The Daily Beast ran an article on a work attendance system based on facial recognition that also assesses whether employees are smiling cheerfully enough. If an employee isn't smiling cheerfully enough they cannot log on to their computers. At the end of the workday, smiles are assessed again and leaving from work is impossible if one cannot muster a convincing enough smile. The software is also used to publicly humiliate anyone who is even slightly late or cannot smile cheerfully enough. The Japanese Diet (=parliament) is about to legalize 100 hours of overtime per month and remove overtime pay from many white-collar jobs.
Japan sounds like hell on Earth. I like Japanese cars for their reliability. Now I'm seriously considering if I should boycott everything made in Japan or by Japanese corporations. I try to avoid buying products that are made using child or slave labour or in the production of which animals have been tortured. I wonder if the Japanese people deserve to be ranked below animals or slaves. But they're doing this to themselves.
This is humiliating to say the least. I don’t think that enforcement of this kind will ever help to increase efficiency.
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If I were a religious man, I would probably kneel down every evening at bedtime and than God for not being born Japanese.
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Hahah lol
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That sounds horrible :/
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Robots comes to mind. I have heard of cruelty the way Japanese treat people in the past but this is 2018 and see no difference.
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I also like Japanese brands, especially Sony. I had seen or read this note a few years ago. I share your same feeling friend. It is unfair that children and adults are treated as slaves of work, as happens in China on a large scale to take advantage of their economic situation. Markku in the world are going through such barbarous things that you would hesitate to believe.
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The Japanese people could end this by voting politicians intending to end this into office. But they won't.
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Always the solution is in our hands, or in the case of them, in the hands of themselves, and it is very simple but ... the interests of a few have more weight than that of the majority, this is the world.
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FELIZ DOMINGO AMIGO MIO!!!
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Happy Sunday to you, too.
Most Japanese people are workers. Perhaps there are powerful vested interests in Japanese society that make it very difficult for the majority to make any concerted effort to end this kind of torture (the insane amount of overtime people do often without compensation and now this latest ridiculousness).
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That really sounds weird. How can you force people to smile?
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It's a question of aligning the incentives in the right way.
You and I probably come from cultures that are similar in the sense that there is relatively little external pressure to behave according to a strict etiquette. In Japan, the etiquette thing is taken to another level. For the Japanese this would probably not be anything totally out of the ordinary.
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There’s a similar situation here in the us. People used to tell me to smile a lot. This is about people and what they want to see, but what about me and how I feel? It’s ridiculous that people do that. I actually find it kind of rude.
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I value genuine self expression. I understand the notion of providing professional service. But it doesn't have to mean that you have to be a marionette instead of a human being.
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Wow, very interesting you just made look the other way. I have always admired the Japanese culture but this type of information did not know, I think I will follow your steps in that regard with respect to the Japanese.
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Hahaha that photo! That's a diabolic smile hahaha. That sounds a little awful, imagine if someone is having a really bad day and can't work because the smile scanner.
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Then he goes about making one last push (see above for the desperate last ditch attempt at smiling properly) to be able to finally get to work. Plan B is blowing the whole place to kingdom come with the 5 kg of plastic explosives taped to his body under his clothes.
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hahahahaha
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