indosnm 0 Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Mate, If I was the boss I'd want them to be with their fam's as much as possible, encourage exercise rather than compulsory company nightly drinking etc etc. Healthy happy employees = a higher level of work and probably a bigger MOKE! Link to post Share on other sites
HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Don't work like that here. It seems to be the thing to be the last out of the office to get bragging rights. Where I work anyways. Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 And where DO you work Heather??? Link to post Share on other sites
ortwin 0 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Between May and October I work from 9am to 8,9 or 10pm. From November to April from 9-6 and every second week from 11 to 6. With this schedule I can unfortunately enjoy daylight saving time only on weekends in summer Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Hey! Another European SJ forum person. Good to see. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 NPM, you're always curious about where people work and what they do (some am I actually). But nobody ever answers you when you ask. I've always been most punticilious about getting out the door at the official time. When my first company declared that they would no longer pay overtime but they expected the work to get done nevertheless for the good of the company, I made an even greater show of packing up and leaving right on time and not a second later. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Japanese co O11? Link to post Share on other sites
HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 NPM. I work in a town office. Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Do you have to do a morning warm up dance and stuff like that at a public office? In fact, do many/any companies still do that kind of thing or is that just an stereotype image of old Japan? Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 I reckon you should add another poll asking how many hours people work for :-) Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 I've seen a few places do the warm up routing in a morning - one garage on the way to work and they're usually doing it when I'm go past every morning. They do look funny. Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 When I first came here and worked at a town office they had an exercie early morning. I nearly died when I learnt it was every day and I was expected to do it. I felt like a real tool. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 In my case, it really depends on what's going on then. When it's quiet time, I can finish whenever I want but when it's busy, I'm not sure what time I can finish my work. Sometimes guests tease me over the phone saying "Gamera, we got lost and drunk, how can we go back?" Usually they can't find any landmarks nearby coz it's in the dark at night and even if they found some, they don't read Kanji Or I can't hear what they say because they are drunk, they speak harder English to me. Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 So you can't you ever get drunk yourself gamera? Recently I've been making a point of leaving work "early" ie before 5:30 Link to post Share on other sites
nori-chan 0 Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Just after 5pm every day! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by Indosnm: Japanese co O11? Indeed. I thought my coworkers would hate me for it, and in fact, some of them clearly did. But others said they wished they could pluck up the nerve to do it too, and in the end some of them did. At a subsequent company, we were expected to do physical jerks at 10am and 3pm, but only a few people bothered. So they sent some middle managers round with armbands who shouted "Taiso shimasho! Genki yoku, taiso shimasho!" It was fun to smirk at them over the top of my PC screen. Having battled with the company to provide somewhere to hang my wet cycling gear so I could get to work in 'healthy and energy-saving mode' and been dubbed a troublemaker for my efforts, I wasn't then going to be joining anybody for physical jerks. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 What kind of 'physical jerks' exactly? Intersting that you said twice a day Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by Wizz: So you can't you ever get drunk yourself gamera? Hum... no, I can't. But it's okay because I am neither an alcoholic nor drunk hooligan . Can survive without alcohol. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Good for you sir. Link to post Share on other sites
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