Yeah, no, when someone’s secluded, they’re often put in an empty room without so much as a window, and given literally nothing to do, but sit there. Can’t even have a phone out. It’d drive me mad enough to quit, and the same is true of lots of people.

Aren't they given a computer at least to "work" on

imaginary friend game weak

The entire not leaving until your boss leaves (who also must leave after her boss leaves) leads to a chain where only the CEO gets off first, leading to the really toxic 14 hour days. At least layoffs don't seem to be as prevalent there.

But what about your dreams anon 😫

CEOs work in Japan?

It’d drive me mad enough to quit, and the same is true of lots of people.

So you're saying it works.

Hey, customer relations in brothels is hard work!

Nope. The same happened In Austria with our ex-state owned telecommunication business; because it was state owned before privatization, they had quite a lot of nearly unfireable workers outside of extreme circumstances - state businesses often used "pragmatization" to secure people they thought weren't replaceable and to provide those people with security with a bit of a lower pay grade (at least it started that way - later on this system was ripe with corruption, using "pragmatization" as a bonus for people who were loyal to whomever).

Those workers often had pretty high salaries in comparison to the newly arriving employees, accumulating pay raises for the last 20-30 years. And they didn't want to leave their jobs, because many knew that their skillset was severely outdated and they would struggle to get another job at 50 years of age. The new owners had no use for them because they simply were too expensive and the large amount of unfireable personell dragged stock prices down.

So these workers had to come in every workday, just to sit in an nearly empty room for 8 hours - no work, no entertainment, nothing. Even the most lethargic person gets depression, anxiety and desperation after a few years of that. If you stopped coming in, they actually had leverage to get rid of you. If you called in sick, i heard of quite a lot of cases where they tried to make sure that they really were sick, because if not, it would be a fireable offense.

One of my uncles was one of the people just sitting in the "Pool", as it was called. He was NOT happy, but he was one of the few people who actually still had some useful skills even in a modernized telecom company (there's always need for people who are able and willing to competently work on phone lines high up on poles, and at that time nearly every phone line was copper cabling, VoIP was just starting to spread), and later on was able to at least get assigned some normal work, but most people who were sitting in the "pool" surrendered sooner or later when getting offered a golden handshake.

This is the story of a man named Stanley...

Not legal in countries where you cant outright fire people. You have to get them tasks. No phone out wouldnt be enforceable unless they sit you in a bunker with no connection.

Sounds fucking amazing compared to my life

WHY IS NOBODY CREATING MORE MEAT FOR THE MACHINE!?!?!?

Politicians unable to get people to make fuck trophies because they can't afford crap, have to slave away until they're 70, return to a shoe box as a home, breathe polluted air from birth to death, and survive a burning planet.

No idea why people don't want to pump out more than 2.1 units per woman. It's a total mystery!

It being illegal doesn't stop people from doing it.

In the land of Hitler, I'm not surprised.

Take the company to court and get a fat payout 🤷

fake: anon has a wife
gay: anon is punished by his boss and likes it, which is clearly a euphemism for the forbidden but very kinky relationship between anon and his boss

In Japan, thats the whole point. The business will do this to make you quit instead of them firing you. They have whack employment laws.

Yeah, you can't unsee Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

you can't reassign them to paint watching?

The wife and I are about to watch the first 6 movies for the first time together. Both of us have only ever seen the first half of episode 3

Buckle up buckaroo

This is about to be pod racing!

I think you mean 3 movies, right? Because that's how many Star Wars movies exist. There are 3 movies.

The sequel trilogy did a lot of work to make the prequels more bearable.

How dare you

They hated me because I told them the truth.

The prequels would have been a collective masterpiece if Lucas followed through with Darth jar jar.

I agree with you but people who call other humans fuck trophies or crotch goblins are usually just the fucking worst most insufferable people ever.

TRUTH.

And Andor. Then I could take the bare plot details of the prequels. And Clone Wars is good too. Nice well rounded experience with that, and forget the rest.

Episode 8 is the best Star Wars movie out of all 9 of them. You will see the truth once they drop the next 3 movies. That is because you suffer your own confirmation bias and self fulfilling prophecy.

And then never get hired by any company again.

How is using apostrophes so hard that you just ignore it?

Your task is to hand write copies of the company slogan for every working hour.

It's not that the prequel trilogy somehow got better, it's just that it no longer is the worst trilogy.

The only thing I've seen of ‘Star Wars’ is ‘Attack of the Clones’, but I was thinking of watching the new trilogy sometime. Are you saying it's not worth it?

Bit of an odd choice to cut it off at ‘Revenge of the Sith’.

To be quite honest, I didn't even bother watching them. But everything I have seen and heard about them convinced me that I made the right choice with it.

But then again, that's just the opinion of an old grumbler. If you want to watch them and like them go ahead.

My entire message is filled with hyperbole and you go "all the other stuff is fine, but I draw the line at 'fuck trophy'". You're the type of person who will break up a peaceful demonstration because somebody wore the wrong clothes that day.

The enemy of good, the friend of perfect.

I should never fight for my rights. I might be perceived as somebody who fights for my rights.

I've also been recommended something called ‘Holiday Special’, they say it's an item of particular interest.

In countries with half decent worker protections this is not a problem.

Or just take the hint and get another job. Not saying it's right, but you need to be realistic.

Taking them to court is also realistic.

Is it? It's your boss' duty to provide you with work and they cannot dock your pay (outside of special circumstances) if they don't have work for you, but they can absolutely pay you to sit around and drink coffee in case work comes around.

People gotta remember that Japan isn't USA or Europe when it comes to worker rights, or most rights, really, and that justice in each country can vary wildly

Sounds good in a way because you can take as long as you like applying for other jobs without losing your current income.