All Japan's STUPID Work Rules In 5 Minutes 

You're awesome man, keep doing what you're doing, behind the entertainment it's also very informative, and people need more awareness and education on this. Thanks for your work!!

A word of respect for a wholesome person you are!

It was really funny. I do like the idea of rule 6 though. It feels like that would promote properly teaching and educating new staff which is not common in my experiences.

カッコいい声だぜ。アニメの声だ

I have a japanese cousin who went to college in the US and went back to japan to work for business. Hes expressed how he hates his business job in japan and really misses the US. But i never knew the details why. Now i can see why lol 😂

Lmao, imagine being forced to go there and you just don't drink alcohol at all. AT ALL.

Addition:It's supposed to be family time to those who have families but because of this stupid etiquette,I think it is one of the factors that brought Japan to depopulation.

​@@StrifeTheHorseman You are expected to drink if the boss drinks

@@aurelian2668 then the boss is expected to go f**k himself.

@@aurelian2668 the boss can drink deez

So in fact you don't have to fire them for not being able to do it, you can just fire them for not doing it before midnight.

They'll try to find ways to get you to quit though, if they really want you out. Like they'll assign no work for you, some companies even go further and assign no work to you and take away your phone and computer, so you're just sitting there doing nothing. I had this happen at a japanese company, I was the first foreigner there and they didn't see eye to eye with me (even though I always finished my work way ahead of schedule and often did even more than I was asked) because I wanted to leave at the normal leaving time to meet up with my girlfriend (now wife). If someone needed help I'd stay, but if my work was done and everyone was fine I'd leave and they didn't like that. So there was a 6 month period where they had nothing for me to do. Joke's on them, I was being paid to keep improving my skills by learning more every day instead of twiddling my thumbs lol. Eventually they gave me a job that was completely off of my field. Me and some coworkers think they were trying to stress me out and make me quit, but I just embraced the challenge and learned what I needed to learn and ended up completing the project. Eventually I did quit to start my own company and because I felt like they didn't value my work.

@@dxstudiodawn but do they still pay you for not working?

@@erictan7207 Yes. I've heard of people saying they can lower your salary by demoting you, but I've never seen that happen and every japanese person I asked says that's either fake or rare, so idk.

it sounds to me like they're salary employees at this rate.

In such a work culture, I would only want to work remotely 😂

How do I get hired again

He's my hero

Omg goals

So as long as you are immune to Japanese disrespect peer pressure culture, one could get paid a living for nothing...and they'll think they're punishing you.. Love it, lol

OMG

Sounds like a great guy.

@@digishade7583 true

Interesting. I thought it only happens here in the Philippines. The thing is, we can actually leave before the boss does. But we still don't because of the gossip that follows if you leave before the boss.

Happens in my line of work as well. People want good evaluations from the boss, so they look busy even after they finish their tasks for the day.

lol I don't GF if my boss leave or not, the point is my job of the day is done. like or not I am area manger before thirty. So f all that licking ass BS

@@superbombyman1501 Meanwhile I would start my own gossip. I'm notorious around the office (some retold stories may be inflated, I feel no need to inflate my stories, but its funny when people make assumptions). I would probably announce "time to go do wheelies in front of the cops, see you tomorrow, unless I'm in jail then someone please bail me out, bye!" as I'm walking out. Let them gossip, the rumors will be legendary! They will turn the tales of my average speed driving to work (not my true daily average, but the average for one day that they asked) of just over 8 miles in under 4 minutes (that means with traffic and traffic lights I averaged over 120 mph or 193 kph driving to work), and they will be claiming next that I did it in 3 minutes or something silly (its silly because that would be 160 mph average, and at the moment my bike is geared for only about 152 mph so it obviously couldn't be true). Once I'm out of work, I try not to worry about it, all that work will be sitting there waiting for me to get back. One of my bosses was behind me when I spun out of the parking lot almost running into a stop sign (I don't know how I messed that up, its a pretty easy spot for drifting except the road has a couple bumps), anyways he pulled up and rolled down his windows and asked if I was good, I gave the thumbs up and he laughed and drove off. Next day he said "wow, when you're leaving work to go home, you really leave work behind in a hurry and go have fun and live your life, I respect that". Get your tasks done, then go home, no reason to stick around if there's nothing to do (there is always something to do though, I try to stay busy then leave when my time is up)

@@JawsFan27 But the strange thing was, they didn't look busy, they were asleep at their desks. They just had to be there until the head of the group went home.

