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Dentsu is exhibit A for what's wrong with the Japanese work environment. This isn't the first time they've been responsible for an employee's suicide through ov
by mikesickler 10y ago
Dentsu is exhibit A for what's wrong with the Japanese work environment. This isn't the first time they've been responsible for an employee's suicide through overwork. This young woman's tweets before her death are pretty revealing. References to her male superior telling her that she can't hack it because she's a woman, the toxic seniority system where you can't question those above you, 20+ hour days. Just awful.
- Asooka 10y agoHow long until people just start passively disobeying? I mean, if the choice is death by overwork or loss of career (maybe ending in death due to homelessness)...
- labster 10y agoIt's already happening. There's a large population of NEETs who have withdrawn from the work force.
- h1d 10y agoDoubt they withdrew after having undesired working conditions. Many just do not actively seek jobs.
- labster 10y agoThere are lots of reasons people choose not to seek jobs. A person can just look at their parents, decide they don't have the fortitude or attitude to integrate into the sarariman lifestyle, and rationally opt out. PROTIP: one can look for remote programming work in the U.S. or Europe, earn a decent living, and still engage in a NEET lifestyle. I have a steady diet of HN, anime, Perl, and reclusiveness and it works great for me.
- iopq 10y agoI drive Uber because I don't want to work 40 hour weeks.
- solidsnack9000 10y ago"A NEET or neet is a young person who is 'Not in Education, Employment, or Training'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET