No Good Either Way
| No Good Either Way 衝呀！瘦薪兵團 |
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No Good Either Way promo poster
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Written by | Lau Chi-wah |
| Starring |
Ruco Chan Kristal Tin Louis Yuen Natalie Tong Jason Chan Chi-san Stephen Au Florence Kwok Leanne Li Matt Yeung Gill Mohindepaul Singh |
| Opening theme | "Sau San Juk" (瘦薪族) by Ruco Chan, Louis Yuen, Gill Mohindepaul Singh |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Amy Wong |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 45 mins. |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network |
Jade HD Jade |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 11 June – 6 July 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | House of Harmony and Vengeance |
| Followed by | Three Kingdoms RPG |
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| Traditional Chinese | 衝呀！瘦薪兵團 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 冲呀！瘦薪兵团 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Charge! Thin Salary Army" | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chōngya! Shòu Xīn Bīngtuán |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Cung1 Aa3! Sau3 San1 Bing1 Tyun5 |
No Good Either Way is a Hong Kong television comedy-drama serial produced by TVB under executive producer Amy Wong. The first episode premiered on 11 June 2012.
The drama depicts the lives of office employees in Hong Kong working for their overbearing and abusive bosses.
Although valued by their boss Ko Wai-ting (Stephen Au), product designer Alex Mo (Ruco Chan) and marketing officer Steve Man (Louis Yuen) of GOALTECH Scientific, Ltd. despise their department's general manager Violet Che (Florence Kwok), who is preventing them from getting a promotion. Enumerating the "ten sins" of Violet, Alex and Steve secretly start a business with their Indian friend Interpal (Gill Mohindepaul Singh). Alex's girlfriend, Ling (Kristal Tin) joins GOALTECH, and pressures Violet to step down. Alex is later promoted to manager, and Steve eventually becomes the new boss of the company. As Alex and Steve's positions climb higher, they begin to exert similar pressure on their subordinates, also committing the "ten sins."
TVB released news to the media of the drama's development after announcing the signing of Ruco Chan in January 2012, who subsequently had to turn down a role in The Confidant. At the time, No Good Either Way was known in Chinese as The Chok Family or The Chok Clan (Chok氣一族), but the working title was later referred to as Amy Wong's New Drama for a majority of the drama's filming duration due to the ambiguous meaning behind the Cantonese vernacular "chok." On 19 January, a press conference and costume fitting for the drama was held at TVB Studio 1. Filming officially began on 6 February and ended on 13 April. A blessing ceremony was held on 15 February
A witty chief product designer for GOALTECH who is manipulated into losing his promotion.
A marketing officer at GOALTECH who never got a chance for promotion despite his many years of experience.
Alex's girlfriend then wife who eventually becomes his direct supervisor at GOALTECH.
Alex and Steve's self-employed Indian-Chinese friend.
Alex's aggressive younger sister who works as a property agent.
Kin's boyfriend and product designer at GOALTECH. Although charismatic, Aaron is resentful and afraid of failure.
A selfless trainee doctor and Steve's love interest.
The selfish and unscrupulous general manager of GOALTECH's Creative and Marketing department who is the root of Alex and Steve's problems.
The sincere C.E.O. of GOALTECH who gets bullied around by his wife's family.
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