Honestly, they should leave the suits for front facing employees and for inter-business dealings. Suits as regular officewear should have ended years ago.

​@chinachickensoup3796 Have you ever worn a suit in the middle of summer?

@@l.2620 Japanese salarymen all wear black wool suits with 2 buttons for some reason. theres like a whoe variety of suits. for summer there are unlined ones made of linen or soft cotton in shades of cream that looks smart but dont get hot. idk why japan only wears 1 kind of suit lol

@@Purwapada It's most likely dress code, stupid one at that. I won't comment on how much difference the material makes, but I think it will be hard to beat a t-shirt and short pants in hot weather.

A possible explanation for this happening: "Nobody wants to stand out, nobody wants to make the first move". So with one person 'breaking' an unwritten rule (that nobody ever questioned) and the boss following suit (pun intended), they felt liberated and abandoned the suits as well.

That’s hilariously sad

Insanely unhealthy for the brain, i mean, insanely unhealthy.

> I will never, for the rest of my life, remember the scene in a Japanese bar I witnessed back in 2007. I think you meant "forget", not "remember".

that's crazy, at my work you get 200% bonus if you work overtime (after midnight for me since I work evenings)

@@ChrisHeart-kr1uqso you would you be happier if the suicide rate increased 😮

@@ChrisHeart-kr1uq Dude, that's just hate speech. What is wrong with you? Why would you wish a nation something so bad instead for things to get better for them? Even if you meant it as a sarcastic joke, it is still too dark and of bad taste.

It doesn't make sense that they can't fire you cuz it's their fault you suck and at the same time they can say it's your fault you suck and work for free.

Yea, I know a lot of assignees and they don’t want to go back. They say this is like a holiday for them

And they confused in Japan the birth rates drop cause no one had time for families (something world wide now).

This might tie into Konami being a shitty company.

no one knows who you are. you can say the name of the company

@@Njuregen Spelling error? Did you mean "confused" or "confessed"?

Also you have to work overtime for free and the whole time wearing your coat in a hot day.

Might as well get a van and sleep in the parking lot at your job since you are there most of the day.

@@hoodagooboy5981 Japanese usually sleeps on street, they said it is "a part of their work culture"

​@@faradiaulia5560culture this,culture that,lets call it as it is please:modern slavery

As a member of the u.s. military i can tell you that for one "madatory fun" never builds moral.

I've read many articles about how workers are far less efficient when they are under constant pressure, forced into constant overtime, do not have a healthy work/life balance, and on and on. It's no wonder Japan has such a high work related burnout and suicide rate.

Japan is an effort driven culture. Results do not matter. Western culture is result driven. Your results dictate your ability to set social rules.

That’s a reason why I would never move to Japan, and why their work culture is basically against “living”. One of the many reasons their population is going down.

@@khanstonedriller8279 unfortunately for them, their culture is no longer good for economy since the 90s. For example software development requires a completely different culture. And software coming from Japan is really bad, especially continuous support. They are on a downward moment, which will just get worst because of their laggard attitude regarding electric cars. I fear Japan's economy will turn really bad in the next 10 years.

Imagine being a culture that views Germans as too relaxed 😆

Sadly some people there prolly can't afford to just uproot and leave their home country.

They don’t, that’s why Japans population is in a downward spiral. They have one of the biggest suicide rates in the world, while also having one of the lowest birth rates, due too everyone being to busy to boink

@@ambiarock590 'prolly' is not a word.

@@Catcrumbs Says who? Is it not a string of letters that has a defined meaning? Did you not understand what it meant?

@@Charlielx Says me. Defy me at your peril.

That’s when you do work-arounds. Set their start time 30 minutes later, setup a work uniform (that doesn’t include a jacket), if the boss is staying late “leave” work and come back

The boss sets the tone that others follow. They prove their worth honor and loyalty by working as long and hard as the boss does . In a Japanese office you don't want to be known as the lazy punk who always is the first to clock out . If it becomes needed to lay off / downsize part of the work force . The lazy punk will be the first person eliminated . Team unity is an important concept. They drink together . They work together . Strong unity makes victory possible . Selfishness is not viewed positively .

​@@xr7speedSo you cant go home to have a family time or simply relax and is forced to work unpaid time... so in japan you are basically a half time slave???

@@xr7speedmost of my work experience comes from a military so i kinda resonate with this. I can see how it can go to shit but if the sense of community is genuine you barely need those rules.

@@TheGabriel0705 One of the reasons for the population decline.

