The Japanese attach great importance to punctuality. They are only allowed to arrive early and not late, and no excuses are allowed. Being late is causing trouble, and the schedule is arranged in minutes. Not only for public meetings, but also for private meetings with friends, it is basic to arrive five minutes and ten minutes early. Taking Tokyo as an example, office workers often live in suburban areas such as Saitama and Kanagawa, and their daily commute often takes dozens of minutes. Women have to get up early to put on makeup, and they don’t have the right to stay in bed even if there’s a cold snap.
2. A strong body that cannot take leave
It is well known that Japan does not have typhoon leave. Even if it snows, you have to go to work and go to school as usual. Although there are many paid vacations, very few Japanese people can take them all, and they do not like to take leave even if they have a cold or fever. , because "if you can't get things done, it will cause trouble to other colleagues." Even the cold medicines on the market claim to be able to quickly suppress symptoms in a short period of time. They really don't even have the right to get sick.
3. Send a letter to report everything to your supervisor for your patience.
Japanese traditional workplaces attach great importance to ethics. The most representative one is "reporting, contacting, and negotiating" (ほうれんそう, an abbreviation for reporting, liaison, and consultation, homophonic with the Japanese "spinach") management, one From planning to completion, countless letters must go back and forth. The reason is nothing more than "notifying the boss." Not only do the grassroots find it difficult to do things, but supervisors are also inundated with endless letters and messages every day.
4. A good liver that won’t get drunk after a thousand cups
The Japanese workplace attaches great importance to coordination. Not only should we cooperate seamlessly during working hours, we also often hold dinner parties after get off work to connect with colleagues. There will be 2 or 3 times a month. If you need to socialize for your responsibilities For business positions, there are more dinner parties to attend.
Japanese dinner parties are indispensable with wine. I prefer beer, soju, whiskey, and red wine. I drink them in turns. If one table is not enough, I have to go to two or three meetings. I drink endlessly after several times. It is not a big deal if I can't catch the last train. I have to go to work with a hangover the next day. My head is big, so supermarket pharmacies near downtown areas will always have sections for hangover solutions and liver-protecting medicines. In the morning, you can often see office workers toasting their livers at the door.
5. A Japanese passport that breaks through the ceiling glass
Without Japanese nationality, it may be difficult to get ahead in the Japanese workplace. Japan has promoted "de-Japanese corporatization" in recent years. According to a 2014 survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, more than 52% of companies are willing to employ foreign talents, but the industry is still limited to the information industry, transportation industry, or "there is a need for international layout" Service industries such as retail, catering, and travel and accommodation that "serve the needs of foreigners" may not meet the ideals of foreign job seekers.
If you want to work in Japan, you must have good Japanese skills. However, as the trend of tourism in China subsides, Chinese skills are no longer absolutely popular, and English skills are in higher demand. Furthermore, there is still an invisible glass ceiling within the organization. Statistics from Toyo Keizai Online on 1,117 companies in February 2012 showed that only about 10% of Japanese companies are willing to let foreign members hold management positions. Even foreign-funded companies like IBM in Japan The proportion of foreign managers in large companies is only 0.9%, let alone ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises with less than 300 members.
For women working in Japan, the glass ceiling is not limited to foreign nationalities. Even at Shiseido, which focuses on the female market, the ratio of female managers is less than 30%. Serious gender discrimination still exists in the Japanese workplace to this day. Female employees with good academic qualifications are also asked to do chores such as making tea and photocopying. After marriage, they are often forced to join a family, and it is difficult to get promoted if they stay in the company. It is difficult for women to get promoted in the Japanese workplace. Even if they have good academic qualifications, they will be assigned photocopying and other chores.
6. A super thick wallet that pays annuity and rent for socializing every day
Although the average income in Japan is three times that of the country, it has to pay a lot of taxes, annuity insurance and other expenses are also high. You can avoid some of this by working on holiday, if you get a work visa , the longer you stay, the more you have to pay taxes. Furthermore, although many companies provide accommodation allowances, transportation allowances or dormitories, if you encounter a company with less good benefits, the rent of tens of thousands of yen will be a big burden.
As mentioned above, Japanese office workers often have to go to many drinking parties and meals, and their supervisors cannot pay for every occasion. At most, they have to pay some extra subsidies, and everyone still has to pay for the rest of the accounts out of their own pockets. Each one’s meaning)”. The amount of food you eat is limited, but you can drink wine again and again, and the amount of alcohol is relatively reflected in the checkout amount. According to a survey last year by Japan's Shinsei Bank on 2,300 office workers aged 20 to 50, they drank an average of 2.4 times a month, and each meal It would cost 4,954 yen. My wallet is not thick enough, and it is really difficult to maintain enough disposable amount every month. A simple and rough calculation shows that 100,000 yen can be consumed every year, which is equivalent to a disguised "personal tax".
Japanese OLs are even harder. Their salary is already lower than that of men, and they have to maintain a perfect image at all times. Women under the age of 34 spend an average of 72,919 yen a year on clothing, which is 30,000 yen more than men of the same age. They also spend on cosmetics. The annual salary is 70,227 yen. Coupled with the high hairdressing expenses, the amount of money at one's disposal is even more miserable.
