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[–] Duamerthrax 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but they're still expected to come into work even when they're ready to fall over.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like America then

[–] Duamerthrax 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you think America is bad, you really need to look more into Japanese Black Companies. They really take the cake on toxic work cultural. Imagine being socially obligated to get black out drunk with your boss.

[–] Rachelhazideas 30 points 5 months ago

'If you think America is bad' is wholly unnecessary when you consider that socialized healthcare hardly exists, public education is a living corpse of severely underpaid teachers, mass shootings (I've been in one), mandatory cost of car ownership, and so many other fucked up things.

I'm not saying that Japan is a good place to live, because it has a myriad of it's own problems and I personally wouldn't want to live there. I just think we should give people some credit for the shit Americans put up with too.

[–] khannie 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True story: Stalin did this every night with his inner circle. Attendance was mandatory assuming you wanted to live.

Behind the bastards did a great episode on it.

[–] Duamerthrax 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

hmmm. Death or all your coworkers slightly judging you? White collar work sounds annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

... It's doubly true for blue collar workers in Asia.

White collar workers get like 15-20 days off a year in Korea, and these are also used for sick days - at enlightened companies, you can work from home on a sick day and have it not count as leave...

I don't know that much about what goes on in blue collar work, but something tells me the workplaces for natives just that are just a few steps above the blue collar labor done by migrants living in barracks in isolated locales working 60+ hour weeks aren't the type to liberally give sick days.