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Definitely do this. If you think you don't need it, make copies any ways and bring it. Rules will change on you last minute and your HR will blame YOU for not checking them online (even though thats THEIR job) You'll save yourself a lot of headache and frantic phone calls to your HR department.
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AfroNinja posted:...HR department. You're optimistic this morning.
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In my experience most "HR" departments is one girl who also doubles as a teacher. edit: which would make arguments with that woman so much funnier. "You're an rear end in a top hat, I'm talking to HR about this" "Okay let me get HR....okay HR tells you to go gently caress yourself" ants on my cum rag fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Aug 25, 2013 |
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Aug 25, 2013 03:46
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Our HR department is just as Chinese as every other aspect of our company that is run by Chinese. Interestingly enough, our recruitment and education departments are wildly successful. Foreigners run those. Hmm. edit: Our secretary ain't bad when she's awake, which is about half her workday.
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Aug 25, 2013 05:11
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There's an engineer at my office who is so transparently lazy that he regularly puts on one of those eye mask things, leans back, and takes a nap at like 3pm.
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Aug 25, 2013 05:18
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Hey that 1:30-2:30 nap is a proud cultural tradition, also the mid morning nap and the lunch nap and after lunch nap and the post after lunch nap. At least in Korea, i hear it's similar in China. It's like working with less efficient Italians.
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The Worst Muslim posted:In my experience most "HR" departments is one girl who also doubles as a teacher. My HR department consists of a Director and an underling. Guess who does all of the work?
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DontAskKant posted:Hey that 1:30-2:30 nap is a proud cultural tradition, also the mid morning nap and the lunch nap and after lunch nap and the post after lunch nap. At least in Korea, i hear it's similar in China. It's like working with less efficient Italians. Yeah, it's a pretty common thing throughout the world. At least regular businesses don't shut down in China like they do in Spain.
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I can get behind this sort of nap thing. World ain't gonna explode in the half-hour I take my nap, be cool.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Yeah, it's a pretty common thing throughout the world. At least regular businesses don't shut down in China like they do in Spain. This napping goes on while you're supposed to be teaching a class and stuff, though.
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Yes indeed. That owned. I've ordered Peking duck a few times in the U.S. and there was no pile of carcass to knaw on. Now I know what's up.
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Eat This Glob posted:Yes indeed. That owned. I've ordered Peking duck a few times in the U.S. and there was no pile of carcass to knaw on. Now I know what's up. The carcass is for soup btw.
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I actually kind of miss Chinese food. The Chinese food in America was loving delicious. The poo poo here is often sad. Especially duck and chicken dishes.
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ZombieParts posted:I actually kind of miss Chinese food. The Chinese food in America was loving delicious. The poo poo here is often sad. Especially duck and chicken dishes. Come to Shanghai. We have American Chinese food.
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JimBobDole posted:Come to Shanghai. We have American Chinese food. Got any South African Chinese food?
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:The carcass is for soup btw. They didn't serve soup v  v but noted!
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Grand Fromage posted:This napping goes on while you're supposed to be teaching a class and stuff, though. "Teaching" is a loose term at state schools.
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Eat This Glob posted:They didn't serve soup v Well... normally they'll give you the soup if you ask for it. The shittier places (全聚德) will swap you the carcass for soup. The better places will give you the soup AND the carcass. Said carcass is for soup-making back home. Just add some goodies like ginger, salt, celery, wintermelon, topped off with gouqi and boil the gently caress outta it. Best results if you use a dutch oven 
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:Well... normally they'll give you the soup if you ask for it. The shittier places (全聚德) will swap you the carcass for soup. The better places will give you the soup AND the carcass. Said carcass is for soup-making back home. Just add some goodies like ginger, salt, celery, wintermelon, topped off with gouqi and boil the gently caress outta it. Best results if you use a dutch oven Ewww. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Chinese soups are the worst in that regard. If I ever again get someone smiling as they hand me a big bowl of black chicken (entire carcass, blackened) soup or the like, I swear. Also, what is the Asian (general) obsession with sticking objects too large to fit in your mouth in a soup? That drives me bonkers. Why have I got a vegetable that's 3 inches long and 1 inch in circumference in my soup bowl? Why is there an entire chicken leg?  There's not a plate to cut it on and a knife and a fork, so can we just have bite-sized poo poo in our soup?My other favorite - and I'm sure you guys have this too - are the soups with multiple ingredients that you're supposed to know not to eat. Like bamboo shoots or galanga or whatever. What genius came up with leaving that poo poo in the soup? Eating soups here is like a Candid Camera moment. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 13:25
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Protip the black chickens are called Silkies and they literally have black skin, they're not blackened
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MeramJert posted:Protip the black chickens are called Silkies and they literally have black skin, they're not blackened
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ReindeerF posted:Query: They are still black and pretty much the entire carcass is in the soup, correct? Bonus points for not saying "It depends on the chef, some just use the head and..." Response: Yep
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Don't be racist about chickens. They're black because they're born that way. Also where do people serve you soup with inedible bamboo?
