office space

for the first half of the day i was kind of in a funk... and it's not like things are that bad, cuz they're really not. things are pretty good here. i guess i'm just starting to see all the politics in the workplace. and it's not pretty. i wouldn't consider myself a fake person, nor do i like to associate with fake people... but there's a lot of fakies at work. and you know, i have no issues with being cordial, after all, we do work together. but one person in particular has this passive aggressive gripe with me, for god knows why, and it irks me. since we're "friends" on fb, i'm not gonna go into too much detail, since i have no clue who the hell reads my rants anyway... but yea. politics in the workplace suck. and to expand on that, i'm one of the oldest teachers. most are early to mid 20s. and then there's me. there's a couple older than me, but we're a dyin breed. and so there are all these youngins that are the 'supervisors' and a couple of them go on these power trips where you're like... dood. seriously? and then to make matters worse, there's 5 different 'supervisors' so when i don't do something right, it's like i'm in office space and i'm having to hear about my TPS reports from not just one person, but a few of them. fuck off lumbergh!

so aside from that, here's a few more things i've noticed while living here. bus drivers have steel feet. when they accelerate, you better hang on. when they brake, you better hang on. if you're standing and there are no seats left, good luck.

t shirts in korea make no sense whatsoever. i really want to have a "worst korean t shirt" party and take pix of all the nonsense. the other day on the bus this girl was wearing a shirt that said "the hang that my life flies"... i'll try to remember to carry around my camera so i can take pix of the gibberish.

koreans like store names or company names with the word story in it. everywhere you go there's something story. a golf range right by my place is called golf story. i've seen another one called swing story. there's clothing stores and all other sorts of stores with "story" tagged onto the end of it. even tho it makes no sense. if i could make a job out of fixing all the "english" terms and words they print for signs, billboards, and posters i could prob make a fortune. anything that has english on it has at least one typo. probably more. even flyers and signs on cars... i guess they take the literal translation and think that's how it goes... at least that's how they roll... bitches.

anyhow, that's about it for now. big gulps huh? well, see ya later!


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