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minus-squaremechoman444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·20 hours 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-squarepeaceful_world_view@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoNo you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
minus-squaremaplebar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoJokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
minus-squareSolidShake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·17 hours 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-squareEchofox@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours 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.
minus-squarelocalhost443@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoAmerican culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile
minus-squarecapybara@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 hours agoPunching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agoEasy, just make it legal. Problem solved.
minus-squarexor@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoyeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management…. yeah, it’s a good solution
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.
No you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
Jokes on you, I don’t have healthcare.
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.
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.
American culture really has mastered being both violent and fragile
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.
yeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management….
yeah, it’s a good solution