@#$%&!

Date: January 6, 2015

Mood: Pissed Off

Weather: Warm and Sunny

Listening to: Rude by Magic! (apt for today)

Reading: How to Be A Husband by Tim Dowling

Apparently the American administrators didn't go home this morning like dh thought they were, so everyone around here is kissing butt. Some other event is going on as well, but no one who we've asked is even able to tell us what. But there was something going on in the gym and a ton of extra people on campus today to the point where we couldn't even eat in the teacher's canteen at lunch. Instead we were made to eat with the students on one of their floors. Yuck. The girls and I didn't even eat because the food looked completely unappealing.

This on top of the fact that the head of student admissions made a big point, in front of me and dh, of taking mil and her two daughters off campus to a big buffet lunch with one of their friends and the American admins. Excuse me?! My husband and I are teachers here, but you aren't even going to include us. That's twice for me in as many days. I am so pissed right now I could punch something. I know to someone else it probably seems so trivial, but to me this is really really really pushing my last button.

If you only had so much room to invite people then should you not opt for two teachers vs one teacher and her whole family? If they'd have taken me and dh plus our girls it would have cost half as much as they're paying to take the rest of them because our two kids are ½ priced. Plus we are both teachers and I haven't even had the opportunity to join in on one of these lunches. Sounds self serving. It is, but I'm tired of being bottom dog all the time. And to make a show of taking them and flat out telling us, “You go to the canteen” is just pretty dang sh!tty if you ask me. A practical slap in the face. Never mind the fact that I haven't even been introduced to these Americans, and mil will now be on her second luncheon with them. Wtf makes her so damn special?!

Yeah, I have a bad attitude about this one. If it offends you then I'm sorry, but I've just had about all I can take of the brown-nosing and favoritism. If you want your employees to stick around, you shouldn't continue to treat certain ones far better than the rest when there is no difference at all in their merit and abilities. In fact, not to toot our own horns, but hubby works far more classes than any of the other foreign teachers or local teachers for that matter. Also we never forget to show up for our classes or arrive late all the time. I won't point fingers, but let's just say others do. Not to mention you really don't want to consistently stick one person at the bottom, day in and day out, or you might just find that one person saying “再见zài jiàn”.