Talk:Foreign Correspondent: Japan
The worker feeback situation sounds rather fucked, to put it plainly. Does your boss come across as some sort of asshole, brining up peoples supposed short commings or failings in front of the rest of the staff like that, publicly humiliating him, or is it not that bad?
The whole thing about having to spend more time looking like your working rather than actually working sounds pretty strange too. I guess there is some sort of stereotype of the "typical, very hard working japanese employee" that they're all be seen as, with looking like your working but not actually doing much work being more socially acceptable than not looking like your working but actually working? You live in a strange place.
I vote for "Japanese Management Style: Problem? Do exactly what I did in 1986", because 1986 is one year after 1985, the year the film "Back to the Future" was released, which was a good film, and logically anything that occurs in the near time peroid after the back to the future film was released is also good, and japanese management in 1986 occured shortly after Back to the Future, thus japanese management in 1986 is great. Japanese management also probably involved time travel and delorian cars.
How well do you think a panty vending machine would do in Australia? Also, google "torso trading". There was a website called jlist.com which a certain item called "Bust Emperor", which were basically little plastic figurines of women's toros's and butts in bikini's. You apparently collect these little figurines and traded them with your friends. Or jack off on them. Or something.
blokey357 09:01, 1 August 2008 (GMT)
Wow, Torso Trading sounds like it's done by guys whose existence is noticed only on internet chat rooms and nowhere else. I'd look into it but I'm afraid that the whole Japanese porn/sex industry is a little on the "nuanced" side. Like I said in my first post porn is considered abnormal, and as there is no real normal porn you may as well get as extreme as you can because your sense of ethics has already been thrown out the window. Although it is probably good to make the distinction that I'm not considering the bare chested pictures of models that appear in newspapers here (like in Britain) to be porn per se, although you could argue that this is indeed the normal porn though a poor substitute for Bang Bros Inc. I don't think there's the market for lingerie vending machines in Australia because we have porn stores and people aren't afraid to go in them mostly. However I think there is a good market for hot coffee vending machines, given it's mid-winter in Australia now I want you to consider for a moment the awesomeness of being able to walk somewhere nearby to where you live, wherever this may be, and purchase piping hot coffee in a steel can which can either be drunk straight down or placed in a pocket/under your shirt/down your pants (be careful, this burns) or wherever to warm you up before you drink it. Unfortunately remotely located vending machines in Australia tend to be vandalised fairly readily and upkeep would render these machines profitless.
As for the management feedback thing. The managers don't go on a rampage very often, most of the time they're really nice, they always seem caring and understanding which makes it all the more shocking when they lash out like that. On the whole I think my bosses, especially my company president are really great guys, although the other day in a morning meeting meeting he did the whole lecture subordinates like they were children thing and very nearly made one of the women in Tokyo cry. We were using Skype so I couldn't see very clearly but she certainly looked like she was swallowing tears and she failed to respond to questions for a few moments before speaking in a highly variable pitch. Anyone not in the conversation was looking down at the desk in front as if to give the rampage a sense of privacy.
Back to 1986 Doc? How do we get there? Give me a little while to write that one because it incorporates a few different concepts and talks about Japanese risk management mostly.
Dr. Boy --Dr Boy 09:16, 10 August 2008 (GMT)
