On October 9, netizens reported that a BYD employee got into a physical and verbal altercation with their supervisor and manager after requesting leave and expressing a desire to resign from their supervisory role, slapping the supervisor and splashing water on them. The employee's corporate WeChat profile quickly received over 10,000 likes, with netizens calling it a 'refusal of workplace bullying.' The related account was subsequently suspected of being throttled.