no such thing as a free lunch?
there are also ‘escorts’ for the weekends. girls if i want to go shopping, guys to help me get a cell phone. etc.
really it’s just the honesty of the situation that’s embarrassing. because of the whole Beirut situation, i arrived here late, with little more than 3 weeks to spend at this ‘internship’. this changed some things, ie: my living situation switched to a business hotel, and my ‘working’ here is even less meaningful than before.
however, even if i had been here a few weeks earlier, it would be the same thing. these people said yes to letting me ‘work’ here as a favor. i get to learn about the company, use a computer, and really just get shown around shanghai and helped to settle in. and eat. and walk.
the uncomfortable difference is that they’re not even pretending that i do anything useful for the company, whereas other places would have me file or do some dirty work to earn whatever resume reference or free lunch i got there.
well. i’ll show them. i’ll earn my free lunch. i’m going to do something productive for this company before i go. i have a few weeks to work on this one. it’ll happen.