OK you guessed it right. Japanese companies will force you to quit. Sometimes they do mean stuff and make you want to quit so the companies don’t have to fire you. It’s how it works here in Japan

@@sorathetroll that sounds horrible

This must explain why I always get bullied at school! They're just preparing me for Japanese work life

@@sorathetroll What if at that point you just stop caring about going above and beyond and just have the attitude "it's done when it's done"?

@@sorathetroll Forced demotions and boring work for 正社員 is pretty common if they want that employee to quit.

​@@st.michaelthearchangel7774Oh, get bent.

​@@st.michaelthearchangel7774What does God have to do about ethical labor conditions???

@@GarpeelPersonally i think it helps you endure and cope with reality but the problems will stay unfortunately.

​@@st.michaelthearchangel7774Your impression is 1) wrong. Xtian missionaries have certainly made efforts in Japan many times historically & there are Japanese Xtians. It's simply not as popular a belief system in Japan & conversion efforts were not as successful as in the west. There is a degree of casual, secular interest in Xtian aesthetics, traditions, and in Biblical stories among Japanese artists(including writers & philosophers), and plenty of people are familiar with basic biblical concepts, stories, and figures. & 2) What a completely WARPED perspective you have of Xtian work mentality. There's nothing holier to many many MANY denominations than working yourself into the ground. "Work is prayer" is a Xtian proverb, and it's not a healthy one in any way whatsoever. What a terrifying way to justify & GLORIFY suffering & overwork culture, in ANY populace. You should be ashamed of yourself for your selfish, self-serving proselytizing, but I know full well it's baked right into your warped worldview from the start.

​@st.michaelthearchangel7774 My understanding was the protestant work ethic actually made people work longer, harder, and without safety standards. Unions and Socialist uprisings and the govt/business fear of them led to concessions such as labour laws. Also read that Japanese were called lazy back before we had industrialized.

peak japanese logic

Lol big brain politeness logic

What about the female teachers?

@@EvilSapphireR Obviously they wear suits too. Everyone must wear suits, even babies and house cats must wear suits.

​@@EvilSapphireR they would have to wear shor skirts and sailor shirts (just kidding, idk. That goes for students actually)

Military has the right to control all access to service members healthcare in Canada, why should you be any different as a citizen?

@@Godvivec In the military you sign a contract that effectually makes you property of the armed forces. A civilian has not signed this contract. That is why they are different.

There's no lack of labor laws... Japanese law is quite clear on the illegality of unpaid overtime, and if the employee sued, they would win. But suing an employer is a huge undertaking, so a lot of people won't bother. Not all companies are like this, though!

@@undefinedusername Many countries have enlightened laws and unenlightened citizens. Usually the judges indulge the latter, in the direction of favouring elders and those in authority.

@@Godvivec Don't join the military then...

You dodged a bullet there, friend.

Cheer up and good luck.

Speechless

Is it really a law here? Wasn't that story just about how it's wrong to fire people for "working" too hard, so they had to cut the number of working days down to make them work efficiently?

Nope, you can get fired in norway for not doing your job and if you do not do your part at work in norway you will often have a hard time staying at that place for sure. But you have to get 1 warning from your boss and a chance to improve by law.

Bet they doesnt want to forgot those culture, just in case they'll be working on japanese company.

Write in black pen and scan and make copies they would not be able to tell it was printed.

Imagine your handwriting sucks so much that no one is hiring you😂

@@AmoebaInk Yes best to sign for bills. But a CV should be a fine laser printer and best print paper it would look like you write it.

​@@AmoebaInknot a copy but a print

I've applied for plenty of jobs, and only ever used printed out emailed resumes. When hiring people, I've never received a hand written resume either. But.... I did have to fill out bank loan applications by hand - and one of them required me to write a several page essay (in Japanese, of course) on why I wanted the loan. I guess it cuts down on applications where the applicant isn't interested.

I wonder why their birth rates are so low...

The anti-family stance sounds rather anti-happiness.

Sheesh, the only reason i could propably get by in Japan, at least for a short period of time, is that im mentally very resistant and just don't care. I guess teaching bad english is a way of ensuring that people don't flee abroad

elon musk moment

And they wonder why they have a shrinking population

Okay, TBH I'd be flattered if anyone did that (though it comes off like an excuse to go drinking).

Nós brasileiros temos muito uma visão errada lá de fora. A gente sempre acha que em outros países tudo é sempre melhor. Mas não é bem assim

​@sea-pin Depends on company and your years of working for it. By law, the minimum is 5 days, but there are general holidays like Golden Week (6 days in May), New Year (7 days 12/31 - 01/06), so vacation wise it is not so bad. In my company, the minimum is 10 days of annual leave, but I have 17 days because I have worked for it for 11 years.

