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minus-squaremechoman444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoAs an American (or at least a non Japanese native) if my boss came up to me yelling and swearing in my face I would punch him out cold. Actually if more Japanese did this I think things would improve at the office.
minus-squareSolidShake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoSo you’d want to go to jail for a few months (several weeks at least) over someone yelling at you? Shit I hope you don’t get married or have a girlfriend or kids.
minus-squareEchofox@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoJapanese are very against violence, and incidentally it’s the safest first world country. And the work culture has been improving in the last decade or so - though not nearly fast enough.
minus-squarepeaceful_world_view@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoNo you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
minus-squaremaplebar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoJokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
minus-squarecapybara@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoPunching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoEasy, just make it legal. Problem solved.
minus-squarexor@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoyeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management…. yeah, it’s a good solution
minus-squarelocalhost443@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAmerican culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile
As an American (or at least a non Japanese native) if my boss came up to me yelling and swearing in my face I would punch him out cold.
Actually if more Japanese did this I think things would improve at the office.
So you’d want to go to jail for a few months (several weeks at least) over someone yelling at you?
Shit I hope you don’t get married or have a girlfriend or kids.
Japanese are very against violence, and incidentally it’s the safest first world country. And the work culture has been improving in the last decade or so - though not nearly fast enough.
No you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
Jokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
Punching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle.
Easy, just make it legal.
Problem solved.
yeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management….
yeah, it’s a good solution
American culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile