Americans are getting tired too. We want REFORM! Higher wages, paid leave, free healthcare insurance! "The gentle laborer shall no longer suffer from the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs!"
@@zombies4evadude24 There is no such thing as free; Keep that commie crap to yourself. Now getting rid of the rampant corruption and literal scam that the healthcare industry has become? All for it.
@@jpminiman2592 You pay for healthcare either way. I'd rather pay through taxation and have healthcare provided as a public service than pay at the market and have healthcare provided as a commodity. All of the problems in healthcare stem from the for profit motive and the parasitic insurance market that it requires to function.
I'm 19 years old Japanese. Japanese young people are pragmatic. We were exposed to the Internet from a young age, and at the same time we saw Japan become economically stagnant. Because I was in such an environment, I didn't have any dreams, and no matter how hard I worked, my wages didn't increase, so I didn't work hard. We don't want to be rich or famous. As long as I can live a normal life, that's fine. Although my English is bad, thank you for reading.
@Ameotoko. Wasn't bad at all. There's people who lived in the US their whole lives with worse English. The only thing I saw that was somewhat incorrect is adjective order, which isn't that big of a deal, and too many commas in the one sentence. Most people will ignore them anyhow and it was completely coherent and readable. I think you got a pretty good grasp of it, little bit more practice and you'll probably be writing better than most native speakers. English is just different with adjective-noun order than some other languages. You got it.
...Hey soo who usually paid for the drinks? Out of curiosity because if they each have to pay for their own drinks then that itself is an issue. Low wages and then have to waste more money onto something you don't actually wants for yourself.
the difference is, going out with your boss to drink creates or breaks the future prospects of you in that company, since you can become promoted while out drinking with your boss in japan.
I find it funny that the video just glossed over the "going out to drink with your boss" part. Your boss taking you out drinking in an Asian country isn't the fun treat it sounds like. Bosses will essentially force their subordinates (I didn't say employees on purpose) to drink until the Boss thinks they've had enough. And they'll frequently stay out *very* late on a work night, which is fine for the Boss because he can sleep it off and come into work late, but the subordinates have to be at their desks *exactly* on time first thing in the morning no matter how late their boss kept them up drinking. It's a shitty practice that no one except older bosses want to keep in place.
Yep. Not to mention that your fiftysomething male boss may become a little too touchy-feely with the younger of his female employees once he's drunk. "Gen Z are too sensitive" my ass, the sexual harassment in the workplace was completely normalized.
@@Destilight This would mark you as "Not a Team Player", and at that point you might as well quit and find a new job because you're never getting promoted.
@@Destilight Why give real or fake (medical info). Better to say "I don't drink" (with my boss) or "I have to go" (home/elsewhere that's none of your business since I'm off the clock).
They demand to be cold working automatons when the boss wants to connect... Basically, here you have the Western hustle culture, you literally don't hear anything and just repeat the canned line you think would fit the situation, like "japanese work culture is bad". Absolute double think when US work culture for a long time has been that google style, make workplace your second home so you never leave it. gen Z was made illiterate with fight Club. They want to prioritize "alone time" and just make work the way they can be blind consumerist, like in the beginning of fight Club. It's a cliche but this is literally Orwellian, you're doing the job Winston Smith HAD in the novel right now for free.
But sadly many in West opt for Onlyfans and looking for sugar daddies through websites as they are lazy and don't want to work. I hope Japan don't get infected with Westerb culture c@ncer mindset.
I live here and have 2 boys of 20 yrs and your comment was nail on the head, Watch stupid companies like Honda ( are) will go backwards Serves them right
it's not just that, Japanese had better living standards to compensate for the work culture, now the pay has not increased with the cost of living so there isn't an incentive to work hard, same thing going on in Western countries. It's not that gen Z is lazy it's that they realized they are getting screwed over
I'm an elder millennials (born in early 80s), asian, and came from a poor single parent upbringing for most of my childhood. I remember being told to work, and it was almost a badge of honor in immigrant culture to sacrifice yourself for work. When I was in college, my mom tried to convince me to quit my bouncing gig (which paid okay) to take an office job with one of her friends for $5/hour. This was already lower than minimum wage at the time (which was $6.50 at the time), but I was told to do this because I need to learn what it was like working in the "white collar" world despite the low pay. It wasn't an internship into anything in my field either, just legit office monkey shit. When I graduated, I started throwing myself into work. Long hours, socialize with coworkers after, sleep, start doing this again. Ironically the more and longer hours I worked, the lower quality of work I started producing. I stopped taking lunch breaks and would eat at my desk. I would stay shut in on the weekends, only to repeat the cycle. I prided myself on the fact that I haven't had a legit vacation in over 5 years. It was horrible. I was tired, depressed, and didn't care to live anymore. I wasn't actively suicidal, but I couldn't find joy in anything. When I went to a startup, the same shit but even worse. I made more money, but worked even longer hours. Our startup became one of the biggest unicorns at the time, but we were all feeling the pressure. We worked average about 50 hours a week, and our VP of Sales sent out an email saying "I know you're all feeling burnt out, but you have to set those feelings aside. That's just what it means to work at the fastest growing company in history". I moved over to a sister corporation after getting denied raise/promos despite performing well. At this company, I was so afraid of failing that I worked 12 hours/day until i ended up in the hospital. It honestly wasn't until my late 30s (getting out of the hospital basically) that I realized this was all shit. I started doing exactly what i needed to do and no extra effort. I ended up excelling more and getting paid more. Now I make 3x what I made when i was in sales but work regular hours (if not less...go tech). Unfortunately I've done irreparable damage to my health after 2 decades, but now I'm going to do my best to balance out the rest of my time. Now whenever I hear the older generation bitch about how people have no work ethic nowadays, it's because the people before us treated everyone like machines. I'll see a comment on these videos of business owners going "All of my employees are lazy, I work harder than anyone here!" but the reality is the harder they work, the more money they make. The harder the staff work, the more money the bosses make, and the staff get rewarded with pizza parties or a starbucks gift card. Fuck that.
"... the harder they [business owners] work, the more money they make. The harder the staff work, the more money the bosses make, and the staff get rewarded with pizza parties or a starbucks gift card. Fuck that." If they get a pizza or a starbucks gift card at all.
Well sad bro, these motherfuckers offers shit low pay jobs, and when you doesnt comply, they gaslight you that you are lazy or “incompetent”. I dont care if the company makes more money if they dont offers more bonus. They treat employees like a product, and want us to treat them as if they are our family.
@@arturoz6547You need to reward employees with actual financial compensation if they work hard. If you are stingy with your payments, your employees will be stingy with their work. Common sense, but management people dont have common sense...
Yeah, to me what they are doing is actually a good thing. Stop companies from abusing their workers. Work so you can have an active and enjoyable life - not live to/for work.
@@BovinaSancta79 That will take years for systemic corporations to change because one cooperation won't just change for a few people leaving. it will take many cooperation's to suffer for them to get stubborn enough to finally change
@@eduardopantoja9115it’ll happen eventually the next generation and after it will do the same combine that with japan ageing problem and corporations will start fighting for new employees which means better working conditions
Gen Z in Japan is going through what the American Gen X went through in the '80s. When you see older guys get fired with no prospects at age 40 after putting their lives into the job, your attitude is going to be "Employment is strictly a temporary business arrangement. Show me the money." Japanese companies used to keep people on until retirement even if they couldn't do much anymore. There was even a word for it - "madogiwazoku". Literally, "the tribe that sits by the windows". Lifetime employment really meant lifetime employment. All that ended when Japanese Gen Z were children, so they don't have any illusions.
This is also exactly the same in Korea where I've been living for 20 years. It even started earlier than in Japan. The social contract is broken. Before it used to be : Total devotion = total security until retirement age. Now, since companies don't offer this trade anymore people don't respect them so much and just run for cash. When I see this small company owner think that they could obtain hard work for small cash and no security it makes me laugh. Pure idiots.
your interpretation of people sitting by the window is a bit off. allow me to explain. those who would be "relegated" to the window seats were not the senior people who had dedicated their careers to one single company. rather, they are the underperformers, or those whom the company wants to get rid of but can't via the traditional way of firing (since that is rarely done at japanese companies). hence why they send them to the window seats to send them an indirect message.
@@lullemans72 You're thinking of _Oidashibey_ ("purgatory"), which is something different. When they want you to quit you don't get a window. They pack you into a windowless room in the building's interior and give you menial, degrading tasks. Traditionally, at least, _madogiwazoku_ were the older people who were just out of touch or had lost too much energy to be helpful. I have no doubt managers would have been happy to see those people leave, and I'm sure there was always a stigma, but unless the meaning of the term has changed recently it doesn't mean the company is trying to force them out. I doubt either term has been operative for awhile, since now companies fire employees they don't want.
That lines up with my experience. Most of my jobs have been ok. One or two were great. The ones that were terrible all hired me instantly without considering anyone. I went for the interview, and I was hired on the spot. None of my coworkers had been in for longer than 6 months.
Yes. a high staff turnover is a red flag for terrible working conditions. However there is also an extreme shortage of employees coz the governments (particularly in the west and western orientated) thought it to be a great idea to use the population as lab rabbits and force some experimental poison.... *ahum 'medicine' down everyone's throat in 2020/2021, which has severely weakened the working population by the amount of deaths and disabilities rendering many of the working age group unable and unfit to work. In my profession alone, I can't go to any city or town and hear from the franchise employees that the competition has their doors shut several days a weak due to the lack of opticians (or optometrists). Similarly I can't travel anywhere in the country without hearing the busses and trains are a complete disaster due to shortage of employees and anywhere I come in what shop, institution or factory, it's the same story.
Last time I checked you still need money to live. Did that change? Then you guys in Gen Z are going to work just like everyone else. Especially since everything costs more now. Seriously, these videos are anti logic.
@@darksaint0124 bro thinks we can live with the current economy 💀 The logic is this: If we do everything that you said and still can't survive, we might as well not work at all (because the end result is the same either way).
But who will adjust, the genz employees or the companies. Companies are like telling them to follow the culture, no talking. But maybe the new gen can change that toxic culture. Who knows.
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3:40 is pure Asperger’s. “Hi fellow human what’s your dreams?” *panic attacks and quits
When you consider how important "face" (reputation and perception) is in Asian culture, not so much. All it takes is one word to screw yourself from any future prospects.
I think that's a bit oversimplified. Of course on its own with someone who you've gotten to know a fair bit, this question I'd say is fair game, but in an environment where likely they want to MOLD you into "one of the family" at the company, they're not actually gonna want you to pursue said dreams if that means leaving the company. It means that when people are asked this question, their answer is expected to fall in line with the company's benefits. Answering as such makes you feel guilty, like you've made some sort of pact and expectation to fulfil something on their behalf. I mean, they do this in the west too during job interviews, and for the same reasoning under the guise of "no we just want to get to know you as a person, honest!" but there's an underlying social pressure that it sets in place. I once actually heard a manager at my work place get angry and practically curse one of the younger guys who quit to pursue his dream because "he's making a mistake" and "wont be as financially stable as he is here", and these aren't said in secret. They'd discuss it with other employees briefly and ask them questions like "you think it's stupid too, right?" obviously pressuring you into agreeing or the like. This obviously wouldn't work on people who are of stronger mind of independance, but for newer starters in particular who aren't familiar with the wider world of employment in general, they feel like the consequences to just being themselves is far greater, and it can mentally trap them. So with that being said, sure, in a vaccuum it sounds silly, but I think what's happening more here, is that the new generation ALREADY knows what kind of work culture Japan has created. As the video says, they already have that raw data and personal experiences from those online. They're less likely to let themselves get trapped in a psychological trend and culture than those who came before them. For better or worse (better imo) they'll have a much more varied approach to what used to be an extremely traditional system that controls their people.
Planety if em even gen alpha may be the restoring I’d the lost honor in the rising sun land, even to rising ag7snt the things ruining Japan, even just maybe the key of many to solve their underpopulation chrisis and other things
@@solarydays Can you explain your reasoning? How are people not working in shit jobs for shit employers condemning the future generation to working for those same shit jobs? If anything, those jobs and employers will cease because they can't retain workers.
gen x was way ahead of you than... who do you think the anti establishment punk rockers were ? as was the boomers.. way ahead of you who did you think the hippies were ? your gens problem is that you think you invented everything. meanwhile your literally behind us.
Everytime i see these videos of "gen something is hard to work with" it always boils down to companies astonished that people refuse to work for pennies
the problem comes when a gen z without education or work experience believe themselves deserving of the same salary as the person with education and 20 years experience. life doesn't work that way.
I encourage them to look at the inflation numbers. 4 dolars an hour in 1994 are a measily 2 doalrs an hour in 2024. Yea over the last 30 years theres been a 100% infaltion. If prices go up by a 100% people are gona demand duble wages or they wont take the job.
@@saiwaqa2573 no, i obviously meant one trillion dollars in advance, 24/7 assigned personal driver, two hookers and a lambo for the weekends, anything less is "pennies", im slowly fapping 😄
They hate gen z because they have to deal with them and change now that there is a population crisis that came because people were prioritising work. How ironic
Yeah, no, that’s not how this works. They won’t “have” to deal with them because they’re actually importing people now into the country. So basically because Gen Z was so pro-Immigration, there were very little bills (hoops) to jump thru and now the place will slowly but surely be flooded with competition. Gen Z Japanese will simply be replaced by immigrants and will be facing the criminal problems many European countries now face. It’s over.
honestly there really isn't a population crisis it's just that there are too many boomers and corporations will not let the population decrease to sustainable numbers because this system is a pyramid scheme built on endless growth
I know right? Decades of the old eating the young greek Titan style as finally come home to roost. On that note, the salaries in Japan especially for those not in management are SUPER LOW, like Mexico Peso level low. the Profits are up, as always, but those go to the managers and bosses lol. . .who then use that money to hire young ladies for "steamy nights" etc etc etc you can see where this is going and has gone. Japan's issues are caused by the old Japanese generations who partied away their future in the 80's and 90's who continued to fuck things up as they gained more and more power. Japan has it's own boomer problem just like the west does lol. For the Chinese Government online shills thinking they can add to this with nonsense, stay quiet, China is on the verge of total collapse, worry about keeping yourselves from starving instead of posting nonsense on youtube.
Funny how the people that keeps saying the population crisis is due to overwork leaves out that there's a population crisis everywhere even countries where they work a lot less like scandinavia.
It used to be you go to school, study, get a job, get married, have a family, buy a house, get old, retire, die. Now it's go to school, study, get old, die. Everything else is too expensive, even getting a job. We're quickly getting to the point where living where jobs are and commuting are almost as expensive as the pay. What do you do when you aren't paid enough to even show up to work? GenZ see the future and realize there's nothing to gain from working hard and being loyal but there's still everything to lose. You die in the end either way, so why struggle on the way to the cemetery when you can slack off and enjoy what little life the older generations haven't already taken from you?
