Foxconn boss gets foul-mouthed abuse from Chinese cigarette-smoking employees who fail to recognise him

Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, the electronics assembly manufacturer that supplies the Apple technology company, was greeted with a less-than-polite reply when he told two employees to stop smoking at its Shenzhen facility.

Apparently they did not realise they were talking to their boss and a video of the confrontation has gone viral.

Reports by Taiwanese media, including the United Daily News said the encounter took place near the dining hall of the factory in Shenzhen, where Gou bumped into two people who were smoking in a non-smoking area.

Watch me: The seven-second video that has gone viral showing the confrontation involving Foxconn’s Terry Gou

He asked them to stub out their cigarettes, but they did not appear to recognise their boss, and allegedly responded, “Who are you? It’s none of your ******* business.”

After they appeared to use a foul-mouthed insult directed at him, Gou quickly called the factory’s manager, who also appeared in the video rebuking the employees’ bad manners.

“If he [the manager] doesn’t ‘fix’ you, then I will ‘fix’ you,” Guo said in a seven-second viral video posted on Facebook by an internet user. “Foxconn doesn’t need staff like you.”

Foxconn is one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers, which contributed about 3.5 per cent of the mainland’s total imports and exports in 2014, according to the company’s website.

The Shenzhen facilities also houses the headquarters of the company’s mainland operations.