Comments on: Power Harassment Suicide at Sagawa Express http://newzjapan.com/japanese-business/power-harassment-suicide-at-sagawa-express Alternative News and Insider Commentary from Japan Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rakesh http://newzjapan.com/japanese-business/power-harassment-suicide-at-sagawa-express/comment-page-1#comment-987 rakesh Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:32:39 +0000 http://newzjapan.com/?p=876#comment-987 These stories give me goosebumps. Its hard to believe that organizations, governments and people allow such incidents to occur. http://pawahara.blogspot.com/ These stories give me goosebumps.
Its hard to believe that organizations, governments and people allow such incidents to occur.

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]]> By: jay http://newzjapan.com/japanese-business/power-harassment-suicide-at-sagawa-express/comment-page-1#comment-974 jay Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:24:00 +0000 http://newzjapan.com/?p=876#comment-974 Teachers have pretty strong unions in Japan and tend to stick together, but there really aren't a lot of means by which workers can fight back. You also tend to have trouble finding people who are willing to fight for the sake of a principle. I know of a man who was basically berated and ordered to quit. He refused, was berated again, then offered a buy out to quit his job because of some complaints about him. The union offered to support him but he just wanted it all to end, took the money, said goodbye and started working part time somewhere while using the buy out money to try to live off of the currency exchange market (which seems to be experiencing a little popularity among middle aged to older people in Japan though I have no figures to base this on). Teachers have pretty strong unions in Japan and tend to stick together, but there really aren’t a lot of means by which workers can fight back. You also tend to have trouble finding people who are willing to fight for the sake of a principle.

I know of a man who was basically berated and ordered to quit. He refused, was berated again, then offered a buy out to quit his job because of some complaints about him. The union offered to support him but he just wanted it all to end, took the money, said goodbye and started working part time somewhere while using the buy out money to try to live off of the currency exchange market (which seems to be experiencing a little popularity among middle aged to older people in Japan though I have no figures to base this on).

]]> By: Dave http://newzjapan.com/japanese-business/power-harassment-suicide-at-sagawa-express/comment-page-1#comment-971 Dave Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:45:52 +0000 http://newzjapan.com/?p=876#comment-971 I read about this story a couple of days ago, and my first thought was, "They will never pin a power harassment suicide on him". That would then open the door for a huge number of claims and potentially a big change in business practices throughout Japan. The people involved in these cases know this and so you're probably right: a monetary deal will be struck with the woman, the incident forgotten about and everything swept under the carpet. Pretty shocked to read your comments about those two people you know personally and their experiences. You read about this and you realise Japan is years ahead of other developed countries in some aspects, it is decades behind in others. I read about this story a couple of days ago, and my first thought was, “They will never pin a power harassment suicide on him”. That would then open the door for a huge number of claims and potentially a big change in business practices throughout Japan. The people involved in these cases know this and so you’re probably right: a monetary deal will be struck with the woman, the incident forgotten about and everything swept under the carpet.

Pretty shocked to read your comments about those two people you know personally and their experiences. You read about this and you realise Japan is years ahead of other developed countries in some aspects, it is decades behind in others.

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