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[Songbird]

Here's a job posting I saw in Jiaxing- I won't post all of it (this is NOT an advertisement), but just to point out something I noticed.....

(snip)
Class Size: Around 35 students
Teaching Period: 16 periods per week
Pay and Living Conditions:
Monthly Salary: RMB4000RMB
Round trip air tickets upon one year contract .
Full salary will be paid in the winter holidays
Contained Apartment with one bad room , one living room, bathroom and kitchen, as well as all necessary facilities including air-conditioner, telephone, computer with internet, printer, microwave, water heater, fridge, shower, wash machine, cooking facilities, and 24-hour water, electricity and gas.
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Sooooo......any guesses what this, *ahem* bad room is for ??!!

[tofuman]

Does a "bad" girl go with the room?

http://www.chinaaidsinitiative.org/

[Nauczyciel]

I think I've figured it out - they meant bedroom but misspelt the word

[tw]

I know in the last 6 months I have seen some funnier ads than that one, if not more ridiculous.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Hmm...one bad room, eh? Might be a catch of a job. Might need to quickly send off my resume before all the heaping amounts of competition beat me to the punch.

[Chris_Crossley]

Has it even remotely occurred to anyone that the word "bad" may have a more literal meaning?!

[Chris_Crossley]

As in bad and smelly drainage, roaches crawling all over the floor, leaky ceiling, filth that hasn't been cleaned for years, etc, etc?

[brsmith15]

Contained Apartment with one bad room , one living room, bathroom and kitchen, as well as all necessary facilities including air-conditioner, telephone, computer with internet, printer, microwave, water heater, fridge, shower, wash machine, cooking facilities, and 24-hour water, electricity and gas.


Yeah. All the accoutrements they mention are all in the Bad room becuse they don't work.

By the bye, is this part of the EF or Delter ssytem?

[Chris_Crossley]

I think that not all "necessary" items were included in the aforementioned list. Personally, I would also include:

(1) a sick bag or three in case the drains smell so disgusting that they cause you acute nausea;
(2) a huge sick bucket that already smells likes it's been puked into several times;
(3) a red telephone with a direct line to the head office of the organisation to which the school belongs (HA! You'll be lucky!);
(4) scouring powder for the bath you'll have to clean by yourself because the locals will not stoop so low as to clean baths for any rich laowai;
(5) an emergency medical kit for just about any emergency, such as diarrhoea which strikes you two minutes before you have to meet the parents of your ever-so-wonderful, attentive and keen-to-learn young learners;
(6) a yellow telephone to call Western Union to send you money pronto; and
(7) a glass case containing a local person of the opposite gender with the words "BREAK GLASS IN EMERGENCY" written on the glass door (not forgetting the rubber hammer hanging on the side, of course!).

Only then will you be able to consider yourself ready to face life in China! Fellow posters, please feel free to add further items!

[tw]

This is not considered nonsense, but nonetheless it's a rarity:

Christian ESL Teachers Needed; [somewhere], South China

It's easy to spot someone who's white, recognizing someone who speaks with an American accent, but how do you go about spotting a Christian?

[tw]

From www.teachoverseas.ca/Jobs/index.pl?read=5491

The job ad's title is "ESL Teacher in Dalian (Urgent)"

[Chris_Crossley]

Rather like recycling last year's exams.

[kev7161]

Okay, if you didn't like what they were offering, you could try this job:

[tw]

I am not going to display the ad. But if you EVER want to see a no-nonsense, no-BS, cut-to-the-chase ad, check out http://www.eslemployment.com/dcforum/DCForumID3/5385.html

[Chris_Crossley]