【ivi】looks can be deceiving 外表是会骗人的

    looks can be deceiving 外表是会骗人的

从我第一次来到中国，在接着的2、3年里，每一天对我来说都是完全不同的经历。 没有哪一天我会感到无聊，总有一些新的东西去看、去学、去体验。在这篇文章里面，我将聊聊发生在我身上的一些事情，尤其是前几年。 当我了解了这些事情后，再也不会犯同样的错误了。

第一个例子：工厂的老板

有一次我们去山东参观一家瓷质釉面砖候选供应商的工厂。 一位开着奔驰500的先生来接我们， 他看起来很干净，穿着得体。 我们通过翻译问候了这位先生，从机场到工厂的路上一直和他谈论和瓷砖相关的各种生意上的事情，直到到了工厂下车后才发现他只是一个司机，大老板在办公室等着我们呢。看到了老板之后，我们这些外国人都笑了起来，因为对我们来说实在是太难分辨那是老板还是司机了，所以我们就想当然的把司机当成老板。

说句实话，那个司机看起来更有老板范，而老板看起来更像司机!

在西方国家，十有九次，甚至十有十次你可以轻松辨认出谁是老板，谁是司机。但是在中国，我们十次里面可能有八次要弄错。

第二个例子：食物

每个礼拜我都会邀请办公室的所有员工(当时有6个)出去吃饭，我来买单。因为我是买单的人所以我有权利选择餐馆和点大部分的菜。每次去到餐馆我都会对他们说同样的话：不要点狗肉、猫肉、驴肉、马肉、蛇、青蛙和老鼠。有一天我们的司机(他英语说得不错)不知道哪里来的勇气当着所有人的面告诉我：“老板，你都不知道吧，你最近几天都在吃青蛙。”他说得没错，我一直以为我在吃鸡肉呢!只有这个家伙有勇气告诉我。如果不知情的话我还是蛮享受的!当然从那次事故之后再也没有点过青蛙了。

第三个例子：漂亮的展厅

大约2000年到2004年之间，我们走访了很多中国展厅。根据我们西方的标准来看，大部分的展厅都可以用巨大来形容，有些有四层楼高并且配有电梯，说实话，我们都非常惊讶。我们开玩笑说我们的老板必须来这里亲眼看一看，因为如果我们告诉他，身在美国的他们是不会相信的中国展厅有这样的规模。我们都想当然的认为：根据展厅的规格，这家公司一定有一个很大、很好的工厂。

在反复提出多次要求后(他们不愿意带我们去工厂，除非我们下订单)，我们去参观了他们的工厂并且下了个小订单。

当我们看到工厂后，我们都震惊了!那是一个旧的、看起来很差、乱七八糟的地方。我们问自己：这公司怎么会有一个如此好的展厅和如此差的工厂呢?他们真的是这个工厂生产我们在展厅看到的产品吗?答案是肯定的，我们亲眼看到了这一切。

很多来自美国和其他世界各地的客户都不愿意花时间去看看他们要买的产品是在哪里生产的。他们只看到了漂亮的展厅，这对他们已经足够了。

另外一件事情也很难解释(我们每次都会问自己)，他们是怎样在这么旧的工厂里生产出这么好的产品呢?平整、完美的四直边，抛光很漂亮。

他们在旧工厂里面生产出的产品是怎样和我们在最现代的工厂里面生产的产品，保持一样好的外观的呢?

在你充分分析、理解、检查和确认之前，在你有足够的证据去说些事情和行动之前，不要轻易判断，决定或者开口。

外表是有欺骗性的!

when i came to china the first time and for the next 2 or 3 years every single day was quite a different experience. there was no single day that was boring to me. there was always something new to see, learn or experience. in this article i will talk about real examples of situations that happened to me specially those first 3 years. later i learned of all these things and became more aware and cautious so i would not make the same mistakes.

example number one: the factory owner

we went to shandong province to visit a factory and potential supplier of glazed porcelain tile. we were picked up by this gentleman driving a very nice mercedes benz 500. he looked clean and well dressed. using an interpreter we greeted the gentleman and talked about different business things related to tile from the airport all the way to the factory just to later find out that the person driving the car was just “the driver” and the “big boss” was waiting for us in his office. when we met the big boss, we foreigners laughed among ourselves and said that how difficult was to tell for us if the driver was the owner or not, so we assumed better that he was.

in all honesty the driver looked more like the owner and the owner more like the driver!

in the western world 9 out 10 times or 10 out of 10 times you can very easily tell who is the owner and who is the driver. in china we can easily make the same mistake 8 out of 10 times.

example number tw the food

every week i would take all the office employees we had back then (6) to lunch and i was paying with my own money. since i was the one paying i selected the restaurant and most of the dishes. every single time we arrived to the restaurant i always said the same to them: do not order dog, cat, donkey, horse, snake, frog or rat. one day our driver (who spoke english well by the way) he had the guts to say in front of everyone and tell me: boss you have been eating frog the last couple of days and you didn’t even notice. he was right i thought i was eating chicken but nobody had the guts to tell me. so as long as i didn’t notice and i liked it, no problem! after that incident never ever frog was ordered again.

example number three: the nice showroom

we visited many showrooms back in the early years of 2000 (around 2002 to 2004). many of them were huge according to our western standards. some even had 4 floors and electric stairs. to be honest with you, we were very impressed. we joked and said that our boss from america had to come here to see this by himself because they will not believe us in america, if we told them the sizes of these showrooms in china. we all said: according to this showroom i bet this company has a huge or very nice factory.

after requesting several times to visit their factory (they did not want to take us unless they had an order from us) we went to visit their factory and placed a small order.

we were all in shock when we saw the factory! it was old, bad looking, disorganized, etc. we asked ourselves: how can this company have such a nice showroom and such a bad plant? are they really making the products that we saw in the showroom in this factory? and the answer was yes! we saw it with our own eyes.

most buyers from america or many parts of the world do not take time to go see where the products they are going to buy are manufactured. the only see the nice showrooms and to them it is enough.

another thing that was extremely hard to explain was (and we asked ourselves every time) how can they make such a good product from this old factory? perfectly square, flat and well polished?

how can they make a product as good looking as ours with this old factory than we with the most modern plant?

do not judge, decide or open your mouth until you analyze, understand, confirm and check that you have enough evidence to say something or take action.

　　looks can be deceiving!

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