Economy is broken. It was done by the banking capitalists. They want to steal all the money. They brainwashed the boomers, first gen with TV. Now we have evil culture everywhere
And the people who say you still can do those things, don't realize how lucky you have to be, in order to get to a point in your life to be able to do those things.
@@ragsdale710 Your brain is scrambled. Productivity is way up and yet they want you to grind more and pay you less while they charge more and rake in more money for themselves. You need to pull your head out of the sand and pay attention to the lawn mower they're pushing your way.
I remember I was a kid and watched movies about parents who worked too hard to make money for their kids but then they never spent enough time with their kids. So the lesson was “family is more important than money” “money isn’t happiness” “your job is not the one you are married to” “be there for your loved ones before it too late” “your boss will sacrifice you over nothing, put yourself first” and these companies are having surprise pikachu face when the young generation listened?
@@wiggilytaco7570 lmao that would make sense if they had families, but the birth rate in Japan is extremely low. It's got nothing to do with family, it has to do with them and their selfishness.
It's not only a Japan problem tbh. My aunt recently just got a job after she was laid off a year ago (part of a major restructuring in her old bank). The question she constantly had to go to me (a late millennial) and my sister (a proper gen z) was "how do I deal with millennials and Gen Zs???" For some reason she just couldn't deal with late millennials and Gen Zs at the workplace. Apparently to her they're like kids and can't seem to work like how she (and her mentors) does. I think it's just a thing that constantly happens whenever a large age/generational gap between employees occur. I told her to just be chill and understand how the younger generations put importance over work-life balance. My sister told her to just not be weird and don't get down to their level or whatever. But my aunt's solution was to just bribe them with food, expensive coffee, and stuff.... I think she's still struggling to "get along" with her younger colleagues lmao.
I wonder what her actual problem is with today's youngsters. I find that my natural authority works with them as well as with anyone. Just don't bullshit them. "Because we always did it that way" tends to be a bad argument, as it always was, and assuming that younger people are interested in their job outside of workimg hours is still as foolish as it was during my own apprentice days. They are really not that different.
Gen-X/Millennial "cusper" checking in, and I enjoy working with Gen-Z and younger Millennials - the importance on personal respect and work-life balance is a very refreshing breath of fresh air. My first venture into the working world was with Boomer and older Gen-X bosses --- it wasn't fun, and often told myself 'This doesn't have to be like this' but would get the usual "deal with it" advice.
I get along with our newbies very well even though I’m old enough to be their parent, lol. I treat them as equals and give them increasing responsibility as I observe their competency level. I’m not their direct report but do my best to mentor them WHEN ASKED. I think that’s key. They don’t want to be babied and treated like they’re stupid.
Real talk, its been happening for like 12 years now but Japanese companies are only just becoming aware of it now. Too little too late, this has already been a thing since like 2014 and has just gradually been getting worse and worse, but now that social media is so widespread in Japan and their economy is crumbling is it starting to have an effect. Why work 90h a week for $8/hr for some company in Tokyo to spend $1500/mo in rent for a shoebox when you can just go live in the countryside, pay $200/mo rent, have much more free time and make the same money? This is the reality that young people in Japan are starting to realise.
@@cara-seyun No lmao. I dunno where this person got that impression but villages are still getting drained from people, not the other way around. The trend of urbanization has not reversed, by a long shot.
@@cara-seyun It's not so much that Japan is re-urbanising as regional cities are becoming more popular. It used to be that young people flocked to Tokyo and Osaka. People are still moving there, but cities like Fukuoka, Sapporo, Hiroshima, Toyama and Nagoya are also very popular options. Pay is a bit less, but the cost of living is quite a bit lower, the pace of life is easier and there's a lot less stress. Some rural areas have succeeded in attracting people, but most continue to lose them.
Funny that I actually agree with Gen Z on some things here. As an American, when I heard about what's expected of workers in Japan, it's like they have to throw their life away and only work. And as soon as work is over with, they have to go drinking with their coworkers and boss! And they can't even leave work until their boss leaves, even if they're finished with their tasks. They have to sit at their desks and act like they're doing something. That's just stupid. Makes me want to tell those companies to give it a freaking rest! There's more to life than a person's job. And since there is a population crisis, how are the younger generations supposed to start families if they can't get away from their job? How does that make sense?
Exactly kind of the issue in japan the toxic work culture is insane where people from their 20s to 30s almodt never considers having a family just because they don't even have time to actually meet new people
Part of the reason is also that lifetime employment is disappearing. Many more part time or contract work are becoming available, since the economy can no longer support lifetime. This means that you're no longer stuck (since quitting in the times of lifetime was largely viewed as being disrespectful to your employee and made you practically unhirable) and can be more demanding of the employer, since the stigma behind it is disappearing with lifetime. As one of the most traditional societies, change is very slow in Japan, but I am glad it's happening with Gen Z. The extreme work focused lifestyle is largely incompatible with family life, and we all know that due to their aging population, Japan can certainly use more babies being born.
>The extreme work focused lifestyle is largely incompatible with family life, and we all know that due to their aging population, Japan can certainly use more babies being born. In the Showa era, that lifestyle worked well. However, with the promotion of gender equality, women began to work as well, making it difficult for them to raise children. Fertility rates are higher in the Middle East and Africa, where women always stay at home to raise children.
Just sounds like Gen Z are the generation that wants a better future for itself when they've had parents or people they know that got burned out, used and then thrown away by the corporate rat race thats suppose to "give them fulfilled lives." Honestly good on them. For every brown noser that got their promotion. You got the majority who didn't brown nose "enough" to land that promotion or was simply not liked by that boss. All that extra work and it never amounts to anything. And many of these kids know such people. So I commend these kids being so well informed and refusing to continue this toxic cycle. But sadly due to the aging population. They are vastly outnumbered and being gaslit into thinking they're in the wrong. They're not.
@@Cha4kalternative is to have revolution and rebuild sick late stage capitalist society into national system. System that will prioritize commoner and rich people equally. It's not normal that managers get paid millions while workers are surviving on medium wage. That is just slave system, young people are feed up with modern slavery
This right here. I'm a millenial. I worked and still work with older generations here and there. I understand their viewpoint, what they think they do and did. But most of the time I have a normal conversation with them, that what they do, will not be compensated by the company or even the rotten government. At first they often than not don't believe me or are in another opinion. THat is until they start noticing the unfair treatment between themselves and others as soon as the economical situation becomes rough or they find out about people getting more than them (lol). Basically that their hard work becomes "useless" in a away and that the company demanding more while not giving back or worse firing the person after they decline demands from the company like working more hours or generally taking more responsibilities for no pay. After a while the people I interact with that disagreed at first tend to rethink and are a lot more chill with me after they understand why I myself don't work harder than I need to - like they tend to do for little in return. And Gen Z? Well, they get the even shorter stick. I most of the time don't expect much from them, maybe that is a bad mindset, but I also don't judge them bec ause I understand them. In the end I just simply teach them what is supposedly expected from them (the stupid overreaching expectations from the company) and what I think is alright and fine (my standard). If they become too lazy I do tell them, because that is just fair to others. Sadly even among those Gen Z there are still those high achivers that tend to want to boss around the older generation as well as the younger one. For those I only have contempt in my heart. Not all of them but the majority of them. Most of those are egoistic shits that tend to side with the company for their own benefit only. Their reasoning being farfetched at best as well when you talk with them. They only see themselves in the bigger picture. Basically those that keep the shit cycle going.
I used to teach quite a few Japanese international exchange students and some came to the US because they find it so hard to start companies back home. Others saved up their own money and want to make their own dreams instead of climbing the corporate ladder.
Japanese work culture is messed up to begin with, it is totally understandable. In my opinion it took them too long to rise against those absurd non-paid overtime policies.
The funny thing is that they have laws protecting employees but laws in Japan seem to be more of a joke, where they have exploitable loopholes everywhere 🤔
@@Candyy248 Full time employment is well protected, contract work gets exploited. This is not normal, though, exploitative companies are called "black companies". Every country has exploitative companies though. I have heard horror stories from immigrant workers in the USA.
@@Imfphas20 But in other 1st world countries is much more rare and they rarely get away with it these days (unless they rly rly hide it well...) I mostly speak for Europe in this case...
@@Candyy248 I don't think it's as rare as you say. I'll give you Germany, but I've traveled around Eastern and central Europe. As for France, I know an Asian-descended Frenchwoman. They have a cool system where people can choose any company branch in the world to work at for a bit (she said the government sucks though). However, anytime anyone goes to France, there are always massive strikes so something must be wrong.
I'm gen z. I joined a company that wrote on the offer letter that the work would be remote, but changed it to hybrid as soon as I started. I tried to get them back to remote, but they refused. They were honestly surprised when I left the company like no one else has done that to them before.
Nah, they're just pretending to be surprised. This is a clear breach of trust and anyone with any sense would have responded the same way. You can't work with an employer that can't be trusted in fundamental things like the agreed upon working conditions. Remaining there would just be saying "I'm ready for any abuse".
@@Fossil_Frank There were multiple people that joined the company at the same time as me with the same conditions. I checked with them and they didn't mind that the conditions had changed. I was the only one complaining. Therefore, the company was definitely surprised when I left, because no one dared to even complain.
@@pedromarques9267 Even if someone does not mind the change itself, he/she should mind that it was done unilaterally, without even asking about it. Not raising the issue opens the door for more of the same, only more brazen. The company must be aware of this, after all, how do you think they'd like it if a worker did something similiar by themselves? They'll play dumb of course, since then it will seem like you're somehow the only odd one out, a veritable problem child.
I'm a younger millennial, and about a year ago I applied to a company, and as I went through the hiring process I asked about mandatory OT because I knew people from different departments of that company who said that their department does mandatory OT. I was promised that our department wouldn't have OT. One month later I'm told that we have to work mandatory OT (8 hours extra per day!) for a month, and that from then on they'll consider mandatory OT as "always being on the table." So I worked that full month, got a damn good paycheck, and then put my 2 weeks notice in. Management even tried to walk back and say that they'd promise we'd never get mandatory OT again, but by that point they'd already lied to me so I knew that they'd probably just change their minds again, so I left.
Gen Z is living a paradox where they are simultaneously the first generation of the past century to make meaningful stands against excessively unfair demands for labor, yet have the least resources available to be capable of using any gained time to dedicate towards families/child rearing.
It’s not “everywhere.” What a way to fall for propaganda. Majority of the world doesn’t see things this way. It’s only spoiled brats from affluent countries, which are now falling apart. If you travelled even a little you wouldn’t be so out of touch. Terminally online people (especially zoomers) are the most gullible fools on the planet.
The powers that be control this world, only way to win is to become an organized group and doing deep dives into researching medicine and education and getting the best practices being used that don't cost an arm and a leg.
it ran out years ago thats why people are working under dog shit circumstances and no one can afford anything people dint even dream of owning a home anymore as without a top teir job you have no chance unless you wanna live 4 hours away from work 😅
Actually the best we can do is actually do nothing .... If tbe majority of the population refuse to work they will have absolutely no choice but to make working standards better or go bust
@@Fl4ngerr I don't know what you are talking about. Most elderly people i talk to have opinions that they dont deviate from and act so confident as if they have the right opinion, meanwhile they never take up modern stuff to improve their life like going to the gym, using smart phones or VR. Once they get old they live in the past and act that what they grew up with is the right way to live.
I'm a an american blue color worker. I'm a welder and the last company I worked for had some pretty awsome managment for about a year. Me and my coworkers would blow through our small shops orders and we produced 3 times what we were predicted to turn out. We weren't given any extra pay for the amount of work and if we were all being honest it wasn't like we were working THAT hard. It was awsome because of our bosses we had really hard working down to earth cool as shit bosses who would let us take the paid day off if we had finnished the order early and they didn't have another one lined up. We could listen to music while we worked and we got away with all kinds of messing around because of our output. Our bosses even let us use up all our break time at once (and let us even have another 15 minutes worth on top of that) every fryday to have a BBQ. It was awsome. Soon, though, the company noticed how much we were putting out, and we were soon targeted. Our bosses were forced to clamp down on messing around, on music, and other things. When an accedent happened at our shop we were forced to ho over accedent reports to "understand the severity of negligence" as if unpredictable accidents were predictable and preventable andd it was our fault for not doing either of those things andd preventing accedents like that. We were given more and more work that our bosses couldn't do without more machines. They were forced to expand the shops operations with the sshops limited space in order to keep up with the work. With limited space this meant that accedents were going to happen more often (yet it was our unsaid, unspoken fault for causing the accedents aamd letting them happen because were were all obviouslyhorrible people for letting them happen, right) Soon they decided that our bosses (who were there to start up an new shop as an expantion to the overal bussines) were so successful in starting up this new shop that it was time for them to move on. After 3 quarters of the year had passed a new Manager was already being "trained" by our first manager and by the end of the year the manager was replaced. Then our supervisor was taken from us in april of the following year to help our sister shop in another city (same state) because they had started up at around the same time as us and they were producing so much less than we were it was embaresing for the company. So off our supervisor went to try and make that shop more efficient. The replacements ated us. They thought us lazy. They thought we didn't want to work. They thought we were horible people for not adhiring to stricked protocal in order to prevent accedents. Our new supervisor was a control freak, a liar, and an overall sociopath who thretened to get me fired a couple of diffrent times. One of them over my attempt at helping another welder understand the finicky machine she was working with as she was someone who was supposed to be getting trained for the job by our forman, who had a shit tone on his plate already and would have apretiated the help had the managment not changed. Originally the ever expanding nature of our small shop meant that we had to hire more welders to fill furture positions. This meant that the older and more proven welders would have to be put on the backburner, as it were, and by silent agreement we (the older welder) were the ones tasked with training the newer welders as we were assigned to their tables (a none welder position close to the new welders for the perpose of training them.) With the change in managment, and the "stricter adherence to the rules" the forman was supposed to be the one responsible for training the newbies. (As if he didn't have way more important things to be doing) So when he came back from pputting out a fire somewhere across the shop to continue helping her (after a good 30 minutes) he got pissed at me for messing with his settings (as if his settings had continued working after the one weld he had done with them, hint, they didn't, everyother weld she did while he was gone would continue to have massive flaws that she had to repair by hand. After he got pissed he called the sociopath supervisor and i was then thretened with my job. That was the last straw for me. I quit sometime after that. The thing that ircs me is that throughout your childhood your told to become invaluable to whoever you work for. Do that and you will have power in the work place. Do that and they can't deny you a raise. Do that and they won't be able to justify firing you. Do that and you're job will be protected. But the truth is that they don't want workers like that. They want machines. And they have other methods of getting ride of hard workers they don't want to pay extra to keep. They can make the work environment so absolutely horrible that you're forced to quit. They can even use your overachiving attitude towards work against you by reprimanding you for overstepping your bounds. I have no doubt that previously it was better. That there used to be justice in the work place here in america. That my grandparents had it better. That working hard did give them power in the work place. But it's not like that anymore. The systems have been around long enough that sociopaths have figured them out and now know how to exploit them. They sertanly got so far as to infest that bussiness i worked for previously. I hope those people in japan manage to pull a revolution capable of fixing the toxic work environment they have found themselves in. I truly do.
