Equal Job Opportunities, China, Bus Rides and High Fives
// April 12th, 2009 // China, oddities
I was very excited a few weeks ago when the people at eChinaCities mailed me via Facebook to ask if they could rerun a few of my China blogposts on their site, starting with my Nightbus to Wuhan series. I think this is the first time anyone had asked to do this with any of my posts so I was high fiving the air with great satisfaction. Then it turned out they proclaimed to have a million unique visitors a week or something ridiculous, so I started dreaming of Chinese book tours and speaking appearances, I could be like the alive guys who crashed in their plane in the mountains somewhere and ate people kebabs, I would travel the country telling of my near death travel experience, which would mean more buses, and more 47hr long bus trips, oh the joy.
Actually I needn’t have got too excited, the sites not sent a single referral back to the zig (at least when I wrote this, which was on the 4th April, I’m queuing content and everything now, the zig has gone pro) and there’s only been one comment on there which is about tying a cow to a bus, I think it’s sophisticated new spam, I mean who wouldn’t approve a comment about a cow tied to a bus? Sneaky spammers. Its possible the comment was more entertaining than my article.
Anyway, while I was over there stalking myself, I started looking at the job section and came across this gem of an ad. Equal Opportunities law has not quite arrived in China yet, I circled the requests that would be slightly frowned upon um, just about everywhere.
Well at least I know I needn’t bother applying for that job which is a shame because I’m extremely qualified for it, being at least 170cm.
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