Firing People in China – Watch your Back

Posted by Michael Michelini on Feb 08 2010

Have to share this greatttttttttt email I received today, makes me sleep well at night. Unreal people out there like this. But I want to share, some of the after effects of firing someone. The guy lost me customers, was lazy, and did his own work during company hours.

Anyway, received the below email (exact copy / paste) from a yahoo email address.

hello sir

THIS IS AN EMAIL TO ASK YOU FOR A FEW DETAILS FOR MY COMPANY AS I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO OBTAIN THEM DUE TO YOUR RECENT DISERGREMENT WITH (_____xxxxx I deleted this name) OVER PAY, I WOULD ADVISE YOU THAT WE WILL BE SEEKING TO TAKE YOU TO COURT OVER THIS MATTER AND NOT JUST THROUGHT LOSS OF MONEY BUT ALSO COMPENSATION AND ALL LEGEL FEE’S FOR THIS MATTER, CAN YOU PLEASE SEND ME YOU CONTACT DETAILS AND IF YOU HAVE A LAWYER THERE DETAILS ALSO SO WE CAN DEAL DIRECT WITH THEM IF YOU LIKE.
I MUST ADVISE THIS IS SEPERAT FROM THE ACTION THAT WILL BE TAKEN BY THE CHINA EMPLOYMENT OFFICE THAT WAS INFORMED ON THURSDAY LAST WEEK AND ALSO THE TAX OFFICE THAT WILL BE INVESTIGATING YOU FOR TAX, I WISH YOU COULD HAVE DELT WITH THIS MATTER IN A DIFFERENT WAY BUT AS YOU SEEM TO THINK THAT MARK IS A PUSH OVER THEN I WILL BE HANDLEING THIS MATTER MYSELF,
I WILL ALSO LIKE TO ADD ON A PERSONAL NOT I KNOW YOUR DETAILS AND WERE YOUR NEW OFFICE IS ALREADY AND ITS ONLY MARK THAT IS KEEPING ME AWAY FROM COMING TO SEE YOU PERSONALY IF YOU GET WHAT I MEAN AND AS FOR YOUR CHINES GIRL THE ONE THAT SORTED OUT THE PAPERS I HOPE SHE ISN’T AFRAID OF THE DARK AND HOPE YOU ARE NOT TOO AS THINGS CAN HAPPEN ON A DARK NIGHT GOING HOME, I HOPE YOU COME TO YOUR SENCES BEFOR ITS TO LATE AS I AM JUST WAITING FOR PEMISION FROM THE LOCALS TO ACT AS MOVING AGAINST YOU WILL BE OK BUT TO MOVE AGAINST ONE OF THE LOCALS IS NOT ALOUD WITHOUT PERMISION FROM THE TRIAD.
HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE DAY
AND THANKS

Imagine this guy? Anyway, should I carry a knife with me when I walk outside? He even threatens my admin – a 24 year old girl! Jeeeeez, you can threaten me, but a young Chinese girl? amazing. Doing some research, I quickly found out who the person was, even though they seemed to try to hide it.

Imagine all the threats I’ve received my whole life. One boyfriend who got upset with me because his girlfriend liked me (he jumped me with 3 of his friends in a park), others about buyouts of products and business. Others about gossip in high school. The list does go on. Maybe I’m a bad guy? Sometimes I just have my breaking point. Nice up to a point, and if someone keeps pushing me, I switch from nice to cold.

I guess its part of running a small business. And being a solo foreigner far away from friends and family doesnt help either….

Scott

imma hit your ass with a BALL BIT! but really, the only thing frightening about this is their grammar/spelling. I donno why you would think of this character as a push over when it’s someone else who has to tell you this stuff through Email. what complete lack of balls. Screw him, what does he think this is, America?
http://www.blog.daviddho.com David Ho

Hahahahah, sorry this thing continues to take up your time and add to the stress. You figure out who this dude is? I was concerned until the letter became threatening – I think this adds to the argument that he has no friends as he’s turned to some shady person who as far as I can deduce from this letter has not actual ties to gangsters and does a piss-pour job of impersonating someone with actual legal experience. I have a recommended measured response, find the fucker – get his number or reply by e-mail “how much is he paying you? I’ll double it.” Arrange a meeting and inform the police of the matter and have them accompany you to the meeting. Might want to have a camera armed so you can snap a picture before he runs.
http://blog.michaelmichelini.com mike

@Scott !! BALL BIT – i forgot a bout that threat – the farmer older brother that wanted to FIND ME, BEAT ME WITH A BALL ‘BIT (bat) – I guess I have just always gotten myself involved in high risk, extreme situations……and obviously there is higher probability to get into some crazy situations like these. I don’t like the boring lifestyle…”thrive in chaos”. Wish I was writing a blog back in “ball ‘bit” – that was like 1998 I think…..blogs weren’t around – maybe I’ll dig up the voicemail – I put it on a mp3

but yea, this email is pretty lame – at least run grammar check before sending – seems all emotional…..

@david – yea exactly like you thought – when i first read it, i thought it was a serious email from a lawyer, but as it got more emotional, more spelling errors, and then a THREAT….amazingly stupid.

I already found the guy’s real name – on shenzhenparty – I’ve recorded all types of information about him locally on my harddrive, he’s from the UK. Been here a few weeks, and has warmed up to Mark.

The sick part is, I still feel bad for the guy. I take pity on this.
http://www.mailini.com nigel

hope you won’t mind if i found this post very amusing. well, i remeber you once wrote “adventure on internet” somewhere and this is exactly one kind of adventure, and i found amazingly that you experienced more than once…

it confused me, however, that you said this guy is from uk. but how come he wrote such crazy english?

and one more thing, i have to say you are not a solo foreginer far from friends and family. i mean, you are such a kind person and i am sue somebody is gonna to help you if you are in trouble. cheer up, eveil people are everywhere and you can’t balme yourself for confronting with them…
http://blog.michaelmichelini.com mike

glad you thought it was amusing! yes, it was a irrational email I received from his friend, I think is from UK, but yea, the english is very poor.

But we have to be ready to be strong during tough times, right Nigel, and keep on growing and learning. Thanks for your unending support.

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Successfully selling online since 2004, took it fulltime early 2007. Love international business & connecting, and working on ways to give hard working people global opportunities. (Read More...)