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- on Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 1d ago
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on Double Fine Casts Erika Ishii, And The Reaction Is Sadly Predictable in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 2d ago
I know them from frequent guest spots in Dropout comedy shows. Very funny person with big energy.
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on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2d ago
I vouch for Breezy. Been using it for years. It’s very easy to use and clear and I think more accurate than a lot of my friends phones. Though that depends on your weather source.
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on Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 3d ago
I worked for a large Japanese manufacturing company. For sure my employer was more old school in a lot of ways simply because it was a big old company. I bet some of the newer industries are less like this. However, I would still be surprised if they were that much better. I had friends in different industries and heard similar stories.
A Japanese citizen sees the full breadth and complexity of the Japanese economy. They would naturally perceive foreign media as oversimplifying and unresponsive to more recent changes. It’s true that Japan (government and industries) are attempting to move away from this style of work but, like many things in Japan, it’s extremely slow, mostly symbolic, and plagued by inertia. Us salarymen clocking in and out was probably implemented with good intentions at first. I never asked but I bet it was enforced at one time. One of the big reasons they’re trying to change is because men that work all day can’t find a wife and have kids. Japan is in a demographics crisis. The cultural xenophobia makes them reluctant to let immigrants in to help with labor shortages. I remember government sponsored dating programs which is funny to think about.
This cultural inertia isn’t all a bad thing btw. It makes institutions very stable. My company had hordes of procedures and burocracy for everything which was inefficient but you could count on them to do what they planned to do. I remember finding out about a government plan to stimulate the economy by giving some money to some companies so they could invest in growth. They had the problem of the companies just giving the money to shareholders in big dividends. They don’t have the expectation of explosive growth like we do in the US.
The thing they really do well though, is soft power. Any time I bring up that Japan is a very racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic society, an army of anime fans and sushi lovers are ready to defend them. Japanese society is complicated and no one person fully fits a generality but I couldn’t keep living there.
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on Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 4d ago
This is the norm in Japanese offices. I worked for 2 years in Japan in an office. Officially we were a white company and weren’t allowed to work overtime. However, we would get monthly emails from the office manager detailing everyone’s exact amount of overtime. Even though we were salary, we had to clock in and out to make sure we didn’t work overtime. The nominal reason for these emails was to tell people to lower their overtime since it wasn’t allowed. Those emails had the actual effect of ranking everyone by how much overtime they had worked and pressuring people with lower numbers to work later. People would regularly leave the office around 9 or 10pm. All hiring is done April 1st when a large cohort of college grads come in and they are expected to work there for life.
To be classified as a black company, and be named and shamed by the government, you have to like…cause a high profile suicide or something.
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on What’s the difference between F-35 and Gripen fighter jets? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
No. There are many types of missions a drone can’t currently do.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026
Hey me too. Got that locked in early and then they just gave me free YouTube premium a few years down the line.
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on Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026
Anthony Fantano, a popular music critic on YouTube.
I worked there during the pandemic. Summer 2019 to summer 2021. I never heard about any reforms but a lot was happening around then and I’m sure I missed a lot.
One thing that did change during the pandemic was that my company went optionally remote. Working from home was even more unheard of in Japan than in the US before the pandemic so that was crazy. And they even reduced the number of desks in the office so they couldn’t have all the workers in at the same time. A lot of US companies have since rolled back those policies. No idea if my old company stuck with it.