Westerners in China will have to deal with SURLY PSB officials and INTRUSIVE bank staff at one time or another.

FTs here will also encounter obstruction, unfairness and deceit from their employers from time to time.

Fair enough. Although I was lucky with both of those. When you hear me call China shitty, I mean it's literally dirty, and some of the state school and university posts, you find yourself wallowing in filth, windy corridors, left to your own devices if you need to take a break. Best to throw your lot in with wicked training centres I believe. I have never had much trouble with training centres. No trouble as such with universities and middle schools, just the conditions- and I have never ever seen a bar of soap in the toilets. Often floated out of the places on a sea of shit though.