• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    I just noticed this on our calendar and had to wonder if the boss of the calendar company made them put this here.

    Edit: Wikipedia says it is real:

    Boss’s Day (also written Bosses Day or Boss’ Day) is generally observed on October 16 in the United States. It has been pitched as a day for employees to thank their bosses for being kind and fair throughout the year.

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      I saw that on our calendar this year and laughed. The company i work for had a huge influx of buisness for a year or two, but they mismanaged the hell out of the profits. With everything going to shit this year they had to let go of over half the company, including my husband just days before his hire date anniversary when he would have gotten more vacation days and his yearly raise… Yeah…boss…i dont have many reasons to be thankful this “bosses day”

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        Apparently it’s a legacy of nepotism. Someone in 1958 was working for daddy and wanted to celebrate daddy on daddy’s birthday for being such a good boss. Thanks daddy.

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        That might work with mid level managers but my experience has been that when the more senior folks do try to do this (for whatever reason) they are so overwhelmed by their own reality distortion they think they did a good job. I mean they don’t have to deal with the consequences of their poor choices ever, so why worry about a concept or design being bad.

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    I complained to my boss about my boss and he would make sure to change things for the better of his employees. Because the less employees complain, the better work they do.

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    I’d use this service for when I need to retire or quit from a job I may not like. Like how the Japanese do.

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        Japanese working culture is … different.

        https://metropolisjapan.com/resignation-agencies/

        Tl:dr;

        The top-cited reason for using resignation agencies, at 40.7%, was that companies refused to let them quit. Other reasons included fear of backlash if they resigned alone or their work environment discouraged employees from quitting independently.

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          I’d love to see them try that on me lol… Oh I can’t quit? I’ll just stop coming into work and if you want to continue to pay me, then that’s your prerogative.

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          In Japan companies even do their best to not fire people and just bully them into quitting. So they don’t have to pay severance and also maintain their image. They will basically isolate employees from their colleagues and give them jobs that they weren’t even hired to do, like cleaning even though they have a cleaning crew. Like at Konami employees they wanted to let go of were forced to clean the Konami gyms.

          Being isolated from your colleagues doesn’t sound that bad to us, but in Japan many people don’t have many friends outside of their coworkers. Not to mention everyone knows what is about to happen if they isolate you. It’s a way to shame you.

          Basically they do shit that is straight up illegal in most western countries.

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            What prevents them for doing the same? Not doing their job until they are fired so they don’t have to quit. I would get that would be even more shameful

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              Japanese principles of honorable work, fear of retribution in future jobs. They’re brought up to expect a very different relationship with their company, and end up with a self-abusive mentality that they must deserve the mistreatment.

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          discouraged from quitting? bitch the whole point of quitting is to not be beholden to your shit.

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    What happens if you are the only employee or one of two employees in your company

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      Nah, the good old days, when you’d step out for a smoke break and cut their brake lines, before they leave to take a two-week holiday vacation. No HR, no confrontation, just results. And maybe a promotion!

      Now we have ‘mediators’ and CEOs don’t like having an office with floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor anymore…