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The Adventures of a Foreign Salaryman in Tokyo
http://foreignsalaryman.blogspot.com/
I'm a 30-something foreign guy working at a consultant company in Tokyo. This blog will relate wonderous tales of my tragic comic adventures in work and general life in Tokyo.
- Author: Peter Johnston
- Listed in: Humor Business
- Tags: Culture humor japan consulting
Recent Posts
...someone\'s going to have a great Christmas...
Ok, sometimes I do miss the "genuine" Christmas atmosphere of the old country with the Christmas markets, cold, snow and cosy darkness...But then I remember the cold, the snow and the depressing darkness and when weighed against such wonderful Christ...
Treat them well and you can reap magical rewards, but anger them...
Earlier today we had an e-mail and Internet blackout for a few hours, which of course can cause almost panic-like uproar in an office environment. The "I like to wash my hands before I take a dump" IT guy was running around like crazy and even though...
We\'re happy and energetic!!
Just a little while earlier, our company executed a survey on a local Japan level towards all of the employees on the theme, "what do we need to do to become the number one company" and true to form the "number one" was not limited to our particular ...
Yes, another men\'s room story
Seen today in the office shared men's room (where an alarmingly high percentage of my posts seem to play out):Our IT-guy, true to form of all IT people I have ever known, is a little greasy, has a vague hint of BO and laughs at all the wrong things b...
It\'s not you, it\'s me
At the moment, I am a relatively free man inside the corporation. I have been relieved of most of my peons and now basically have only one and he is being fired in slow motion. For me, this is more comfortable because I don't have to consider other p...
Mummies, mass murder and pseudo-science! Top 3 Cults of Japan!
Since my previous list of top worst image characters of Japan proved to be such a roaring success I thought I should provide you all with another ranking of a very similar subject: cults.If you start looking I’m sure there’s plenty of freaky cu...