​@@sea-pinwe get 4 weeks where i work in the uk with an option to buy a further 4 week. Paid sick leave etc

@@sea-pin most of the world has 4 weeks anual paid leave, on top of national holydays. Central and western Europe have it best, with almost 20 extra leaves.

Wth are you doing in Japan dude come bacc to the Mother land 😆

@iytdominotik cuz life is like a comedy show sometimes 🤣

Japan has a lot of stories to tell 😅

That's not the good thing you think it is 😭

@@FunkyBukkyo can't argue with that 😶

He is telling the truth of reality but the way he talks is like a comedian

Hell im 5 min late every day i am sure as hell not getting to work early to prepare for work... preparing for work is also part of the job so im doing it in work time not in my time. (I do stay stay on 5 min at the end.)

That s one of the coolest tho

Pretty sure the discouraging outside work socialization stems from employers being afraid of unions or that their employees will start talking about how fucked work is when the boss isn't around, and thus realize they're not the only one who thinks it's fucked.

Forbidding any socializing outside of work at all isn't that good either. It prevents the management from seeing their underlings as people. It just makes it easier for the company to force the management to not empathize with the worker's condition.

It depends on the work. I am an engineer and I can be 2-3 hours late and nobody cares if there are no meetings or something. I also can start working earlier to leave the work earlier if I need to. All we care about is how to finish the work on time and how not to interrupt other people work.

I never ever comment or like comments, but if I could, I would like this comment ten trillion times

Gaijin will never work for a truly Japanese company. It's always western focused branches of a company.

Yeah but gaijin dont get promotions or are taken into account seriously for anything unless it's a progressive techno company. And even then, they will give every opportunity to the japanese employees first. Even if you've been living there for decades they will always think "he doesn't understand tradition, he's not Japanese".

@@LeonardoTheMomo Yeah, he doesn't plan to be there long term, and it's a US finance/tech company anyway.

​@@laptopstudy3279There are Japanese people in charge of Management in all the companies all over the world?

​@@laptopstudy3279 Oh, Now I got it. That's definitely true. Especially for a certain type of Indian people called Malyali's who are absolute bastards because they only hire other Malyalis. The problem with that is there are malyalis in every country in the world working in various companies. If you are a professional and have ethics you will hire people who are best fit for the job not someone whos only skill is that he talks your language. 😒 I absolute hate people like them.

THIS! Japan is having major issues with businesses dying, the economy shrinking, and people procreating less, so the only answer they have to anything seems to be MORE HOURS at work. Funny enough, countries like the US, Canada, and UK that have more common sense working hours are still innovating while Japan has completely stagnated. Japan however beats all of the west in terms of depression and suicide rates though... It's almost like burning people out and making them depressed leads to less creativity... who woulda thought?!?!

@@MrShitthead my Japanese boss made a design group in the U.K. to invent and produce new products. He then made them work Japanese hours, treated them as Japanese, berated them, humiliated them, had them doing other departments jobs, like sales, and production engineering, and wondered why they didn’t produce new products! I was head of that department, and I once asked what he wanted us to concentrate on? Everything! He said. The company closed eventually, he retired back to Japan, and I set up a design consultancy with another engineer, and was in business successfully for 15 years until I retired at 60.

@@akula9713 was gonna say it sounds like you should have just sued the pants off of them, but I guess Amicus/Unite must have still been in their infancy. hope you're enjoying your retirement boss!

@@akula9713 That sounds absolutely brutal. Also, gotta love the “Everything is a top priority” type bosses… they’re never smart or effective delegators. Sounds like you made a really great career comeback though!

Hahaha funny

What do you do?

I can understand liking Japanese culture and wanting to visit there, but working there sounds like Hell on earth and I bet those obsessive weebs would change their mind abount moving there upon reading into Japan work culture.

>Implying there is a new generation big enough to change the status quo

​@@AMabud-lv7hyright? Japan's new generation doesn't even want kids anymore and I fully understand. Lol

@@juanekorb A good reason to change the rules.

It sounds like workers are discouraged from having a life outside of work. It's a sadness machine.

That’s the most normal rule here :(

That happens in USA also, but Japan is on another level.

I recommend looking up the "Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead" anime episode 1. Specifically, the opening 10 min work scene clips which can be found on youtube. (Anime just came out) you will see the work life of Japan in full force, I'm not even sure if it is exaggerated.

