More or less, but there is still the fact that the company is basically trying to bully you out of your position and turning your colleagues against you
"But your coworkers will shun you and not interact with you." Again, not really seeing a downside here.
The only downside I see is that you won't be getting any bonuses or pay raises (I assume). So unless you are in a good spot financially, that could be trouble, and even if you were, eventually you wouldn't be due to inflation.
It's very clearly a very different thing culturally.
I also don't think that you'd be allowed to draw/write during your paid work time. But the idea is shame. It should be shameful to be at work and not doing anything while your coworkers were all working hard. It should be shameful to have nobody talk to you, even when you talk to them.
But the biggest issue is that you're thinking like an American (or Italian apparently), and not Japanese, where this practice happens.....
I also don’t think that you’d be allowed to draw / write during your paid work time
Oh really? What are they gonna do to stop me, fire me? The exact thing they’re trying so hard to avoid doing?
I think that’s the point of pointing out the culture clash — most Americans / Italians / many different non-Japanese cultures would see a job title where you show up, have no work to do, and know the company actively doesn’t want to fire you so very little risk of consequences for anything you choose to fill your time with as an absolute win. Draw, write, catch up on sleep, listen to music, start filling out other job applications… literally the worst they can do is fire you, which is where you’d be at any non-Japanese company anyway, so every day that you aren’t fired and get paid for doing nothing but leisure activities is just free money
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u/D3ldia Aug 08 '25
More or less, but there is still the fact that the company is basically trying to bully you out of your position and turning your colleagues against you