Originally Posted by tropic of cancer

Farang staff are generally resented their 'enormous' 30k salaries - this 'sour'(ness), as someone described it herein, being an upsetting background to ones working day. The disrespect is efficiently transmitted to the students who see your lesson as an opportunity to misbehave (farang, unlike Thais, are forbidden from using corporal punishment) and insult you (if you don't speak Thai - or even if you do).