Comments on: Shanghaied in Beijing http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jay K http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/#comment-12399 Jay K Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:02:28 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=1774#comment-12399 yep this story is so damn true. it has happened to quite a few of us here expats. i am a part time teacher and i wont even get into detail with my boss who went behind the other guys back and took over the business(the former co-owner was american, and we pretty much dont have rights in this country if something shady in the business world happens...unless u are some big fortune 500 company etc) anyways its better than before. first job i was introduced to was supposedly teaching high school kids, i specifically told them dont want little kids. first day all of them were little kids 2nd day took the money and told them to piss off. us expats have plenty of stories here, but even the chinese can admit chinese bosses are shady and would give those mafiosos a lesson or two in how to be more shady. hence why a majority of chinese want to prefer working for a foreign company, less crap to deal with. PS here'x a nice little thing chinese companies do, when u quit they wont give u your last paycheck because there excuse is youve cut connections with them. hasnt happened to me yet but sure has to several of my chinese friends. dont even bother trying to ask for it, because its alengthy process not to mention the bosses have 关系 (guanxi=connections, and can mean in many ways usually in a bad way) with the gov officials so you will just run into one red tape after another other than that enjoy the food its pretty damn good yep this story is so damn true.

it has happened to quite a few of us here expats.

i am a part time teacher and i wont even get into detail with my boss who went behind the other guys back and took over the business(the former co-owner was american, and we pretty much dont have rights in this country if something shady in the business world happens…unless u are some big fortune 500 company etc)

anyways its better than before. first job i was introduced to was supposedly teaching high school kids, i specifically told them dont want little kids. first day all of them were little kids

2nd day took the money and told them to piss off.

us expats have plenty of stories here, but even the chinese can admit chinese bosses are shady and would give those mafiosos a lesson or two in how to be more shady. hence why a majority of chinese want to prefer working for a foreign company, less crap to deal with.

PS
here’x a nice little thing chinese companies do, when u quit they wont give u your last paycheck because there excuse is youve cut connections with them. hasnt happened to me yet but sure has to several of my chinese friends. dont even bother trying to ask for it, because its alengthy process not to mention the bosses have 关系 (guanxi=connections, and can mean in many ways usually in a bad way) with the gov officials so you will just run into one red tape after another

other than that enjoy the food its pretty damn good

]]> By: Kujo http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/#comment-11852 Kujo Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:05:10 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=1774#comment-11852 I see the Koreans have taught their Chinese neighbors well I see the Koreans have taught their Chinese neighbors well

]]> By: Meg http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/#comment-11612 Meg Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:16:34 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=1774#comment-11612 *first, not frist (Clearly I teach English) *first, not frist

(Clearly I teach English)

]]> By: Meg http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/#comment-11611 Meg Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:12:44 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=1774#comment-11611 Hilarious, I'm sending this around to my expat friends! PS your graphic looks suspicipiously like and English Frist ad. Is it? Hilarious, I’m sending this around to my expat friends!

PS your graphic looks suspicipiously like and English Frist ad. Is it?

]]> By: Meg http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/21/shanghaied-in-beijing/#comment-11610 Meg Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:10:57 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=1774#comment-11610 I think we were all Beijinged once (good-hearted people are Beijinged twice!) and then we all learned to inspect everything carefully, turn on all appliances in presence of the landlord, get paid upfront and in cash, bargain, and generally become skeptical, happier expats. I think we were all Beijinged once (good-hearted people are Beijinged twice!) and then we all learned to inspect everything carefully, turn on all appliances in presence of the landlord, get paid upfront and in cash, bargain, and generally become skeptical, happier expats.

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