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Had to run ins with chinese authority today, one fairly amusing, the other a pain in the ass. I went to my bosses office cause they changed the lock on the side gate without telling me, meaning I was late for my first class this week. I go there and everything is allright, but then he says.
“Do you have a website?”
“Fuck,” I think to myself, but then I realsise that the site is blocked and he can’t read all my posts bitching about him. thank god for censorship. So I jsut play dumb and ask him “waht site?”
“I found it yesterday, it’s called sex teacher” he says
Fuck I think again. How the hell did he find. He then types goes to google and types “teaching in China” and does a search. I guess he did that search and found my blog yesterday, but he can’t find it today. Maybe he actually found it some other way, I don;t know. At first I’m kinda scared, what kind of perverted creep I must be coming off as. Then I realie that the situatin is hilarious. What’s he gonna do fire me? Hell no. I say that it was just a joke and he gives me that fake chinese laugh and tells me that teachers shouldn’t joke around about sex. Maybe i should be concerned, but the more I think about it the funnier I think it is. I wonder if I’ll get reputation at the school for being a total pervert. I should change the title to “Xin Xiang goat fucking baby eating teacher” and see if he says anything else.
My other run with authority was at the private english school I teach. I have decided I’m only gonna teach one class there cause I like the students and get free beer, but otherwise, I’m getting shafted on the pay so why teach more? The boss there calls me the other day and says she wants to “talk” about class on the weekend. Since I’m a passive midwesterner, i didn;t have the heart to tell her that I didn;t want to teach. Anyways it pisses me off how she is always calling me up and telling me when I am going to teach and she never asks me if I want to.
Tonight I come up with some bullshit excuse about how I’ll think it over, because she has some chinese teachers there to and I don’t want her to lose face, or some bullshit, if I just tell her directly that I’m not getting enough money and I’m not gonna teach. But she still trys to lay a guilt trip on me, tellinne me that it’s just 2 hours and then she gets the chinese teachers to say, you will love our children they are so lovely. Why don’t you just try it out. Like I’m here for fucking charity, (well on my pay i actually am), but this bullshit is pissing me off.
I’m not sure if all business is done in China like this or if there is a major cultural difference, but you don;t generally have these experiances in the states. I think one of the main reasons is that in america, there is generally a strict understanding of what work you will do and how you will be paid. In china the economy is more informal, so there is more room for bullshit. Being a foriegner also makes us easy marks. I’m sure mexican immigrints to the US get screwed over all the time and have a poor image of American business practices.