​@@I..cast..fireball In the USA too but if someone says they're like family at their company, because you have to be a lifer, I immediately think they should've been born in Japan lol

Is this just in offices or other jobs too? There are jobs where you can't really prepare your day ahead 1h before like in customer service (on the phone) or hair dressers

was a salaryman at office

My company uses fax! It’s an ABSURD!!!

Soooo... does he get to take off his suit-coat or not??!! As the boss, he can, but as the worker, he can't! This is a most confounding dilemma.

1-So YOU'RE the one who stained them! 2-Whoever found it browned it! 1-You'd like me to be you, wouldn't me? But it's too late! You snooze, you lose 2-You sleeped, you get weeped! 1-You nappa, you get slappa! 2-You slumber a cucumber! 1-You catch up on some zeds, you get outta my heads! 2-You slumber...HammmmBURGER I don't wanna talk about nothin else! 1-Listen. This psyche is not big enough for 2 metaphysical seekers. 2-You couldn't "seek" your way out of a cardboard bag! 1-Yeah, I know! 'Cause it would be an egg! 2-Ooh! (This guy might be better than me!) 1-You're right, I AM better than me! 2-Look buddy, know when you're defeated! Accept your defecation! 1-No thanks. I'm full, because I eat pussies like you for breakfast! 2-Look at you! You look so superficial, you probably judge things by their physical appearance! 1-Oh yeah? You're mom's so shallow, she probably thinks this quip is about her! 2-You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is about as sharp as a soup spoon! 1-Hey, say what you want about me...but lay off the soup. 2-If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? 1-'Cause I'm already married...to justice! 2-Yeah, only a blind girl would marry you! 1-I know everything you're gonna- 2-Say! And I know everything you're gonna- 1-Don't. 2-Oh yeah? Well, when God was passing out insight, you thought He said that when God was passing out holy prophets, you thought he said oily faucets, 'cause your soul has diarrhea of the mouth...faucet. 1-Are you so dumb, you even answer rhetorical questions? 2-I don't know. Do you? 1-We can do this all day.

​@@draco6349Fair question 😂😂

​@@draco6349Paradox 😂

​​@@draco6349e stays all day taking it off, screaming at himself for doing that, putting it on again and reapeating

Holy shit, that's terrible.

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

Why?

​​@@kcmadmax3562ecause many companies want you working 24/7 with shitty pay and no life. And that's not only in Japan. Never let any job place treat you like garbage.

@StarryKitsuKat What a world we live in right ? Thanks for the advice

Eh... they grow up expecting that, in the culture. Sure its hard. But their jobs are expected to pay for their bills. Which isnt true of any lax regular job in the West....

@@zephyrr108 in the US* not the west, europeans get the best of both worlds

​@@GodplayGamerZululunless you're not European.

@@GodplayGamerZulul True that, never seen better working conditions than in Germany tbh. Even minijobs let you have a free health and social security. Taking day offs and sick days is a nonproblem. You even get paid to study and getting work experience at the same time. The only problems are the bureaucratic tsunami that you get hit with and high taxes.

@@weeberius832 the cost of living is extremely high in Western Europe too and doesn't keep up with the wages to taxation system, they are suffering like the rest of us in the West, only advantage is they get health care covered unlike America and they have better public transportation

For shure he has a fun house to come back to...

A почему ушел оттуда, если не секрет?

@@ayoromanchik да не мой профиль был. Я хотел в сети, а там стандартная техподдержка - windows, эникейская позиция, ходить бухгалтерам принтеры с 1с настраивать.

I doubt it, but the protest method they have is simply not to give more meat to that meat grinder, by preventing the birth of the new generation of slaves

not only japan, its like most asian country, thats why we still have respect and responsibility even after we didnt live at the same house again, but yeah japan took it to another level, lol

Depends, how's China when it comes to violent repression?

True! Some of their work culture is so out of date and needs to be gone. It's not even a positive culture that's worth keeping so I hope the future Japanese generations can change that.

japan actin like they are innovative but they are being held by old rules a lot of time. u can just check their gaming studios. they know how to make good games, but dont know how to make complete games. when was the alst time they made good game with multiplayer elements, open world and good social system? like the king's avatar animation on 9 anime

Same here. The best alternatives would be to get a job in the Japanese embassy at your home country, an international company in Japan that has a certain degree of Western labor policies or you live in Japan and work from home for a company/freelancing.

