I ' ve worked with a Japanese and currently British bosses . I like my Japanese boss . They leave you alone to do your thing and they sometimes adjust to you when you needed to . They rarely exhibit an intimidating aura . But that depends on the person anyway . The British I currently work for is very western as expected . They want you to interact with the people around you . Also for a timid and often reserve culture like us . Their way of excreting their authority can be come to most Filipinos as offensive and hurtful . Yung tipo na sasabihan ka na why aren ' t you doing this . or do this and do this before you leave or I want you to do this and you are wrong . Their directtothepoint remarks basically can be interpreted as personal . Which some of my office mates seems to be affected by it . Guessing they rarely dealt with foreigners in their careers . I have terrible experience with a Filipino company . When the company was going under , they didn ' t give us our salaries for 6 months . We have to tell their Singapore partners to loan them money to give us our rightful salary . To add insult to injury , they have 6 digit salaries working for other companies , and living the dream while their employees suffer . If it happened to me today , I would ' ve shoved DOLE in their ass and a Tulfo treatment to further drive their egos down . This made me lose faith working for a Filipino owned company . Always startups with foreigner as the owner .