Smoker in non-smoking area in wrong, not the scolding executive

A SEVEN-SECOND VIDEO posted online showed Terry Gou, president of Foxconn Technology Group, asking an employee smoking in a non-smoking area to put out his cigarette. The worker, not recognizing Gou, responded with foul language. Gou angrily replied his company does not need such employees. Many people have blamed Gou for treating the worker badly but a Qianjiang Evening News article argues otherwise:

Gou would not have expected his video of the incident to have aroused such ire directed at him online. People have been quick to scold him for being rude to his worker. Some of them have even linked the incident with the past suicides of a dozen or so Foxconn workers due to the heavy pressure they felt and claimed such pressure was the reason the man was smoking.

It is true that many workers are under heavy pressure and the suicides at the company are still in people's memories. However, nothing can justify a person's smoking in a non-smoking area and saying rude words to a person, particularly a senior citizen, who asks the smoker to stop.