Glenn Quebec posted:

Listen, I'm no Haier Bajaj, but having my otherwise excellent career come to a screeching halt because of my counterpart literally copy and pasting something from a previous years excel and pawn it off as new data and I'm the rear end in a top hat who raised his hand and pointed it out + subsequent drama to prove this, multiple overseas conference calls with people whose titles include Managing Director of Asia, ex-Japan. Nevermind having a direct manager whose all shoulders and wants nothing to do with it. Imagine watching the stock ticker go down a few points because of your whistle blowing.

I guess I just had to talk to an Asian coworker though.

Baronjutter posted:

I'm honoured to be listed in the who's who. Very famous. My only real contribution to the thread beyond the usual lazy shitposting are sharing stories of the massive and growing Chinese tourism industry in my city. I've seen it evolve from tour-buses full of new-money mainlanders who spit, litter, and refuse to interact with the locals or learn anything or seemingly enjoy any part of their vacation, to an increasing number of independent travellers out to enjoy them selves and seemingly motivated by a curiosity for the world and new experiences and are able to do things like queue and deposit litter in bins.

Just the other day I was at the petting zoo playing with the goats there and a tour bus pulled covered in simplified chinese. It was a mix of your typical aunties with huge plastic sun visors, but also some nicely dressed young families with kids. The petting zoo staff have had some bad experiences with tour groups like these before, and I could see they were a little extra wary and keeping an eye on things. But, the group was quite nice. Parents were explaining about all the animals to their kids instead of just ignoring them and letting them climb over the fences. At one point a small boy tried to chase and catch a chicken, and was firmly and politely reigned in by his parents. Another kid started screaming at some sheep and banging on the fence to get their attention, and again parents quickly stepped in to correct the behaviour and the kid then started to politely whisper to the sheep instead. When the group entered the goat area the parents all gave the children present a talk before entering and pointed at some of the english signage, I assume explaining the rules. Everyone was very nice with the goats, gentle petting, parents letting goats climb on them and chew on their designer handbags and sunglasses.

What I did notice though is that all the people dressed like stereotypical mainland tourists stayed outside of the goat area and just watched (even if they had children with them), it was only the the more "western" looking people who went in (again, regardless of age or children). I saw a 60+ year old lady laughing her head off with a goat climbing on her back while some visor'd aunties looked on from outside with a concerned expression and hands clasped firmly behind. I wasn't sure why this was, is interacting with farm animals like this not considered appropriate in China?

I really hope all the horror stories and bad reputation mainland tourists have generated over the last couple decades are just the growing pains of a society not used to travel, and that the trends I've noticed at least here in Canada continue. Mainland chinese tourists are getting better year after year.

Imperialist Dog posted:

Glenn Quebec posted:

Listen, I'm no Haier Bajaj, but having my otherwise excellent career come to a screeching halt because of my counterpart literally copy and pasting something from a previous years excel and pawn it off as new data and I'm the rear end in a top hat who raised his hand and pointed it out + subsequent drama to prove this, multiple overseas conference calls with people whose titles include Managing Director of Asia, ex-Japan. Nevermind having a direct manager whose all shoulders and wants nothing to do with it. Imagine watching the stock ticker go down a few points because of your whistle blowing.

I guess I just had to talk to an Asian coworker though.

Glenn Quebec posted:

Lol indeed I had enjoyed a great promotion before that. I still enjoy what I do, where I work but it's like a spectre over my career. It turned into, "hmm Glenn you didnt seem like you could manage your HK colleagues." not my loving job. I do what they do and not in a supervisory sense. It was stunning how fast it turned on me and became my problem.

Everyone who could jumped ship to a different group or division did so. Myself included.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

You seem like a joy to work with

smooth jazz posted:

For those out of touch with this thread, did Haier leave or get banned or something?

smooth jazz posted:

For those out of touch with this thread, did Haier leave or get banned or something?

Bajaj posted:

If she's not Russian, this is every single white girl in China on a dating app. Fleta knew what she was talking about.

Pro PRC Laowai posted:

His name is Bajaj now he still posts all the time

peanut posted:

Hell yeah this guy!!!!!

WatermelonGun posted:

GBS hates the chinese

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

You seem like a joy to work with

Darkest Auer posted:

Just wait until you have to work with some mainlanders and then post again

peanut posted:

Ya look who's never been forced to cooperate with some flakey dumbasses and/or go to community college.

Glenn Quebec posted:

Why you busting balls Oxballs? I lived this poo poo and it was terrible.

underage at the vape shop posted:

they took the best to make the best whats the problem here?

Glenn Quebec posted:

Lol indeed I had enjoyed a great promotion before that. I still enjoy what I do, where I work but it's like a spectre over my career. It turned into, "hmm Glenn you didnt seem like you could manage your HK colleagues." not my loving job. I do what they do and not in a supervisory sense. It was stunning how fast it turned on me and became my problem.

Everyone who could jumped ship to a different group or division did so. Myself included.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Good.

LimburgLimbo posted:

Thems the breaks. My career came to a halt over something much more minor so at least you had some actual poo poo.

Glenn Quebec posted:

It really is a case of themselves the breaks. I was completely reeling from it all. What got me was people who had supported me, and my career + being work friends kind of flaked on me. The impression I got was, "why'd you say anything?"

Jeoh posted:

really glad all that happened btw, your counterparts in hong kong are heroes

Imperialist Dog posted:

If anything else, it encouraged my wife to agree to take a short trip to Japan by ourselves as a family instead of joining a tour for sometime in the future. 8/10 would Chinar again.

smooth jazz posted:

For those out of touch with this thread, did Haier leave or get banned or something?

LimburgLimbo posted:

For all that GS talks about risk management and standing up for what’s right and needs to be done, it’s also perfectionist enough that even being involved with issues like that can taint things. You’ve either gotta maneuver politically well on top of being in the forefront, or just be slightly above average and know when to keep your head down imo

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Thanks for the awesome pics and write-up!

E: sexpat gang tags?

Barudak posted:

So how many bottles of Baijiu are we drinking to celebrate this thread?