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2009-10-25 China-Japan-Koreas

China comes a-calling for US job seekers

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Ha ha ha...joke's on them. Chinese companies treat their workers like shit. It's a rare foreigner who can stomach the abuse and lack of planning. Besides, you'll always, always, always be a second-class citizen because you're not Chinese.

The amount of projection regarding China is just staggering. People are putting their hopes, fears, and biases on display and don't even know they're doing it.

Posted by gromky 2009-10-25 01:28|| ]">[ ] 2009-10-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, I'm game.
Pick me up China.

Americans vote for assholes that don't give a damn about employment. They betrayed me so why not?

Posted by newc">newc 2009-10-25 07:30|| 2009-10-25 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 gromky's right ... I've heard horror stories about the treatment of foreign workers in China (and not just Americans).

And not just on the job. Blacks being chased out of shops and not allowed to buy food or other basics, water turned off from apartments until bribes are paid on an increasing scale, police harrassment with no recourse.

Posted by lotp 2009-10-25 08:43|| 2009-10-25 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 "America's crisis is our opportunity," Zeng Lingheng,

Treacherous, plagiarizing communists! That's Rham's line!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-10-25 09:20|| 2009-10-25 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Chinese companies treat their workers like shit.

No different from H1Bs in this country. Hires will be treated in proportion to their skill's importance to their business. Just like talented athletes, the general population will indeed get the bottom feed, but without the 'stars' you don't have game. I'm sure there are technical people the Chinese want in high demand and will [and can] pay. Particularly when one company starts to poach the skilled and talented workers of another.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-25 09:43|| 2009-10-25 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Not my experience when I hired H1Bs here a while back. My staff got competitive salaries, lived in the same kind of apartments their US equivalents did and in more than one case eventually became citizens.

They weren't cheated, refused service in stores or pressured for bribes.

Posted by lotp 2009-10-25 21:01|| 2009-10-25 21:01|| Front Page Top

#7 just google H1B sweatshops or H1B exploitation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-25 21:21|| 2009-10-25 21:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Nah, it ain't like the US. I know any number of people who work for Chinese companies and they all have horror stories. Most of them don't last more than 6 months.

Posted by gromky 2009-10-25 22:13|| 2009-10-25 22:13|| Front Page Top

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