Kidnapping Cases - It Could Never Happen Here

[Mike Oxlong]

Was talking with a Japanese guy I know, and got the old "America kowai ne" crap regarding the recent California kidnapping case. I mentioned that such things have happened in Japan before, like the Niigata Shojo Kanken Jiken. He had a conveniently short memory...

[xenomorph42]

Was talking with a Japanese guy I know, and got the old "America kowai ne" crap regarding the recent California kidnapping case. I mentioned that such things have happened in Japan before, like the Niigata Shojo Kanken Jiken. He had a conveniently short memory...

No, they don't. They just have selective memory when it suits them conveniently.

[Ketou]

[quote="xenomorph42"]No, they don't. They just have selective memory when it suits them conveniently. ]

Very true.

[sublight]

Yep, that Niigata case was the first thing I thought of when I heard about the California one.

[2triky]

Was talking with a Japanese guy I know, and got the old "America kowai ne" crap regarding the recent California kidnapping case. I mentioned that such things have happened in Japan before, like the Niigata Shojo Kanken Jiken. He had a conveniently short memory...

So I'm just curious...what was this guy's reply when you did mention the Niigata incident?

[Mike Oxlong]

[Coligny]

[IkemenTommy]

So what's the news here that I missed?

[Neo-Rio]

failling on purpose as quickly as possible and claiming she did her best and therefore can't do better or anything else.

That's because bosses usually always reject the first 3 to 4 attempts at a task as not being good enough by default. Doesn't matter if the first attempt was a winner, they'll automatically say that it was rubbish and to "try harder" even when there's nowhere else to improve.

So, the natural reaction to this is, knowing that the first few attempts are going to get rejected, is to do a half-assed job the first few times.

[Behan]

The thing about the Niigata case, too, was that the girl was kept in the same house as the mother who claimed she didn't know anything. Didn't the guy keep her in his closet or something?
And, if I remember correctly, the police claimed to have found her but it came out that it was really social workers who found her and the police were just taking credit for it.

[Coligny]

That's because bosses usually always reject the first 3 to 4 attempts at a task as not being good enough by default. Doesn't matter if the first attempt was a winner, they'll automatically say that it was rubbish and to "try harder" even when there's nowhere else to improve.

So, the natural reaction to this is, knowing that the first few attempts are going to get rejected, is to do a half-assed job the first few times.

Yeah, I understand the behaviour, but not in this case... She's not an OL. She never had a 'boss'. She had directors of research more or less shitless scared of her father and who were not expecting delays or failure (hysterectomy are kinda, sorta, more troublesome to screw up than TPS reports covers). AND after failing it was over, no need to put the topic back in the discussion. I was totally fucked, not in the happy kind of way.