She is EVIL
She is evil, evil, evil.
My evil now ex-boss (otherwise known as the wicked witch of the east) decided to do what many Korean Hogwan directors do to get out of paying their teachers the severence and airfare home they owe them and got rid of me in the 11th month. Having less than a month left in Korea I was informed on March 17th that I was fired. The reason? A messy apartment. Not exactly sure how this affects my teaching. Oh, wait, that's right. It doesn't. It was a lame excuse to get out of paying me my bonus and trip home. Anyway, Kaz came over on Friday night to help me clear out the apartment and now all of my books are on their way back to NZ and I have another box of clthes to send home since it's either that or take 2 suitcases and pay extra baggage fees when I eventually do leave. Since she owes me 2.5 million won I ain't leaving til she pays me. Evil witch took 800,000 won from my last pay on the excuse that I broke the washing machine (works fine), kettle (never used), toaster (never used), plates (hardly ever used) etc. All were in the apartment when I got there, all are perfectly fine and damned if I'm paying for new ones. Not that she'd actually buy new ones.
Have been told by the NZ Embassy that they can't help. What exactly are embassies meant to do then? Been told by the labour Dep last week that what she's done is illegal and they'll send her a letter, maybe this week or next week. Going to see them tomorrow about exactly when they plan to send this letter. ie, this millenium or next considering that I went to see them about this whole thing last Monday. And have been told by the International Centre in Gwangju that they might actually be able to help! SHOCK, HORROR! They will at least come to talk to the evil harpy with me. Hopefully, with someone else there who speaks Korean she will actually talk to us rather than just either ignore us or hang up the phone as soon as she hears English which is what she has been doing for the last week.
Since they need a teacher at the moment, have been (illegally) working at Kaz's school for last week and this week for extra money, plus it means that I have somewhere to stay.
Am now off to think up even more fun ways to kill the evil hapry
My evil now ex-boss (otherwise known as the wicked witch of the east) decided to do what many Korean Hogwan directors do to get out of paying their teachers the severence and airfare home they owe them and got rid of me in the 11th month. Having less than a month left in Korea I was informed on March 17th that I was fired. The reason? A messy apartment. Not exactly sure how this affects my teaching. Oh, wait, that's right. It doesn't. It was a lame excuse to get out of paying me my bonus and trip home. Anyway, Kaz came over on Friday night to help me clear out the apartment and now all of my books are on their way back to NZ and I have another box of clthes to send home since it's either that or take 2 suitcases and pay extra baggage fees when I eventually do leave. Since she owes me 2.5 million won I ain't leaving til she pays me. Evil witch took 800,000 won from my last pay on the excuse that I broke the washing machine (works fine), kettle (never used), toaster (never used), plates (hardly ever used) etc. All were in the apartment when I got there, all are perfectly fine and damned if I'm paying for new ones. Not that she'd actually buy new ones.
Have been told by the NZ Embassy that they can't help. What exactly are embassies meant to do then? Been told by the labour Dep last week that what she's done is illegal and they'll send her a letter, maybe this week or next week. Going to see them tomorrow about exactly when they plan to send this letter. ie, this millenium or next considering that I went to see them about this whole thing last Monday. And have been told by the International Centre in Gwangju that they might actually be able to help! SHOCK, HORROR! They will at least come to talk to the evil harpy with me. Hopefully, with someone else there who speaks Korean she will actually talk to us rather than just either ignore us or hang up the phone as soon as she hears English which is what she has been doing for the last week.
Since they need a teacher at the moment, have been (illegally) working at Kaz's school for last week and this week for extra money, plus it means that I have somewhere to stay.
Am now off to think up even more fun ways to kill the evil hapry
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