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Q: Too much competence in China, can't compare
New term starts on Monday, head manager is like "Eorthisio can you ask the foreign teachers to prepare their classes in advance?".
"Sure, already asked them last week, I will text them a reminder. Did we receive the textbooks yet?"
"No, we might receive them in late March."
"Okay cool."
The man is in charge of ordering the books and they were published in October, it usually takes no more than 2 weeks to receive all of them and I don't believe a second that it would take 5 months this time (considering that he placed the order in early October). Couldn't do it earlier? Of course not, too lazy, better wait until the last moment. Good job moron, at least 2 weeks, maybe a month, will be wasted on the curriculum because of no textbooks, don't you dare blaming the foreign staff for your mistakes.
"I want the money to gain interest in the bank for a few months longer."
"But if we don't have well-prepared lesson plans, maybe some students will leave."
"But I can make 50 yuan from interest."
"You *might* just lose thousands in tuition, not to mention damage to the school's reputation."
"50 yuan!"
and that is why i always back up any request / interaction with an email immediately, so i can point things out to them that they 'forgot'.
I also use very simple language so there is no chance of 'misunderstanding'
I am surprised he could pronounce your name. Eorthisio is not an easy name to say for a westerner, let alone a Chinese person.
nashboroguy:
Ok Martin...Sorry. You used your screen name in your posting, so I thought it was your real name.
Englteachted:
For a second I thought you were being sarcastic. But you really are that dumb.
And some people wonder why China is still a third world country....
I get shit like this all the time. Fucking morons. How they remember to breathe I'll never know.
i love getting the books on sunday night at 8pm and having a class the next day at 8am, what a great job.
Good help is especially hard to find in China. Most of these cow chewers only got the job because of a relative.
Eorthisio:
Exactly, the above mentioned head manager is the nephew of the local boss' husband, the boss was appointed by the CEO (and owner) who is in HK, but she is cool and know what she is doing, just too much into getting jobs for her whole family. I guess she doesn't have much choice, they probably pressure her into doing so with emotional threats and everything (Chinese style parasites), this is very common in Chinese families when someone has some influence or money, others stick to him/her like leeches. However she did get pissed at them when they happened to make a big mistake that made the company lose a large sum, still not strict enough, a normal employee would have been fired. Most of them are perfectly useless, we have 5 FTs, 7 HK teachers and 14 of her relatives in the office, 2 people would be enough to do the office work, whenever I walk in there they are on Taobao or QQ.
"I want the money to gain interest in the bank for a few months longer."
"But if we don't have well-prepared lesson plans, maybe some students will leave."
"But I can make 50 yuan from interest."
"You *might* just lose thousands in tuition, not to mention damage to the school's reputation."
"50 yuan!"
Don't Chinese employers keep foreign staff around specifically to take the bullet when they screw up? We are like face bodyguards for them.
Eorthisio:
Well, like most training centers or "international" schools in China if they don't have any foreign face to show off they won't make money because no parents will send their kids here.
And the staff will still blame "lazy foreign teachers". I had the same problem at previous schools, where they just didn't bother to prepare, ordering textbooks late, forgetting to order at all, messing up schedules due to lack of double checking, etc.
Eorthisio:
Yep, the lack of double checking is a serious issue in China. In my previous job I got a "second year salary" during my first year because they didn't double check the contract, I saw when signing the contract that the amount stated was different from what the boss told me, didn't say anything, had an argument with them after the first payday, threatened them to go to the SAFEA, they panicked and paid me the difference then in full for the rest of the year.
icnif77:
@Eort: that's considered 'negotiating' in China, not 'scam' or 'cheating' like in West.
