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[YAMARI]

I learned recently that this has become a popular forum for all to read including dah boss , maybe some discretion might be good but I am just a rookie so what do i know.

[nolefan]

quite a few folks hang around here lurking. I met a former E.F DOS that used to check it on a daily basis. There are also a number of Chinese teachers as well as recruiters. Just check the number of members with 0 posts, that should give you an idea.

[BluePinay]

Indeed and why not, they might as well check if FTs are telling something bad or good about them

[Roger]

And sometimes self-appointed members of China's thought police also cruise here, then report back to CHINADAILY...

[Old Dog]

Of course this site will be monitored. Everything a ft does is monitored. I'll bet there's a file a foot thick on each ft here in the local PSB office. I make the assumption that every phone call and every email will be monitored if the fit takes the local bureaucracy or if I should become "a person of interest". Further, my every journey of any significance will be monitored and recorded. My passport will be examined after each journey out of the country to check where I've been. If my visitors should become of interest or what we talk about should become of interest, at least to the school, then, for sure, someone will be asked to "visit" and report back on who was visiting me and what we were talking about. And then, in one place, there were the "Party membership" hopefuls who became self-appointed snoops out to prove by providing reports that they "loved the Party" - so they, too, took to visiting to gather material for their membership application. Be in no doubt, this is, from some points of view, a very strange place and some places stranger than others. Without doubt, in my experience, Hubei was just plain wacky from this point of view. Jiangsu is light years away - if one doesn't count that old ratbag who occupies the post of FAO "cadre" here on account of his Party membership and his absolute incapacity to fill any other role.

[badtyndale]

Well, they do need something to do. All the elevator operator jobs are taken. Not many 'come into this restaurant' positions available. Every visit to the supermarket is a test of trolley control as one tries to avoid the plethora of product-patters as they gingerly manhandle the goods waiting for the opportunity to fulfil their main role as 'pointers at the packets'. There's just too many people with too much time on their hands. A good war should thin them out - if they keep goading Taiwan, who knows? Oops, mentioned Taiwan and war in the same sentence - better log off before the central scrutinisers can trace me!

[ShapeSphere]

I hope Chinese bosses are reading what we write. It might make them realise the contempt we hold them in - for entirely valid reasons. Maybe they may learn how to do their job properly. But I doubt they possess the gumption to look here and understand the messages.

I also hope the Chinese security services are reading our views. But knowing their complete lack of efficiency & organisation, they're probably:

1. Asleep as we speak
2. Having a long, extended lunch
3. Picking their noses and examining the contents
4. Surgically attached to their mobile phones