Ozzie, you're killing me.

'We' foreign teachers are such victims.

At my last university employer in China we had an American guy in his 40s who would sit in the classroom, smoking, often in tears, sharing the misfortunes of his life. Any western person who met him would recognize immediately that he was a rehab veteran who was off his meds.

Chinese FAO departments are unfortunately unable to make those observations during their Skype interviews.

His students, when I asked them their thoughts, were torn between compassion and revulsion. One young lady assured me: "We spoke to our head Chinese teacher, he told us that this was normal behavior for Western teachers."

Ozzie, I'm sure you vividly remember your PhD thesis defense and the smiling faces on the Kingsbridge University dais as you excepted your credentials -
Dr Mervyn J Edwards, known to his friends and students as 'Ozzie', was literate (sic) before stumbling across the Plus One program that made him, as his students call him an academic genius.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Become-Academic-Genius-Using-Plus/dp/1848974728

I'm sure this forum has many sympathizers and prospective buyers who feel similarly distressed by China's lack of enthusiasm for their genius.

Minus one.