I worked tons of jobs in my life, and I have a welder’s license, worked both with MIG/MAG and manual arc (electrodes). Some workplaces were ok, some were violating all the safety rules. Some were outright scamming for payment. In the end I sold all my belongings in the city where I lived my whole life, bought rural property and I run a homestead now (goats, pigs, chickens, garden), not working for someone who will buy another Bentley while telling me I have to work harder.
"the systems have been around long enough that the sociopaths have figured out how to exploit them" I've felt this way for quite a while glad to see I'm not the only one
Hard work is never the path to being invaluable. Setting things up so that everything falls apart without you is the only true way to become unreplacable. and it's kinda super shitty doing that. Sucks that that's almost the meta.
the seeds for Japan's Gen Z to come about (figurative and literal) were brought about by the preceding generation and their work-life. Your point about news/info isnt necessarily wrong, but it seems like it is a lesser contribution. What it seems to be is that Gen Z is old enough to see first hand, and also 2nd hand that the generation before it that was still an active committed part of the work culture started being betrayed by the companies in larger and larger numbers. Its not just that Gen Z suddenly on their own decided to see work as just a place of work or are willing to quit easily, its the company's lip Service about being a family and taking care of the employee's non-work needs for their home family they've seen completely collapse in the generation that preceded them. one sure sign of this: check the manga that gets published. Examine the current batch of manga that are isekai ... and how many of them are just stories about disaffected workplace commentaries. why do Japanese companies hate Japanese Gen Z? Because Japanese Companies have been breaking the social contract they claimed to have with their employees for almost 30 years, and they hate being called on their bullshit.
Some of the Isekai stuff does relate to what you are saying. Especially with how some people that typically would get white collar jobs are now looking to get blue collar jobs. This might also be why you have Japanese and Korean Isekai series where the MC gets Isekaied to a place where they are a farm worker/adventure of some other type of thing where they are improving the lives of others. You also do get Situations in some Series where they talk about a lot of the issues are caused by the older generation that doesn't care about younger people and what they have to go through. Hey let's pass laws that only affect younger people. Some Isekai more than others also do use stuff from office life and things that they were not happy about before (as a social commentary?) others not so much. I still think that among the different current Isekai series that stuff like The Greatest Estate Developer is among one of the better Isekai series since it does try to connect stuff back to life and expectations. If you work hard you will only be rewarded with even more work. Also employers only care about shareholders and don't listen to employee concerns. As soon as you are hurt they will discard you type of thing. I have to remember the exact quote but the MC mentions a situation where the employees kept telling the higher ups that the working conditions were not safe. And eventually someone did get hurt and when that did happen the higher ups were no longer around since none of them wanted to take responsibility. They were only there to make unreasonable demands but when the employees needed them they were nowhere to be found. If especially sucks because the person that got hurt was basically the one person that make the whole work environment at least bearable but once that dude got hurt what hope was there for them (it was a construction site). In modern day life in places like the US people like him do exist and even though the guy is a lot older in the series. You will see millennial supervisor/managers that will at times look out for their employees and they are the ones that make it all bearable, but once they leave the whole operation turns to turd since morale was hit massively with them leaving. Sorry for going off on a tangent. I mainly mentioned that since in some other Isekai (especially some of the older ones from 10+ years ago) the MC regrets their life and wishes that they could start over from square one. Which is rather dumb in a lot of ways and I have even seen some people in Japan criticize Isekai series for stuff like that, of why is the MC rewarded for something like that. He made his choices and didn't really even try. What about those that do in fact try?
@@PC-tan np, and i'm not saying there's nothing to enjoy about them, but its a sure sign that if there is manga about it, someone has lived it in some capacity. and they've exploded in the last 10 years, before they were kind of a novelty type of isekai.
yeah there was an anime I think called something like: Buchou it's time to work or something, seemed to me like it was a cry for help. There are some other animes too that mentions/features Black companies and just the expectations on the work envinronment. sorta glad they're getting recognized and hopefully it comes to a compromise where employees don't get sacrificed for the quality of the products of the companies.
The work culture won't continue for long as the workforce continues to shrink and companies have to start competing to keep employees. It's only natural.
@@keiichi8191 This would work anywhere other than Japan. Japan is notoriously Xenophobic. The idea of a large base of immigrant labor is unthinkable to the Japanese.
I'm an elder millennial and worked in Japan after University (from a western country). The work culture then was dumb enough that I knew I wouldn't stay there. Because of where I'm from, and I'm generally a kind of brash person, I basically got away with doing things my own way - I worked as I was expected to, but when I was sick I actually took my sick leave (shocking!!), I went to a few events because I was there to have fun but I didn't go if I didn't want to, and I just lived my life. The kids I was teaching were Gen Z and frankly I'm proud to hear that generation are rejecting the overwork culture. It might have brought Japan to where it is now out of the devastation of WW2 but that doesn't mean it's the way forward for them any more. Work Life balance matters, work satisfaction matters, and the company doesn't have to own your soul.
It's not even just Gen Z, it's basically everyone who graduated within the past 30 years. The concept of company loyalty is a wash. Nobody wants to join the corporate workforce, especially in corporations where you'd have to do 996 or something close to it, and even if you do work corporate, you're expected to work a few years then jump somewhere else because rising the ranks within the company is really hard even if everyone likes you. At some point it's just not worth it.
It's such a shame. I think the idea of a company looking after it's people is great, necessary maybe even in the long run. But now it's all just reaping of good faith never the sowing. Companies and individuals care too much about their own success that they don't see how they're ruining the societies they rely on to even make success matter in the first place. We gotta grow as a species.
especially with large companies in stem (if you're into that) basically publicly advertising they want a 10 year background check before entering the workforce, that means anything you ever upvoted online being forensically analyzed prior to allowing you to be a part of an development team for example, as if to say what we think of your opinions will decide if you're going to be good at a job and even if it's irrelevant, this way we can gatekeep success to people we align with psychologically. Why would anyone want to subject themselves to such scrutiny?
similar to america, japanese companies expect workers to stay with them forever, but forgot the reason it worked was because the job used to actually support the person to encourage them to stay, now its expected you stay even if the company abuses you.
Too true. I only tolerate 5% increase each year if I get to keep working on solid projects to increase my marketability to negotiate 20-30% increase at my next workplace
I recently retired (early)..."job hoping" has been the only way to get meaningful pay raises in the west since the 80's....basically the same time corporations stopped giving a shyte about their employees.
@@steveburke7675The absence of job hopping is nonfunctional capitalism. If we’re going to use models that pretend that there’s competition in the marketplace, then we have to have competition in the marketplace.
Time to frame the old approach as what it is: an affront to free market economics. I’m happy to hear out proponents of the old system if they acknowledge this about that system.
The absence of job hopping is nonfunctionalcapitalism. If we’re going to use models that pretend that there’s competition in the marketplace, then we have to have to competition in the marketplace.
I admit that I expected this to be another critical essay on the shortcomings of Gen Z, but instead came away with a feeling of optimism that, at last, there is a younger generation in Japan that is not willing to accept the almost medieval standards that are destroying Japanese society. I wish them the best of luck in the future.
Young people in literally every generation: Hey, we hate this setup you have, if you want to work with us you need to change some stuff. Companies in literally every generation: How *DARE* you!?
Entitled spoiled kids with no real skills 😂😂😂 this is gen z and millenials😂😂😂we are tired working for them in hard jobs even after pension, we will also like to quit this side job in our parent life 😂😂😂 so go to work, spoiled brats and earn a living!
In the US, a job calling you “family” is a red flag. A form of manipulation and an excuse to guilt you into being overworked and used unfairly. I can understand other countries starting to pick up on this. It’s certainly not the same kind of work environment it used to be. Not all places, but ones in a more corporate mindset.
True, I had that mistaken notion too since I love manga/anime, but in fact they're the same as capitalist countries that just wants you to be their dumb obedient alila.
I worked in a company in Japan and during one "all company" meeting, the CEO said his opinion about a topic and why everyone should do it his way. A lot of comments from the meeting chat were showing that people don't agree with him. Instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, he started to be very aggressive and said something like "if you want to work here, you need to think this way too". The company saw 12% of the working force resigning in the following weeks, including me. The CEO stepped down "for personal reasons" from his position around one month after that event
@@AuntieHauntieGames I'm not sure about other folks, because most of the people decided to move to original/other countries in the end, including me. I got a salary increasing offer to stay, but I had also decided already to move out from Japan
@@devilslayer3548 copy pasting the same three lines over and over(all of which are terrible anyways and support being terrible to employees) is not going to work bud
My dad when he got into Japanese history and culture looked at its work culture and said "Thats gonna bite em in the ass in a generation or two" Well would ya look at that
In philippines we also have that toxic work “ethic” like if you want to be promoted you should show them that youre a good tool. Or what we call in tagalog “sip sip”.
The difference between Gen Z/Millennials and the older generations is that we have 0 reasons to overwork ourselves. Most of us aren't married and don't have any kids and live with our parents. If the job sucks I can work a couple of months to get enough money to quit and find a better one. The consequences of not being able to own houses or afford groceries for more than 1 person is that we have absolutely nothing to lose by quitting even if we don't find a job for a couple of months/years.
Came to Japan in November 2023 as a foreign workers support staff, and in January 2024 all job description changed from support to manage dorms (cleaning empty rooms, changing lightbulb etc), then in June 2024 suddenly ordered to work in an elderly facilities kitchen as dishwasher. This applies to all foreign workers support staff. I asked for consideration, since I have a bad experience working part time in kitchen that worsen my physical health, and also that I have set my career course in other direction. The company boss then blasted a company message saying "If you're questioning my decision, then don't work here". Sure enough now I'm blasting my cv like oprah to other companies. I've worked my ass off to get JLPT N1, with 4+ years of working experience, and a set career course. Not going to let a Japanese boomer old man who paid me less than an overseas "cheap" worker telling me to take a step back to my goal.
@@Cha4k HARD DISAGREE. No, it is not fair. When you are hired to do a job, the kind of work you are hired to do is NOT a trivial consideration and affects the compensation a candidate will consider or even if they would consider the opportunity at all. Legions of "housekeepers" have been hired around the world and then pressured into sex work instead once their ability to decline has been eroded by the circumstances imposed by taking the job. This is a less extreme example of the very same bullshit. If you hire someone to do a job, then instruct them to do a completely different job, especially if the work conditions are worse for no increase in compensation, you are just pulling a bait and switch scam, since you probably caused them very real opportunity costs (in other opportunities they were tricked into declining) to discover your offer is worse than presented. Unless the circumstances that caused the need to change their duties was unanticipated and unanticipatable (in which case you should be thorough apologetic), it is just as much scumbag behavior as if you lie to someone you are hiring about any other aspect of the relationship.
@@Cha4kregardless of what your status are, that attitude is nasty and won’t bring actual, productive performance at work. oh wait, it’s *BOSS,* not *LEADER.* my bad
The goal of the business is centered to make profits for the benefit of those in charge and any shareholders/stockholders etc fixed it for ya. @@Cha4k
I recommend applying for work with western companies that have a japanese office. Your N1 will be considered more valuable. The working conditions will be much closer aligned with western work life balance. Your pay will likely be Improved.
Good for them. Full support from me. The point of working nonstop in postwar was to rebuild japan. After 1980, japan was rebuilt. Companies wanted to keep the unpaid overtime forever and there isn’t a point. Let people live and enjoy their free time how they want
Gen Z has understood that they don't have to live to work but work to live. If you give 16 hours a day to your company then your only achievement in your life is to make your boss happy.
I'm a 26 yo living and working in Japan. I work at a terrible factory job and I come from a third world country like 98% of the floor/line workers like me. They always look at you like you're trash when you say you can't do 4 or 5 hours of zangyou (overtime) today. And they usually don't let you leave sooner. (mind you my usual hours are leaving home at 6:30 and arriving back at my apartment at 17:30 IF there's no zangyou, which there always is) My home country is hell but working here in Japan is killing me. I used to get a liveable amount of money by working 8 hours and sometimes less, and I didn't even have to stand on my feet for 12+ hours, I only had to drive and unload a few boxes here and there, which is something I love to do. Obviously I earn several times more money here, but I have no energy or time to do anything else I like because work takes most of it.
Its such a messed up way to work. If you're that tired, you are going to be slower and likely to make mistakes. So it doesn't even really benefit the employer. The liable laws on top of that protecting black companies from getting called out. Japanese work culture has a lot that needs to be updated and fixed.
@@ero_0yaji Nope, that is part of the shitty contracts Japanese companies have. You are supposed to love your company sooooo much that you allow them to fuck you in the ass.
@@ero_0yaji Yes, but the Japanese employees (the guys above us like managers and bosses), usually do 1 or 2 unpaid hours every day. Sometimes I don't want to do so many hours and I'm fine if I don't get paid for those hours I didn't work, but they rarely give you an option to even refuse.
You don't need to see it in person to believe it, just do the math, work 996 a week, then the occational being the alila of your boss till midnight while still needing to come in time the next morning.
It’s calculated manipulation. They claim “offended” now because the culture has their back even though they didn’t make resistance against company policy. Wait until it becomes a little more popular, then they’ll regulate the behavior, making an excuse not to pay you and firing you on the spot. This is Japan’s way of dealing with behaviors they disagree with. The Chinese do something very similar (which you can see on TikTok: outlaw a behavior, then punish you for it).
They realize its a slavery system but can they actually destroy their slave masters or get bludgeoned in submission. The elites generally react to insubordination by importing new populations both to fill job vacancies, increase the crime rate and establish identity politics they can play each side off of each other. GenZ hasn't even imagined the scale of the rot and the empire will strike back.
The gen z kids grow watching anime. They saw parents going to work and come back home. Like normal life. But when they go to work and finally slap by the reality. You can't leave unless senior finish their job. After work must follow the boss and/or coworkers to get drink. Also, you need to buy souvernir and/or food. Just for hospitality to your boss and/or senior workers. This is too much even for milenials. But no matter how much we try to break free, the system is exist and trap into the infinite loop hole. The society pressure to have a job and paid well make you suffer. Working for long time can cause severe stress and problems on your body. That is why gen Z appear older than supposed to be. The era is quite different thanks to technology. If the new generation worker try to speak up (question, concern, help, etc), the senior worker will dislike you. So, it is doomed. Idk why ppl keep saying gen z is weak. They are trying hard to survive. My suggestion is lower expectation and find other option. Maybe open a small business and run it with your friends/family members. No need to get high profit. Going to small city with less competitive nature will reduce the burden to work.
