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Q: Frequent said excuses cliché by Chinese employers ?
Here are the top excuses/cliches I hear from my Chinese employer.
1."I forgot to tell you....." "Oh I forgot"
with a memory like a floppy disk, expect everything they promised you or said is absolutely forgotten.
2."I'm sick" "I ate something wrong yesterday".
getting sick immediately when he/she wants you to do something instead of him/her or to avoid giving you your salary in the right time.
3. "next week" " tomorrow: Tomorrow is used for things I have to do and next week is used for things he/she has to do.
4. "I have something to do": They use this as if it's in some way, acceptable. I would always ask, "Oh, what?"
5. "I will come later". When you need them to come and do or take care of something urgent. The duration of "later" is highly variable.
Traveler:
Whenever I get "later" I always press the issue for an exact time. They always resist giving an exact time, and seem to hate actually having to commit to an exact time.
MissA:
I found a kind of weird inversion of the time thing on a couple of occasions.
I'd be meeting people, and we'd agree on a time and place, let's say 6:30pm for dinner in the center of town. I'd then get a frantic call at ten to six: "WHERE ARE YOU !!!!" Um, I'm at home getting ready to meet you at the time we agreed on.....
"maybe". Not really an excuse, but it basically an easy way out of everything (although, it usually means 'no' - unless you're asking "do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?", in which case, it means 'yes'.
In my opinion, 'Maybe' is the King. It means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. It is perfectly vague. the listener is left to ponder what it means, distracting them from the matter at hand.
'Maybe', communication's secret weapon!