Which parts of Japanese culture do you love? The strict social hierarchies and rules governing social etiquette? The strict adhesion to conformity? The indirect communication and EXTRA need to read between the lines?

@@GMMesmerize I love all of them tbh

@@huniverso you legit even love all the stuff I listed in my previous comment?

@@GMMesmerize Anime, manga, sushi, robots, vending machines, J-Pop, the ladies.

Always remember one thing: Ethanol catches on fire instantly. Do what you must with that knowledge.

Is using worst for everything a meme now? I see it everywhere and find it hard to believe so many people don't know the difference between worse and worst. Your/you're I kind of get. Then and than too. But worst? Nah... It must be a meme. And I'm 30 now so I'm officially getting old >.

@@PineappleDealer37 🤣🤣🤣

​@@DiaborMagics no I think it's the same confusion on their part too. Which truly makes it worse (pun intended). People just read books less I guess.

@@MollyHJohns Probably. If all they read is social media posts with wacky grammar that's certainly a valid explanation. There's also always the argument that English isn't their first language I guess, but the same is true for myself.

Some of these sound Japan specific. Most notably the drinking rule. A lot of them don't drive and just use public transport, so DUI isn't an issue to them.

each is a pretty general issue but all of this in a bundle is spesifically japan stuff and you'll probably have to deal with three or more as you work lol

I worked there for 2 years and as beautiful as Japan is I rather live in my own country (Philippines) because of the work culture. Working at 8:30 am then taking hours of overtime almost everyday (going home at around 10pm) and being asked to go to work on Saturdays (and even Sundays on rare occasion) isn't for me.

change will remain extremely slow until all the old fucks die

⁠​⁠@@bilogskii2216the only reason I'd live there by choice is if I don't need to work/have enough financial freedom to enjoy Japan's better side (and have a good friend/family to accompany me). Definitely don't have the money or job for that though so I'm chilling in Australia looking for a good job that doesn't work me to death 😂

Lol fuck going to work 1 hr before. I would if you paid me .. but then work eould just start then anyway. If i get to my work early i wait till close to 9am. Doesn't matter it if it takes time to get ready for work, that should come out of the companies time not mine.

@@iCore7Gaming you wouldnt get any job in japan with that attitude!

they need 3 more nukes

if you have a really cool boss he makes you call him sensei

⁠@@notoriousbig3kthat’s just incredibly insensitive my guy

My safeway boss tried doing the same to me when I got tendonitis from pushing heavy carts too much. Which they made me do and say I shouldn't do less. She said "I don't believe you, and you shouldn't have tendonitis already, cause it'sonly been 2 months." "I know cause I have tendonitis." Ma'am I wasn't aware you were a doctor as well.🙄

@@surreallane9730 Yeah, it's always super gross when bosses give unsolicited, unqualified medical opinions that betray a clear conflict of interest. Sorry you had to deal with that. I feel like if it's Safeway you could potentially lodge a complaint, tho. One thing I prefer about NA companies is they tend to be more aware/afraid of liability. In Japan, rocking the boat just gets you ostracized by your peers in my experience lol.

"Why are we not having fun? I specifically requested it!"

At least those were only once a month or so (at least for me in the Air Force). And sometimes they were fun. Working with a federal civilian employee who makes more mistakes than not and retains their job regardless... yeah, relatable.

The mandatory parties will continue until morale imprpves

Truth. The not being able to fire someone if they suck and literally don't their job, incompetent, etc don't get fired. Some people even when you put in great effort to teach/train then they still suck. I think unfortunately some people are just a lost cause

At least the majority fun is during work hours, with few exceptions and they come with advance warning.

i think it's also so they can see the handwriting of the applicant. if they are a neat, perfectionist person or a hurried person, etc. you can see people's personality from handwriting

There's a photo on your resume?! In the US, that is not how we do things because it encourages discrimination related to race and sex. Also, I would say that it is really asking for creepy male/female bosses to hire people based on sexual attractiveness.

@@JohnSmith-td7hd indeed, I am aware about those rules in the US, as the discrimination topic is very sensitive. It does not work that way in Japan (and neither in Europe actually). In Europe, there is no pressure to put or not put your photo on a resume. I am myself CEO of a company, and maybe 2 third of the resume I receive are with photos. Ona side note, in the specific case of France (my country), they did a test few years back: recruitement with anonymized resume (so obviously no photo) and none anonyzed resume. The aim was to highlight potential discrimination towards minorities. They results shown the other way around: recruiters were actually more encline to recruit minorities based on the name. Minorities had more difficulties to get recruited through anonymized resume.

