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Leaked Videos of Sylvia in Zoom Meeting Portray How She Handles Feedback

2021-10-20 , 11:08 am

In the past couple of weeks, there’s been a notable scarcity of popcorn all across stores in Singapore and even our houses.

That’s largely because new episodes of the saga involving employees of Night Owl Cinematics and its co-founder Sylvia Chan are seemingly released every few days.

Things took yet another left turn yesterday when MS News published an exposé where former and current employees went on the record to detail employee abuse in the workplace.

Allegations included:

receiving a letter from Sylvia demanding approval before engaging in any external communication after news of her alleged mistreatment made the news
a highly stressful work environment with long hours (sometimes till 5am)
late payments

Sylvia also allegedly called NOC co-founder and her ex-husband Ryan Tan and YouTuber Dee Kosh “f**king egoistic” and “poor”.

That was quite a lot to take in, right? Well, you won’t believe it, but there’s more.

Leaked Videos of Sylvia in Zoom Meeting Portray How She Handles Feedback

Today (20 Oct), the group of former and current ex-employees leaked a video of a Zoom meeting between Sylvia and several NOC employees, as well as co-founder Ryan.

The video, as well as a lengthy list of allegations, was published by the group on a blog post titled, “End the Silence”: Speaking Up About NOC Sylvia’s Alleged Crimes.

The leaked video begins with a clip of an employee airing her grievances over a lack of manpower, and what sounds like a high workload.

Sylvia seems indifferent to her employee’s concerns throughout the exchange, and even starts clacking away on her keyboard and smirking.

In the next clip, Ryan takes issue with something Sylvia allegedly said in the past, accusing her of “stirring sh*t” by claiming that a certain “someone” in the company had called Ryan an incompetent leader.

He keeps asking who this “someone” is, and even though Sylvia allegedly said she’d reveal the identity of the person in the next meeting, she refused to name the person.

In the end, Sylvia says she’s the one who thinks Ryan is a bad leader.

The argument reportedly got more heated, prompting Ryan to leave the meeting. At that point, Sylvia asks two other employees if they’d like to replace Ryan as project manager. When they both decline, Sylvia asks them to leave the meeting.

In the next video, which is over five minutes long, Ryan speaks on behalf of disgruntled employees at the company, going through the litany of complaints such as late payments and long working hours (sometimes till 4am).

“I can tell you the day I say I quit a lot of people will quit,” Ryan says in the video. “Honestly speaking, this is not humane”.

While Ryan details the grievances of his employees, Sylvia, once again, looks uninterested and uses her phone from time to time.

At one point, Ryan says that he’s raised the same concerns about Sylvia’s management style “over and over again” for eight years.

In response, Sylvia says, “The problems that you think you’re speaking out for on behalf of a lot of staff…let me know how we can move forward about my management style so that we can all be a happier team with higher morale.”

Well, that certainly is a head-scratcher…

You can watch the entire video below:

Leaked Videos of Sylvia in Zoom Meeting Portray How She Handles Feedback

Leaked Videos of Sylvia in Zoom Meeting Portray How She Handles Feedback

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