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Definitely doesn’t work in America, at least no place I’ve worked. I’ve worked with tons of people who were happy to just collect paychecks knowing full well they were just waiting to be fired.

Last guy like that I worked with didn’t do a single task for like a year even after he was put on a PIP that was literally like “we assign him tickets and he won’t do them”. My boss even asked me to mentor him and push on him, he was just like “Naw I’m good.”. Wish I had that kinda outlook.

Plz try this in america

Happens in France too because of the amount of protection employees have. It’s called being “put in the cupboard”.

clock in and head out. free day every day. or go up on the roof with big head

The dream

Everyone in the west would be begging for this sort of thing until they remember that their bosses would still be critical of them doing personal shit during work time. No getting paid to lounge around on your phone or watch movies on your laptop. They expect you to sit there and stare at your empty cubicle for 8 hours. The point is to find a way to make you quit. You’re not going to quit if you’re allowed to goof off on the clock.

This happened to me in my first job, and it absolutely sucked. I joined a big firm in Tokyo, got like 3 hours of training, and was then asked to do a big analysis that no one reviewed before giving it to the client. The client pointed out the problems and sent it back where I tried to fix it, but of course I didn’t know what I was doing so someone else took over and I got shunted aside.

I did my best to study and read for a while, but eventually I gave up and just started reading Stephen King books on my computer. I worked with recruiters to find another job, but with no serious experience and visa restrictions there was no one who would hire me. The stress really started building, to the point where I had mini “personal earthquakes” while walking around because I was so wound up.

In the end, the American branch of the firm noticed how mismanaged the Japanese office was and made a big cash infusion that was accompanied by a huge number of management changes. One of those was to bring me back onto projects, where I started excelling and found ways to un-fuck several big ones. After a bunch of promotions I peaced out and moved on to better things, but the toxic environment I experienced at the start of my career still affects me today.

Motherfuckers will pass up the opportunity of a lifetime because of silly social norms damnn

Getting paid to do nothing sounds like a western dream. But people in Japan quiting their job because lack of work they get

Soooo I’m still getting paid though?

watching the lord of the rings trilogy extended edition and doing some overtime

“We’ve never fired anyone” isn’t the flex they think it is

My team was finishing with a project, and we were all moving to different teams, but a few days before we moved over the manager I was supposed to go work under quit. So suddenly I had no direction on where, when, and what I was supposed to do. Didn’t know what floor I was going to be on, where my desk was, or even what my new hours were. Asked my ild manager but she had no idea either, she was able to find where I was sitting at least. So I showed up at 9, sat around for 8 hours just chilling mostly and then clocked out. Did this for about 3 weeks before someone figured out what I was supposed to be doing. Now I did get actual work done in that time, there was final audit stuff from the previous project to wrap up so knocked that out but it was like less and a weeks worth of work that I stretched out over 3 weeks lol

Ehmm … sounds like a dream?

There HAS to have been a Japanese company that at some point tried expanding to the US and got screwed by people riding the no work get paid policy