What Kind of 401(k) Does the Kingdom of Heaven offer?

As you might have seen from a post a while back, payday is a bit different here then in the United States and usually this doesn't cause too much of a concern, but for the past few days it has been a divisive issue on campus. Our pay is ten days late and as of today has been delayed until Friday at the earliest. Needless to say, the workers are not amused.
As for me, it doesn't really bother me. I have enough saved over from previous months to tide me well into 2010 and I know that I'll get paid eventually. I'm really not concerned about this at all, and myself and a few others as well as the leadership here have been trying to convince the others, most notably the new recruits, to put down the pitchforks and torches and listen to some reason. There are three main reasons why I am not worried or upset about a delayed paycheck, er..stack of bills. They are as follows.
The first one is cultural. This is China. If any place in the world is going to act the opposite of America, it's going to be China. While a set standard of pay (such as every Friday, or the first and fifteenth) is the standard in America, such agreements are practically non-existent anywhere in China. Employees either work on commission, or know that they will receive an envelope filled with cash sometime during the month. Delays happen. It may not be as efficient as the American system, but it works and it's the culture. Frankly, I'm not one to mess with the system that pays over a billion and a half people. That seems dangerous. Sure, it's different from what we know and love. But so are squat toilets, boiled intestine surprise, and room temperature beer. But we got used to them. Doesn't mean we have to like them, but it does mean we have to go by them. When in Rome and all that.
Second reason is our employer. We work for ESEC who in turn has a partnership with Peking University. One of the largest and most prestigious (if not the most prestigious)university in all of Asia. Hilary Clinton and Obama have both left slime trails on the main campus on their official visits. The founder of modern China and the guy whose mug graces all the bills on the country started out as the librarian at Peking University, or Beida as it's more colloquially called. It has around 50,000 students in 14 major departments and operates large hospitals, printing houses, research centers, and many more things. You can't go five feet in downtown Beijing without seeing the Beida logo on something. ESEC is one fish in a very busy river. So expecting that they will be consistently on time with the pay of a mere twenty five or so foreigners on a slightly backwater campus, in a culture where the myriad professors and deans themselves probably don't have this luxury, is ridiculous. Delays happen. Especially when you have our location on the totem pole. It's selfish and dangerously ethnocentric to think that special privileges should be extended to you just because you are used to something else.
The third reason is the most important. None of us are here for the money, as what we make here translates into roughly minimum wage in America for much more than 40 hours a week. Even if you did come to China for the money, almost any other English program will pay more. We came, all of us, because we were called by a higher authority. I, for one, think it shows a lack of faith to suggest that the One who called us here would abandon our financial needs when we got here. Sure it might stretch us a little, (for instance, I can remember when I was 12 hours away from complete homelessness on the streets of Seoul with no cash whatsoever) but that only serves to increase our faith. Now, I'm not saying I don't care about money whatsoever, that's most certainly not true, but I'm not going to completely lose focus on my purpose for being here just because I'm getting paid a bit late. Paul's first letter to Tim he says "Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content." Food? Check. Maybe not always the best looking and/or tasting but I have it. Clothing? Check. And quite stylish may I add. Content? That's what we need to be working on now.
So basically what I have been trying to say to those who are stressed about our financial crisis here is, Chill out. He's in control. The new session starts tomorrow. Do your job and Friday will be here before you know it.