"Yes Sir", she says, No Matter What She is Thinking in Her Head.

Very early in my fulltime employment, the Headmaster told me he wanted me to help more with the business side of the school.  This was exactly what I wanted as instructing alone can really take its toll, not only on my fragile body, but also on my schizophrenic voice.  Both the Headmaster and I agreed that my talents were truly stronger behind the desk than on the matt.  We agreed and I began to put all my energy into organization, charts, payment databases, student rosters, and communications of the company.

One day after my efforts had began to pay off and finally show through the Headmaster tells me he wants to have a "proven system" for his business.

"We must-uh hab-ah dah simplest-uh way ob a plooben system" (We must have the simplest way of a proven system"), the headmaster tells me as work is just beginning.

"Yes sir", I reply even though I know that although I could pull off a simple system for their company, if they gave me full reign, I'm sure that a "proven system" will take not only many years to perfect and prove, but also it will take much more than the efforts of a Korean Headmaster and an average college graduate.
Not sure if this is true but sometimes I think he might add an English word into a sentence just because he likes the way it sounds and not because he knows what it means.

I wish I could produce a proven system for the headmaster to use for his business, but, unfortunately, his helicopter boss wife, the co-master, is unwilling to let go of the old ways that she likes or to even bother learning the more modern ways that I suggest.  I can understand this, it is her business and she is ultimately responsible for it.  But her stubbornness and my stubbornness and a headmaster who likes his own way of doing things as well find me doing things 2 or 3 different ways.

For example, the headmaster likes to have all the contract information in the computer and the hardcopies are put somewhere out of the way to never be looked at again.  I like this way but I think that even though we hardly look at the hardcopies of the contracts, they still need to be organized and readily available.  But the co-master, likes to have everything in one place in one big notebook and nothing in the computer.  She keeps changing the organization of her big notebook as well.  First she organized by type of contract with a special type of invoice number.  Then she decided it should be organized by having who was still paying tuition in the front organized by data and just have the invoice numbers all in a row, no matter the contract type.  So I am stuck processing each new and expiring contract in the following ways: 1) the way I think it should be done that makes it easier for me, 2) the way the headmaster likes it for when he comes in to look, and 3) the way the Co-master likes it because she is constantly hovering over what I do.

Therefore, instead of having a simple system, we actually have a more complicated way of doing things, thanks to the haywire need to constantly reorganize things, the stubbornness to only think that your way is best, and no time to sit down and decide like professional adults which way is best and use that way without having hurt feelings.

Oh well, I must say, I am very glad that I'm just a "paid student" who says "Yes sir, Yes Ma'am" no matter what she may be thinking in her head about how ridiculous a request may be.  That way if their systems fail it won't be my fault because I only did it the way they told me too.