Look up China's 669 practice. South Korea is also known for having an especially brutal work culture. The two manage to make even Japan's work culture look almost reasonable by comparison (Japan famously requiring long hours and lifelong dedication to your employer).
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GrymEdm@lemmy.world 5 months agoI hear some countries in Asia are CRAZY bad for these kind of expectations and have been for a long time.
Drusas@kbin.run 5 months ago
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh absolutely. In Japan for example if you are unable to work or you get removed from your career, it is socially understandable for you to consider suicide. Lots of Japanese citizens put their job before even their families or the potential of having a family.
It’s actually pretty fuckin crazy what Japanese work culture does to their citizens.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’ve been reading Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and evidently they don’t fire people in Japan. If they want rid of you, they just give you less and less to do until you’re sitting in the office all day getting paid to do nothing, and the cultural expectation is that you quit out of shame rather than just accepting money for nothing.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How do I get one of those jobs as a WFH employee in the United States? I’ll gladly accept my shame.
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Oh I’m so ashamed. Whatever will I do. Please don’t pay me MORE money that would make the shame even greater!
lightnegative@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It only works for cultures where individuals have to sepukku if they bring shame on family.
In the USA, bringing shame upon family is considered a rite of passage so it doesn’t quite have the same effect
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I wouldn’t recommend anyone become a software engineer but its worked for me
Lightsong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Where do I sign up?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I wonder if this also has something to do with the company itself avoiding shame too. Like firing an employee is a sign of weakness, that you hired someone like that in the first place? Or potentially a difference in benefits or a pension that they have to pay?
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s a thought I had as well, and based on my extremely limited knowledge and research I think it’s the conflict that’s being avoided. Rather than dealing with the person directly, you use indirect actions that signal the expected result when taken in that social context and then let the pressure of those expectations generate the result you need without you ever directly doing anything. My understanding is that the pressure is pretty enormous, your coworkers will basically shun you out of fear of being targeted themselves and resentment for all the work you’re not doing that they have to pick up instead.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Geez… how about my workload drops to zero and I commit sudoku instead?