Work Experience In Japan Industrial Factory very hard!!

jonathanthomson (25)in #introduceyourself • 8 years ago (edited)

My name jonathan thomson I come from boston and 32 years old
I was An graduate Boston University, which is in full swing to study, but the middle of it all I think how to master the sciences are so many discovered by people who before me. Attempts have been done in various ways, either individually or by asking for help from others ..

I just want to share a little about my experience very brief while working at a factory that in fact belonged to Japan. I get a lot of things and it is totally different to what we imagined. Let's discuss one by one.
Culture
- Say greetings -
This is something that I really pay attention at weeks 1 and 2 when joining the company, but it turns out that sitting in front of employees-would be running backward to say "Ohayou Gozaimasu" to the Japanese people in the backseat .. -_- "how tiring…
- Kaizen -
Kaizen is Japanese, which means "repair", Japan make it as a principle in work where every day the workers carried out repairs so that the next day the process to be faster and better. I think this is also a strategy that the Japanese do not need expensive to pay a consultant to analyze the flaws in the work performed ..
- Piket Together -
Yes absolutely right, picket here is a sweeping, ngepel, and clean-up equipment to be used before work by the employees concerned. I think, this is one of the strategies that the Japanese do not need to add Office Boy at each factory that will have implications for additional employee salary expenditure ..
- Japanese Language Course -
Have you ever heard of the Japanese people are fluent in English ?, of course very rarely because the Japanese do not know the name alphabet (a, b, c, d, etc ..). In day-to-day activities, the employees are required to be Japanese (at least understand). I think this is also a strategy of the Japanese people, because they would inconvenience if learning English as an international language. Therefore they prefer to provide Japanese language lessons to employees so that employees can communicate with them ..
Salary (Salary)
If the salary issue, here is somewhat different from the expectations expected by fresh graduate student who incidentally just starting a career. Differences in the payroll system at the Japanese company is Transport and Money eat borne by the company. So what we get is a net salary. If calculated, usually money transport in a standard office Jakarta usually amounting to 25 thousand + Spot 30 Thousand. If the sum is 55 thousand for 1 day. Making the total for 1 month is about 1 million. While the dining office and transport is provided, it will save .. Following the above description is an experience I have gained while working for a Japanese company, even if only briefly, but I understand the process and also the advantages and also disadvantages. * May be different with other factory.

"Every day I live with a terrible anxiety," said Ikezaki, a contract employee who is currently working with a salary of ¥ 75,000 / month (or about 7 million per month). "When I think about my future, so I can not sleep at night." Based on data from the Japanese government, there are more than 10 million people living on less than the normal standard of Japan is ¥ 1,600,000 / year (or approximately 155 million per year). Maybe this is all a result of Japanese companies are more concerned with corporate profits and take advantage of the innocence of new workers (who obviously did not have any other option) creates a salaryman. People who live with low salaries, working desperately, without overtime pay, and without the certainty of career advancement even though they have worked for decades. So do not be surprised when you see a lot of Japanese employees who had fallen asleep on the train as they headed home. They were too tired.

This is Japan's real working world.
"Every day I live with a terrible anxiety," said Ikezaki, a contract employee who is currently working with a salary of ¥ 75,000 / month (or about 7 million per month). "When I think about my future, so I can not sleep at night." Based on data from the Japanese government, there are more than 10 million people living on less than the normal standard of Japan is ¥ 1,600,000 / year (or approximately 155 million per year). Maybe this is all a result of Japanese companies are more concerned with corporate profits and take advantage of the innocence of new workers (who obviously did not have any other option) creates a salaryman. People who live with low salaries, working desperately, without overtime pay, and without the certainty of career advancement even though they have worked for decades. So do not be surprised when you see a lot of Japanese employees who had fallen asleep on the train as they headed home. They were too tired.

Salaryman's own words taken from English, namely salary (salary) and man (person), so salaryman means a person whose life is 100% dependent on salary. They get fired if it feels the world ends. If in Indonesia, is the same as the nation's nobility = employees.
Because of the stress, create a new word that is famous in the world of Japanese workers to describe how hard work in Japan, which is karoshi. What it karoshi? Karoshi means "dead work" or death due to job stress. Subtle means "died of a loyal and devoted to the company". Death could have been due to a workplace accident, death being too tired (his health declined considerably), or due to suicide because of work stress. Because of the seriousness of this issue, the Japanese government has tried various ways to overcome them. From providing emergency phone number to receive the grievances of the salaryman, user guide to reduce stress, to pass laws that give some money (insurance) to the widows and children who had lost because of karoshi. According to government data, from 2,207 suicides in 2007, 672 of his is because the work was too much. Is the famous case of karoshi deaths Kenichi Uchino in 2002, a quality-control manager 30-year-old who works at the world's largest automotive company, Toyota. Kenichi reportedly worked overtime for 80 hours each month for 6 months without overtime or given any additional bonuses. He eventually fainted at work and was rushed to the hospital, who then took him to the afterlife. McDonald's Japan is also affected by this problem. One restaurant manager fell ill and died due to work overtime without any pay. Would not want, due to public pressure, Toyota and McDonald's finally decided to provide overtime pay for those who want to work overtime and provide better health facilities. The salaryman is actually good intentions, namely to promote the company. Coupled with the Japanese culture has always emphasized discipline, they think that by working longer and harder than other employees and without asking for any payment, their boss can give a much better position. But the reality, NO !! ..
And schedule a salaryman can be listened as follows

06:30 = get out of bed
07:30 = gone to the office (walk / bike ride / subway)
08:50 = must arrive at the office
09:00 = morning meeting with supervisor
9:10 = start work
12:00 = lunch (bento / canteen / restaurant nearby)
13:00 = start working again
17:00 = overtime begins (usually without overtime pay)
20:30 = nomikai party (if any)
21:30 = return to home (walking / bike ride / subway)
22:30 = until home, watch TV, read the newspaper
23:00 = sleep

Repeat continuously from Monday to Friday.
Saturday was usually home early (if there is overtime, work as usual).
Sunday off (if there is overtime, work as usual).
Regulations in the office:
# 1. If the boss says the earth is square, box shape of the earth.
# 2. If he changes his mind, then the earth is also the shape changes.
# 3. Forget what your customers are saying. Boss is king.
# 4. New employees? Boss is God.
# 5. Bowed. Bowed. Bowed.