The headline of the article seems misleading. According to the article itself, the guy didn’t get a day of vacation in the half year proceeding the onset of severe depression. But his wife said that after getting married he didn’t take a single day of vacation for a year and 4 months.
I hope more Japanese people finding themselves overworked can wake up from their nightmares. Maybe the government can do more to find people that feel stuck like that and get to reach out for help. If I was being overwhelmed with job demands but knew that I could take a paid vacation with no penalty… The possibility of employees taking paid vacations alone would get companies to restructure work hours.
Fuck… be nice to Konbini staff. Always, please.
And it’s not that he’s not allowed, he just didn’t take a day off because he felt responsible for running the store smootly. Japan really need to do something with this toxic work culture that make employee felt guilty to take a time off.
Average workday in Japan.
And me working 2 months without a day off was horrible … thank god I don’t do that anymore
Omg. That is sad.
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”
Is this not the dark side to 7-11? If you own a 7-11 you *must* be open 24 hrs and you *must* stock the products they tell you to stock regardless of whether they sell or not. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Note that he has 3 kids including a baby, I doubt he really had any restful sleep.
Any chance he did it due to the stock market downturn?
More like “0-24”.
But really though, that’s just ridiculous and incredibly sad. My condolences to theur family, friends, a d co-workers.
Also: I remember a job interview in Japan at an design company where the interviewees were showing off how much overtime they were doing. One had a record of working 40+ hours without break in order to meet a deadline during an ’emergency’
When I asked how often these ’emergencies’ happen, he responded ‘very rarely… only every 2-3 months’.
I was also asked if I could move closer so that I don’t have to catch my last train by 9pm already.
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Heartbreaking.
That’s terrible.
I’d probably lost it a lot sooner..
The headline of the article seems misleading. According to the article itself, the guy didn’t get a day of vacation in the half year proceeding the onset of severe depression. But his wife said that after getting married he didn’t take a single day of vacation for a year and 4 months.
I hope more Japanese people finding themselves overworked can wake up from their nightmares. Maybe the government can do more to find people that feel stuck like that and get to reach out for help. If I was being overwhelmed with job demands but knew that I could take a paid vacation with no penalty… The possibility of employees taking paid vacations alone would get companies to restructure work hours.
Fuck… be nice to Konbini staff. Always, please.
And it’s not that he’s not allowed, he just didn’t take a day off because he felt responsible for running the store smootly. Japan really need to do something with this toxic work culture that make employee felt guilty to take a time off.
Average workday in Japan.
And me working 2 months without a day off was horrible … thank god I don’t do that anymore
Omg. That is sad.
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”
Is this not the dark side to 7-11? If you own a 7-11 you *must* be open 24 hrs and you *must* stock the products they tell you to stock regardless of whether they sell or not. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Note that he has 3 kids including a baby, I doubt he really had any restful sleep.
Any chance he did it due to the stock market downturn?
More like “0-24”.
But really though, that’s just ridiculous and incredibly sad. My condolences to theur family, friends, a d co-workers.
Also: I remember a job interview in Japan at an design company where the interviewees were showing off how much overtime they were doing. One had a record of working 40+ hours without break in order to meet a deadline during an ’emergency’
When I asked how often these ’emergencies’ happen, he responded ‘very rarely… only every 2-3 months’.
I was also asked if I could move closer so that I don’t have to catch my last train by 9pm already.