想飛 I WANT TO FLY

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The partner in the next room yelled at the secretary again for trivial stuff. The terrible one-way communication lasted for 20 min and I overheard every word because the wall is too thin. I don't know how the secretary manages to work here and maintain a stable mood, but I think working in an environment where people behave without showing respect to each other just sucks.

I've worked in different firms in both the US and Taiwan. From my observation only the Chinese (and Taiwanese) boss yells at his own employees. I always wonder why. Maybe it is the work ethical thing or the traditional seniority concept that Chinese people always follow for thousands of years, and so it is still considered "normal" to be mentally tortured by the boss. If you have a great boss, congratulations. If not, well, that's too bad.

That just reminds me of the novel I've been reading recently called "A Year in the Merde". The book is about the things happened to an English guy who worked in Paris for a year. One of the interesting parts in the book is about that the English guy asked his Parisian boss to fire the employees in his team because they didn't make any contribution. The Parisian boss refused because he was afraid that the employees would have a strike for being fired, and that might damage the company's image. A different way to look at it.