@@manuproulx2764 Well based originally, and often still means, a viewpoint, belief or action that displays an unwillingness to conform to standard behaviour due to one's own conviction. As this behaviour is intrinsically respectable, its a positive descriptor. Its often used as an antyonym to cringe, although its actually misusing cringe in doing so. In context, its form of cringe refers to being uncommital, conformist, and spineless. This is why it's often confused with stuff like right wing opinions. Believing some abhorrent belief, and outright saying it, is the definition of being based. Because you don't care if you look bad, because you believe in it. ie I don't agree with you, but I respect your willingness to say that. Hence 'that's based'. Of course, many people have taken based to refer to someone being cool and pro their views. Which I suspect is what OP intended it as, but ironically, this is actually a correct usage to the meaning of based. Based also has the implication of being somewhat clued in about what you're talking about, and not just a belief through ignorance.
Very interesting, it's mostly the same discussion as in Germany which also had a culture of staying at the same company for life. But it seems it started a bit later Japan.
@@Naikomi95yeah, Japanese companies are trying to hold onto their rejection of free market capitalism. Noooo! We have to compete for labor!? Nooooooooo
@@Naikomi95interesting. Maybe because TDK is highly international? Could be that I’m simply almost entirely wrong. It’s not as tho I know what I’m talking about. Never even visited Japan.
@@SigFigNewton Japan has laws to help workers but they aren't enforced in smaller companies. A big company can't risk breaking the law in that way so they for example are strict in not working to many hours.
I don’t like how all of this is depicted as a “problem”. Basically Gen Z doesn’t want to be subservient to a company, doesn’t want to be forced to consider your superior your best friend automatically and doesn’t want to live and breathe for their work but have a private life and quit if they are done with a job. THAT’S NORMAL. IT’S COMPLETELY NORMAL. The problem is Japan who thinks corporate slavery is what one should aspire to, stop calling it a problem.
It's a "problem" for the older generations, I'd say. The boomers and the angry generation/gen x think because that is what they had to do, then that is what everyone else should have to deal with. They got theirs so everyone else should have to suffer too mentality. Instead of, you know, trying to make life easier and the world a better place for younger people or their children's generations. 🙄 I think, too, many boomers who became successful are now trying to maximize profits, while keeping employee salaries as low as they possibly can, on top of adding to the workload nonstop with no incentives. And they think it's a problem because "no one wants to work anymore." It was a problem in Japan, and is still a problem after moving to Canada, sadly.
@@amurri2314 It is sadly the truth of the world. People get to the top and rationalize wrongly that all the injustices and wrongdoing are part of the process, not a problem. I got into the hole but I’m bleeing from scratches, so instead of trying to make it larger so no one has to get hurt I just say “see? you can make it” or even trying to make it smaller because I’m afraid someone else making it puts me back outside. The result is that nobody wins, the companies crumble over people just not wanting to bleed to get into the hole, realizing “I can just stay outside” which the ones who make in thinks it’s a mockery of their sacrifices, not just, you know, common sense not wanting to get hurt.
It's not normal, but it is positive. Most ppl think kissing up to companies is either what you have to do for success in life, or what you should do to stay on your social class. They're all wrong and I'm glad gen z is taking a page out of the x handbook on punk culture and raging against the machine like our predecessors before y.
Thank you for featuring relevant social realities occurring in Japan right now. It’s true that Gen Z’s in Japan generally quit their job after one year and most of the time when the job begins to become hard so after a year they quit. The old generation and the young generation completely come from two different backgrounds and so the mindset are different as well. I hope that there will be a win win solution for both sides.
honestly the notion of feeling compelled to go out drinking with your coworkers after work is already crazy. 2 or 3 big events in the year, I can get. but worse is that practice of doing ''networking'' or buisness negociations in strip clubs.
Old people: Youngsters, you shouldn´t drink alcohol, is bad for you. (Younger generations not drinking alcohol) Old people: WHY NO ONE WANTS TO SHARE BEERS WITH ME!?
You forgot to mention the very critical issue: The basic human rights to fall in love reproduce. And Japanese companies chose to stay Blind of this subject
The ones who prioritize work literally go extinct as the next generation is born to those who prioritize family. If a generation is half the size of its parrents generation you can know that all those children come from the more family orianted half families.
Joined a project in an IT company and was called to the office to meet everyone I'd be working with. It was a 3 hour train ride to the different prefecture. They asked my new coworkers to come outside in the corridor to meet me. All was just to bow at the elevator without them even letting me inside the office room. And then they said I can go back home, right away. Whole thing maybe took less than a minute. Nothing about the project we'd be working at was talked about. None. Just a stupid face to face greeting ritual in an age of the internet where it could have been done online in 5 minutes instead of making everyone commute. Japan is full of such backwards rituals that slow down the country's progress. It's not that they're just older, but more superior on the social ledder. The society is too vertical and a worker who is one year older than you or who joined the company a month earlier than you thinks he can command you like a dog, even if he's not your boss and is in the same position as you. They are used to reprimand everything around for acting not like the older self. And the Japanese below them grow up to silently listen and obey such "older" people. Working in Japan is basically like being in an army. From working for 7 different Japanese companies I've noticed that all of them had zero respect for people's time or people's anything basically. You're treated as a slave who came to do only what you're told, give paw and bark on command. You can't dare to have any opinion. The upper manager can do nothing all day, be late on schedules and mess up your work progress. Because of this we can have many downtimes when "there's nothing to do", but it just means you still have come to work as usual and pretend very hard that you're being busy, staring at a screen, clicking empty spaces etc. 1 hour work gets stretched to 1 month. But then 1-2 days before the deadlines it _suddenly_ gets busy and the manager comes in like "looks like we need to do several hours of overtime to finish". Then where the hell were you for the past 2 months when we had to stare at an empty screen and click it because we "had nothing to do"? The Japanese people around me (even the young ones) are already slaves to the system who can't have an option and must obey so they just silently agree to overwork because "it can't be helped". As a foreigner I could care less and just pack my stuff as soon as its 18:00 and leave. They are shocked that it's possible to just get up and leave on time. The older guy to the left of me always keeps grumbling under his nose about it and I find it amusing. It's also the same IT company who just gave me a garakei (feature phonr or flip phone) for "work". Yes, a garakei in 2024. Privacy doesn't exist in Japan. They know all the details about you from the documents you have to prodive when you join. Your address, phone, the commute routes you take, even your health check results. Every japanese company worker has to go through this annual health check (or be fired if they refuse). That's the rule. Someone from HR or Management can call you and nonchalantly ask "in your health check results you had this bleeding out of your ass, so you need to pick the date to schedule the colonosopy to check for polyps.". As if it's their damn business to begin with. These health checks are generic and useless. They won't be able to detect a more serious condition like the lung cancer for example. The company phone must always be on and charged, so they could contact you any time. Even outside work hours. (My friend sometimes gets calls late evening and even at night). You also have to provide 1 or 2 "guarantor" people as an emergency contact, in case you won't pick up the phone. The oldest person at my place no is probably around 55 I think. But you can see even the youngest new graduate workers have already succumbed to the system and are scared to do anything. It's not just work but daily life too. They are so used to this verticality and ordering around that an "older" person from even your close relationships circle can easily ask you to come flying to meet him at a place convenient to him. Without consideration for your time, how far away you are right now, or if you simply can't because you have other things to do. They can be late for a hour but if you're late even 1 minute they will throw a tantrum. It's like they see you as a bell boy at a hotel. The younger obedience Is rooted so deeply in the society. The horrible work culture is just in of the results of it. It will take decades to break the cycle and we probably won't be alive to see Japan change.
So in the end same issue as in the west: GenZ wants same as older gens but the they do not see a path forward. And old traditions stand in the way. Obsolete to them. If what you want isn't in front of you to 'grab' then they wont even try. Like in the west. We are SO far past the stage where boomes talk the 'just do it anyway, work whatever is needed'. No, there are 2x,3x,4x and larger amounts of counters added in front of every component they want compared to older gen(s) depending on situation. Few are the sub-components of a good life that are easier and cheaper and all we older gens at worst can do is give our 'we didnt have x when we where young' -talk GenZ dont want to hear. They just don't care and i understand. Looked through the lens of supply and demand i understand GenZ quite well once you springle on top some of that social dysfunction they all have a level of ranging from 0 to full blown 10 so that you cant even go to a restaurant unless you can order via phone by scanning a QR code.
Yup. Like in the West. Old dad had to work 16 hours/day from Monday to Sunday to get by. He barely escaped poverty, ended up losing everything he gained once he became old to settle debts, and died at 72. Lessons learned. I'll never work like him, pushing myself beyond what my employer deserves: close to NOTHING. Gen Z are like that: quick to realize how toxic managers, bosses and illogical rules are and pointing it out....or quitting. They're simply the "bullshit detector" we naturally concieved to find out where changes are needed. Old Gen can hate it: they brought it.
@@meanwhale4017 I mean... The last paragraph seemed like a jab. But in all it came across neutral. & considering how entitled the upper management class is & throngs of capitalist thralls they've duped. Our culture is such that mental instability is unavoidable. So we can't really disagree with the assessment.
@@heikkint what do you think happens to the world's economy, and by extension your wallet if the next generation refuses to work and keep things going? Genz is so selfish it's not funny. Our parents did it so you can have the things you have today and still all you can think of is yourself. The "companies" you fight against are also just working to make a living. All of this will blow up in your faces when your bank account is empty, and companies begin outsourcing their jobs to foreigners who want to work. Your country will look very different if it goes down this path. And you'll only have yourselves to blame
@@saiwaqa2573 Let's tackle this one in parts: > World economy > my wallet > Genz in particular being selfish > parents working hard > fighting against companies > companies outsource / offshoring / globalization Generally when a population is disilusioned they are unable to think long term. This has already happened. I myself being X-gen have a run away pension age. Currently reported at 67yrs 4 months. I fully expect it to be at least 69 when i actually reach it and it's payment to be wrecked by inflation so i will not retire. But i do have a pension albeit it's made up lies as the ones making promises now will be retired when payments come due. My wallet is center to everything i do and try, in the past and now but i am motivated now at 45+ as i was 18+ as i had milestones to reach. own rental appartment, then a better one, then buying my own. Getting my first car, then a better one. Gettign a gf, a wife, a family. The whole steps. Disruptions were there but looking back i didnt have to deal with 2x,3x,4x or 20x prices on things. Inflation in women was not a thing. Pay checks had value and promotions was available if i worked hard, and i did. But i recall i had my best years in 97-08. After that it has been a dog eat dog world. Before that i was a company man with my bosses 'you scratch my back i scratch yours'. Globalization wrecked all that. Last time i was fired i was fired above my boss. Some offshore C-man fired the entire division over his head leaving without his best men. Now why should GenZ adore all this? strive for all this with 2x,3x,4x difficulty tacked on top? Some will be forced due to fierce competition from India, Vietnam etc. But others will just do the 'let it rot' route. Gen Alpha will statistically history book in hand be just plain revolutionary, they will get ideology X when they grow up and pump their fists in the air if % odds keep up. I don't fight against companies, they are made of people but they are victims of other companies who in turn are led by sociopathic billionaires who currently play left against right by pumping money into both and doing their best to affect legislation to de-harmonize the west. Where exactly do you insert here the average GenZ who doomscrolls and is affected by daily PsyOps? It is a mess. Life should not be this hard. We all want the same: gf, house, car, a plain queit life with honest work and we get so little. I myself 'have won' in this life clearly but the cost has been staggering and my end game is anything but clear. In fact i expect myself to end up in a war or conflict or just plain be ill when i am old. Things are that bad. And on top of that there will be daily PsyOps bull that tells me 'i am wrong, i am bad, i should submit YET i should work had for a peanut when my parents could buy a house for 3 peanuts and a raspberry but i am told with a straight face if i work REALLY hard i can qualify for down payment of a small appartment at 45 years old'
The current Japanese work culture is the main reason I haven’t even considered moving to Japan. So massive respect to Gen-Z. If things do change (which I don’t think will happen anytime soon), I might be able to fulfill my childhood dream and actually move there.
@@user-ov3zn5uj6h sadly, unironically true? I think the whole point of japan was their conservative culture, once that is gone, it is just like any other country
I mean if they are fed up with gen z now, imagine what happens when the current generation joins the workforce, those who grow up with ipads and tiktoks it's gonna be a massacre. I think gen z born before 2005 are still pretty mature in comparison to those born after.
Yep, the older bunch are fantastic. They are a bit strange until late teens/early 20s then they develop really fast and are more capable and mature than millenials or before were. Honestly I think we will see the same from the younger generation too, it's our (and older) job to let them actually grow into what they're capable of though which is the problem.
@@BozeboThey mature quickly because of the declining state of the world. It’s tough as an older generation, and it’s absolutely hellish as a kid fresh out of high school with no life experience. The world completely chews you up and spits you out in a way many countries haven’t seen for generations. Zoomers growing up in these harsh times are what boomers think they were.
@@playdoh658 Hey, have some pity, show some compassion. He's had some of the worst schooling, no health care, and probably grew up eating lead paint, poisonous tap water, and an abundance of fast food.
No getting around that. The whole point of working for someone is that you accept subordinating yourself to a superior's instructions. A worker would be useless if he couldn't be told what to do, after all. That does not mean being some kind of slave. Being a professional means demanding respect for yourself and what you do, as well as keeping work matters separate from the rest of your life.
This is an interesting take, but you haven't touched at all on how many of the companies out there are turning their back on the old system of "employee for life" and going with contract employment so they can easily offload younger workers and avoid having to pay them pensions for a lifetime of work.
I got the double treatment. As a young worker in Japan and expat, I am speaking Japanese, English and French fluently and got associated to a few "purely" Japanese companies. Some of them were not happy with how I was working because I was "just" doing my job. I was paying the minimum wage and they expected me to do more for nothing. In a lot of Japanese company contracts, you have "forced" overtime hours to respect (around 20 hours) and you are not paid more for these. I am now working in an international company and when you can see some Japanese workers still trying their way to force the old Japanese system (I am still in Japan so its "normal") it is also good to see that a lot of younger generations or Japanese bosses in their 40s are trying to change this scale of power to being more a company with employees and not employees for the company.
A company that works you to death. Normally used together with the term death march (multiple days living in your cubicle, without shower or seeing the sun.)
