JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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IvanCoughalot
Still, well clung on, Mr. K. Many more of them.
If this chap retired when he was 65, he's been drawing a pension since the Kennedy Administration. Outstanding.
Posted in: Happy 114th birthday
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IvanCoughalot
I do hope he doesn't come down with another dose of dizziness. That is such a terrible ailment it causes you to disappear from your well-paid post at the time of your company's biggest-ever crisis.
I hope my boss is equally understanding if I ever come down with dizziness.
Posted in: Gov't under fire for disaster response; TEPCO chief heckled in Diet
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IvanCoughalot
Nothing will be done. just watch. The reason given will be "Japanese people would find it confusing".
I'd be profoundly insulted if somebody tried to tell me I was too stupid to understand I have to reset my watch for a few months. But then again I didn't have my critical thinking thrashed out of me at school. I was taught to think, not to bow and say "Shoganai".
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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IvanCoughalot
It does look good. Drug-addled women wallowing in despair and degradation really light my candle. Where can I buy this?
Posted in: Yakuza Moon: The Manga Edition
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IvanCoughalot
Those bodies need to be disposed of properly. Leave a thousand dead people lying around as the weather warms up - recipe for disease outbreak to add to the problems.
Posted in: Police search for 1st time for bodies within 10-km radius of nuclear plant
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IvanCoughalot
I'm waiting for the "But it is maybe confusing for old people" line to crop up, as though the retired folk make the rules for big business.
Posted in: Morinaga starts 'summer time,' calling employees to work at 8 a.m.
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IvanCoughalot
I'd also like to know how much of his summer "bonus" he intends to donate to the victims of his incompetence.
Posted in: TEPCO president mulls paying damages; says he won't resign
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IvanCoughalot
This loser needs stringing up.
Here we go, same old vapid stock phrases and a by-the-book bow. It's a pity he didn't see fit to address his responsibilities when he took himself off to hospital for feeling dizzy.
Posted in: TEPCO president mulls paying damages; says he won't resign
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IvanCoughalot
Having a bath cures cancer. Quack! Quack!
Posted in: For many Japanese cancer patients, a trip to Tamagawa Onsen offers one final hope
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IvanCoughalot
Believed by whom? Is there one shred of scientific support for these claims, or are they a very grubby way of squeezing money out of desperate people during their final, clutching-at-straws days?
The fact that alcohol - not the most well-known inhibitor of cancer - is served at this place should be enough to have these claims dismissed as quackery at best.
Posted in: For many Japanese cancer patients, a trip to Tamagawa Onsen offers one final hope
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IvanCoughalot
Oh what a surprise. A TV psychic makes an unsupportable claim about a place, and a legion of deluded spinsters swarm to it. I wonder if there is any financial connection between Shimada and the curators of Meiji Shrine?
Posted in: Wishing well boom attracts legions of ladies—and commercial opportunism
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IvanCoughalot
Hell is being trapped with vapid TV celebs eating, slapping, clapping at inanities and squeaking "Kawaii" forever, with the smell of salariman breath searing your eyes and nostrils.
Posted in: What is hell? Book stirs debate about afterlife
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IvanCoughalot
This bloke isn't a workaholic, far from it. He shuffles in at 11 am and sits around until 7 pm on the dot making very very simple tasks take hours apiece, with a finished product that's unusable.
But because he works so inefficiently, he reckons he's too busy to do any of the real work that needs doing, or to exercise elementary courtesy, and only communicates in grunted snidery, when he absolutely has to, or to vainly try to establish himself as superior in some way. He isn't too busy to spend a third of his working hours standing outside smoking cigarettes, however.
He really is an absolute tool, and he's not fooling anyone with his hair colour, either.
Posted in: Telltale signs that you’re turning into an office deadweight
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IvanCoughalot
apecNetworks - care to explain that? Keeping Tokyo stable by losing 80% of the tax revenue he appropriated for his vanity bank despite his being told by the Ministry of Finance he was neither competent nor legally permitted to use tax revenue in that way. Some prosperity!
Posted in: First vote
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IvanCoughalot
Shall we all make a pact to remind every Japanese voter we know about Ishihara's views on the earthquake? It might - just might - give some of them pause before they automatically re-elect this deplorable, ranting halfwit.
Posted in: First vote
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IvanCoughalot
BernieK - what is "Earthquake weather"?
Posted in: Sunset
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IvanCoughalot
Kaptankichigai - you write your posts, and I shall write mine. I'll thank you not to make assumptions as to the reasoning behind my choice of words.
Posted in: Telltale signs that you’re turning into an office deadweight
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IvanCoughalot
@Kaptankichigai
I mentioned that he was American because he is American. Just like I mentioned he's an arse because he is an arse. I also expect he will read this and give me the silent treatment next week, like a petulant old woman.
It is not a poor reflection on myself, but rather an accurate observation of the dreary old get who sits in the room, sucking any chance of joy out of the day like a dementor.
Posted in: Telltale signs that you’re turning into an office deadweight
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IvanCoughalot
There's an American bloke at my office who's ticking at least 11 of these boxes. He's so busy he can only communicate in snarled monosyllables, but he only shuffles into the office about 11. Then he bleats about having to get something finished before 5. Having worked in a Japanese office for decades, he's signed up to the perception that making a job take a long time is the same thing as doing it well. Plus he dyes his hair but not his moustache and expects us not to notice. He really is an arse.
Posted in: Telltale signs that you’re turning into an office deadweight
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IvanCoughalot
kyushujoe
The whole nation is scared of going on holiday because they have a deep-rooted need to care for their colleagues and not pose a burden. In a hierarchical society, the workers look to their superiors (and I use the word in a very limited sense) for an example. Let us hope the long hot summer will not be made even more unbearable by the compulsion to stay inert at a desk until a middle-manager goes to his loveless bed, when we have all seen that the stratum which is supposed to lead can't give a fig for their responsibility.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized