Once again, I am totally annoyed.
If I weren't tied to this school with my visa, I might have quit my job today. The complaints I have been getting are so ridiculous.
At my school, there is one teacher who is in charge of ordering new books for each class. I write my lesson plans a month ahead of time, then give him a piece of paper that says what books I need and when I need them. Which I did last month. This method has always worked out fine and dandy and my books have always been on the shelf in time. Today one of my classes were starting a new book. I assumed they would be there on time because the new book was written on the master list of "when to order books" which is hanging on the staff bulletin board. And like I already said, they've always been there before.
So I came into work today, but no books were to be seen. I sort of asked around a bit, trying to see if maybe they hadn't been un-boxed yet. Finally I hunted down the teacher who orders the books. He looked at the schedule, and then looked rather concerned. Honestly, I thought HE was the one who was going to get in trouble, so I said, "No big deal, they can review today." So I go about my merry way and start teaching my first class of the day. I'm about 10 minutes into my class when one of the teachers interrupts me in the middle of class and says the principal wants to talk to me.
For a good five minutes she bitches to me about how I should check all of my books ahead of time (despite never being told to do this) and goes off on some random tangent about "not being able to check up on everything" blah blah blah. Keep in mind my first class is sitting around totally unattended as she is doing this. I am at this point totally sick of being pushed around and somewhat bolder about my contempt for her in my last few months, so I firmly said, "I really don't think this is my fault. I assumed the books would be here because they were on the list on the wall and there was never a problem before. I gave the list a month in advance." She seemed annoyed that I would respond to her instead of just taking it, yet totally ignored my comments and told me that it would take at least three days to get the books in! And looked at me like I should be horrified. Whatever. Again, I said that reviewing with them really isn't a big deal. She again seems annoyed with the fact that I am not ashamed or weeping or something. I'm sorry, but I really can't bother getting worked up about this. It's really only an inconvenience to me for having to do a different lesson plan. Mistakes happen. Get over it.
Later in the day I heard her talking about me in the lobby. My Korean's not quite good enough to understand what she was saying, plus she was in the other room, but her tone of voice conveyed the general gist of it. Plus one of the teachers looked sort of shocked and gave me a nervous glance when she heard it. I was probably not giving the most appropriate facial reaction. She probably expected terror, but I'm sure my look was much closer to a "Bitch, please."
The funny thing is, I'm not even that upset about the actual situation. Nowadays I'm just x'ing off the days on my calendar until I'm finished, and I don't give a flip what she thinks about me. She can't fire me this late in a contract, so her every thought can be filled with how much she detests me and I don't care. I was mostly just annoyed because I had a good time in Seoul this weekend, and was in a great mood this morning, and she crapped all over my good mood. She needs to step off, because other than her, I've been feeling quite good lately for lots of reasons. *coughcoughregularsexlifeagaincoughcough*
Dear boss,
Chill the fuck out. You're harshing my buzz.
Love,
Sarah
At my school, there is one teacher who is in charge of ordering new books for each class. I write my lesson plans a month ahead of time, then give him a piece of paper that says what books I need and when I need them. Which I did last month. This method has always worked out fine and dandy and my books have always been on the shelf in time. Today one of my classes were starting a new book. I assumed they would be there on time because the new book was written on the master list of "when to order books" which is hanging on the staff bulletin board. And like I already said, they've always been there before.
So I came into work today, but no books were to be seen. I sort of asked around a bit, trying to see if maybe they hadn't been un-boxed yet. Finally I hunted down the teacher who orders the books. He looked at the schedule, and then looked rather concerned. Honestly, I thought HE was the one who was going to get in trouble, so I said, "No big deal, they can review today." So I go about my merry way and start teaching my first class of the day. I'm about 10 minutes into my class when one of the teachers interrupts me in the middle of class and says the principal wants to talk to me.
For a good five minutes she bitches to me about how I should check all of my books ahead of time (despite never being told to do this) and goes off on some random tangent about "not being able to check up on everything" blah blah blah. Keep in mind my first class is sitting around totally unattended as she is doing this. I am at this point totally sick of being pushed around and somewhat bolder about my contempt for her in my last few months, so I firmly said, "I really don't think this is my fault. I assumed the books would be here because they were on the list on the wall and there was never a problem before. I gave the list a month in advance." She seemed annoyed that I would respond to her instead of just taking it, yet totally ignored my comments and told me that it would take at least three days to get the books in! And looked at me like I should be horrified. Whatever. Again, I said that reviewing with them really isn't a big deal. She again seems annoyed with the fact that I am not ashamed or weeping or something. I'm sorry, but I really can't bother getting worked up about this. It's really only an inconvenience to me for having to do a different lesson plan. Mistakes happen. Get over it.
Later in the day I heard her talking about me in the lobby. My Korean's not quite good enough to understand what she was saying, plus she was in the other room, but her tone of voice conveyed the general gist of it. Plus one of the teachers looked sort of shocked and gave me a nervous glance when she heard it. I was probably not giving the most appropriate facial reaction. She probably expected terror, but I'm sure my look was much closer to a "Bitch, please."
The funny thing is, I'm not even that upset about the actual situation. Nowadays I'm just x'ing off the days on my calendar until I'm finished, and I don't give a flip what she thinks about me. She can't fire me this late in a contract, so her every thought can be filled with how much she detests me and I don't care. I was mostly just annoyed because I had a good time in Seoul this weekend, and was in a great mood this morning, and she crapped all over my good mood. She needs to step off, because other than her, I've been feeling quite good lately for lots of reasons. *coughcoughregularsexlifeagaincoughcough*
Dear boss,
Chill the fuck out. You're harshing my buzz.
Love,
Sarah