Reason #72 Why I Want to Quit This Job

Okay, let's forget the "they don't pay me" part of the equation and just focus on the job itself. My boss, who is generally a pretty nice guy, wants me to write a "debate book". Yeah, a book on debate. I'm not kidding here. He wants an entire book written on debate, authored by me. And imagine it this way: "Duane, a whole week has passed. How come debate book no finish-ee yet?"

Last Wednesday I finally had it and told him there was no way imaginable that I was going to be able to write a debate book for him, especially when I never have any time. He keeps adding classes for me to teach. I'm beyond the max now, and they just added a new "TOEFEL Writing" class for me to start teaching today, keeping me here an hour even longer than I'm normally here. Actually, it's two hours longer than I'm normally here because they creatively took away my usual hour break and put a class in place of that break, figuring I'd probably never notice. When I complained, they stopped speaking English and just nodded a lot, and then printed the schedule just as they planned to do.

I don't think people realize how screwed over I've been in this job since I arrived here. The boss promised me FEWER classes so I could work on "his book". Instead, he added classes, and sure enough, in a few days, after he thinks I've forgotten all about it, he'll want "the book". I'm getting so pissed at this fracking place.

My only real alternative right now is to just cut my losses and leave. I just don't have anywhere to go. I need a job, and I can't find one. I can find hundreds of jobs in South Korea, but I can't take a single one because I'm on a prison visa (at least it feels like it), and for some reason I can't seem to get a single response from any other country. It sometimes feels surreal, but it's happening and so aggravating.

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