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minus-squaremechoman444@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down5·21 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-up4·13 hours agoNo you wouldn’t, lol. You need your job for health care.
minus-squaremaplebar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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-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
minus-squarecapybara@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·20 hours agoPunching people is illegal in general. If it was that easy, there wouldn’t exist any class struggle.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·17 hours agoEasy, just make it legal. Problem solved.
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
yeah but then they’d end up killing all of the middle management….
yeah, it’s a good solution
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.