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And then they decided that was a little much.
(probably a better refutation)
It was impractical.
anyway a lot of people actually laughed at this translation, but when you really inspect it, there's an important cultural mistranslation. It's really more an equivalent of 'Please treat me well'.
The truth is, it's valid to say that Japanese is actually a rather polite culture, but it's also worth considering it's a culture from which massive amounts of violence have come as well. It highlights exceptionalism in it's modern incarnation, but that exceptionalism comes largely from a culture that doesn't tolerate failure.
There's a reason such a polite-seeming and considerate culture has such a high suicide rate.
Earlier I mentioned Window Seats.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with that expression.
Many Japanese firms don't really fire people.
Instead, if someone has failed them, they move their desks to the outskirts of the office, and basically pay them to look out the window.
It's the dirty side of the asset of 'getting out of the way'.
Day in, day out, no work is crossing your desk. You want to work, but all you've got is an empty desk. They don't trust you to work.
American culture might consider that to be a great job. Well paid to look out a window.
But to a culture that values exceptionalism, and performance, to be not given a chance is insulting.
on a fundamental level.
Sounds kinda cruel even to an American
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Tim just went live.
Shit man
Luke Rudkowski's live right now, too
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The reason the window seat thing might not seem cruel to a lot of americans
Things happening in Portland yet?
Just yelling and chanting
Could be, I suspect, because many americans are used to working their hardest and never getting recognized for it.
And therefore coming to Peter's conclusion in Office Space.
Why bother, if they're not gonna give a shit either way.
For no work with pay to sound like torture, has to come from *something.*
It pretty heavily stems from Samurai culture.
Also, that solution sounds kinda ideal to certain managers I've met.
Props to Tim for going to Portland
Reding the air is very important too
In america if you strongly disagree with an idea in a meeting you would say something
In japan even if an idea would lead the company to ruin people smile and agree with it
It's that very Samurai culture I mentioned before.
Samurai weren't Samurai without Lords.
To betray your Lord was death.
Do you think their heads pop off their pillows each morning thinking they gotta stick to the allegory. lol
"I am british. I must find someone walk in a perfect line next to."
"And take 60 seconds to fire a gun."
I mean c'mon.