Posts Tagged shift trade
June 20, 2005 – Shift swap scrooges
Posted by Barniferous in Teaching English on June 20, 2015
Today I worked at Numazu school as part of a shift swap with another teacher. One of the best parts about working for NOVA is the ability to trade shifts. In order to support lessons 7 days a week, teachers have a variety of different days off. Being able to trade is very convenient for teachers.
Since I have frequently benefited from shift swaps, I try to be as generous as possible in trading with other teachers when I am asked. I am hoping that people will remember how generous I am when I ask them for one of their days off. There are some teachers who jealously guard their days off and refuse to trade, even if they have no plans on their day off. It’s their choice and they have every right to refuse a shift swap, however it’s everyone else’s right to think they are jerks 🙂
February 15, 2005 – Shift swap payback
Posted by Barniferous in Teaching English on February 15, 2015
Getting a day off by trading shifts with another teacher = fun! Working on a day off to pay back the shift swap = not fun.
At least we do have the flexibility to trade shifts, which is a huge selling feature for the whole “Conversational English teacher” thing.
June 10, 2004 – Setting up the month of pain
Posted by Barniferous in Life in Japan on June 23, 2014
I used up all of my vacation time and did some shift swaps to get the time off for my friends recent visit to Japan. To get time off for my family’s visit I did all shift swaps. I have basically destroyed my June and July work schedules, and have a stretch of 20 work days in a row. July is NOT going to be a fun month.
(2014 Update) In case you are looking at the dates of my posts and wondering why there are large gaps, it is entirely due to the non stop work required to get time off for my visitors. Nothing really interesting happened on most of those days other than work.
February 2, 2004 – Yay blond hair!
Posted by Barniferous in Marshall, Teaching English on February 2, 2014
Today I worked a shift so another teacher could go watch the Super Bowl and drink heavily. He found a bar that was showing the game (early in the morning) and had Happy Hour until the first touchdown.
Trading a shift with another teacher usually involves simply switching one day for another. However, since I am a part time teacher (5 lessons per day), trading with a full time teacher (8 lessons per day), I ended up with 5000 yen as compensation for working the extra 3 lessons. My day off in return for working today will be February 12. Marshall and I are planning a night out in Tokyo.
Work was interesting. Most of my students were women and I got flirted with in nearly every class. Yay blond hair!!
(2014 update)
It is entirely possible that I get flirted with more often than just on this day, but I am generally pretty clueless.
Drinking in Japan 
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