About 15 years ago I worked with a young Japanese guy. The place was a joint university/industry lab, so no real hustle there. Still, he'd come in pretty early each day, latest at 8, and would initially leave around 7 or 8 in the evening. But in between he slept on his desk, went shopping, cooked and ate his dinner... His "traditional work values" turned out to be: come in before the boss, don't ever leave before the boss does". Nothing about performance in there, about actually doing work during this time. Just be there, so the boss can see you. We managed to turn him around to an eight hour day of actual work :)
Well i'm glad Japan is changing in this regard, Japan has an absolutely life consuming work culture that leaves little time for the individual, i think if they want people to start families and solve their demographic crisis this is part of what needs to change.
A friend of mine got yelled at by the head of one of those hiring committees because his shoes weren't the correct type of leather shoe for a job interview. "If you can't take care of something so minor how can you be trusted within our company?!" for literally ten minutes. Somehow he didn't get defenestrated. If Japans Zoomers can ruin that guy's day, and the days of everyone like him, the more power to them.
I love how gen z collectively all around the world we decided we don’t want to be used by capitalisms and the work environment it will be hard for a couple of years but I believe we can achieve a change
@@wiandryadiwasistio2062 she's half Thai. 宮崎リン is her kanji name. I really enjoyed her works with 中山琴葉 although she can be really really noisy which a turn off sometime.
Previous generations grew up without pervasive exposure to the internet, so they did not realise that there were other options to Japanese work culture. The current generation realise that there is a problem. They also realise that the whole 'company is family' and 'employment for life' thing is a tool for control.
I was on board until he started talking about "dream harassment" It like... yeah, you dont have any aspirations in life? Thats like saying youre being harassed by casual chit chat.
not wanting to go to your boss for drinks after hours is totally acceptable. There's plenty of after work options like going home and watching your fav show or eating something nice
"Young people don't want to work"
Correction. We don't want to be worked **to death**.
Americans are getting tired too. We want REFORM! Higher wages, paid leave, free healthcare insurance!
"The gentle laborer shall no longer suffer from the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs!"
@@zombies4evadude24 There is no such thing as free; Keep that commie crap to yourself.
Now getting rid of the rampant corruption and literal scam that the healthcare industry has become? All for it.
Work to death in a toxic environment where you have to endure, not quit, not change.
@@zombies4evadude24crazy thing is i would be fine with paying for health insurance. The issue is if I get a raise my insurance payments go up.
@@jpminiman2592 You pay for healthcare either way. I'd rather pay through taxation and have healthcare provided as a public service than pay at the market and have healthcare provided as a commodity. All of the problems in healthcare stem from the for profit motive and the parasitic insurance market that it requires to function.
I'm 19 years old Japanese.
Japanese young people are pragmatic. We were exposed to the Internet from a young age, and at the same time we saw Japan become economically stagnant. Because I was in such an environment, I didn't have any dreams, and no matter how hard I worked, my wages didn't increase, so I didn't work hard. We don't want to be rich or famous. As long as I can live a normal life, that's fine.
Although my English is bad, thank you for reading.
I am in a similar situation. I live in Turkey and it's also hell here.
@Ameotoko. Wasn't bad at all. There's people who lived in the US their whole lives with worse English. The only thing I saw that was somewhat incorrect is adjective order, which isn't that big of a deal, and too many commas in the one sentence. Most people will ignore them anyhow and it was completely coherent and readable. I think you got a pretty good grasp of it, little bit more practice and you'll probably be writing better than most native speakers. English is just different with adjective-noun order than some other languages. You got it.
Your English is practically perfect
Same here. I never care to be at the top. I just want a simple life
don't worry about your english . it's good . 😉
not wanting to go to your boss for drinks after hours is not an issue of comunication.
Not wanting to hear your boss yap about dreams or whatever is
@@donxx1206 still it’s not an issue that the boss does not know how to communicate with you.
...Hey soo who usually paid for the drinks? Out of curiosity because if they each have to pay for their own drinks then that itself is an issue. Low wages and then have to waste more money onto something you don't actually wants for yourself.
@@BlossomPathOnStage15 Alcohol is cheap in Japan, but it's still a waste of time, money, and health.
the difference is, going out with your boss to drink creates or breaks the future prospects of you in that company, since you can become promoted while out drinking with your boss in japan.
I find it funny that the video just glossed over the "going out to drink with your boss" part. Your boss taking you out drinking in an Asian country isn't the fun treat it sounds like. Bosses will essentially force their subordinates (I didn't say employees on purpose) to drink until the Boss thinks they've had enough. And they'll frequently stay out *very* late on a work night, which is fine for the Boss because he can sleep it off and come into work late, but the subordinates have to be at their desks *exactly* on time first thing in the morning no matter how late their boss kept them up drinking. It's a shitty practice that no one except older bosses want to keep in place.
Yep. Not to mention that your fiftysomething male boss may become a little too touchy-feely with the younger of his female employees once he's drunk. "Gen Z are too sensitive" my ass, the sexual harassment in the workplace was completely normalized.
Just say "i can't drink, i have liver fibrosis due to chronic hepatitis and it could lead to further tissue scarring"
And you also have to pay foe your own drinks even if you dont even wanna be there.
@@Destilight This would mark you as "Not a Team Player", and at that point you might as well quit and find a new job because you're never getting promoted.
@@Destilight Why give real or fake (medical info). Better to say "I don't drink" (with my boss) or "I have to go" (home/elsewhere that's none of your business since I'm off the clock).
Metaphorically speaking, its almost as if putting band aids on broken bones for decades is finally catching up
oooh i like that
Thumbs up.......and I'd like to see where it goes
That's a good metaphor lol.
Or using floss on deep scars
They can still keep doing it for another 20 or 30 years but at that point it's cannibalizing not putting bond aid
My grandpa (a Baby Boomer) once told me "Don't ruin your body or your life for a company that doesn't give a damn about you."
That’s a good message on all levels. From companies, down to individuals.
Great advice
Funny we get told that as a child, then grow up with that sentiment and companies bitch about it.
Sounds very wise indeed. please permit my curiosity, did he learn that lesson early or late (I hope early, but fear the ladder)
Basically, they are against the messed up Japanese work culture.
Understandable and I actually support them for it.
They demand to be cold working automatons when the boss wants to connect...
Basically, here you have the Western hustle culture, you literally don't hear anything and just repeat the canned line you think would fit the situation, like "japanese work culture is bad". Absolute double think when US work culture for a long time has been that google style, make workplace your second home so you never leave it.
gen Z was made illiterate with fight Club. They want to prioritize "alone time" and just make work the way they can be blind consumerist, like in the beginning of fight Club. It's a cliche but this is literally Orwellian, you're doing the job Winston Smith HAD in the novel right now for free.
But sadly many in West opt for Onlyfans and looking for sugar daddies through websites as they are lazy and don't want to work. I hope Japan don't get infected with Westerb culture c@ncer mindset.
I live here and have 2 boys of 20 yrs and your comment was nail on the head, Watch stupid companies like Honda ( are) will go backwards Serves them right
it's not just that, Japanese had better living standards to compensate for the work culture, now the pay has not increased with the cost of living so there isn't an incentive to work hard, same thing going on in Western countries. It's not that gen Z is lazy it's that they realized they are getting screwed over
It's basically relentless capitalistic exploitation and alienation that has been increasing over the decades and this generation has had enough.
I'm an elder millennials (born in early 80s), asian, and came from a poor single parent upbringing for most of my childhood. I remember being told to work, and it was almost a badge of honor in immigrant culture to sacrifice yourself for work. When I was in college, my mom tried to convince me to quit my bouncing gig (which paid okay) to take an office job with one of her friends for $5/hour. This was already lower than minimum wage at the time (which was $6.50 at the time), but I was told to do this because I need to learn what it was like working in the "white collar" world despite the low pay. It wasn't an internship into anything in my field either, just legit office monkey shit.
When I graduated, I started throwing myself into work. Long hours, socialize with coworkers after, sleep, start doing this again. Ironically the more and longer hours I worked, the lower quality of work I started producing. I stopped taking lunch breaks and would eat at my desk. I would stay shut in on the weekends, only to repeat the cycle. I prided myself on the fact that I haven't had a legit vacation in over 5 years. It was horrible. I was tired, depressed, and didn't care to live anymore. I wasn't actively suicidal, but I couldn't find joy in anything. When I went to a startup, the same shit but even worse. I made more money, but worked even longer hours. Our startup became one of the biggest unicorns at the time, but we were all feeling the pressure.
We worked average about 50 hours a week, and our VP of Sales sent out an email saying "I know you're all feeling burnt out, but you have to set those feelings aside. That's just what it means to work at the fastest growing company in history". I moved over to a sister corporation after getting denied raise/promos despite performing well. At this company, I was so afraid of failing that I worked 12 hours/day until i ended up in the hospital.
It honestly wasn't until my late 30s (getting out of the hospital basically) that I realized this was all shit. I started doing exactly what i needed to do and no extra effort. I ended up excelling more and getting paid more. Now I make 3x what I made when i was in sales but work regular hours (if not less...go tech). Unfortunately I've done irreparable damage to my health after 2 decades, but now I'm going to do my best to balance out the rest of my time.
Now whenever I hear the older generation bitch about how people have no work ethic nowadays, it's because the people before us treated everyone like machines. I'll see a comment on these videos of business owners going "All of my employees are lazy, I work harder than anyone here!" but the reality is the harder they work, the more money they make. The harder the staff work, the more money the bosses make, and the staff get rewarded with pizza parties or a starbucks gift card. Fuck that.
"... the harder they [business owners] work, the more money they make. The harder the staff work, the more money the bosses make, and the staff get rewarded with pizza parties or a starbucks gift card. Fuck that."
If they get a pizza or a starbucks gift card at all.
Well sad bro, these motherfuckers offers shit low pay jobs, and when you doesnt comply, they gaslight you that you are lazy or “incompetent”. I dont care if the company makes more money if they dont offers more bonus. They treat employees like a product, and want us to treat them as if they are our family.
Thank you for your story!
@@ReisskIaue thats literally what happens in my company hahah, overtime gets rewarded with a small pizza
@@arturoz6547You need to reward employees with actual financial compensation if they work hard. If you are stingy with your payments, your employees will be stingy with their work. Common sense, but management people dont have common sense...
I hope Gen Z will end the decades of overworking culture in Japan.
Yeah, to me what they are doing is actually a good thing. Stop companies from abusing their workers. Work so you can have an active and enjoyable life - not live to/for work.
@@BovinaSancta79 That will take years for systemic corporations to change because one cooperation won't just change for a few people leaving. it will take many cooperation's to suffer for them to get stubborn enough to finally change
@@eduardopantoja9115 indeed. Let's hope it's sooner rather than later though
@@eduardopantoja9115it’ll happen eventually the next generation and after it will do the same combine that with japan ageing problem and corporations will start fighting for new employees which means better working conditions
@@eduardopantoja9115 It took one company to reduce work hour shift and increase wages until they got sued for increasing wages too much
Gen Z in Japan is going through what the American Gen X went through in the '80s. When you see older guys get fired with no prospects at age 40 after putting their lives into the job, your attitude is going to be "Employment is strictly a temporary business arrangement. Show me the money."
Japanese companies used to keep people on until retirement even if they couldn't do much anymore. There was even a word for it - "madogiwazoku". Literally, "the tribe that sits by the windows". Lifetime employment really meant lifetime employment. All that ended when Japanese Gen Z were children, so they don't have any illusions.
This is also exactly the same in Korea where I've been living for 20 years. It even started earlier than in Japan. The social contract is broken. Before it used to be : Total devotion = total security until retirement age. Now, since companies don't offer this trade anymore people don't respect them so much and just run for cash. When I see this small company owner think that they could obtain hard work for small cash and no security it makes me laugh. Pure idiots.
It's like those Japanese corpos are successors of those feudal daimyo houses that demanded absolute loyalty to their subordinates
Japanese youth who are only into one of the three phases... youth, responsibility, inheritance. Derp.
your interpretation of people sitting by the window is a bit off. allow me to explain. those who would be "relegated" to the window seats were not the senior people who had dedicated their careers to one single company. rather, they are the underperformers, or those whom the company wants to get rid of but can't via the traditional way of firing (since that is rarely done at japanese companies). hence why they send them to the window seats to send them an indirect message.
@@lullemans72 You're thinking of _Oidashibey_ ("purgatory"), which is something different. When they want you to quit you don't get a window. They pack you into a windowless room in the building's interior and give you menial, degrading tasks.
Traditionally, at least, _madogiwazoku_ were the older people who were just out of touch or had lost too much energy to be helpful. I have no doubt managers would have been happy to see those people leave, and I'm sure there was always a stigma, but unless the meaning of the term has changed recently it doesn't mean the company is trying to force them out.
I doubt either term has been operative for awhile, since now companies fire employees they don't want.
Quitting is good because high staff turnover is a red flag for which jobs are terrible.
If u job is toxic and stupid then u quit totally natural
That lines up with my experience. Most of my jobs have been ok. One or two were great. The ones that were terrible all hired me instantly without considering anyone. I went for the interview, and I was hired on the spot. None of my coworkers had been in for longer than 6 months.
Yes. a high staff turnover is a red flag for terrible working conditions. However there is also an extreme shortage of employees coz the governments (particularly in the west and western orientated) thought it to be a great idea to use the population as lab rabbits and force some experimental poison.... *ahum 'medicine' down everyone's throat in 2020/2021, which has severely weakened the working population by the amount of deaths and disabilities rendering many of the working age group unable and unfit to work. In my profession alone, I can't go to any city or town and hear from the franchise employees that the competition has their doors shut several days a weak due to the lack of opticians (or optometrists). Similarly I can't travel anywhere in the country without hearing the busses and trains are a complete disaster due to shortage of employees and anywhere I come in what shop, institution or factory, it's the same story.
Oh no, corporations can no longer exploit youth employees with impunity. The horror!!!! Get them Gen Z.
"Im not Donald Trump and i approve this message"
Last time I checked you still need money to live. Did that change? Then you guys in Gen Z are going to work just like everyone else. Especially since everything costs more now. Seriously, these videos are anti logic.
@@darksaint0124 bro thinks we can live with the current economy 💀
The logic is this: If we do everything that you said and still can't survive, we might as well not work at all (because the end result is the same either way).
They'll just replace you with immigrants though
sounds like they won't tolerate toxic work culture and corporations working them to death.
But who will adjust, the genz employees or the companies. Companies are like telling them to follow the culture, no talking. But maybe the new gen can change that toxic culture. Who knows.
3:40 is pure Asperger’s. “Hi fellow human what’s your dreams?” *panic attacks and quits
Or they can be act entitled both can be true at the same time
When you consider how important "face" (reputation and perception) is in Asian culture, not so much. All it takes is one word to screw yourself from any future prospects.
I think that's a bit oversimplified.
