When it was revealed in June that hundreds of Japanese civil servants had accepted beer, snacks and even cash from Tokyo taxi drivers in return for repeat business, the public reaction was unsurprisingly sour. The “pub taxis”, as they were dubbed, operate late at night, when trains have stopped running and bureaucrats’ cab fares are paid by the taxpayer. If drivers were so eager for patronage, commentators fumed, then surely their clients should have negotiated lower fares rather than down beer and munch dried squid on their free rides home.
Yet, along with the outrage, the scandal has generated some sympathy for the candle-burning bureaucrats. Their overtime is copious, and roughly one in 10 habitually works past 11pm, according to a survey by the public workers’ union.
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Yet, along with the outrage, the scandal has generated some sympathy for the candle-burning bureaucrats. Their overtime is copious, and roughly one in 10 habitually works past 11pm, according to a survey by the public workers’ union.
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Fetish....@Kame - agreed.
And with little to no makeup, as well, IMO....If I were you, I'd wear a face mask on the trains just like everybody else does. As...Good point. I used to love living on Yen and watching the dollar drop in value....So, um, how does one find his/her rooms.
And do they come gaijin-size?...That's not very surprising to me. Almost comparable with American society.
This is one of the best...That's precisely what I thought myself, but given that the powers-that-be have zero...This isn't your typical boarding school, though. It's where they send the worst...
And with little to no makeup, as well, IMO....If I were you, I'd wear a face mask on the trains just like everybody else does. As...Good point. I used to love living on Yen and watching the dollar drop in value....So, um, how does one find his/her rooms.
And do they come gaijin-size?...That's not very surprising to me. Almost comparable with American society.
This is one of the best...That's precisely what I thought myself, but given that the powers-that-be have zero...This isn't your typical boarding school, though. It's where they send the worst...
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For a country marketed as being incredibly intelligent, you'd think that people would know what happens when a person spends 14+ hours at work every day.
Perhaps if a maximum of 10 hours was instituted there would be fewer errors and people would actually get *more* done because their brains would be much more alert and capable of handling the workload.
Hell, what are they doing working so much anyway. Oh that right they are trying to handle all the huge useless government departments at the taxpayers expense.
It's a little more involved than that when you look at corporations instead of the government, but I agree that there is a ridiculous amount of unnecessary duplication and paper shuffling going on in the houses of power. Despite this country's image as being light-years ahead of the West in terms of technology adoption, there is still a stupid amount of work that is done only on paper ... and never backed up or properly indexed in a computer.
You'd probably suffer some kind of brain aneurysm if you saw just how many different companies use Microsoft Excel as a database application and indexing tool for all of their paper documents. It's absolutely disgusting.