At least you realised CAN-NOT that the system in HK is there to stay, as someone already mentioned, this place is rotten to the core. Corporate culture and you either put up or ship out, be assured it is not just the Americans who find this extremely irritating and simply unacceptable.
Do not take the attitudes displayed here as typically English, I now work for the UK equivalent of ONEWORLD, and we have very good American colleagues here, who are thankfully very much appreciated and part of the team. Twisted individuals with issues would simply not be allowed to degenerate and display themselves to this extent in the old part of the world, not on the line and also not in management.
Keep it coming ACMS, revealing stuff…