Topic: news Same Name, Different Game: 5 Ugly Facets of the Chinese Workplace

fan,
Bull freakin crap! They tried that already in developed nations and proven it to be absolutely false. Firemen is one example. If you are 5-feet tall but you can still carry a 250-pound load up a ladder, then you should get the job. Reception and sales positions do NOT require someone to be beautiful.

I was a hiring manager for years back home. Trust me, I'd rather hire the older, grossly overweight qualified woman as a receptionist over some idiot girl in her 20's who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer. This is why China still struggles on the world stage.

I have a male Chinese friend who is overweight, speaks fluent English, is extremely accustomed to western culture, has worked in America and who is highly qualified for a translator position. My Chinese boss denied him a translator job. Instead my boss chose some girl in her early 20's, who only spoke broken English and who constantly screws up the translations, constantly asks for my assistance, I constantly catch mistakes in her spoken translation of what I say to the customer (such as the difference between price and cost). The unspoken truth was, my boss wanted a pretty face, NOT someone who was capable of doing the job. My wife was fired when her boss found out she was married to a foreigner. How are them apples?

Necessary? I don't think so fan.