​@felix-xd4mx Nah, that's year 1200 technique. Plenty of people have pretty handwriting, as good as those printed in front of a gift card, and the only difference between their room and a dumpster is the smell.

I mean lifelong employment has some down sides

as a teetotal introvert that also to me sounds like hell. I would not last a week in a Japanese company. Not that i would want to the work life balance sounds awful. If the boss wants me to work passed home time then the boss is going to have to pay extra.

and the japanese are usually introverted too, it must be masochism

It's bad introvert or not. I don't think i ever wanted to go have a drink with a co-worker. 😖😖

​@@BritonADthats just being asocial and a cunt and not being an introvert. As with everything in live and not knowing exactly the other 8 billion people on this Planet your just saying "no" without knowing them or anything. To see your coworkers as people atleast is just common curtesy

@@BritonAD Depends on the coworkers, also is the boss buying drinks?

it is insane how different cultures are. How did you react after the boss told you that he is offended?

@@DrAcula-gi7sq Culture and just being extremely stupid is a fine line it seems.

Wow other cultures suck!

What's interesting to me is how you can't fire someone for not being able to do their job and only if major issues arise. What's considered a major issue? Not bowing enough? Not going to drinking parties? Not presenting to work an hour before your start time? Because you'd think "not being able to do the job you're hired for" ought to be considered a major issue, and it's a wonder that they place emphasis on all these other things or that people actually prioritize doing them so much if it's really that hard to fire someone.

It almost seems like formalities are deemed more important than function. (european, used to work in an office).

Thinking about vacation? How disrespectful! Who do you think you are?

In Hungary people who don't take their vacation days are seen as the weird ones and the boss or HR will start getting on your nerves to take some time off when you didn't take any for a while. True it might also be a side effect that it is government mandated that people must take all their vacation days they receive each year, so no one wants too much staff sitting on their holidays until winter arrives and suddenly all those people have to take 2 or 3 weeks off and everyone needs to juggle all the days in a way that the normal work efficiency of the company doesn't suffer. Nagging everyone to take some time off in spring and summer is easier.

I Interviewed with a local subsidiary of a German company in Japan… and they proudly exclaimed they were a relaxed company and it would be totally okay to take off 5 days at once around Christmas… the brightness of that shining red flag nearly blinded me.

Unlimited PTO = 0 PTO.

My experience is from Korean side. Usually the boss is the boss because he's older, a workaholic, stays the longest(by asian standards), biggest ass kisser, and attends all those work events. This doesn't leave alot of time for a social life so his work team is his social life. Plus unlike real friends similar age, your employees under you have to worship you, laugh at your jokes, and generally put up with your bad behavior: basically they're your lackeys. So it's easier than real friends There are some major downsides too if you're interested.

Okay, so what's in it for the government? What do they earn from the extended holiday?

@@VideoGameStarChannelSupreme note having declining population ?

@@s-x5373 So, speculatively, to possibly keep their population numbers high before work kills everyone so that when a war comes they have enough people to send to the war and still have enough to replenish the population?

Also, Japan has artificial holidays (1 day off called "day of tree", "day of mountain", random stuff like that) every month to try to make people take a break.

Then you have foreign workforce to do the Japanese way! Double standards or lack of unionization of those workers.

Personal rat is actually unintentionally funny word 😂

yeah, i am a foregin worker in germany I must say germany is the oposite extreme of the balance... the excess protection laws make working really boring, but yeah its really good sometimes too.

lol @ "Wall Markt", it's Walmart ...

@@HansHackfress lol@smart ass!

Ah, the classic not knowing if Alex is short for Alexander, is just Alex, or even Alejandro.

@@zeusalternative1270 Actually, it's Alexey.

Maybe his name is actually Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no Surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no Burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no Shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopii-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no TAKAsuke and that's why his nickname is TAKA.

@@zeusalternative1270 Just call them Sasha.

Takanobu? A year and didn't know, an effort worthy

schools always have more rules

I don't remember that, 8 years ago. Very informal interaction between English-speaking teachers and students. Maybe the rules are more strict when the school is owned by an rich Khmer rather than an expat.

Your story is about as shady as hunter Biden. What years were you teaching and were you volunteering?

​@@userinterface7045you are weird bro I see nothing suspicious about him

@@userinterface7045 nothing weird here there is no need to be so skeptic, skepcism is better saved for things that sway your opinions, not random annecdotes that don't affect you.

Like bloomers or school swimsuits? I think it would. ^^

I think he means haori and hakama. Would definitely be cooler as they were made for the heat.

