The weird fact about Japanese company

There are many things that differentiate Japanese company from the regular company around the world. Mostly, factors will be about working culture and manner that Japanese people hold on to it firmly.

The list I am about to indicate down here will be scooping down to just what I personally observed through couple companies I have been to. They are NOT fixed to every companies. Please consider this fact while reading and I do hope you enjoy!

Here they are 

1.    THEY ARE QUIET ….

(ア)  YES THEY ARE… ok that was a lot of caps, working culture here basically telling you that you are NOT suppose to talk while working. People will automatically think that you are slacking off. Other than talking about work, the working environment here is like a dying forest where everyone is just focusing on either their own computer or work in front of them. No talking about personal life or, How are you – type of questions.

2.    Who is that guy? Uh, I don’t know too.

(ア)  Here is what literally happen, the departments are separated far apart that no one knows who that person is. It is hard to recognize everyone. Especially for foreigner like us, remembering names is like damn difficult.

3.    Eating

(ア)  Hey! It is very hard to find cafeteria here in working place, esp office, in Japan. I do believe that not only this but many other companies as well, do not have its own cafeteria, why? The rent of the office is already sky high. Many companies can barely effort the rent of its own office, esp bigger company, not to the Large size companies, but Mid-small type companies. You either bring food from your house aka. Bento 弁当 to your work place or just go out and eat at places around your company. There is no general cafeteria in your office either. Eating in the office is totally ok (well in the good manner that is… not like you are going to bring Durian and eat them in the office. Respecting others are considering important as well.)

4.    Dazed out

(ア)  You always see 先輩 (higher rank co-worker) works so hard till very late at night and still coming to work every day regularly despite that busyness. People sometimes just dazed out during work or just like fall half sleep on the table. We understand it.

5.    Drinking

(ア)  Drinking after work with your friend or higher rank people is absolutely normal here. No drinking in between work though!

6.    Female workers

(ア)  What kind of sad there in Japan which still remains until now is gender discrimination. Female workers here mostly have to do serving and cleaning more than male even though they have almost the same amount of work. There are specific role here that female workers have to follow… I think this is differ between companies.

That is all for now… reminding yourself while reading this that this is just pure observation. Different companies have different ways of treating their employees. This does not mean that Japanese companies are bad. They are awesome. I love it as that they are one of the most stressful working environment. I do think that it is true. Amount of pressure here is just too damn great

Cheer!