Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan (was: UNIX jobs on TLUG)

[Clemens Schwaighofer <gullevek@example.com>]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:45, Doug McLean<dmclean635@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Clemens
> Schwaighofer<gullevek@example.com> wrote:
>> Well, I am not here since yesterday, I work know as the lone gaijin in
>> a japanese company, I know the rules, I learn how circumvent them,
>> bend them, ... but you never change them :)
>
> You're a wise man, Clemens.  I have to learn to do the same thing in
> the (american) corporation I work for.  I like to remind myself at
> times to "be like water" and just flow with things.
>
> ...that sounds like "eastern philosophy" doesn't it?  Fits nicely into
> our Japan-email list thread.  ;D

I do the best to "fit in". You can't behave western like and work in a
japanese company (at least not in a more traditional one with a quite
high age average).


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