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Giordan Benavides.
Fuck you, you lying, scheming, friendless piece of shit
Fuck Giordan, all my homies hate Giordan 😤
A story that tells you everything you need to know about Giordan:
Giordan sometimes attended a low-stakes house poker game with a group of longtimer expats in Korea. He always lost. So, one week he brought a friend and they got caught passing cards to each other. If it was any other country they'd have beat his ass
Giordan is such a self-aggrandizing narcissist that he couldn't cope with losing.
He's been booted from two Seoul Toastmasters chapters (maybe more?). Imagine what an insufferable narcissist it takes to annoy Toastmasters, a group designed to create and elevate insufferable narcissists.
I worked with Giordan and he was nuts. When I started, there were two employees and he called himself "the head teacher". Students regularly complained that Giordan would reach over and pinch their arms real hard as punishment. Giordan would lie to the boss about coworkers and lie to coworkers about the boss. He wanted to have control over everyone. He got people fired if he didn't like them.
Later I learned that everyone in Itaewon knows Giordan is a snake. I heard he can't work in Seoul anymore but I don't know why
Oh, I had someone try to be a Giordan in one school here in China. He was the incumbent foreign teacher and when three new foreign teachers were hired he tried to ingratiate himself with us (badly: more on that later) on the one side, offering to act as the conduit between management and the foreign teachers.
Unfortunately for Leslie (for that was his name), I had enough experience in tech firms and the social service to recognize his type. So while to his face I agreed, I opened my own conduit to the foreign affairs office as well. (Being able to speak the language somewhat helped.) And sure enough, the FA would say something reasonable and our wannabe "conduit" would transmit it with a twist that made it sound horrible and unjust and abusive and such, then he would reassure us that he would "straighten things out". To the FA he would say the foreigners are very angry and very unreasonable, but he calmed us down and blah blah blah.
Only of course it didn't work because the FA dean was talking to me, so I played back what he'd told us about the FA's statement. So he wasn't the conduit very quickly, and wasn't really welcome in the FA's office either.
The guy was a real piece of work. He claimed to be Australian. He had an American passport. He spoke with an American accent. He expressed American ideals. But he was Australian. And he kept that up until a couple of Aussies joined the crowd and one of them, after hearing enough of his "Australian" bullshit, tore a major strip out of him in front of all the other expats. After that he kept to himself.
Oh wow that sounds EXACTLY like Giordan. Fucking unhinged behavior.
Giordan is even cagey about his nationality! Is he Canadian? Is he American? Who knows?