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[Brian Caulfield]

I finally have recovered from my second nervous breakdown at banks in China . First occured in Nanyang . I have had several at this bank . One was when my card got eaten like the guy who did six months in prison here for destroying an ATM . But this was nothing to what happened to me in Nanyang . I am trying to transfer money to another bank in another province . If you don't do this you pay 10 quai for any transaction at the ATM . So after throwing a que jumper to the ground who climbed over my shoulder and demanding the guard do their job I am told that I can't get money out for another 7 days . I started screaming because I know these people they will each give you another story . The money is in Canadian funds . I can't wait 7 days I must be at my next job in two days . So I stay in the bank screaming in Chinese "I want my money " Finally They realize they had to pay me and I take the money and put it in the China Construction Bank which is the best for service in China.
Now I go to the China bank in my next city and try to take out my rmb and transfer this into the China construction bank . I have my passport my visa . Not a big problem but the teller is looking after three people at once . Then they bring me this Russian prostitute who is Chinese and English impared . They feel that for some reason my Chinese is good enough to help her . She doesn't have a passport and her husband who is Chinese is trying to wire her money .
You see the real problem in China is not que jumping but tellers who try to look after three people at once and talk to their friend on their cell phones. So while all this is going on I get a call from my FAQ telling me that I must bring my passport to the office right away . I tell her I don't have it . So she comes to the bank . And then she decides that the Russian hooker needs her attention . I tell her I don't even know the woman . It's the old trick of keeping the passport so the foreigner worker can't go home . I am waiting and still no one wants to help me . The teller is now looking after four clients and I have lost my passport to some room in the back of the bank . I finally scream "One person at a time " in Chinese . I tell my FAQ that the woman made a decision just like I did to come here and we can't feel sorry for her . She realizes that I am right and arranges for my money to go to my new account .
The feeling I get sometimes just like the guy who did time for destroying an ATM is that Chinese think that if they wait long enought the foreigner will just go away .

[Millerlong]

As someone who is engaged to a Russian girl I find it insulting how you referred to the Russian in your story as a "Russian prostitute". Do you know her? What made you think she was a prostitute? Did she offer you sex for money? With your kind of attitude I understand why nobody was willing to make life easy for you.

[Leon Purvis]

[abusalam4]

I would be careful in calling people names if I do not know them.
While in Henan in 2003, my "employer" placed me in a small, dirty hotel with some other foreign teachers. There were real prostitutes calling us in the middle of the night to offer their "serivces" none of us wanted. So, I told them I was impotent and had no money hoping they would not care to bother me again! Sometimes you must become very drastic for these penetrant people to understand. They then did not call me any longer at night...lol.

[Brian Caulfield]

I'm sorry to insult Russia people . So the woman was wearing net stockings mini skirt , halter top and smelled of booze at 10 in the morning . She had no passport and this was the reason the bank refused to give her the money her (Chinese husband) had sent her. She said she worked as a dancer in a bar that was across the street from the police station .
I have the utmost respect for the working women of China . I have a kinship with them because I am an English teaching prostitute . The difference being that they always get paid and I end up losing on the final payment . Our lives are the same . We both age and noone wants anything to do with us. And if you happen to be out with some Chinese woman they tell you that many Chinese regard woman who are with Western men as prostitutes .
I can talk with these ladies freely and when you learn the stories of their lives you wouldn't look down on them . Most are mothers whose husbands ran .
Finally there is less stigmatism to this profession in China as there is in the west . China is a place where people live and let live . I mean who is the victim and who is the criminal.

[cj750]

[Steppenwolf]

[cj750]

[upchuckles]

What the Fack does this have to do with jobs?

[Brian Caulfield]

I goofed . I am old and senile and punched the wrong button again . Anyway it something that should be forgotten . It was just amusing because my FAQ who is a sweetheart was really trying to help this woman and I had to remind everyone that I was the person who first came to be
served at the bank . My FaQ didn't read the situation and I pulled her asside and told her that the Russian woman made a decission to come here just like I did and it was here misfortune and non of our oun .
Moderator please shut me down

[tw]

I know what a FAO is, but what is a FAQ?

[mondrian]

[Voldermort]

[tw]