Comment on Anon is Japanese

tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is the story of a man named Stanley…

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  • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ![] (i0.wp.com/…/The-Stanley-Parable-Review-Screenshot…)

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• toph@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would be considered power harassment in Japan and you can sue for it. Companies try to do it anyways though.

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  imaginary friend game weak

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’d drive me mad enough to quit, and the same is true of lots of people.

  So you’re saying it works.

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• Waterpumpee@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not legal in countries where you cant outright fire people. You have to get them tasks. No phone out wouldnt be enforceable unless they sit you in a bunker with no connection.

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  • Ostrakon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It being illegal doesn’t stop people from doing it.

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Take the company to court and get a fat payout 🤷

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People gotta remember that Japan isn’t USA or Europe when it comes to worker rights, or most rights, really, and that justice in each country can vary wildly

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      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And then never get hired by any company again.

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  • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your task is to hand write copies of the company slogan for every working hour.

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it? It’s your boss’ duty to provide you with work and they cannot dock your pay (outside of special circumstances) if they don’t have work for you, but they can absolutely pay you to sit around and drink coffee in case work comes around.

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  • M137@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is using apostrophes so hard that you just ignore it?

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  • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you can’t reassign them to paint watching?

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Japan, thats the whole point. The business will do this to make you quit instead of them firing you. They have whack employment laws.

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  • jama211@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds good in a way because you can take as long as you like applying for other jobs without losing your current income.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Often comes with a job title change and people notice those sorts of things in Japan.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aren’t they given a computer at least to “work” on

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope. The same happened In Austria with our ex-state owned telecommunication business; because it was state owned before privatization, they had quite a lot of nearly unfireable workers outside of extreme circumstances - state businesses often used “pragmatization” to secure people they thought weren’t replaceable and to provide those people with security with a bit of a lower pay grade (at least it started that way - later on this system was ripe with corruption, using “pragmatization” as a bonus for people who were loyal to whomever).

    Those workers often had pretty high salaries in comparison to the newly arriving employees, accumulating pay raises for the last 20-30 years. And they didn’t want to leave their jobs, because many knew that their skillset was severely outdated and they would struggle to get another job at 50 years of age. The new owners had no use for them because they simply were too expensive and the large amount of unfireable personell dragged stock prices down.

    So these workers had to come in every workday, just to sit in an nearly empty room for 8 hours - no work, no entertainment, nothing. Even the most lethargic person gets depression, anxiety and desperation after a few years of that. If you stopped coming in, they actually had leverage to get rid of you. If you called in sick, i heard of quite a lot of cases where they tried to make sure that they really were sick, because if not, it would be a fireable offense.

    One of my uncles was one of the people just sitting in the “Pool”, as it was called. He was NOT happy, but he was one of the few people who actually still had some useful skills even in a modernized telecom company, and later on was able to at least get assigned some normal work, but most people who were sitting in the “pool” surrendered sooner or later when getting offered a golden handshake.

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are things like this in the USA, too, usually for people who have contracts that make them unfirable, but still fuck up something huge at work. Most famous example is probably the NYC Dep’t of Education “Rubber Rooms” that they euphemistically call “Reassignment Centers.”

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_center

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In the land of Hitler, I'm not surprised.

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