Comments on: Defending your Chinese Co-workers http://www.teachabroadchina.com/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/ Home of the Teach Abroad China Alliance Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Howard http://www.teachabroadchina.com/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-131 Howard Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:00:31 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/you-and-your-chinese-boss/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-131 For Richy, You have to think not all foreigners like you make 15,000/month in China. Some Foreigners only make 2,500 or 4,000, etc... Much lower than you. Yes, I agree to the article. What you should consider is giving a percentage of the salaries to rural teachers. They need it the most. Some of the rural teachers are willing to use a part of the money to buy new books for the students. In the Chinese society, the husband's parents are the one to buy the apartment while the wife's parents are to buy the furnishings. Some people may not have this tradition but most still do. For Richy,

You have to think not all foreigners like you make 15,000/month in China. Some Foreigners only make 2,500 or 4,000, etc… Much lower than you.

Yes, I agree to the article.

What you should consider is giving a percentage of the salaries to rural teachers. They need it the most. Some of the rural teachers are willing to use a part of the money to buy new books for the students.

In the Chinese society, the husband’s parents are the one to buy the apartment while the wife’s parents are to buy the furnishings. Some people may not have this tradition but most still do.

]]> By: richy http://www.teachabroadchina.com/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-14 richy Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:13:28 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/you-and-your-chinese-boss/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-14 There are options to foreign teachers for assisting their chinese counterparts. When you as a teacher becomes entrenched within a company and have proved yourself to be a quality teacher there will always come a time of contract negotiations. This is a simple task of putting aside personal greed for a minute and putting forth a united front. In our case we had 4 foreign teachers working for a school who all decided that they didn't need that extra 2000 yuan a month in exchange for all the 8 teaching assistants to get an extra 1000 yuan a month in their salary. The result is we the foreign teachers were all still getting 15000 a month and the local teachers jump from 3-4 thousand. After all whats 2 thousand kuai for us? An extra 2-3 hundred in the bank (on exchange rates) compared to the difference it makes to the chinese teachers. Or maybe i'm just too much a socialist...lol There are options to foreign teachers for assisting their chinese counterparts. When you as a teacher becomes entrenched within a company and have proved yourself to be a quality teacher there will always come a time of contract negotiations. This is a simple task of putting aside personal greed for a minute and putting forth a united front. In our case we had 4 foreign teachers working for a school who all decided that they didn’t need that extra 2000 yuan a month in exchange for all the 8 teaching assistants to get an extra 1000 yuan a month in their salary. The result is we the foreign teachers were all still getting 15000 a month and the local teachers jump from 3-4 thousand. After all whats 2 thousand kuai for us? An extra 2-3 hundred in the bank (on exchange rates) compared to the difference it makes to the chinese teachers. Or maybe i’m just too much a socialist…lol

]]> By: Erick http://www.teachabroadchina.com/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-12 Erick Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:46:34 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/you-and-your-chinese-boss/defending-your-chinese-co-workers/#comment-12 I agree with this article. I have seen that kind of treatment here in China and I don't like it too much. I think they all need a copy of the Dale Carnegie classic "How to win friends and influence people" I agree with this article. I have seen that kind of treatment here in China and I don’t like it too much. I think they all need a copy of the Dale Carnegie classic “How to win friends and influence people”

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