Sucks To Your Asthma, Kojen

As many of you already know, after 7.5 months and a great deal of debate, I have said goodbye to Kojen English Language School.

In many ways, it was a very tough decision. I have made a lot of good friends there amongst my fellow Foreign Teachers and Chinese Teachers. I enjoyed almost all of my classes and most of my students. I liked the structure of the classes and I liked the books they used. Our boss is a douche but he was always nice to me. And I wasn't sure I could ever say goodbye to some of my Day Care kids.

On the other hand, some of my favorite FT's were leaving or had left. I'm sick of working on Saturdays when most of my friends have off. Despite the niceness shown to me, our boss is a douche. And most importantly, I was getting royally screwed as we were only paid for our classroom hours. While not a shabby paycheck by Taiwan standards, I was only paid for 24 hours a week rather than the 45-50 hours I spent working at the school. That time was mostly spent marking required homework and daily quizzes. I finally had enough and pulled the trigger on a new job.

And any doubts I had about leaving were soon gone when Kojen wanted to penalize me 2 weeks pay for only giving 3 weeks notice rather than 4 weeks. Not only did I tell them that was bullshit because I was always a good employee and deserved better, but I also pointed out that it was 100% illegal and would have my legal team of Vaughan, Siepel, Dunsing, & Dunsing on the next flight over if needed. Fortunately, they quickly realized they wanted nothing to do with my football loving, scotch guzzling team of lawyers and dropped their threat. But the damage was done and I realized this was not a company I wanted to associate with any further.

I've now been Kojen-free since January 3rd and I'm loving every second of it...