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happyThis year's Lebaran
Tomorrow is Idul Fitri. Usually we come home to Jakarta to celebrate with our family there. But this year we're not coming home, we only celebrate it in Surabaya, me, my brother and sister, and my parents. My mom is currently cooking Fried Liver with Chili and Traditional Fried Chicken, we will cook ketupat this night.
On What Happened in Kumon recently
I wrote some time ago that there was a conflict. You see, my Kumon used the help of the teachers from other Kumon. They work for more than 2 years in Kumon. In the Kumon where they come from, they were managed very sternly. The boss treated them without compassion, like forbids them to have a chat during working time, scold them in front of the students, and give them very little time for lunch. Well, that and other things.
Where in our Kumon, we treat them equally, we listen to their opinion, and always made them feel important. But they behaved badly. Maybe they're just venting out their frustation in the other Kumon. They always complained, they always think our management is wrong, they spread bad rumors and influenced our new teachers with negative thoughts. It got so bad until they start to teach the kids badly. We want them to teach with smiles on their faces, to make the children feel comfortable. Instead, they start to look stern and even raise their voices to the students.
I know how it feels when a child get too naughty to handle. We're humans, we have limits to our patience. But it's different for them. They teach without compassion anymore. They teach like it's just something they do to get the money. I know we all need money, but it's not the way we should do, especially not in our Kumon.
They started to have no respect to us the full timers. We always greeted them with smiles, they don't even answer us. Complains started to come from parents that said their children were treated badly.
It is confusing. How can they behave so bad when they are treated with respect? I don't get it. And why they can behave so good in the other Kumon, where they are treated so sternly and they even said that they were depressed by it. Depressed but behaving good. Behaving good because they fear the boss? And behaving bad while our boss treat them well?
Finally we decide to give a hard scolding, hoping they will change their ways, in a formal meeting. Instead of understanding and try to even think of what we said, they act like they don't care. Our boss finally asked them to go home for one day and think over what we said to them. We wrote formal penalty letter, to make it official. We have said what we need to say in a good way, for several times, but they ignore us. Finally we gave them that hard scolding. We were hoping that they would try to work and behave better.
But what they do? They resigned. It's crazy. We know perfectly well that they have worst scoldings in the other Kumon. The ones that crushed their confidence and made them cry. But their ego can't take it when we complained to them. 4 of them resigned, acting like they don't need us.
Despite our opinion that their boss is a wise woman--though strict-- she acted very differently. She thought that our boss is trying to offend her personally, and decided to take revenge. She decided that she will not let her 3 teachers who still worked in our Kumon resign too, to leave us short handed and incapable. She doesn't care what will happen to our class.
All of this was a big blow. We all intend this to be a good way to be better. We complained the teachers, though harsh, but never rude or intended to hurt them personally. And look what they do to us.
From having 16 teachers, we all left with 8. After the tears-- yeah we are all women so we cried--, we decided to held our head high and we will survive this. We will take care of our 150 students by ourselves. Though we all have more working load now, it's okay. At least we know we do it full heartedly, for the kids, for the parents that trust us. My boss--who is a good woman and deeply hurt by this incident-- decided we've had enough of sharing staff. We will only have our own staff from now on, that we recruit. The 8 of us, that are recruited exclusively by her, got closer because of this incident, and we are trying to do our best.
Despite this, a blessing happened. We finnaly had our first Completer. Completer is a student who has finished the last level of Kumon. His name is Alif, and he has studied for 3 years in our Math class. He finished the test in September 17, 2009, in Kumon Surabaya Head Office. The normal time is 90 minutes, he finished in 40 minutes, with perfect score, no mistake. We are very proud of him.
distressedConfession of the day : I think I did something wrong. I don't like how our new, youngest teacher behave. But I've only see her negative side. I haven't see the good side of her. Well, I haven't found one except a sad family background. But she must have something good. I need to give her more chance. What would I feel if I'm new and people immediately think bad of me?
My best part of the day is, maybe making a contract for one of my student's KUMON scholarship. Hai.....
Recently I really think that the situation in my job is better. I mean the atmosphere between us. We start to be friends and trust each others. It feels so relieving after the disaster last month.
I have to admit that when several teachers said that I'm a rude heartless person (well that's not their exact words, but that's the conclusion), especially my assistant, I felt betrayed. I trust her, and I think I did my best, and she never showed any bad reaction. I mean she always behaves nice in front of me. She trusted what others said about me more than myself. But in the end, I think if I continue having a heavy feeling to her, there will be no end. So I try to approach here more. Talk more. Hmmm, I try to reach her. It's hard at first, but we have a good connection now.
I had to ask my boss to move one of the teacher in English class that spread bad influence to Math class. I don't know. I may be cruel. But it's the only way to make the working situation better. And it worked. The teacher in English class, me included, are a good team now. She that I moved act sour and bitter, to me, but I guess I can't help it.
It's Ramadhan and we are fasting. Me and Kinta woke up at 2 am and prepare for sahur. Every Monday and Thursday, after class day, we all eat together for dinner. Our boss treats us. It's fun!
My cat left our house for 5 days last week. We were so sad and thought we lost her. But he came back! Thin and dirty but safe! Thank God!
About my fic(s)....for some reason, I have the draft of the next chapter of Purely Platonic. But somehow, I can't feel it's okay to post. It looks like something unfinished, like it's just descriptions of main ideas. I can't make it feel like a story. I will still try to finish it though.
Current favorite song is "You're not alone" by Saosin. Because of the lyric : "You're not alone. There are more to this, I know. You can make it out. You will live to tell".
Regarding KAT-TUN, Kame is my current desktop. No, he's not always my current deskstop so stop saying what's-the-point. Really. KAT-TUN takes turn to be our desktop. And I'm dying to listen to Cristal Kay and Jin's "Helpless Night".
Oh and Kenichi Matsuyama with Koyuki? Cool!!!
I hope all of you are alright and enjoying your days. I will be glad if you would tell me what are you doing and thinking these days.
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