three

That's the number of assholes I met/saw this week. Two at the gyms
and one via email.

The two guys were in separate gyms; one at Hilton while I was working
out with my PT and the other one at my gym this morning at the
Marriott. The one from the Hilton was clearly Americ@n. He walked in
with his jeans, runners and long sleeve shirt and proceeded to start
working out. Now, would you do that in the States? Not to mention in
the States, everyone knows you need to change to proper workout gear.
So the gym manager asked him to change. This Americ@n then flipped out
and started bitching about service at the hotel. "I flew all night
and this is my routine to do some pushups before going to bed". So.
Who the F^&ck cares about you fly all night. If he wanted to work
out, get to proper gear rather than tracking in with jeans and runners
that you have been walking all over town. The guy left after his "BS"
ranting. The PT just shook his head. I just comment with my standard
phrase. "f(&nking idiot". The PT was mad, he said just because this
guy was a foreigner didn't make him the right to do whatever he wanted
here in China. He said, that type of image just made all the Chinese
to generalize that all Americ@ns were like that. To top off, he said
"stop acting like a jerk, China owns you!". He was right. All those
debts being bought by China. Ha!

Then the second one in the gym was this morning, in mind. This Brit A$
$h0le. He changed channels but kept pointing in my direction. I kept
telling him to point toward his but he ignored me and kept screwed up
my TV. Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times.
Sometimes I wish I can borrow some "Jedi" power from the Start War and
just snap his wrist for good.

I have been seeing a lot of those lately. Treating people like dirt
or 2nd class citizen here in China; funny mostly by Americ@ns and Brits.

Then, of course, thru email. This Chinese friend of ours is being
engaged by this HK-based company to be an agent of this HK-based
company. The owners are NZ, Aussie and Brit I think. The initial
contract, in English, to this friend of ours was so ridiculous written
that iron-wife and I had a good laugh. These guys tried to use an
employee contract to make it as a company to company engagement
contract. Being me, reading and drafting so many contract, I just
trashed it and rewrote it from scratch to make it fair for both
sides. Then these guys had the ball to wrote our friend saying he
could not have any account except one for his Chinese company and is
subject to their review of all transactions because it is the law. So
I responded, 1) name the law, we are in China man. You lose. Don't
BS us and 2) ".... sole dedicated bank account for this engagement"
does not mean my friend can only have one bank account for his Chinese
company. The key is the word "engagement". So clearly these guys are
trying to take over his company with this agreement and with responses
that more BS than anything else. O yeah, they changed more stuff in
the contract that stipulated in their email. Of course, my friend
signed it before asking us to review. So the course of action is to
break the contract invoking one of the clauses I put in. You see,
these guys from HK did not even finish filling in all the proper
information left for them to fill. So, the contract is not completed
for signing.

This week is just one after another. Now I have a bottle of French
wine "breathing". Time to bring out a straw. Ha!