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What if I wear a white suit?
The only qualifications are you must be male and of European decent.
Pay for the guy in the article was $1,000 for one week's work and a free hotel stay, and all he had to do was wear a nice suit.
Interesting that they were paid to pretend to be quality control engineers. Not sure if that is funny or sad, given the recent news report of defective Chinese drywall, etc.
NPR article: "Job Ad in China: White Man, must have suit. No experience needed"
June 22, 2010 There's opportunity in China even if you're a Westerner with no skills. If you're a white male and have a nice suit, you can get a job that pays well — and requires no work.
Read Moxley's Account
'The Atlantic' Article: 'Rent A White Guy'
Mitch Moxley, a freelance writer who lives in Beijing, discovered that with just those assets, he could make a living as a fake American businessman. He wrote about his experience in The Atlantic article "Rent A White Guy: Confessions of a Fake Businessman from Beijing."
"Basically, a friend of a friend knew of a company that needed a bunch of white guys to go down and represent the company," Moxley told NPR's Robert Siegel. "I didn't know too much other than it was going to be $1,000 for a week and then we would be put in a hotel. And we'd have to attend a couple of banquets and tour a factory."
Moxley was acting as one of the quality control experts.
"I was told in advance we weren't going to be doing any quality control," he says. "Which is good because none of us actually had any experience in quality control."
One guy was supposedly the company director, and he gave a speech in front of 100 or so people. At the end, he was taking pictures with the mayor and being interviewed on local TV.
Moxley says his guess is that companies hire white people in suits to gain "a bit of credibility." He says that connections in China are important, especially in business.
"It was pretty funny. The whole thing was a little bit surreal," he says. "We were down there and were being paraded around a half-built factory and we had to sit in temporary offices the rest of the day, not really doing anything. ... We were sleeping at our desks or reading magazines."
But Moxley says he and the fake businessmen got the "red-carpet treatment" at the opening ceremony for the factory.
"They had police escorting vehicles to the ceremony," he says. "We were sitting at the front row right before the stage. One guy was supposedly the company director, and he gave a speech in front of 100 or so people. At the end, he was taking pictures with the mayor and being interviewed on local TV."
Moxley says that although his experience was surreal, it's "surprisingly common."
"I've been here for three years, and it was something I heard about soon after I got here. Off the top of my head, I know about six people who have done similar things."
What if I wear a white suit?
Are you going to apply, RG?
F'ing sweet. 1k a week in China is living like a king!
Get paid for visiting China? Sounds interesting, but not anytime soon. Although the article in the Atlantic didn't paint the "free hotel" as very luxurious or anything.
They should have them doing poisen control. I swear every other week something tainted is coming out of China. What scares me is a lot of our pharmaceuticals are made in China.
Asians are incredibly racist when it comes to people of African decent.
Not the women.
By percentage, they are.
That sucks. In the U.S. if you have a nice suit you can pretend to be CEO/CFO/COO or chairman of a major corporation and earn millions in bailout bonuses.
These Chinese are interesting when it comes to things like this. Weren't they the ones who also put up fake building fronts to cover undesirable buildings? I could have sworn I just read about something similar that made me think of what they did at the Olympics but I can't recall what it was.
sons most Asian women prefer white American men. However if they have to settle they will accept a black American man/penis as long as he has a decent job OR at least 8 inches. that's just how it is.
With the exception of our first date, I hate cheap hotels.
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