Topic: news Same Name, Different Game: 5 Ugly Facets of the Chinese Workplace

I cannot disagree with any of these points, as I believe this American gentleman (I presume that it is a guy who has written this, based on the expressions used). However, I cannot give personal experiences of the first two points, although I certainly had my suspicions regarding point 2, as I did believe that others in higher positions within the company where I worked were taking credit for ideas that I introduced to improve the machinery in the factory. As I knew that they were working there "forever", and I was not, I did not particularly take offence to this.
In regard to point 3, I found that several companies, in regional cities outside of Shanghai, were becoming more responsible in regard to smoking, and were declaring "smoking areas", outside of the main office, often in the guard house. This did, however, make it difficult to locate the "heavy" smokers when required to answer a question.
I certainly experienced point 4 myself, as during short stays, I did not worry, knowing that the hassles of declaring a "new" employee were not worth it for a few weeks work. However, when working for up to a year, I expected, and was told, that I would need to pay a 20% income tax. Then when it came closer to the end of my tenure there, and I asked for a "tax certificate", should I need it for my own country's tax boys, I was led all around the garden path, and finally realised that the 20% "tax" was going back into company revenue.
I was amused when I returned a year later for another 6 month stint, that there was no mention of tax, just the salary had been lowered by an appropriate amount.
Ok, on point 5, I cannot say that I have proof that this occurred, but there were certainly people within the organisation, at reasonably senior levels, who continually "used" others to perform their jobs, and thus, to me, seemed to be not quite qualified for the exalted position that they held.
These comments are simply my observations, and may be refuted by others with no offence on my part.