Of course on its own with someone who you've gotten to know a fair bit, this question I'd say is fair game, but in an environment where likely they want to MOLD you into "one of the family" at the company, they're not actually gonna want you to pursue said dreams if that means leaving the company. It means that when people are asked this question, their answer is expected to fall in line with the company's benefits. Answering as such makes you feel guilty, like you've made some sort of pact and expectation to fulfil something on their behalf.
I mean, they do this in the west too during job interviews, and for the same reasoning under the guise of "no we just want to get to know you as a person, honest!" but there's an underlying social pressure that it sets in place.
I once actually heard a manager at my work place get angry and practically curse one of the younger guys who quit to pursue his dream because "he's making a mistake" and "wont be as financially stable as he is here", and these aren't said in secret. They'd discuss it with other employees briefly and ask them questions like "you think it's stupid too, right?" obviously pressuring you into agreeing or the like. This obviously wouldn't work on people who are of stronger mind of independance, but for newer starters in particular who aren't familiar with the wider world of employment in general, they feel like the consequences to just being themselves is far greater, and it can mentally trap them.
So with that being said, sure, in a vaccuum it sounds silly, but I think what's happening more here, is that the new generation ALREADY knows what kind of work culture Japan has created. As the video says, they already have that raw data and personal experiences from those online. They're less likely to let themselves get trapped in a psychological trend and culture than those who came before them. For better or worse (better imo) they'll have a much more varied approach to what used to be an extremely traditional system that controls their people.
Gen Z and Millennials think the same when it comes to work. I'm not gonna spend a huge chuck of my life working myself to death.
exactly, millennials and Gen Z are both sick of toxic work culture and no work like balance.
People saw how their work obsessed parents caused dysfunction in their families, and people don't want to follow that road.
Planety if em even gen alpha may be the restoring I’d the lost honor in the rising sun land, even to rising ag7snt the things ruining Japan, even just maybe the key of many to solve their underpopulation chrisis and other things
@@solarydays Can you explain your reasoning? How are people not working in shit jobs for shit employers condemning the future generation to working for those same shit jobs? If anything, those jobs and employers will cease because they can't retain workers.
gen x was way ahead of you than... who do you think the anti establishment punk rockers were ?
as was the boomers.. way ahead of you
who did you think the hippies were ?
your gens problem is that you think you invented everything.
meanwhile your literally behind us.
Everytime i see these videos of "gen something is hard to work with" it always boils down to companies astonished that people refuse to work for pennies
the problem comes when a gen z without education or work experience believe themselves deserving of the same salary as the person with education and 20 years experience. life doesn't work that way.
I encourage them to look at the inflation numbers. 4 dolars an hour in 1994 are a measily 2 doalrs an hour in 2024. Yea over the last 30 years theres been a 100% infaltion. If prices go up by a 100% people are gona demand duble wages or they wont take the job.
@@hoenirro2992 what is pennies? People don't seem to understand that jobs don't pay 6 figures I'm crying 😂
@@saiwaqa2573 no, i obviously meant one trillion dollars in advance, 24/7 assigned personal driver, two hookers and a lambo for the weekends, anything less is "pennies", im slowly fapping 😄
@@saiwaqa2573 a pennie is one cent
They hate gen z because they have to deal with them and change now that there is a population crisis that came because people were prioritising work. How ironic
Yeah, no, that’s not how this works.
They won’t “have” to deal with them because they’re actually importing people now into the country.
So basically because Gen Z was so pro-Immigration, there were very little bills (hoops) to jump thru and now the place will slowly but surely be flooded with competition.
Gen Z Japanese will simply be replaced by immigrants and will be facing the criminal problems many European countries now face.
It’s over.
Also they gave women access to social media, women today are so toxic why work yourself to death for a used up and delusional women.
honestly there really isn't a population crisis it's just that there are too many boomers and corporations will not let the population decrease to sustainable numbers because this system is a pyramid scheme built on endless growth
I know right? Decades of the old eating the young greek Titan style as finally come home to roost. On that note, the salaries in Japan especially for those not in management are SUPER LOW, like Mexico Peso level low. the Profits are up, as always, but those go to the managers and bosses lol. . .who then use that money to hire young ladies for "steamy nights" etc etc etc you can see where this is going and has gone. Japan's issues are caused by the old Japanese generations who partied away their future in the 80's and 90's who continued to fuck things up as they gained more and more power. Japan has it's own boomer problem just like the west does lol.
For the Chinese Government online shills thinking they can add to this with nonsense, stay quiet, China is on the verge of total collapse, worry about keeping yourselves from starving instead of posting nonsense on youtube.
Funny how the people that keeps saying the population crisis is due to overwork leaves out that there's a population crisis everywhere even countries where they work a lot less like scandinavia.
It used to be you go to school, study, get a job, get married, have a family, buy a house, get old, retire, die.
Now it's go to school, study, get old, die.
Everything else is too expensive, even getting a job. We're quickly getting to the point where living where jobs are and commuting are almost as expensive as the pay. What do you do when you aren't paid enough to even show up to work?
GenZ see the future and realize there's nothing to gain from working hard and being loyal but there's still everything to lose. You die in the end either way, so why struggle on the way to the cemetery when you can slack off and enjoy what little life the older generations haven't already taken from you?
Well said
Economy is broken. It was done by the banking capitalists. They want to steal all the money. They brainwashed the boomers, first gen with TV. Now we have evil culture everywhere
And the people who say you still can do those things, don't realize how lucky you have to be, in order to get to a point in your life to be able to do those things.
Stuff is not too expensive, things have been too cheap for too long
@@ragsdale710 Your brain is scrambled. Productivity is way up and yet they want you to grind more and pay you less while they charge more and rake in more money for themselves. You need to pull your head out of the sand and pay attention to the lawn mower they're pushing your way.
I remember I was a kid and watched movies about parents who worked too hard to make money for their kids but then they never spent enough time with their kids. So the lesson was “family is more important than money” “money isn’t happiness” “your job is not the one you are married to” “be there for your loved ones before it too late” “your boss will sacrifice you over nothing, put yourself first” and these companies are having surprise pikachu face when the young generation listened?
Tbf, it's not like the companies made those movies
@@nmr7203 Tbf companies know that their employers have families and loved ones they need to spend time with just like they do
@@wiggilytaco7570 lmao that would make sense if they had families, but the birth rate in Japan is extremely low. It's got nothing to do with family, it has to do with them and their selfishness.
@@saiwaqa2573 good for them.
@@saiwaqa2573the birth rate is probably low because they know they cannot afford to raise a family.
It's not only a Japan problem tbh. My aunt recently just got a job after she was laid off a year ago (part of a major restructuring in her old bank). The question she constantly had to go to me (a late millennial) and my sister (a proper gen z) was "how do I deal with millennials and Gen Zs???"
For some reason she just couldn't deal with late millennials and Gen Zs at the workplace. Apparently to her they're like kids and can't seem to work like how she (and her mentors) does. I think it's just a thing that constantly happens whenever a large age/generational gap between employees occur.
I told her to just be chill and understand how the younger generations put importance over work-life balance. My sister told her to just not be weird and don't get down to their level or whatever. But my aunt's solution was to just bribe them with food, expensive coffee, and stuff.... I think she's still struggling to "get along" with her younger colleagues lmao.
I wonder what her actual problem is with today's youngsters. I find that my natural authority works with them as well as with anyone. Just don't bullshit them. "Because we always did it that way" tends to be a bad argument, as it always was, and assuming that younger people are interested in their job outside of workimg hours is still as foolish as it was during my own apprentice days. They are really not that different.
Gen-X/Millennial "cusper" checking in, and I enjoy working with Gen-Z and younger Millennials - the importance on personal respect and work-life balance is a very refreshing breath of fresh air. My first venture into the working world was with Boomer and older Gen-X bosses --- it wasn't fun, and often told myself 'This doesn't have to be like this' but would get the usual "deal with it" advice.
Tell her to not be a bitch , but it sounds like it'll be hard for her
So she hands down free shit? Cool aunt ngl
I get along with our newbies very well even though I’m old enough to be their parent, lol. I treat them as equals and give them increasing responsibility as I observe their competency level. I’m not their direct report but do my best to mentor them WHEN ASKED. I think that’s key. They don’t want to be babied and treated like they’re stupid.
Real talk, its been happening for like 12 years now but Japanese companies are only just becoming aware of it now.
Too little too late, this has already been a thing since like 2014 and has just gradually been getting worse and worse, but now that social media is so widespread in Japan and their economy is crumbling is it starting to have an effect.
Why work 90h a week for $8/hr for some company in Tokyo to spend $1500/mo in rent for a shoebox when you can just go live in the countryside, pay $200/mo rent, have much more free time and make the same money?
This is the reality that young people in Japan are starting to realise.
*better and better, not worse and worse. It's time for changes.
It would honestly be funny if young Japanese left Tokyo for the country side. As Exodus.
Is Japan really doing a de-urbanization?
@@cara-seyun No lmao. I dunno where this person got that impression but villages are still getting drained from people, not the other way around. The trend of urbanization has not reversed, by a long shot.
@@cara-seyun It's not so much that Japan is re-urbanising as regional cities are becoming more popular. It used to be that young people flocked to Tokyo and Osaka. People are still moving there, but cities like Fukuoka, Sapporo, Hiroshima, Toyama and Nagoya are also very popular options. Pay is a bit less, but the cost of living is quite a bit lower, the pace of life is easier and there's a lot less stress. Some rural areas have succeeded in attracting people, but most continue to lose them.
Funny that I actually agree with Gen Z on some things here. As an American, when I heard about what's expected of workers in Japan, it's like they have to throw their life away and only work. And as soon as work is over with, they have to go drinking with their coworkers and boss! And they can't even leave work until their boss leaves, even if they're finished with their tasks. They have to sit at their desks and act like they're doing something. That's just stupid. Makes me want to tell those companies to give it a freaking rest! There's more to life than a person's job.
And since there is a population crisis, how are the younger generations supposed to start families if they can't get away from their job? How does that make sense?
Exactly kind of the issue in japan the toxic work culture is insane where people from their 20s to 30s almodt never considers having a family just because they don't even have time to actually meet new people
Dating life is worse. You won’t be promoted after you marry
@@talitherose what? Why?
Why do people always assume the worst about younger generations. It’s bullshit
@@tiredoftheworld4834 Because older generations always look down on younger generations for being lazy and stupid, and it becomes a learned beahvior.
Part of the reason is also that lifetime employment is disappearing. Many more part time or contract work are becoming available, since the economy can no longer support lifetime.
This means that you're no longer stuck (since quitting in the times of lifetime was largely viewed as being disrespectful to your employee and made you practically unhirable) and can be more demanding of the employer, since the stigma behind it is disappearing with lifetime.
As one of the most traditional societies, change is very slow in Japan, but I am glad it's happening with Gen Z.
The extreme work focused lifestyle is largely incompatible with family life, and we all know that due to their aging population, Japan can certainly use more babies being born.
So being a contract employee in Japan is a good thing or a bad thing?
@@ero_0yaji i assume it could be good and bad thing
@@ero_0yaji Generally good, because companies would literally bully you into quitting instead of firing you. That's how bad it is.
@@ZeroXSEED I received a job offer as a contract employee. What kind of situation should I need to look out for if I join?
>The extreme work focused lifestyle is largely incompatible with family life, and we all know that due to their aging population, Japan can certainly use more babies being born.
In the Showa era, that lifestyle worked well. However, with the promotion of gender equality, women began to work as well, making it difficult for them to raise children. Fertility rates are higher in the Middle East and Africa, where women always stay at home to raise children.
Just sounds like Gen Z are the generation that wants a better future for itself when they've had parents or people they know that got burned out, used and then thrown away by the corporate rat race thats suppose to "give them fulfilled lives."
Honestly good on them. For every brown noser that got their promotion. You got the majority who didn't brown nose "enough" to land that promotion or was simply not liked by that boss. All that extra work and it never amounts to anything. And many of these kids know such people. So I commend these kids being so well informed and refusing to continue this toxic cycle.
But sadly due to the aging population. They are vastly outnumbered and being gaslit into thinking they're in the wrong. They're not.
@@Cha4kobviously not. Didn't you watch the video?
@@Cha4kalternative is to have revolution and rebuild sick late stage capitalist society into national system. System that will prioritize commoner and rich people equally. It's not normal that managers get paid millions while workers are surviving on medium wage. That is just slave system, young people are feed up with modern slavery
@@Cha4k found the boomer!
This right here. I'm a millenial. I worked and still work with older generations here and there. I understand their viewpoint, what they think they do and did. But most of the time I have a normal conversation with them, that what they do, will not be compensated by the company or even the rotten government. At first they often than not don't believe me or are in another opinion. THat is until they start noticing the unfair treatment between themselves and others as soon as the economical situation becomes rough or they find out about people getting more than them (lol). Basically that their hard work becomes "useless" in a away and that the company demanding more while not giving back or worse firing the person after they decline demands from the company like working more hours or generally taking more responsibilities for no pay.
After a while the people I interact with that disagreed at first tend to rethink and are a lot more chill with me after they understand why I myself don't work harder than I need to - like they tend to do for little in return.
And Gen Z? Well, they get the even shorter stick. I most of the time don't expect much from them, maybe that is a bad mindset, but I also don't judge them bec ause I understand them. In the end I just simply teach them what is supposedly expected from them (the stupid overreaching expectations from the company) and what I think is alright and fine (my standard).
If they become too lazy I do tell them, because that is just fair to others.
Sadly even among those Gen Z there are still those high achivers that tend to want to boss around the older generation as well as the younger one. For those I only have contempt in my heart. Not all of them but the majority of them. Most of those are egoistic shits that tend to side with the company for their own benefit only. Their reasoning being farfetched at best as well when you talk with them. They only see themselves in the bigger picture. Basically those that keep the shit cycle going.
@@Cha4k You got some real slave mindset, mister.
I used to teach quite a few Japanese international exchange students and some came to the US because they find it so hard to start companies back home. Others saved up their own money and want to make their own dreams instead of climbing the corporate ladder.
Japanese work culture is messed up to begin with, it is totally understandable. In my opinion it took them too long to rise against those absurd non-paid overtime policies.
It depends on the company but those practices are being punished legally these days, too
Not all companies have been like that in any case
The funny thing is that they have laws protecting employees but laws in Japan seem to be more of a joke, where they have exploitable loopholes everywhere 🤔
@@Candyy248 Full time employment is well protected, contract work gets exploited. This is not normal, though, exploitative companies are called "black companies".
Every country has exploitative companies though. I have heard horror stories from immigrant workers in the USA.
@@Imfphas20
But in other 1st world countries is much more rare and they rarely get away with it these days (unless they rly rly hide it well...)
I mostly speak for Europe in this case...
@@Candyy248 I don't think it's as rare as you say. I'll give you Germany, but I've traveled around Eastern and central Europe.
As for France, I know an Asian-descended Frenchwoman. They have a cool system where people can choose any company branch in the world to work at for a bit (she said the government sucks though). However, anytime anyone goes to France, there are always massive strikes so something must be wrong.
I'm gen z. I joined a company that wrote on the offer letter that the work would be remote, but changed it to hybrid as soon as I started. I tried to get them back to remote, but they refused. They were honestly surprised when I left the company like no one else has done that to them before.
Nah, they're just pretending to be surprised. This is a clear breach of trust and anyone with any sense would have responded the same way. You can't work with an employer that can't be trusted in fundamental things like the agreed upon working conditions. Remaining there would just be saying "I'm ready for any abuse".
@@Fossil_Frank There were multiple people that joined the company at the same time as me with the same conditions. I checked with them and they didn't mind that the conditions had changed. I was the only one complaining. Therefore, the company was definitely surprised when I left, because no one dared to even complain.
@@pedromarques9267 Even if someone does not mind the change itself, he/she should mind that it was done unilaterally, without even asking about it. Not raising the issue opens the door for more of the same, only more brazen. The company must be aware of this, after all, how do you think they'd like it if a worker did something similiar by themselves? They'll play dumb of course, since then it will seem like you're somehow the only odd one out, a veritable problem child.
@@Fossil_Frank Exactly, this is part of the selection process. Quick way to get rid of the 'problem makers' and keep the sheep.
I'm a younger millennial, and about a year ago I applied to a company, and as I went through the hiring process I asked about mandatory OT because I knew people from different departments of that company who said that their department does mandatory OT. I was promised that our department wouldn't have OT. One month later I'm told that we have to work mandatory OT (8 hours extra per day!) for a month, and that from then on they'll consider mandatory OT as "always being on the table." So I worked that full month, got a damn good paycheck, and then put my 2 weeks notice in. Management even tried to walk back and say that they'd promise we'd never get mandatory OT again, but by that point they'd already lied to me so I knew that they'd probably just change their minds again, so I left.
Gen Z is living a paradox where they are simultaneously the first generation of the past century to make meaningful stands against excessively unfair demands for labor, yet have the least resources available to be capable of using any gained time to dedicate towards families/child rearing.
glad gen z is questioning things everywhere. hopefully we can shake the world up for the better
It’s not “everywhere.” What a way to fall for propaganda. Majority of the world doesn’t see things this way. It’s only spoiled brats from affluent countries, which are now falling apart.
If you travelled even a little you wouldn’t be so out of touch. Terminally online people (especially zoomers) are the most gullible fools on the planet.
Most conformist generation
The powers that be control this world, only way to win is to become an organized group and doing deep dives into researching medicine and education and getting the best practices being used that don't cost an arm and a leg.
it ran out years ago thats why people are working under dog shit circumstances and no one can afford anything people dint even dream of owning a home anymore as without a top teir job you have no chance unless you wanna live 4 hours away from work 😅
Actually the best we can do is actually do nothing .... If tbe majority of the population refuse to work they will have absolutely no choice but to make working standards better or go bust
I wish elderly people (not just in japan) became more self aware instead of drowning in their own ego.
Self-aware people, particularly in their later years, often exhibit a more subdued approach when expressing their opinions.
(Than the approach you just used, zuko)
I’m just here to make sure that we’re all understood.
What ego? I think elderly people indeed are very opposite.
@@Fl4ngerr I don't know what you are talking about. Most elderly people i talk to have opinions that they dont deviate from and act so confident as if they have the right opinion, meanwhile they never take up modern stuff to improve their life like going to the gym, using smart phones or VR. Once they get old they live in the past and act that what they grew up with is the right way to live.
Thing is, the older you are, the harder it is to change options. Think of that as if it physically hurt elderly to be forced to adapt and change.
I'm a an american blue color worker.
I'm a welder and the last company I worked for had some pretty awsome managment for about a year.
Me and my coworkers would blow through our small shops orders and we produced 3 times what we were predicted to turn out. We weren't given any extra pay for the amount of work and if we were all being honest it wasn't like we were working THAT hard. It was awsome because of our bosses we had really hard working down to earth cool as shit bosses who would let us take the paid day off if we had finnished the order early and they didn't have another one lined up. We could listen to music while we worked and we got away with all kinds of messing around because of our output. Our bosses even let us use up all our break time at once (and let us even have another 15 minutes worth on top of that) every fryday to have a BBQ. It was awsome.
Soon, though, the company noticed how much we were putting out, and we were soon targeted. Our bosses were forced to clamp down on messing around, on music, and other things. When an accedent happened at our shop we were forced to ho over accedent reports to "understand the severity of negligence" as if unpredictable accidents were predictable and preventable andd it was our fault for not doing either of those things andd preventing accedents like that.
We were given more and more work that our bosses couldn't do without more machines. They were forced to expand the shops operations with the sshops limited space in order to keep up with the work. With limited space this meant that accedents were going to happen more often (yet it was our unsaid, unspoken fault for causing the accedents aamd letting them happen because were were all obviouslyhorrible people for letting them happen, right)
Soon they decided that our bosses (who were there to start up an new shop as an expantion to the overal bussines) were so successful in starting up this new shop that it was time for them to move on. After 3 quarters of the year had passed a new Manager was already being "trained" by our first manager and by the end of the year the manager was replaced.
Then our supervisor was taken from us in april of the following year to help our sister shop in another city (same state) because they had started up at around the same time as us and they were producing so much less than we were it was embaresing for the company. So off our supervisor went to try and make that shop more efficient.
The replacements ated us. They thought us lazy.
They thought we didn't want to work.
They thought we were horible people for not adhiring to stricked protocal in order to prevent accedents.
Our new supervisor was a control freak, a liar, and an overall sociopath who thretened to get me fired a couple of diffrent times. One of them over my attempt at helping another welder understand the finicky machine she was working with as she was someone who was supposed to be getting trained for the job by our forman, who had a shit tone on his plate already and would have apretiated the help had the managment not changed. Originally the ever expanding nature of our small shop meant that we had to hire more welders to fill furture positions. This meant that the older and more proven welders would have to be put on the backburner, as it were, and by silent agreement we (the older welder) were the ones tasked with training the newer welders as we were assigned to their tables (a none welder position close to the new welders for the perpose of training them.)
With the change in managment, and the "stricter adherence to the rules" the forman was supposed to be the one responsible for training the newbies. (As if he didn't have way more important things to be doing)
So when he came back from pputting out a fire somewhere across the shop to continue helping her (after a good 30 minutes) he got pissed at me for messing with his settings (as if his settings had continued working after the one weld he had done with them, hint, they didn't, everyother weld she did while he was gone would continue to have massive flaws that she had to repair by hand. After he got pissed he called the sociopath supervisor and i was then thretened with my job.
That was the last straw for me.
I quit sometime after that.
The thing that ircs me is that throughout your childhood your told to become invaluable to whoever you work for.
Do that and you will have power in the work place.
Do that and they can't deny you a raise.
Do that and they won't be able to justify firing you.
Do that and you're job will be protected.
But the truth is that they don't want workers like that. They want machines.
And they have other methods of getting ride of hard workers they don't want to pay extra to keep.
They can make the work environment so absolutely horrible that you're forced to quit.
They can even use your overachiving attitude towards work against you by reprimanding you for overstepping your bounds.
I have no doubt that previously it was better. That there used to be justice in the work place here in america. That my grandparents had it better.
That working hard did give them power in the work place.
But it's not like that anymore.
The systems have been around long enough that sociopaths have figured them out and now know how to exploit them.
They sertanly got so far as to infest that bussiness i worked for previously.
I hope those people in japan manage to pull a revolution capable of fixing the toxic work environment they have found themselves in.
I truly do.
I worked tons of jobs in my life, and I have a welder’s license, worked both with MIG/MAG and manual arc (electrodes). Some workplaces were ok, some were violating all the safety rules. Some were outright scamming for payment.
In the end I sold all my belongings in the city where I lived my whole life, bought rural property and I run a homestead now (goats, pigs, chickens, garden), not working for someone who will buy another Bentley while telling me I have to work harder.
"the systems have been around long enough that the sociopaths have figured out how to exploit them"
I've felt this way for quite a while glad to see I'm not the only one
@@dxtrum Next parents thinking having a child = free 24/7 caregiver & maid/butler, food delivery & parcel messenger, trash disposal, dog caregiver/veterinarian
Sounds like a company my friend is working for right now.
Hard work is never the path to being invaluable. Setting things up so that everything falls apart without you is the only true way to become unreplacable.
and it's kinda super shitty doing that. Sucks that that's almost the meta.
the seeds for Japan's Gen Z to come about (figurative and literal) were brought about by the preceding generation and their work-life. Your point about news/info isnt necessarily wrong, but it seems like it is a lesser contribution.
What it seems to be is that Gen Z is old enough to see first hand, and also 2nd hand that the generation before it that was still an active committed part of the work culture started being betrayed by the companies in larger and larger numbers. Its not just that Gen Z suddenly on their own decided to see work as just a place of work or are willing to quit easily, its the company's lip Service about being a family and taking care of the employee's non-work needs for their home family they've seen completely collapse in the generation that preceded them.
one sure sign of this: check the manga that gets published. Examine the current batch of manga that are isekai ... and how many of them are just stories about disaffected workplace commentaries.
why do Japanese companies hate Japanese Gen Z? Because Japanese Companies have been breaking the social contract they claimed to have with their employees for almost 30 years, and they hate being called on their bullshit.
Some of the Isekai stuff does relate to what you are saying. Especially with how some people that typically would get white collar jobs are now looking to get blue collar jobs. This might also be why you have Japanese and Korean Isekai series where the MC gets Isekaied to a place where they are a farm worker/adventure of some other type of thing where they are improving the lives of others. You also do get Situations in some Series where they talk about a lot of the issues are caused by the older generation that doesn't care about younger people and what they have to go through. Hey let's pass laws that only affect younger people. Some Isekai more than others also do use stuff from office life and things that they were not happy about before (as a social commentary?) others not so much.
I still think that among the different current Isekai series that stuff like The Greatest Estate Developer is among one of the better Isekai series since it does try to connect stuff back to life and expectations. If you work hard you will only be rewarded with even more work. Also employers only care about shareholders and don't listen to employee concerns. As soon as you are hurt they will discard you type of thing. I have to remember the exact quote but the MC mentions a situation where the employees kept telling the higher ups that the working conditions were not safe. And eventually someone did get hurt and when that did happen the higher ups were no longer around since none of them wanted to take responsibility. They were only there to make unreasonable demands but when the employees needed them they were nowhere to be found. If especially sucks because the person that got hurt was basically the one person that make the whole work environment at least bearable but once that dude got hurt what hope was there for them (it was a construction site). In modern day life in places like the US people like him do exist and even though the guy is a lot older in the series. You will see millennial supervisor/managers that will at times look out for their employees and they are the ones that make it all bearable, but once they leave the whole operation turns to turd since morale was hit massively with them leaving.
Sorry for going off on a tangent. I mainly mentioned that since in some other Isekai (especially some of the older ones from 10+ years ago) the MC regrets their life and wishes that they could start over from square one. Which is rather dumb in a lot of ways and I have even seen some people in Japan criticize Isekai series for stuff like that, of why is the MC rewarded for something like that. He made his choices and didn't really even try. What about those that do in fact try?
@@PC-tan np, and i'm not saying there's nothing to enjoy about them, but its a sure sign that if there is manga about it, someone has lived it in some capacity. and they've exploded in the last 10 years, before they were kind of a novelty type of isekai.
yeah there was an anime I think called something like: Buchou it's time to work or something, seemed to me like it was a cry for help. There are some other animes too that mentions/features Black companies and just the expectations on the work envinronment. sorta glad they're getting recognized and hopefully it comes to a compromise where employees don't get sacrificed for the quality of the products of the companies.
The work culture won't continue for long as the workforce continues to shrink and companies have to start competing to keep employees. It's only natural.
They will just import foreigners like in Europe
Or they could pull a Greece and double down on Toxic work culture By making it law.
That's why in Canada, the gov is flooding as with migrants so workers can't make demand
Or they'll just import foreigners who will do the work for less without complaining. As long as that's an option, the corporations will take it.
@@keiichi8191 This would work anywhere other than Japan. Japan is notoriously Xenophobic. The idea of a large base of immigrant labor is unthinkable to the Japanese.
I'm an elder millennial and worked in Japan after University (from a western country). The work culture then was dumb enough that I knew I wouldn't stay there. Because of where I'm from, and I'm generally a kind of brash person, I basically got away with doing things my own way - I worked as I was expected to, but when I was sick I actually took my sick leave (shocking!!), I went to a few events because I was there to have fun but I didn't go if I didn't want to, and I just lived my life. The kids I was teaching were Gen Z and frankly I'm proud to hear that generation are rejecting the overwork culture. It might have brought Japan to where it is now out of the devastation of WW2 but that doesn't mean it's the way forward for them any more.
Work Life balance matters, work satisfaction matters, and the company doesn't have to own your soul.
So you are responsible for the laziness of the next generation.
@@saiwaqa2573 And you are a classic example of the entitled and toxic older generations
@@aaronburr956 I'm a millennial. Nothing about my mindset is entitled because I work and earn everything I have.
@@saiwaqa2573 Sure thing bud
@@aaronburr956 I think you need to learn the definition of entitled.
They hate Gen Z because they want to keep on fulfilling their never ending greed
And you, kind person, need to go into therapy.
@@ThaFuzzwood For what? Telling the truth?
@@ThaFuzzwood how is he wrong? You are denying the fact that CEOs are overpaid in comparison to their employees?
That’s not why they hate gen z their many reasons to hate them and this coming from someone who is between millennials and gen z
@@Dankmemeslover69probably because blanket statements lead to too many exceptions
It's not even just Gen Z, it's basically everyone who graduated within the past 30 years. The concept of company loyalty is a wash. Nobody wants to join the corporate workforce, especially in corporations where you'd have to do 996 or something close to it, and even if you do work corporate, you're expected to work a few years then jump somewhere else because rising the ranks within the company is really hard even if everyone likes you. At some point it's just not worth it.
It's such a shame. I think the idea of a company looking after it's people is great, necessary maybe even in the long run. But now it's all just reaping of good faith never the sowing. Companies and individuals care too much about their own success that they don't see how they're ruining the societies they rely on to even make success matter in the first place. We gotta grow as a species.
especially with large companies in stem (if you're into that) basically publicly advertising they want a 10 year background check before entering the workforce, that means anything you ever upvoted online being forensically analyzed prior to allowing you to be a part of an development team for example, as if to say what we think of your opinions will decide if you're going to be good at a job and even if it's irrelevant, this way we can gatekeep success to people we align with psychologically.
Why would anyone want to subject themselves to such scrutiny?
similar to america, japanese companies expect workers to stay with them forever, but forgot the reason it worked was because the job used to actually support the person to encourage them to stay, now its expected you stay even if the company abuses you.