​​@@TheSylfaeinWhy did you think of that when they said traditional Japanese clothing??

@@thefallencore3 Everyone else would think of Kimono, Yukata or Hakama. But only a true connaisseur would have Mizugi in mind. 😜

@@DanielJoyce Full Samurai armour or nothing.

I think what you want is to go live in a mountainous part of Japan and live off grid with simplicity haha

Wish I could afford to travel there lol

Weeb

Try reading about what Japan was like during the war. They were notoriously more cruel than the Nazis toward their prisoners of war, and well ... read about the Nanjing massacre... All at the hands of these polite, refined people

yea it only dawned on me recently at all my final fantasy games i cherish were likely created by overworked, stressed out Japanese citizens trying to make their deadlines. i would much more like it if i played games made by well balanced employees

Visiting Japan looks like quite a nice time (if you dont mind fumbling around in Japanese), but living there sounds like a nightmare

This sounds like such messed up way of working. Bunch of pathetic losers who think work culture is an important thing in a persons life.

Honestly living in japan sounds like hell unless you're born in a rich family or something

@@geovaniraffaelli4508 yea I wanted to move there and then I learned about the bs that goes down over there and how much of the society is based on superiority complexes and a lack of empathy

It sounds like it's better this generation than it's ever been... which is really really sad and a low bar.

@@brandoncole5533 every culture has its pros and cons. With Japan's refreshing advancement in infrastructure and technology, you will also meet the bad side of these traits. 'Superficial' can be accurate. Being superficial will lead someone to a superiority complex (Status, reputation, skills, talents, looks ) and exhibit a lack of empathy (only care about oneself)

Except if everyone quits their jobs to be content creators, the systems will never change.

I think being "disrespectful" is a major reason for firing you in Japan 😂

read This World is Worth Fighting For

How dare you trying to tell what japanese peopl need to do! YOU'RE DISRESPECTFUL! But seriously, yeah they realy need to chill out since it has been proven that their work ethic isn't more efficient. Sadly they realy see it as insulting if you give your outside view of their work ethics since "you're not japanese so you shouldn't voice your opinion on it" ,even if you dance around it and try to voice it in the most respectful way possible. Japanese people are very nice in person, but oh boy when they go online..........

I’m pretty sure that IS what the majority of them want to do, but the huge problem is.. their society will literally treat them as an outcast if they do that. (I’m exaggerating it a little, but still u get the idea.)

@@nileredsexperiment834It's because of conformity being extremely normal in Japan, is that right?

Not to mention, the "justice" system in Japan, if you are accused of breaking the law in Japan as a foreigner you are pretty much fucked.

That's actually what happened to a co-worker of mine at an engineering firm; they moved him from an engineering job at a desk to an assembly line worker

My first thought was that this reminds me of how someone described the soviet union: "good place to grow up, terrible place to live as an adult", but then I remembered how vicious schooling can be in east asia... But I don't think you'd be argumentative if you grew up in all that, at least not for sure. That kind of life style is a "you don't know how bad you feel", uncomfortably numb kind of thing for a lot of people.

Tbf this is "japanese companies" in Japan. These are also held against foreign workers a lot less. But also depending on your foreign ethnicity, you might hit a ceiling in the company

Other countries are approaching that threshold. When people have to work more and more hours to make ends meet, and when both men and women have to work like this, it's no surprise no one wants to have kids. Capitalism in action, everyone. Exciting times!

​@@NinthSettleryou as an american (if you are) actually work more than japanese. You also commit suicide more than them as well. This is not even counting the hours of illegal workers. if you do that then america's work per capita would start to look more like a third world country's work hours.

It's not mandatory to drink on those parties tho, right?

​@@NinthSettler funnily enough one of the consequences of letting women work. The salary is halved because now you have double the workers, so instead of one person having to work his ass to maintain a family, now you can't do that because salary is too low, you need both parents doing it.

​​​@@ghjklkop7868i suppose it would be no problem for your boss to fire you if you dont (even tho i think you're right), making it "mandatory", and considering the work culture of there, i assume bosses and employers are not held accountable for any wrongdoings. I bet its worse in china Considering the video mentions you cant fire employees unless its a major issue, they could simply say you have 0 synergy in the work team. If everyone sees it at etiquette they wont have a problem.

If it were a small company, and the boss was a dork, it'd kinda be cute... but the fact that it's a massive company that pays minimum wage...

​@@ninjaydesthe cult of lower prices?

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