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Dude, you're seriously welcome to stop by sometime and eat with me. I'm sure we'd have a million ideas. Mail me sometime (jawaad.mahmood at!_? i do.t softbank

by jbm 17y ago

Dude, you're seriously welcome to stop by sometime and eat with me. I'm sure we'd have a million ideas. Mail me sometime (jawaad.mahmood at!_? i do.t softbank d.ot j.p) What gets to me is how there is absolutely no respect for younger workers; the idea is that they need to get calloused or be "hungry" before they have a shot. As if a clean-cut young man has never had a good idea in his life. As for engineers being underpaid; there was an article in Asahi about how engineers being paid 5 million yen in Japan go to Silicon Valley and make about 10 mil. It's nonsensical. (I'm not sure how up I am on the education system of Japan, but that probably belongs in another conversation)

patio11 17y ago
You Tokyo engineers and your insanely high wages! Five million yen ($55k), hah. In Nagoya, the Employer Who Must Not Be Named exercises essentially monopsony on engineering labor, and they pay roughly according to the traditional yardstick: 2.X million yen for 20-somethings, 3.X million yen for 30-somethings, etc.
- jbm 17y ago
  If you are in Nagoya, you have my sincere pity. I have a friend who went from Montreal to Nagoya with Ubisoft; he was telling me about the terrible conditions and the utter inability of companies to re-invest into the company itself. They wouldn't even pay for a proper screen; they were using CRTs or something like that. It's truly bullshit because you can take 100% of any money you spend on the company off your taxable income (as long as you have proper receipts). It makes no sense for a company NOT to upgrade its faculties in Japan.
  - patio11 17y ago
    Your friend may be finding a company- or industry-specific issue there. My company has occasional frugality attacks but Nagoya is cough no stranger to capital-intensive industry cough.
- gommm 17y ago
  Ha, A friend of mine who worked at Square soft was paid like this (his salary was his age multiplied by ten plus some bonuses and of course some extra money because he was married if I remember well). Since he was a foreigner and foreigners are supposed and allowed to be strange, he multiplied his salary by 2 by telling them that he would quit otherwise :-)

by jbm 17y ago

patio11 17y ago

You Tokyo engineers and your insanely high wages! Five million yen ($55k), hah. In Nagoya, the Employer Who Must Not Be Named exercises essentially monopsony on engineering labor, and they pay roughly according to the traditional yardstick: 2.X million yen for 20-somethings, 3.X million yen for 30-somethings, etc.

jbm 17y ago
If you are in Nagoya, you have my sincere pity. I have a friend who went from Montreal to Nagoya with Ubisoft; he was telling me about the terrible conditions and the utter inability of companies to re-invest into the company itself. They wouldn't even pay for a proper screen; they were using CRTs or something like that. It's truly bullshit because you can take 100% of any money you spend on the company off your taxable income (as long as you have proper receipts). It makes no sense for a company NOT to upgrade its faculties in Japan.
- patio11 17y ago
  Your friend may be finding a company- or industry-specific issue there. My company has occasional frugality attacks but Nagoya is cough no stranger to capital-intensive industry cough.
gommm 17y ago
Ha, A friend of mine who worked at Square soft was paid like this (his salary was his age multiplied by ten plus some bonuses and of course some extra money because he was married if I remember well). Since he was a foreigner and foreigners are supposed and allowed to be strange, he multiplied his salary by 2 by telling them that he would quit otherwise :-)