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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?hpt=C1

[rollo]

This isnt as common as it once was. I used to get taken out to dinner ,invited to meetings to show that the boss knew white people. It gave them status. A famous chinese wine company has a white guy on its advertising, know the guy ,he works in their office. He does nothing except drink play golf with the bosses. Heis quite content and knows his place. They trot himout when important business visitors come by! The pet white boy!

[bacasper]

[AussieGav]

[quote="rollo"] He does nothing except drink play golf with the bosses. quote]

I have spent my whole life looking for a job like this. Wow.

[Leon]

When I worked in Singapore my company always put me and the other two foreigners on all the brochures and websites. We usually were the ones to give tours to potential clients. Unfortunately we had to work just as hard as everyone else though.

[Patrick Bateman]

[asylum seeker]

Isn't that the same as Korean hagwons who hire unqualified 'teachers' just to have white faces around?

[AsiaESLbound]

No, it's not the same as teaching. What would it be to fly on a business jet with the big boss and go out to a 5 star hotel and dinner? And then hit 9 holes on a world class golf course. And be slid $10,000 a month as an allowance? How about working the corner office? I'll bow to a 90 degree angle regularly and kiss butt for this sweet gig that seems to be a pie in the sky figment of my imagination. When I was young man fresh out of school, I just expected opportunities later on to be fat like this. Just because I had a brain and destined for a prestigious degree, I thought I'd wear suits, talk business, crunch numbers, hit golf, and fly on fancy jets to stay in ornate marble hotels. It seem that by 40 years old, we could do the almost unthinkable. Be rich and fly to the moon. We couldn't have been more mistaken by believing such lofty dreams. Well, the baby boomers fed me full of optimism when I was young, because to them, the sky seemed like the limit if you were privileged enough to be starting your career at the dawn of the 21st century, a time they envisioned would be magnificently fruitful and golden.

[misher]

I was that guy as well for about 1 year. I only really needed to participate or show my face at business dinners, conferences and meetings. It was an investment/development company and I can honestly say I did nothing of worth during my 1 year stay. I just chose to practice CHinese and I did some English teaching on the side.

Pros: Pay wasn't bad for doing nothing. I got 8000 RMB a month and a 3BDR apartment all to myself.

Cons: I was required to be in the office from 9-7 with little or nothing to do. I also had to get hammered drunk at least 2 times a week with My managers and their cronies. I was also in the middle of nowhere ( A developing city) and it was frowned upon if I took off on the weekend to go party with younger people in Qingdao.

[shinramyun]

Hired White guys in china, hired to pretend to be foreign businessmen, investors, and millionaires. LOL, I guess everything can be fake in china.

[pkjh]

Ah, the advantages of being white.

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