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You story seems to be the most interest one,You are everywhere !!!:D :D 1a+JS"Fe*c}

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most of my customers prefer chinese food when they come to china.. :)

Lily ,ur story is so funny .lolg7eq6UE
Anyway ,I do not have the most interesting or unforgettable experience  during my working life .But there is one thing that I would like to share with all of you .I met an Indonesian(here I call him A )at  Shanghai auto exhibition during last  April,after we negotiated for some time  ,he was so interested to our products ,and said that he would order from us soon .Seriously ,after he backed to Indonesia ,he told his boss B about our company ,and B decided to make a big order from us ,and said that they would come to 102 Canton Fair to meet us .Time passed ,A and B showed up at the 102 canton fair last Oct.Boss B carried a big luggage ,(ps:B is 28 ,and lhe is good looking ,I never thought he is so young )but A brang nothing in his hand .I introduced them to my manager ,my manager thought that A is the boss at first time ,cause he carried the big luggage ,after I explained to my manager ,he was so surprised .Yeah ,often if we out for business ,the satff carry the luggage ,but not the boss,that is the rule .So the indonesian boss B impressed me so much .

Reply #33 carmen52's post

Maybe that is the difference between the culture.

[color=Blue][b]hehe,some mistake with the old account,so i got a new one,now i speak sth:
bDlE7S.lC6F k in the past time,i worked hard and hard ,my job is freight,in fact, forwarder is a important partner to foreigner,as u know ,if loss the freight department,that's mean a lot troubles.when i join the job,i exploit the home and abroad market,and find lots friend.to open the overseas' market just like do foreign business,so i learn much knowledge,and get along with the shipper as well as consignee,always i try my best,keep the clients satisfactory,keep the long term business relation.i will come on , i believe myself will fly higher and higher in 2008!!![/b]:victory: [/color]lGw-I_ rB n

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[b]ok,i am back,tks FOB and every my friends.i am rich because of u.upstairs is my small account:loveliness:[/b]

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o|3lp|0kyF we're a factory handling the export of textile and garments.now,i am the buyer of  oringinal material.My job is to buy yarns first,then arrange the weaving factory weave the thread into cloth,at last,colored the cloth in different colors the customer required.%z8l.vAL0@
    everyday,i need go to the weaving and colored factory,even it snowed or rained.we have no driver,i must drive the electric bike.:Q The most sad thing is that,several days ago,it was snowing outside,the general manager saw that i was in the office,he asked if i had gone to the colored factory,foolish me,i said,what's the bad weather! he felt very angry:Q  sometimes,i don't know tell ties:L
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1.customer is not god!  the colored factory is the biggest one in nanchang,they don't pay more attention to you at all !
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I need time to digest..hehe..

But there was one thing,the son said to me that his mom dont like "spice".God knows that i have throwed most of the English words to my teacher but only a little in my mind now,ya,that means i didnt know what's the meaning of "spice"HPey1_e!CaW
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Nice to meet you,everyone.
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You couldn't make everything go on as your hope in the real life, but you can try your best and you should.If so, no regret!

it tells me how important it is to know the meaning of any word we meet ,especially the food.:) B]4foW1aeV
i will remember the word "spice":lol

Thank you for your sharing.Your events told me we should reinforce our language skill  to avoid embarrassments and dilema, we should reinforce our language skill.

I have never had meal with a foreigner though there are twice chance . Maybe there 's a chance in the next time .

Thank you for all of you to share your funing experiences!

Interesting story. hei, I have not met such funy things yet.

work is not what i think

I  find it is very difficult to do business work.

i have read some of the stories those are interesting.....

I have acted as sales over three years. Though I have met with some foreigners, but I do not have the chance to have dinner with them. Because our boss does not ask us to go out for dinner together,He accompany the customers himself. He can speak fluently English.
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The UAE customers are so shrewd,they always enquiry on us, but seldem place orders, because they bargain again and again ,always ask us to give them the lower prices which is lower than our cost, hi,so tiresome, so boring. Our boss dislike the UAE customers.j)PTl@q7hp I

&O:LV,y9M^rkM In fact, I like to do business with UK,USA customers. They can accept the prices without hesitate,and the orders are big enough. :)

so funny ,so interesting.:lol

It is really a embarrassed experience.

Hi,Lily, I almost had the same experience with you about having dinner with customers.Q6S@bp/gO#X
It was last November,i met my customer from Brazil in the HK electronic fair.After visiting our factory and finished  business negotiation, i also brought him to a Western-style restaurant,and ordered two suits of beefsteak,-p-L)AX/l,U?
the customer ask if there has "hot sauce",he wuold like the beefsteak with the condiments.
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At last,i ask the waiter to show us all their sacues they have, finally the customer didn't found what he wanted.
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After then,i start to learn some words about daily-use sauce.:D

Reply #33 carmen52's post

It really very funny to hear this kind of story.:lol

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so kind person:)

I am  a green hand and do not have much working experice,but,i am happy to share your interesting experience,what's more ,i can learn something from then !!:)

If it is destiny,may be...If it is destiny,must be...

Before my graduate,i never experience how difficult to communicate with foreigner in business ways. Until that day (8th.8.2006), i met a foreigner client who came from france,let me konw how to deal with business face to face.
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When we met next day, we planned how to begin to purchase what he want to buy. I told him different ways and he made the dicision.We began from the 10:00AM.So many difficult things i need to deal with in oral English, business English,Logistics konwledge, and so on,because i am a newbie, my manger don`t believe me in this time. she arraged me let the foreigner come office and communication with her.I said no to her,because we have promise,so you just told me what i need to notice and i will deal with all things and then take my first client to meet with you.My boss agree with me. She always don`t believe,hope i do it failing. I truth feel that i must be success this time,let her konw the new comer is ok, so give every new graduate student a change is a bright maker.x#x1P&vE2@'^+m

^0lF1s$jy~E Then i spent one week to purchase antique forniture,the weather is so hot in beijing that days. I helped him collect all shop and company name and different forniture. and go to bank help him transfer cash.Everyday i almost worked 12 hours.too tired that days.but the foreign friend have a little different, he don`t like speak English and oral English is poor,i need to guess what he said in our communication. The best funny thing is that he told me he want to go bank,but he use france to said "monk",he didn`t konw how to say this words,he told me many times in the begining, I felt too difficult to communication with him.Because i don`t understand france,just konw Japanese and English. It is big challenge.After some times, i also can konw some france and he also told me that you are a good friend and good coopration person in business. There also have other funny thing: he order the airticket on17:30 PM in the Saturday. He show it in the friday morning,then i told him you have to do all thing well this day and tomorrow you will have little time to deal with it. But he didn`t believe me,he said i can deal with it,because i have 2 days to do and the hotel service center told me the air is the day after tomorrow. of course, yes! From that moment , i konw he has wrong time-difference betwween two countries.And told me it`s ok. In the next morning, he called me hurry up, he is wrong,and we need see each other right now.Then he told me that he hope me to help him to deal with all things and he must be go home today. I said ok! i will do all the thins well and include transfor cash to pay all the company. He treat me drink coffen and sandwich, then go to taxi in hurry.In the same time ,he gave me 60RMB,and sorry about those things. After he left by taxi, i thought longtime about this and saw him disappear./p-{vP5E
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so no matter doing anything we should use our mind and careful,or we'll make mistakes!
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well a challenger!!

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More practice, more experience! I think many of us meet the same situation as you. We can let them show us.