(This is the actual building of the Samsung factory where I teach English on Mondays)I only have two more weeks of teaching at Samsung left this semester. I generally enjoy teaching a LOT but teaching at Samsung is very different. The classes are a terrible mix of people on different levels of English, the classroom gets hot in about 5 minutes and there are no windows to let in some fresh air, the door has to be closed because there are people working right outside our classroom. Now that I complained about it not being so cool I'd like to tell you a little about the process of getting in and out of the factory.
First of all, who knew that last week they'd decide to close the road that we always took?! We had to take the other road that we knew about. It's a dirt road. It was raining that day. I now believe that driving on mud is as uncool as drinving on snow/ice. But the time we got to the factory the car was real muddy. At least we weren't the only ones that were forced to drive on that "road". The parking lot was full of cars covered in mud.
I have a funny storie from last night though. To get inside the factory you need to go through security and you need a card that opens the door for you. If you have a computer with you you have to give them all information possible about it and only then you're allowed in. I was on my way out and I went through the metal detector, then I had to open my bag, a lady looked at it and I started walking towards where I return the card. The lady stopped me and said: "The jacket!" I looked at her and siad: "Um... what?" She said: "Unzip your jacket." So I did and she seemed happy and so I was free to go. I had no idea why she did that. My ride back to Trnava was late and so I stood close to the security zone and watched the guards and the people getting out of work. I saw about 120 people walk out that door being asked to unzip their jacket and every one of them made some kind of a comment like: "What are they thinking that I'm stealing and LCD panel and hiding it under my jacker? Retarted idiots, nothing that we make will fit inside our pockets. Stupid Koreans. I'm skinny, did they really need to check me too?" The best one though was: "I'm wondering how many people they pay to come up with these stupid rules!" I think I laughed out loud when I heard that one.
Any nonsense rules that you had to/have to deal with?
