Yu foo yee shoon biography definition

He was a Caucasian, the big boss in an important company, and he didn’t want to listen to her.

She was 22, a fledgling industrial relations officer with the National Trades Union Congress, sent to beard the lion in his den.

“I’m Chinese-educated and my English wasn’t so good.

When I went there, this boss didn’t even want to offer me tea, you know.

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Very nasty, he drank it himself.

“So at the end of the meeting (I never lost my temper), I told him, ‘I’ve already put my stand. If you do not want to listen to my suggestion, the only thing I can do is to refer the whole proposal to my workers—that means the rank and file.

And they will call a general meeting to decide.’

“Then he got worried. He said, ‘Oh ya, ya, we’d better have another meeting.’ At the second meeting he asked me, ‘You want tea or coffee or anything?’ Very kind, you know, and whatever I proposed he was quite receptive.”

Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, now 46, recalls this incid