Chinese Companies Rent White Foreigners 145
The job market may look bad here, but if you're in China, and you happen to be white, all you need is a suit and tie. An increasing number of Chinese companies are willing to pay any price to have a few fair-skinned faux employees walking around. From the article: "'Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself,' said Zhang Haihua, author of Think Like Chinese. 'Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner.' Or rent one."
The real reason theyre renting us (Score:1, Funny)
And they're called? (Score:5, Funny)
Whiteness... (Score:5, Funny)
The gift that keeps giving.
News? (Score:5, Funny)
This is news?
I rent people all the time in Amsterdam's red light district!
everybody knows (Score:5, Funny)
if you throw a party, you have to put out crackers
Re:What a career aspiration these guys must have (Score:3, Funny)
Just being realistic about future prospects?
Re:The real reason theyre renting us (Score:5, Funny)
Oh dear. Its the Japanese who have problems with those sounds, not the Chinese. How lacist.
Re:News? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The real reason theyre renting us (Score:3, Funny)
In college, every math professor who were Chinese (about 1/4 of my math dept) I had would say "ploblem". It became so much a joke that I would even write "ploblem" instead of "problem" in my notes and homework... it was always the little things like that kept me awake in complex analysis.
Re:It the obvious extension to outsourcing jobs (Score:3, Funny)
So you say you slept through the Clinton administration? That's a long sleep, how did you do that?
Re:hiccup in the plan (Score:3, Funny)
Americans (Score:3, Funny)
The other white meat.
Get in while there's still a market (Score:4, Funny)
HEY!!! (Score:4, Funny)
WHERE DA WHITE WOMEN AT!?!?!
Re:News? (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, but you see, renting people in China is done to give you "face"...whereas in Amsterdam they give you "head".
Same concept, but something must have gotten lost in translation ;-)