November 23rd, 2008

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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

The highly enjoyable Danwei Blog recently posted a telephone recording of a foreign douchebag calling a take-out delivery service in Shanghai.  You should really listen to this.  Now the Shanghaiist has posted a ‘video redux’ of the now famous foreign douchebag caller.

The New York Times reports the number of American lawyers moving abroad to work has skyrocketed due to the lukewarm job market at home.  The three destinations with the greatest increase in the number of American lawyers: Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai.  Again, I feel I’ve made the right choice coming to China.