Reference News Network reported on February 25th that Japanese media said that employees of Japanese restaurants and convenience stores posted prank videos of using ingredients or cooking utensils on social networking sites, resulting in Japanese companies having to apologize one after another.
According to the Nihon Keizai website on February 20, the videos produced by migrant workers that were originally circulating among friends were striking outside and spread rapidly. Even though Japanese companies have taken the initiative to hold the parties involved accountable, some experts still said, "It is important to educate employees so that they can recognize the risks."
"Oh no, oh no, this will definitely be fired!" In the store of beef rice chain " Shiqijia ", videos of employees throwing ice and putting cooking utensils under their bodies spread on social networking sites in January this year.
, the holding company that operates Shiqijia, learned about the situation on January 28. It is reported that the company immediately fired the employees involved and announced an apology statement on its official website, saying: "(video) makes everyone feel extremely unhappy."
reported that the video originally used the "Stories" function on the photo sharing software "Instagram". The video will be automatically deleted after 24 hours and will be published to friends, but the video was forwarded to and tweeted by netizens and spread rapidly.
It is reported that in the face of the company's inquiries, the person involved said, "Because (video) will be deleted after 24 hours, I think it's okay."
"Bamiyan" employee lit cigarettes with the fire on the pot. (Social webpage screenshot)
In addition to the "Shiqijia" incident, the video released by employees of Bamiyan, a restaurant owned by a large catering chain company, held by Skylark, was also "popular" in February this year. In the video, the employee lights cigarettes with the flames on the pot. After the video was released, dissatisfied voices rushed to the company like "Is this video true?"
reported that the above cases have become a social problem in Japan since around 2013. Akiko Takahashi, a reporter who used to be a primary school teacher, said that the background of the above situation is that with the popularity of smartphones, young people have sent out overly spoof videos to play with each other in order to play among their friends.
Most of these videos were posted on Twitter in the past, but recently young people began to post on social platforms such as "Photo Wall". Takahashi said, "Because friends who watch videos have low network literacy, they think they are fun and forward them."
On the one hand, the response of enterprises is becoming severely punished. As employees of the "Tiang Sushi" at the slalom sushi restaurant put the fish thrown into the trash can back on the chopping board, the company is preparing to take legal measures against the two parties. The company issued a statement on its official website saying that it would "confront frequent misconduct."
