Says them. What are they going to do, fire me?
Comment on Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 months agoI think they would just make it extra shitty. Nothing to do plus normal workplace rules: no sleeping, no private conversations or electronic devices, nothing not work related on the computer. Enjoy doing nothing nothing, where anything remotely resembling a mental escape is not allowed.
SanicHegehog@lemm.ee 3 months ago
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yes. And because you are technically at fault, there will be no compensation.
orcrist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
[deleted]GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I mean, they probably wouldn’t bother doing this if the legal framework wouldn’t make this a viable strategy. If it is culturally and legally difficult to fire your employees it makes “sense” to instead bore them into quitting, ethical concerns aside.
orcrist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
[deleted]GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I didn’t miss your point, mine was just that a global corporation will not commit to doing this without the realistic expectation that it will work out for them. Perhaps Japan has less or no unions, perhaps the legal system does not provide for the employees suing them on the basis of “you made my job deliberately boring”. Just that especially a large corp such as this will not do this unless they crunched the numbers and it has been caculated this is the cheapest way.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 3 months ago
Yeah, I was in a similar position earlier this year. I barely made it a month. It’s soul sucking, especially for someone like myself (I work in IT) who’s used to staying active and engaged with my job. Felt like just waiting for time to pass so I could drive home. The fact that they made me drive to an office just to do nothing was like adding insult to injury.