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> The company explained that the employee had drinks after work and later fell asleep on the street, but when he woke up he realized that he had lost the bag co
by brentm 4y ago
> The company explained that the employee had drinks after work and later fell asleep on the street, but when he woke up he realized that he had lost the bag containing the USB.
I respect the honesty but wow, I can't believe any company would spell it out that literally.
- ugjka 4y agoIsn't that Japan?
- tux3 4y agoThey sound a lot more trustworthy to me for owning up to it and spelling it out literally. That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly. When a company does a standard "we take your privacy very seriously" non-response right after demonstrating that they do not, in fact, take it very seriously, it makes it sound like they're not willing to acknowledge the problem at all.
- xbar 4y agoAgreed. The transparency of the entire event, end to end, becomes a "ho hum, thanks for telling me, i guess" sort of story. Which is, I suppose, why it's on HN. I mean, "guy loses usb with data, finds usb with data" used to happen to me twice on Thursday back when usb was a thing. It was hardly front page news.
- Aeolun 4y ago> That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly. I think it’s more that 80% of all company employees can symphatize. The situation isn’t all that uncommon (falling asleep on the street and misplacing your stuff somewhere). The fact that this person had a USB stick with the data of ~450k people on was.
- samatman 4y agoGiven how Japanese work culture functions, this is not that different from an American company saying that an employee went to a company happy hour and lost the USB stick in the taxi on the way home. Staggering to a bench and sleeping it off is just, normal. No one is going to pick your pocket, so why not?
- 0des 4y ago> No one is going to pick your pocket I can't fathom this. I cannot imagine a world in which passed out drunk guy doesn't get audited in his sleep.
- thrownblown 4y agoyou have never been to tokyo on friday night/saturday morning. business dudes sleeping it off on benches are not uncommon at all.
- anonymoushn 4y agoFor whatever reason we were in Ginza on a Tuesday at like 2pm, and already two salarymen were carrying their boss who was clearly incapable of walking back to the office
- 0des 4y agoIt's on my list of places to go. For now, all I have is PaoloFromTokyo, which is family friendly so there isn't much nightlife content. I had no idea there was this level of public good will.
- thrownblown 4y agothat was one of the things that surprised me on an early saturday bike ride, also in regards to street crime in japan, at least in my experience it is so exceedingly rare that most people there are incredibly naive to it.
- 0des 4y agoWhat street dangers are there?
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- Aeolun 4y agoThis is peak Japan.
- tester756 4y agoWhat would be the equivalent in dishonest company? "Nationwide cybersecurity attack performed by state level actors using novel techniques"
- plainnoodles 4y agoProbably just not even saying anything at all, given they found the USB shortly after it was lost.
- Markoff 4y agoThat's what happenes when you are not tied with US political corectness BS and can say things as they are, one of the few things I liked about China as well, which is similar int his aspect, people have no problem to say harsh truth (unless it's politics), though on the other hand they often lie about irelevant things.
- ziddoap 4y ago>can say things as they are, one of the few things I liked about China as well, What a hearty laugh this gave me early in the morning, thank you.
- IncRnd 4y ago> can say things as they are, one of the few things I liked about China as well Some of the people who live there would disagree with your assessment.
- Markoff 4y agoI lived there for plenty of years, did you? That's why I used that bracket everyone conveniently ignores.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoInteresting to label vague, indirect phrasing as "political correctness" -- US police departments are notorious for this when giving accounts of police shootings.
- happyopossum 4y ago> one of the few things I liked about China as well, which is similar int his aspect, people have no problem to say harsh truth That explains the daily mass protests I see on TV in Shanghai and Beijing about slave labor. Or all the discussion about the Tiananmen Square protests. Or all those T-Shirt vendors with shirts that have the Tank Guy pic or Free Hong Kong slogans.
- Markoff 4y ago
- astura 4y agoSeems pretty normal for Japan.
- googlryas 4y agoGetting drunk after work and passing out on the street, on a train, at your office desk, are all actually fairly accepted aspects of Japanese "salaryman" work culture.