::Rant Mode Activate!::

::Please excuse this post, as it's filled with cross cutural complaining about how my coworkers are trying to suck the fun out of my job and are succeeding.::

My Korean coworkers are slowly driving me insane. It began as the hiring of people for tasks related to my job, but not actually telling my why they were working at the school until they begin to change
our entire curriculum. Next was the complete reassignment of books, children, and classrooms for arbitrary reasons. Now my new coworkers also undermine the English program by conducting an English class almost entirely in Korean.

Some things are minor, and simply annoy me, but other things could be considered an attack on the English speakers on the staff. It's turning me hostile towards them because they disregard our input yet expect us to go along with all their decisions. If the one thing we can offer is experience speaking and reading English, why are non-native speakers making these decisions? Things are either going to get resolved (not likely) or something radical will happen (growing more likely with each change).

Normally, Samantha and I just laugh the latest thing off, because it's just silly, like reorganizing certain books to simply stay busy and not considering the practicallity of the new arrangement. My attitude is if you want to make the place nice looking, fine, but I better be able to find what I need when I need to teach it.

I was actually SCOLDED by a newly hired coworker for not returning a teaching aide to the proper shelf a day ago. I may be younger than the rest of the English staff by 10 years, but I'm NOT Korean, and refuse to be treated like a child in the work place. I don't give a crap what Korean workplaces allow seniors do to their staff. I have more business training than the entire staff combined, and I know what I will not tolerate.

Recently there has been a different tone when things are discussed. I hear a "Us versus Them" attitude starting to creep into everyone's conversations. I don't see how it will get any better, as the Korean staff monopolizes the office, specifically the area in front of the computer, even if there is no intention to use it, which is much to my annoyance when I want to post something for this site.

I don't even bother to enter the office anymore now, because there is no attempt to have a conversation in English unless Samantha is in the room. I don't expect the conversation to involve me , or even be in English if it is a casual conversation, but it's frankly boring to hear them jabbering away about their respective children in Korean as a group. Young Ju the new assistant doesn't have children and even feels left out now by the rest of the staff, and she's Korean and can join in. Normally anything that is discussed in English is some asinine change the Korean staff wants to make. How long can you laugh it off as you notice the workplace slowly slipping lower into the pits of hell?

The Korean staff stepped up their childish assult on everything rational today by labelling the coffee cups with each staff members name. I don't even drink coffee, yet was getting blamed for not cleaning out cups. Ah, I understand now. I must be the Korean's "Tibor", the guy that gets blamed for everything at the Springfield powerplant on "The Simpsons" because he doesn't speak English. The Koreans made a mistake today. I know who's cup to spit in if they piss me off now. Thanks!

Yes. I am that bitter right now.