tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38933449124831403.post4906512358156394538..comments2023-05-26T11:05:40.212-04:00Comments on Yillabean: boss: do as i say not as i doyillabeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280042061461447378noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38933449124831403.post-81822567393071813072009-02-06T14:55:00.000-05:002009-02-06T14:55:00.000-05:00thanks for all the comments.i'm adapting to the 'l...thanks for all the comments.<BR/><BR/>i'm adapting to the 'late' thing. i knew this was a cultural thing before arriving, so i'm trying to shake my american ways of showing up 5 min. early and expecting the same from others.<BR/><BR/>if the students are late, it's their time learning english they will be waisting. if i don't have another meeting i wouldn't mind staying later with them.<BR/><BR/>luckily i still get paid if the students cancels.<BR/><BR/>for my boss, if she was just purely late and a little schizo i would let it roll off. but she got my knickers in a knot with the whole 'professionalism manual' and not respecting my time more than once.<BR/><BR/>again, this week, she didn't give me my students names or class time until the night before i was to teach... and she wants me to go in being prepared. that's not being respectful of my time.yillabeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07280042061461447378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38933449124831403.post-78985742978951353462009-02-05T21:26:00.000-05:002009-02-05T21:26:00.000-05:00I´m sorry I know you don´t know me, but...I just s...I´m sorry I know you don´t know me, but...I just simply must ask you, are you working for ´AheadEnglish´? Your story just sounds too eerily the same as mine. I was giving ´conversation classes only´, and was given no support at all, until I was given a ´lesson for foreign teachers because they are clearly worse than argentine teachers who are serious about their profession´. My boss´s professionalism was at times very cuestionable....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38933449124831403.post-27504191116858159782009-02-03T22:24:00.000-05:002009-02-03T22:24:00.000-05:00i can so relate to this post! It reminds me of wor...i can so relate to this post! It reminds me of working as an English teacher in prague :Pcurator of cutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14096296172937481003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38933449124831403.post-4991664516299048022009-02-03T15:22:00.000-05:002009-02-03T15:22:00.000-05:00Hi Yill. I read about the Porteño propensity for ...Hi Yill. I read about the Porteño propensity for being late, maybe fetish is a better word. So I expected it. I was curious, though, how it actually works, this notion that it is a good thing to be late? If one person makes it a point to be fashionably late, and the person who is supposed to be waiting also decides to be fashionably late, and each one needs to appear later than the other, how is it that anyone ever shows up anywhere at all? It becomes a "being later than you" house of cards, each one trying to be later than the other, until the stack tumbles.<BR/><BR/>I am not a fan of late. I do not think it is fashionable, I think it is extraordinarily rude and inconsiderate. If I suggest meeting someone at 9, I am told I should tell them to come at 7:30. Huh?<BR/><BR/>The obvious other side to this is the person waiting (you in this case). The person making you wait is telling you in no uncertain terms that his or her time is more valuable than yours, implying that his or her life is more valuable than yours. Being late means nothing less than this. I am supposed to sit twiddling my thumbs waiting, while the other person does a little shopping, or chats on the phone with Mom, or picks up the laundry, until he or she has reached the fashionably late point and can deign to appear.<BR/><BR/>It is rude and I don't participate. If someone tells me to meet at noon or eight or whenever, I will be there at noon or eight or whenever; fifteen minutes later, max, I will be gone and off doing something else. My time is at least as valuable as theirs.<BR/><BR/>Uh huh, you started me on a rant. Sorry. But you rang a bell with me on this one. Plumbers were scheduled to come to our flat at 9 this morning to repair a leak in a bathtub. At 9:35, I called to find out if they were on their way, and was informed they had not left yet, but would be there soon. At 10:45, they appeared. They had me trapped because I want to use the tub. Otherwise, I would have left and gone on about my day by 9:15, and they could eat their service call.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me started ... .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com