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minus-squaremechoman444linkEnglish10•13 hours 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. arrow-up115arrow-down15file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@peaceful_world_viewlinkEnglish4•6 hours agoNo you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care. arrow-up14arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 hours agoAmerican culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 hours 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. arrow-up15arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@SolidShakelinkEnglish7•10 hours 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. arrow-up17arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•13 hours agoyeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management…. yeah, it’s a good solution arrow-up12arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•13 hours agoPunching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle. arrow-up13arrow-down13file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@HasturInYellowlinkEnglish0•10 hours agoEasy, just make it legal. Problem solved. arrow-up11arrow-down11file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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.
No you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
American culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile
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.
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.
yeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management….
yeah, it’s a good solution
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.