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Q: Does your Chinese boss treat you differently than the local staff?
As I am writing this article my boss is yelling and screaming at her Chinese staff for stuff I have no clue about. When she talks to me she always does it with a smile and says '"please." I guess I am harder to replace and thus does not want to treat the same as her other workers.
10 years 4 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
The reason why you are not shouted at is because you are foreign and she doesn't want to lose face in front of you.
It is not because you are harder to replace, it is because it involves a lot more paper-work and money than for a local person.
Admittedly a former Head of Department did shout at me in front of senior staff members, but that was because he wanted me to 'teach like a Chinese teacher, not a foreigner' - his own words, and he is a rabid anti-foreigner, and appears to be some-what proud of that. You can bet he would have replaced me with asap 
