Hitler has to desk warm.
Desk warming is when foreign English teachers are required to come in to school during winter or summer breaks and sit at their desks even though there are no students and very few other teachers there. You basically have nothing to do but frivol away the very long hours of the day by poking around on the internet. It is very inefficient and frustrating since you know you could be using that time to travel (or just sleep late). But you also know that you shouldn’t really be complaining since you already get more vacation time than you probably would at a job in your home country.
Anyway, I laughed way too much at this video. It was spot on, and spared neither the frustrating aspects of working at a Korean school nor how whiny—But justified, damn it! Wah!—we foreign teachers can be.
(Reblogged from jegidong: carrieabigstick; via The Waygook Effect)
I haven’t seen a more accurate Korea video since this. I was literally LOL-ing while watching, especially since during both winter and summer vacations, I’ve had problems with my school with vacation dates AFTER we’ve confirmed it with one another and AFTER I bought my plane tickets. During the most recent vacation incident, however, I just reacted with a laugh and a sigh. Oh, Korea…what you’ve gotten me used to I would never have tolerated back home.
