENDING:
My friends work at a game dev studio. They were looking to hire. I interviewed and got the gig. It's better in every possible way. I have to resign on Monday.
As a bonus-u: The Gov't just announced a hiring freeze. No more English-ee monkey to play tricks for the kiddos.
<Principal> WHYEE YOU QUIT ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE-U:lol
<GilloD> Please understand.
GilloD's long nightmare has come to a closeAre you kidding? Working at a Korean gaming studio? HIS STORIES ARE ONLY JUST BEGINNING.
I will miss your amusing stories but this is probably better for your mental health. Is your wife staying in the teaching gig or no?
wait, you're staying in Korea or moving to the US? I assumed the latter but Chrono has me all confused now.
someone else needs to move to korea to keep this thread going
wait, you're staying in Korea or moving to the US? I assumed the latter but Chrono has me all confused now.
Staying in Korea, just in a way, way better gig
QuoteStaying in Korea, just in a way, way better gig
is this with EA? IF so - you will be working with... someone....
someone we all know... someone cool.
The director's cut ending of this ends with GilloD quitting his job in some spectacular fashion, joyfully heading to his new job, where he finds upon arrival the gig was given to someone else (likely an unqualified relative) at the last second. "Please understand" echoes off the walls as the camera slowly zooms in on his wide, disbelieving eyes, then cuts to him begging for his job back at the school, but with more duties and a pay cut.
As the credits roll, we see a shell-shocked GilloD on his hands and knees sullenly scrubbing a toilet, while wearing a shirt that reads "없음 팀 플레이!".spoiler (click to show/hide)Bonus Post-Credits Scene: A student glides up behind Gillo and gives him the "shit-needle" while he's scrubbing the toilet. THE END[close]
QuoteStaying in Korea, just in a way, way better gig
is this with EA? IF so - you will be working with... someone....
someone we all know... someone cool.
I gladly obliged, stopped for coffee along the way. It turns out the principal was COLLECTING ALL THE GIFTS AND DESTROYING THEM hahaha.
I gladly obliged, stopped for coffee along the way. It turns out the principal was COLLECTING ALL THE GIFTS AND DESTROYING THEM hahaha.
:rofl
Got my wisdom teeth out. The Dentist was a she-male which is like UNHEARD OF in Korea. They only do local anesthetic here. It's neat to hear your bones break in your head.
Just 3 more weeks. I have to teach these "Summer Camps". They're okay. Fucking boring, the kids don't wanna be here, I don't wanna be here. I'm just like giving them word searches and then watching Spongebob and Adventure Time while coding in the 2nd monitor. Good deal.
GilloD - do you think its possible to make an interactive "Himuro Plinko" for our front page? I remember you dwelling on ActionScript.
Just 3 more weeks. I have to teach these "Summer Camps". They're okay. Fucking boring, the kids don't wanna be here, I don't wanna be here. I'm just like giving them word searches and then watching Spongebob and Adventure Time while coding in the 2nd monitor. Good deal.
so maybe i missed it but where you living after korea? LA maybe? :-*
She tried to give me paperwork to do. They were like "You must stamp every page two times" and it's a stack of like 300 pages. I walked away! Feels great. I feel great.
God damn it. I ended up staying at work to work on Himuro Plinko and now it is liek MONSOONING OUTSIDE and I am TRAPPED HERE and I haven't eaten all day because my wisdom sockets hurrrrrrrt
Don't forget to upper deck the principal's desk before you leave.
Don't forget to upper deck all the toilets before you leave.
Introduce a group of the kindergarteners to the principal's office.Don't forget to upper deck all the toilets before you leave.
They're all squat toilets and I work on the same floor as the Kindergarten kids. There;s shit on the floor all the time already
Don't forget to upper deck the principal's face before you leave.
Fixed.
Hahaha. Oh man. Check this out, so I'm teaching camp which goes from 9-12:10. After that I'm supposed to just sit at my desk for 4 and a half hours. Because our new Principal is a crazy bitch (Did I post about she tried to get us to clean the bathrooms?). I left yesterday at like 1:30 because I was like THIS IS DUMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBB and the Principal got super angry about it. So today they were like
"Principal wants to talk to you"
"Principal says you must stay whole working day"
"No, I'm not going to do that. I have things to be doing to prepare for going home to America. I can't stay here"
"She says you must or you will have to take vacation day"
"I have no more vacation days. If you want, you can spend a few million won and rearrange my flight. If you think that's a good idea"
Korean chatter
"She is very angry and will decide this later"
Then:
She tried to give me paperwork to do. They were like "You must stamp every page two times" and it's a stack of like 300 pages. I walked away! Feels great. I feel great.
Just 3 more weeks. I have to teach these "Summer Camps". They're okay. Fucking boring, the kids don't wanna be here, I don't wanna be here. I'm just like giving them word searches and then watching Spongebob and Adventure Time while coding in the 2nd monitor. Good deal.
so maybe i missed it but where you living after korea? LA maybe? :-*
Chicago for a bit, my wife has to finish her grad work. After that, dunno. Depends on if I make any headway in Chi-town, re: games. Or where I get into grad school.
Why do these people act like this? Is it only to foreigners?
For the last year I've been sitting at the computer in the front of the class instead of the one in my office for 3 really good reasons:
1- No one can see what I'm up to and I'm not jerking off, but I wanna read comics or something, you know.
2- DUAL MONITORS YEAH YEAH
3- It's about 11x faster and I have the whole Adobe suite and Netbeans and whatever installed on here so I can do some dev shit in my free time.
Today one of my co-teachers is like "You must now sit in the office the princiapl says we need more friendly" and I'm like "No, I'm good in here" and then we go to lunch and I come back and they SENT A GUY TO FORMAT BOTH COMPUTERS WHAT THE FUUUUUUU
so I sat in the office for the last 4 hours and everyone just talks Korean and laughs while I sit there with the world's slowest fucking PC watching the clock change