Why you may loose your job in China
The reasons aren't as simple as you may think. The first thing they look at before they hire you is your photo, not your qualifications, or your background, just your photo. The reason they do this is because they want someone appealing to work at their place of business, if your Ugly your going to have a rough time. This isn't kept a secret or anything like that, it's right out in the open. Secondly are you thin or fat, this also goes along with being ugly or beautiful. So as long as your not to ugly and not to fat you might get the job. Then your qualifications, you don't necissarilly have to be qualified for anything as long as your getting qualified. As long as your working on your certification for whatever you wish to do then you stand a good chance as well. There are things you will have to put up with, preferential treatment is really big here. In a teaching situation you may have a teacher that is part time, and has nothing that counts towards their teaching hours on their schedual, yet they are still making good money. these are things you just don't ask about. The students could also say something like "We want this person to be our teacher because she is beautiful.", if they say that, especially at a private language institute, you at least just lost your class. Also if the staff doesn;t really like you they could simply have management fire you. Now the big question is ... is it really any different in the states? Comments welcome I wanna hear what you guys think. Internet is still slow but I am taking vids to put up, don;t worry
posted by goemonronin at 2:39 PM
1 Comments:
All of the issues you described exist in the U.S. ... the last one, where students try to choose an instructor based on looks is probably uncommon. In the U.S., anyone offering a service for fee has both general and specific duties, with several possible adverse consequences ... some substantial. From my travels, speaking to non-Americans who have spent time in the U.S., our country is held highly esteemed for customer service and employee civility. So one must choose workers who at least basically do a good job, for business reasons.
Of course, favoritism, partiality, "lookism", personality conflicts and other non-performance criteria do regretably affect people's employment. In the U.S., we have a number of remedies - unemployment compensation, litigation, state and federal job protection regulations, etc. which tend to blunt the greatest abuses. Abuses occur nonetheless (witness Walmart and short-changing employees on their time cards, being examined at one time in 30+ states).
But what you describe is a more primitive form (experienced earlier in our own history) of labor relations where employers have the upper hand involving a HUGE labor pool. Using Austin as an example, whenever labor supply gets tight, employers get really nice and do a lot to keep an at-least average employee happy and working. I don't think you'll get that perk in China however.
Patrick
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