Have you always dreamed of running a company but not exactly gotten it together to amass the necessary qualifications? Have you thought it would be pretty cool to really just be the face of some organization (provided it’s not currently taking a little heat for some unfortunate accidents or being accused of harvesting & trafficking aborted baby parts out of its offices on West Street) but not do any heavy lifting behind the scenes? Today is your lucky day, provided you’re Caucasian.
If you’re a white guy in China and you own a suit — Congratulations! You’re hired. There’s an odd trend brewing there, where companies hire fake executives from the U.S. and other Western nations to attend events, give speeches and generally just to give that appearance in the community and in the business world of that connection with the western world.
“I think it says a lot about the business culture here,” said Mitch Moxley, a freelance writer living in Beijing who was hired to be a fake businessman for a high-tech company building a factory in Dongying, five hours south of Beijing. “Face is hugely important in China, and having foreigners in suits I guess gives some credibility to the companies. You’d be amazed how often this happens.” Moxley said he, along with five other guys, was hired to be a “quality-control expert” for $1,000 a week, though it was made clear to him at the time of hiring that they wouldn’t be doing any quality control. The job would entail attending some dinners, going to a ceremony and touring the factory once a day. The rest of the time, he and the other “executives” sat in fly-ridden office, where they slept, read magazines and joked around.
Now Hiring: Fake Executives In China [CNBC
Rent A White Guy [The Atlantic]
Sitting in a fly-ridden office is the new killing it.
Finally, there’s an advantage to being a white man.
@2 yeah man the persecution is killing me.
Heavy lies the crown of a white man.
/a white guy with a crown
Was Michelle CC just talking w/ a graphic below her which read “Harder,faster, deeper”???
“Rent a White Guy”
Been there, done that.
~Bawney Frank
Bess, is that all Kouwe ever did? Sleep, read magazines, and joke around (in a painfully unfunny way)? Is the Dealbreaker office fly-ridden?
@5: Yes…and one of the camera operators has been hiding the long shots of the C-Cs at an angle using her laptop screen. Bastard.
“…companies hire fake executives from the U.S. and other Western nations to attend events, give speeches and generally just to give that appearance in the community and in the business world of that connection with the western world.”
They simply copied the Lehman model, those Chinese copycats.
If you’re not white, you’re missing out because this shit, is thoroughly good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
If you cant stand the heat get out of the white hood.