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minus-squaremechoman444linkfedilinkEnglish17•5 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoPunching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoEasy, just make it legal. Problem solved.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•5 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoNo you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoJokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoAmerican culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months 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.
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.
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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.
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.
No you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
Jokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
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.