The Workplace

Things that happen in my workplace (that you will probably never find happening in America):

• During lunch break your co-workers take your food away...saying it is not good for you and they force you to share their lunches.
• You come to your desk at least 4 times a week to find "an important update" written in a language you can't understand.
• You are expected to attend teachers' meetings without any translation into your native language and are somehow supposed to know what happened in said teacher's meeting.
• You sit at your desk as the sound of children getting beaten with sticks fills the morning air.
• Your male co-workers awkwardly decide to practice their English with you in the bathroom (yes part of the bathroom is Co-Ed...not the part that matters though.)
• The 68 people that you share your office with are mad that you have the hiccups for too long and finally elect a representative to ask to you drink water.
• You are told usually 10 minutes before-hand that something needs to be changed or that you have a meeting.
• Someone will tell you "something important" and when you ask them to repeat it..they say "oh...I don't know."
• If you are Skyping anyone, 3 out of 5 co-workers will dance and wave in the background of your video chat.
• You are given more dietary advice than you can remember.. (this includes stay away from peanut butter and the typical morning question "did you have breakfast?")
• Any "teacher's meetings" that take place after school hours usually involves your co-workers requiring you to come along and watch them get drunk (after which their English skills usually improve).
• WELCOME TO KOREA!!!