7. Anti-blue light eyesight for reading all the time
Japanese workplaces attach great importance to on-the-job training, and office workers have also developed tireless reading habits. There is great peer pressure. They must always improve themselves and keep abreast of political and economic trends to avoid being unable to keep up with workplace topics. . Just by looking at how many books on business management and self-growth fill the shelves in Japanese bookstores, you can get a glimpse of its market size.
Although Japanese print media has also declined, the newspaper subscription rate and e-book ownership rate are still high. According to a 2015 survey by the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, single Japanese spend an average of 21,179 yen on newspapers every year. Another report, according to インStatistics from the プレス淏合 Research Institute show that the Japanese e-book market in 2014 reached 141.1 billion yen (including e-magazines). Japanese people still read for a long time, but the media has changed from paper to tablets and mobile phones. It has lost weight and added blue light, which improves eyesight. More tested.
8. Even if you are willing to be the second best, you still need to be able to flatter others.
The Chinese hate supervisors who make trouble and think they are just sitting on their salary. Of course, the Japanese also have the same generational conflict. However, there are many unspoken rules in the workplace, and ordinary employees face dinosaurs. Most supervisors dare not express their anger and dare not speak out, so they can only let laymen lead experts. Although most IT start-ups advocate organizational transparency, traditional trading companies still adhere to a strict and rigid upper-lower class system. If you offend your supervisor, you will be in trouble for your birth.
The Japanese word for flattering is called "Grobbing Sesame (ゴマすり)", because the gesture of clasping your palms together and rubbing them while looking at your face is like the way ancient people grind sesame seeds with their hands. For most Japanese office workers, reading the air properly is not enough. Grinding the sesame seeds well is the key to smooth life. Giving up glory to supervisors and leaving promotion to yourself may seem like a matter of course to some people, but it may be difficult for most Chinese to adapt to this workplace culture.
The culture of flattery in the Japanese workplace has been deeply rooted for a long time. In the Showa era, there was a movie "The Most Flattery Man in Japan"
9. Everything is coordinated like everyone else
Although Japanese people are solitary in private, they have a strong sense of community in public. When hiring people, you must choose those with high "coordination". What is coordination? He just knows how to watch the scene and look at the eyes, and actively participates in group affairs but never tries to stand out and is not different from everyone else. So when you go to a Japanese station during commuting time in winter, you will see a monochromatic sea of gray and black coats. Everyone wears achromatic colors, and even the hair is rarely dyed, let alone piercings and tattoos.
How much do Japanese people value coordination? Just go sing karaoke with them. When Chinese people ask for songs, one person can order a whole row, but Japanese people take turns to order songs one by one and take turns to sing on the stage. When others are singing, they cannot slide their mobile phones to empty the air. They have to get a tambourine to help beat the time. Otherwise, they have to Shake your head to the rhythm and pretend to be intoxicated.
Even if you go drinking after get off work, you still can't be yourself. On the surface, the Happy Wine Club can be "rude" and temporarily put aside class relations, but those who should pour the wine still have to pour the wine (and usually Female club members are responsible for pouring wine (unless there are no women present, the junior male club member will be responsible). Those who should listen to the complaints still have to listen to the complaints, and those who should make the beats still have to make the beats, and no one will really look at them. No matter how big or small, after all, no one knows whether the supervisor is really drunk or fake, and it will not be fun to hold grudges and settle scores in the future.
10. In order to maintain the optimistic view that full-time employees can be dispatched until death
In the lost years after the collapse of the bubble economy, Japanese companies have abolished the lifetime employment system. Japanese trading companies are no longer a golden job that can be held for a lifetime, and dispatch contracts The contract employment system has become a panacea for employers to reduce labor costs. According to a 2012 survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of companies employing dispatched employees can reach up to 26.9%. The industry categories include information industry, finance and insurance industry, real estate industry, manufacturing industry, and retail industry. Mainly, and the larger the company, the more likely it is to use it.
It is difficult for Japanese people to find jobs, not to mention the foreigners who come to grab jobs. Most people give in and find a dispatch job first, hoping to be promoted to a full member one day. However, the future of the dispatch system is difficult to guarantee. Although there are 13 % of companies have a system for promoting dispatched employees to full-time employees, but the actual promotion rate is only 1.7%. This is the average data from government statistics, not to mention the real situation behind the scenes. Another opinion survey on the distress of dispatched employees showed that the most common problems dispatched employees encounter in the workplace are "interpersonal relationships and bullying", with a proportion as high as 25.4%, followed by salary and business content.
11. Sacrificing personal time to be available at any call
Japanese office workers are generally overworked, and the average working hours remain high. The government’s goal is to reduce the proportion of workers who work more than 60 hours a week to less than 5% by 2020. However, it is still It is a pity that sometimes workers commit suicide because they cannot bear the oppression of long-term work. (However, committing suicide does not solve the problem.)
Although the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare estimates that the average annual working hours of Japanese people is 1,735 hours, they still have to be on call after get off work, and it is difficult to quantify various business contacts and entertainment. For many Japanese office workers, although they are entitled to compensatory time off and overtime pay for overtime work, most companies have a cap on overtime pay, but their quality of life is also consumed by business. They have no way to take vacations, and have money but no time to spend. It is simply useless. Blessings are received.
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