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[MartinK]

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[hubei_canuk]

I'm shocked and appalled by the the larcenous greed of your bosses!!
An all-nighter in china coould only cost 70 to 200 tops in China. (outside of Shanghai that is.. those Shanghai girls will skin you alive no matter they are professional girls or not).
Obviously your boss intended to pocket an extra 100 for himself.
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Wait a minute!!!!!!!!
Maybe i'm not so shocked an appalled.
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I HAVE heard before that school bosses try to profit off foreigners.
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In fact often they "find a job for you", in which you get paid half the salary and they pocket the other half.
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I just love it too when they drag you to the home of a party boss and expect you to teach their daughter for free so that the school can make connection with an important official.
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Actually, just kidding that i am shocked. I don't think you have met the dodgiest school owners in China as we all know the phrase: lying, cheating, greedy school boss is a triple redundancy.
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In fact, you may have met some of the friendliest and more open minded school bosses in China. Albiet a little "common", but that may reflect the genuine standard in most local commuities.
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Honestly, sounds like they were just trying to make you feel welcome in their own local way.
In truth i wouldn't even call it "low-class". When you scrape by the facade of Chinese "face" you often find a moral vaccum. In our culture, religious or not, we grow up on many personal moral lessons. But in Chinese culture, Mao and the Emperors before him took God out in the backyard and shot him.
Did you ever have someone here tell you, you were "very kind" and stare at you like you were a fish?
Strangely enough, one day when i showed a VCD disk in my hand to a class of 12 year olds they ALL yelled "HUANG DIE"!!! (YELLOW DISK).
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Hmmm.

[Roger]

MartinK,
what happened to you is kind of part and parcel of social life here. Has happened this way and other ways to me many times. Actually, some of my bosses were rather generous, offering to recruit, and to pay, for girls. My second boos introduced me to a student who was much too young for me! He later took me out with three women, while his own wife was away on a business trip...
A tour guide at CITS in Xi'an told me there was nothing wsrong with me if I wanted to have female company (I put in a short stint being a kind of office clerk at that illustrious business!)...
And so on, and so on...
As hubei_canuk says, there is a huge moral vacuum. Two decades ago, extramarital and premarital affairs were strictly reserved for the big cheeses, and anybody else was in danger. A Singaporean businessman told me that a Chinese girl who had ventured into an American oilrig worker's private room was shot by a PSB man in the 1980's, in a Xinjiang oilfield.
I also remember the police snooping on me and my school conducting checks to see if I had female visitors after 10 p.m....
That was in the 1990's.
How time flies!
O tempo o mores!

[JamesD]

..........as we all know the phrase: lying, cheating, greedy school boss is a triple redundancy.



Pont of order, Mr. Chairman!!!
This is a quadruple redundancy if I may be so bold.

Lying
Cheating
Greedy
School boss

Or is the primary object not an aspect of the redundancy?

[Peter]

When I began my job at Shenzhen Uni, my dean told me to stay away from "bad girls".
When I asked what that meant he said that the bad girls were near the Nan Hai hotel,and bus 113 would take me to the hotel.
That turned out to be the local red light district, clipjoints with young women asking to drink with you.
In one bar, the only one without sticky females, there was a notice that announced that prostitution and gambling are illegal in China.

Once I was in Changsa, in the very best hotel. There the kareoke room was populated was a group of women, all very eager.
My companion took the opportunity and bargained it down to 300.

[Kurochan]

Hmm, Peter. I think that dean must have retired!

A friend of mine who taught in a middle school in Longgang, Shenzhen, was always being invited out for nights of whoring by his fellow teachers. To his credit, even though he was a pretty horny guy, he always declined.

[MartinK]

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[MW]

MY FAO repeatedly offers to provide an all nighter free of charge.

My School President has invited several potential all nighters to lunches and dinners for us to puruse for acceptability.

The motto here is to take care to provide all of the FE's needs at school cost. I am not even allowed to pay for my haircut each week.

One of my birds died,(cockatiel) and the next day the school President sent around a replacement. I have no idea how he even found out.

[Dragon]

Dear comrade mw,
I am sure all the foreign teachers admire and like you very much. You must have many friends bothchinese and foreign. Of course, I would give you my bird if I had one to give you and if yours died and my *beep* too.
Your friend DRAGON