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So, after the arrests in Shenzhen earlier this month, my Chinese teacher tells me they're cracking down on people working without the correct visa in Xi'an also. This is pretty much third hand gossip, but apparently "several" foreign teachers were arrested in the last couple of days and taken to somewhere close to the TV Tower (South Xi'an). They can expect to be jailed for 10 days, deported, and not allowed back in to the country. Asked why the police were bothering, she blamed anonymous tips from competing schools, and the police getting a cut of the 100,000 kuai fines levied on the companies involved. This could put a bit of a crimp on her side business of renting out laowai as models to hotels, restaurants, for openings, events, etc.
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Arglebargle III posted:Don't be racist about chickens. They're black because they're born that way. Arglebargle III posted:Also where do people serve you soup with inedible bamboo?
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drat the South East Asians are too unrefined, with all the well heeled Chinese you associate with you guys sure eat like peasants :downrim: Aiya stop eating at lovely places. Yes everything is dumped into the soup, but 1. all the 2. Strain the smaller bits out 3. the larger chunks of food should be served onto another plate and cut into bite sized portions (can take them home for left overs and if you want) When it comes to Guangdong cooking, fancier places/meals you don't even eat any of the carcass because it has been boiled out of flavour and is used for filler. The only exception I can think of is cured Chinese ham. Having 12 people gnawing at a vegetable and splashing into the soup bowl is just barbaric. caberham fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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As a traditional British person (leek and potato being my favourite childhood soup) I used to despise Chinese soups. Salty water with bits of bone/seaweed/ridiculous vegetable(?) floating around in it. But they grew on me, and, around about the time I really mastered eating bits of meat that were more bone than meat, I saw the light. Chinese soups are cool, you just have to view the watery part as more of a drink/broth that goes alongside the chunky parts. Also black chickens are the best; totally superior to white chickens.
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caberham posted:all the inedible parts EDIT: Also, when are you flying back through dirty Asia and not pretending to lose your phone upon falling in love with a waitress for the weekend? I AM JUST SAYING.
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Rabelais D posted:Also black chickens are the best; totally superior to white chickens. Once you go black...
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:Once you go black... It's certainly been my experience that black cocks are bigger and carry more meat.
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Rabelais D posted:I used to despise Chinese soups. Salty water with bits of bone/seaweed/ridiculous vegetable(?) floating around in it. The cheap poo poo with laver and maybe a little string of egg is the worst. You can tell it's just an incredibly  soup that does really just taste of salty water with a bit of oil and seaweed in it.
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Arglebargle III posted:The cheap poo poo with laver and maybe a little string of egg is the worst. You can tell it's just an incredibly And yet the customers are dutifully brought their little bowls of steaming pish. Why?
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GuestBob posted:It's certainly been my experience that black cocks are bigger and carry more meat. I hear they run faster too
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ReindeerF posted:I think we may have hit upon the problem there Hop Sing. In my culture, feet be inedible and stuff. Also heads and entire pangolins and so on! Ok Ok, solids, solids. Fun fact, if you pack your lunch box with last night's carcass/solids/soup left overs, your co workers will silently judge or pity you as dirt poor. quote:EDIT: Also, when are you flying back through dirty Asia and not pretending to lose your phone upon falling in love with a waitress for the weekend? I AM JUST SAYING. I don't fall in love with Thai waitresses, I think almost everyone in the thread knows the white elephant in the room  I do want to go to SE Asia, but I'm itching for Singapore. Yes, I know I'm boring  I still haven't made my #2 Beijing goon trip or Taiwan trip. But I promise you, if the weather in Hong Kong gets too cold during the winter, I'm just going to jump on a plane Friday night and whatsapp you within 4 hours to set a BKK goon meet.
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GuestBob posted:And yet the customers are dutifully brought their little bowls of steaming pish. It's China, doing things for reasons nobody really understands and doing them badly is the bedrock of society.
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Rabelais D posted:eating bits of meat that were more bone than meat This is unacceptable and the primary reason I never eat at Cafe de Coral/Fairwood/Maxim. I'll never understand the Chinese way of stuffing a whole bony piece of meat in your mouth, sucking all the good stuff off and spitting the bone back out like a cartoon character. Why not just slice the meat off beforehand? Then I see Chinese people at western restaurants eating ribs and chicken wings with utensils (or chopsticks  ) and I feel like I'm in a Brendan Fraser movie.
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I totally eat chicken wings with chopsticks. If you don't feel like getting your hands dirty, it's great.
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Bloodnose posted:This is unacceptable and the primary reason I never eat at Cafe de Coral/Fairwood/Maxim. I'll never understand the Chinese way of stuffing a whole bony piece of meat in your mouth, sucking all the good stuff off and spitting the bone back out like a cartoon character. Why not just slice the meat off beforehand?
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Frankly it's easier to eat chicken wings and ribs and pizza with chopsticks than have to deal with the table wide interrogation. How do they eat fruit pieces there? I always grasp with the chopsticks, but I see everyone else stabbing.
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