Japanese have trouble everywhere they go

[Skankster]

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Apparently Japanese broadcasters are having trouble working with the Greeks.

So are the Greeks lazy??

Supposedly the Japanese Broadcasters are reporting the Greek are lazy, easy going, do not understand equipment and computers.
Isnt this shocking? Wow the Japanese must be in absolute HELL

I have seen and heard many stories by Japanese abroad working with the "locals" It is sooooo very typical.

Their impressions is that Americans quit at 5.
Europeans, Australians, etc are lazy.
Not to mention the Latins, or the Russians.

They think everbody should be motivated by "Gambarimasu"
This, for one's opinion, bugs the shit out of me.

[kotatsuneko]

hassle is, most people from other countries don't guzzle 4-100 "energy" drinks per shift... and work to live ?

[Crambo]

Well I'm surprised the Japanese in Greece at present haven't adopted the allegedly lazy temperament of the Greek people, as I know the Japanese here in Australia (at the embassy) certainly are. They're slow to reply, fail to respond to any messages (via phone or e-mail, sometimes mail) and finally when they actually do enter into correspondence, one is lucky to have the important, be they easy to answer or not, questions answered.

This brings me to think their definition of lazy is hardly relative, as if it were lazy has obviously been misunderstood as being a synonym for meritoriously hard-working. :P

[same]

Gaijins...
Work from 9 to 5 and do as much work as possible. If they didn't their manager would kill them.

Japanese...
Work from 9 to 9 and do as little work as possible. If they did their manager would kill them.

[Cobra]

Gaijins...
Work from 9 to 5 and do as much work as possible. If they didn't their manager would kill them.

Japanese...
Work from 9 to 9 and do as little work as possible. If they did their manager would kill them.

a agree with this! however I will say Japanese manual labors work pretty well. Kuronecko and construction workers do a good job. You cannot take this away from them.
However office workers suck. The Japanese always have someone negative to say about foreigners when going overseas. Makes them feel "superior". They seem to be the best at everything.
When I worked in construction for one month a long while back this yankee guys said "I hear Gaijin are lazy". Thats a pretty straight forward thing to say isnt it. That is like me saying to him "I hear J guys have small cocks and are very bad lovers". This I wouldnt do as I would be a cock to do so (unless he pissed me off.....). I then said to him go take a look at the buildings in Europe and the US. But obviously he will never get out of Japan......poor yankee.

[Samurai_Jerk]

-Their impressions is that Americans quit at 5.

That's an especially big load of BS since Americans work more hours a week and take fewer holidays a year on average than anyone else in the developed world.

But they are right about the rest of you lazy fuckers from Europe, Australia, etc.

[Adhesive]

Using the most recently available data, the ILO has determined that the average Australian, Canadian, Japanese or Mexican worker was on the job roughly 100 hours less than the average American in a year -- that's almost two-and-a-half weeks less. Brazilians and British employees worked some 250 hours, or more than five weeks, less than Americans. Germans worked roughly 500 hours, or 12-and-a-half weeks, less than careerists in the States.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/30/ilo.study/

[Samurai_Jerk]

Thank you, Adhesive!

Of countries classified as "developing" or "in transition," only South Korea and the Czech Republic tracked workers putting in more hours than American laborers. The Koreans logged almost 500 hours more annually than Americans, the Czechs doing some 100 hours more work than U.S. workers on average.

I'd feel sorry for the Korean if they weren't such a bunch of jerk-offs.

One thing I wonder about these statistics though. Do they include all of the obligatory socializing that takes place after work in places like Japan and Korea?