Lol. Without job hopping, I wouldn’t have gotten a pay increase of 150%
Too true. I only tolerate 5% increase each year if I get to keep working on solid projects to increase my marketability to negotiate 20-30% increase at my next workplace
I recently retired (early)..."job hoping" has been the only way to get meaningful pay raises in the west since the 80's....basically the same time corporations stopped giving a shyte about their employees.
@@steveburke7675The absence of job hopping is nonfunctional capitalism.
If we’re going to use models that pretend that there’s competition in the marketplace, then we have to have competition in the marketplace.
Time to frame the old approach as what it is: an affront to free market economics.
I’m happy to hear out proponents of the old system if they acknowledge this about that system.
The absence of job hopping is nonfunctionalcapitalism.
If we’re going to use models that pretend that there’s competition in the marketplace, then we have to have to competition in the marketplace.
I admit that I expected this to be another critical essay on the shortcomings of Gen Z, but instead came away with a feeling of optimism that, at last, there is a younger generation in Japan that is not willing to accept the almost medieval standards that are destroying Japanese society. I wish them the best of luck in the future.
4:54 What really made me laugh is that company for quitting for on half of that person is called "モームリ” which means "I can't take it anymore" LMAO
Young people in literally every generation: Hey, we hate this setup you have, if you want to work with us you need to change some stuff.
Companies in literally every generation: How *DARE* you!?
Except X, who got completely eaten by the boomers
Entitled spoiled kids with no real skills 😂😂😂 this is gen z and millenials😂😂😂we are tired working for them in hard jobs even after pension, we will also like to quit this side job in our parent life 😂😂😂 so go to work, spoiled brats and earn a living!
@@enginerdynom
Lol, no, Boomers had the best working conditions than any generation could practically ask for.
@@SigFigNewtonyummy
Japanese companies about to learn the power of capitalism the hard way if they don't change.
They’re learning that. Sony has been surpassed by Samsung and Apple for more than a decade now.
@@phoenix5054 those are two other horses that will learn sooner or later.
So are the employees
When people stop getting free socialist handouts and have to work for food they will learn capitalism the hard way and beg for any work.
@@devilslayer3548Indeed.Automation, Migration or moving factories to a different country it is then.
In the US, a job calling you “family” is a red flag. A form of manipulation and an excuse to guilt you into being overworked and used unfairly. I can understand other countries starting to pick up on this. It’s certainly not the same kind of work environment it used to be. Not all places, but ones in a more corporate mindset.
True, I had that mistaken notion too since I love manga/anime, but in fact they're the same as capitalist countries that just wants you to be their dumb obedient alila.
I worked in a company in Japan and during one "all company" meeting, the CEO said his opinion about a topic and why everyone should do it his way. A lot of comments from the meeting chat were showing that people don't agree with him. Instead of trying to de-escalate the situation, he started to be very aggressive and said something like "if you want to work here, you need to think this way too". The company saw 12% of the working force resigning in the following weeks, including me. The CEO stepped down "for personal reasons" from his position around one month after that event
Any chance the company sent out offers to re-hire the employees who quit once the dude was gone?
@@AuntieHauntieGames I'm not sure about other folks, because most of the people decided to move to original/other countries in the end, including me. I got a salary increasing offer to stay, but I had also decided already to move out from Japan
Upon quitting a job, I once told my boss, "You don't own me, I rent you my time."
5:52 Japanese Elon Musk 😳
Dude...💀
LOL but better looking too
It's about damn time, if anything. If Japan wants to have any workers at all in the future, they need to take better care of them.
It goes both ways
@@devilslayer3548 copy pasting the same three lines over and over(all of which are terrible anyways and support being terrible to employees) is not going to work bud
@@devilslayer3548 nope
@@devilslayer3548the economy exists because WE exist. The birth rate is declining and economic news papers are currently freaking out. Read the room
My dad when he got into Japanese history and culture looked at its work culture and said "Thats gonna bite em in the ass in a generation or two"
Well would ya look at that
In philippines we also have that toxic work “ethic” like if you want to be promoted you should show them that youre a good tool. Or what we call in tagalog “sip sip”.
yeah but no one cares because you're not japanese 🤓🌸🗾
As the saying goes "work to live, not live to work."
Very good analysis. I will never become an employee in a Japanese company again. Never again.
Have you been one before?
@@jendorei I've worked like a Japanese employee in various companies. Including even in a Shinto shrine, you can't get more Japanese than that. ^^
from what I hear, it sounds absolutely intolerable.
Western companies are not much better, there is no job security and they are constantly laying off workers for cheaper Indian labor
Better than working for company with Indians from India.
The difference between Gen Z/Millennials and the older generations is that we have 0 reasons to overwork ourselves. Most of us aren't married and don't have any kids and live with our parents. If the job sucks I can work a couple of months to get enough money to quit and find a better one. The consequences of not being able to own houses or afford groceries for more than 1 person is that we have absolutely nothing to lose by quitting even if we don't find a job for a couple of months/years.
Came to Japan in November 2023 as a foreign workers support staff, and in January 2024 all job description changed from support to manage dorms (cleaning empty rooms, changing lightbulb etc), then in June 2024 suddenly ordered to work in an elderly facilities kitchen as dishwasher. This applies to all foreign workers support staff. I asked for consideration, since I have a bad experience working part time in kitchen that worsen my physical health, and also that I have set my career course in other direction. The company boss then blasted a company message saying "If you're questioning my decision, then don't work here". Sure enough now I'm blasting my cv like oprah to other companies.
I've worked my ass off to get JLPT N1, with 4+ years of working experience, and a set career course. Not going to let a Japanese boomer old man who paid me less than an overseas "cheap" worker telling me to take a step back to my goal.
@@Cha4k HARD DISAGREE. No, it is not fair. When you are hired to do a job, the kind of work you are hired to do is NOT a trivial consideration and affects the compensation a candidate will consider or even if they would consider the opportunity at all. Legions of "housekeepers" have been hired around the world and then pressured into sex work instead once their ability to decline has been eroded by the circumstances imposed by taking the job. This is a less extreme example of the very same bullshit. If you hire someone to do a job, then instruct them to do a completely different job, especially if the work conditions are worse for no increase in compensation, you are just pulling a bait and switch scam, since you probably caused them very real opportunity costs (in other opportunities they were tricked into declining) to discover your offer is worse than presented. Unless the circumstances that caused the need to change their duties was unanticipated and unanticipatable (in which case you should be thorough apologetic), it is just as much scumbag behavior as if you lie to someone you are hiring about any other aspect of the relationship.
@@themadstudentHow come you did not look for another job and leave your current that was abusing the original duties?
@@Cha4kregardless of what your status are, that attitude is nasty and won’t bring actual, productive performance at work.
oh wait, it’s *BOSS,* not *LEADER.* my bad
The goal of the business is centered to make profits for the benefit of those in charge and any shareholders/stockholders etc fixed it for ya. @@Cha4k
I recommend applying for work with western companies that have a japanese office.
Your N1 will be considered more valuable.
The working conditions will be much closer aligned with western work life balance.
Your pay will likely be Improved.
Good for them. Full support from me. The point of working nonstop in postwar was to rebuild japan. After 1980, japan was rebuilt. Companies wanted to keep the unpaid overtime forever and there isn’t a point. Let people live and enjoy their free time how they want
1:13 grandpa boutta fold some kids lmaoooo
Gen Z has understood that they don't have to live to work but work to live. If you give 16 hours a day to your company then your only achievement in your life is to make your boss happy.
And even that is impossible in the end.
I'm a 26 yo living and working in Japan. I work at a terrible factory job and I come from a third world country like 98% of the floor/line workers like me.
They always look at you like you're trash when you say you can't do 4 or 5 hours of zangyou (overtime) today. And they usually don't let you leave sooner. (mind you my usual hours are leaving home at 6:30 and arriving back at my apartment at 17:30 IF there's no zangyou, which there always is)
My home country is hell but working here in Japan is killing me. I used to get a liveable amount of money by working 8 hours and sometimes less, and I didn't even have to stand on my feet for 12+ hours, I only had to drive and unload a few boxes here and there, which is something I love to do.
Obviously I earn several times more money here, but I have no energy or time to do anything else I like because work takes most of it.
@@fluttzkrieg4392 do they pay you for those Zangiyo?
I hope that's not service zangyo
Its such a messed up way to work. If you're that tired, you are going to be slower and likely to make mistakes. So it doesn't even really benefit the employer.
The liable laws on top of that protecting black companies from getting called out. Japanese work culture has a lot that needs to be updated and fixed.
@@ero_0yaji Nope, that is part of the shitty contracts Japanese companies have. You are supposed to love your company sooooo much that you allow them to fuck you in the ass.
@@ero_0yaji Yes, but the Japanese employees (the guys above us like managers and bosses), usually do 1 or 2 unpaid hours every day.
Sometimes I don't want to do so many hours and I'm fine if I don't get paid for those hours I didn't work, but they rarely give you an option to even refuse.
Japan's work culture is crazy, I honestly believe that their population decline is a result of this culture.
You don't need to see it in person to believe it, just do the math, work 996 a week, then the occational being the alila of your boss till midnight while still needing to come in time the next morning.
I love how older generation say we are "sensitive" but when we want have private off work time they are so fucking offended (￣y▽,￣)╭
It’s calculated manipulation. They claim “offended” now because the culture has their back even though they didn’t make resistance against company policy. Wait until it becomes a little more popular, then they’ll regulate the behavior, making an excuse not to pay you and firing you on the spot.
This is Japan’s way of dealing with behaviors they disagree with. The Chinese do something very similar (which you can see on TikTok: outlaw a behavior, then punish you for it).
@@MerlinTheCommenter You shouldn't be seeing anything on ShitTok, it's a weapon, uninstall it.
That’s not your generation is sensitive
@@devilslayer3548 that's why old men at the top whine and throw themselves on the floor when people want what was discussed in the interview? LMAO
People *are* more sensitive nowadays, but older folks are more indignant over nonsense as well. It's everybody.
Everybody hating on Gen-Z, means that Gen-Z must be doing something right.
Most of the thing they are doing are not right, but now and then we have good things like in this video. I say this as an early gen Zer
They realize its a slavery system but can they actually destroy their slave masters or get bludgeoned in submission. The elites generally react to insubordination by importing new populations both to fill job vacancies, increase the crime rate and establish identity politics they can play each side off of each other. GenZ hasn't even imagined the scale of the rot and the empire will strike back.
Every gens were hated. And they are hating us now, lmao. The cycle keeps on going.
Everyone I know hates serial killers..
Hmm…
@@Cha4k If every young generation is hated, why is money invested on them, then?
The gen z kids grow watching anime. They saw parents going to work and come back home. Like normal life. But when they go to work and finally slap by the reality. You can't leave unless senior finish their job. After work must follow the boss and/or coworkers to get drink. Also, you need to buy souvernir and/or food. Just for hospitality to your boss and/or senior workers. This is too much even for milenials. But no matter how much we try to break free, the system is exist and trap into the infinite loop hole. The society pressure to have a job and paid well make you suffer. Working for long time can cause severe stress and problems on your body. That is why gen Z appear older than supposed to be. The era is quite different thanks to technology. If the new generation worker try to speak up (question, concern, help, etc), the senior worker will dislike you. So, it is doomed. Idk why ppl keep saying gen z is weak. They are trying hard to survive. My suggestion is lower expectation and find other option. Maybe open a small business and run it with your friends/family members. No need to get high profit. Going to small city with less competitive nature will reduce the burden to work.
@@Ordell1991 why? Because every generation that came before you did it so you could have what you have today. Gen z is weak, selfish and entitled.
You're right, but honestly, I think gen Z need to grow up and actually become adults with accountability.
Incoming paragraphs of excuses in 3..2..1..
Aggretsuko taught me Japanese Gen Z is based.
finally, the generation of based opinions
I believe Aggretsuko is solidly the millennial experience, but that in and on itself is similar to Gen Z.
@@ruolbu there was gen Z characters in there i think anai was one
What does "based" even mean?
@@manuproulx2764 Well based originally, and often still means, a viewpoint, belief or action that displays an unwillingness to conform to standard behaviour due to one's own conviction. As this behaviour is intrinsically respectable, its a positive descriptor. Its often used as an antyonym to cringe, although its actually misusing cringe in doing so. In context, its form of cringe refers to being uncommital, conformist, and spineless.
This is why it's often confused with stuff like right wing opinions. Believing some abhorrent belief, and outright saying it, is the definition of being based. Because you don't care if you look bad, because you believe in it. ie I don't agree with you, but I respect your willingness to say that. Hence 'that's based'.
Of course, many people have taken based to refer to someone being cool and pro their views. Which I suspect is what OP intended it as, but ironically, this is actually a correct usage to the meaning of based.
Based also has the implication of being somewhat clued in about what you're talking about, and not just a belief through ignorance.
Very interesting, it's mostly the same discussion as in Germany which also had a culture of staying at the same company for life. But it seems it started a bit later Japan.
Even the smaller German companies do way more for their employees then smaller Japanese ones
@@Naikomi95yeah, Japanese companies are trying to hold onto their rejection of free market capitalism.
Noooo! We have to compete for labor!? Nooooooooo
@@SigFigNewton not the big ones, I've worked for TDK and for Bosch and there wasn't much of a difference
@@Naikomi95interesting. Maybe because TDK is highly international?
Could be that I’m simply almost entirely wrong. It’s not as tho I know what I’m talking about. Never even visited Japan.
@@SigFigNewton Japan has laws to help workers but they aren't enforced in smaller companies. A big company can't risk breaking the law in that way so they for example are strict in not working to many hours.
I don’t like how all of this is depicted as a “problem”. Basically Gen Z doesn’t want to be subservient to a company, doesn’t want to be forced to consider your superior your best friend automatically and doesn’t want to live and breathe for their work but have a private life and quit if they are done with a job.
THAT’S NORMAL. IT’S COMPLETELY NORMAL. The problem is Japan who thinks corporate slavery is what one should aspire to, stop calling it a problem.
It's a "problem" for the older generations, I'd say. The boomers and the angry generation/gen x think because that is what they had to do, then that is what everyone else should have to deal with. They got theirs so everyone else should have to suffer too mentality. Instead of, you know, trying to make life easier and the world a better place for younger people or their children's generations. 🙄
I think, too, many boomers who became successful are now trying to maximize profits, while keeping employee salaries as low as they possibly can, on top of adding to the workload nonstop with no incentives. And they think it's a problem because "no one wants to work anymore." It was a problem in Japan, and is still a problem after moving to Canada, sadly.
@@amurri2314 It is sadly the truth of the world. People get to the top and rationalize wrongly that all the injustices and wrongdoing are part of the process, not a problem. I got into the hole but I’m bleeing from scratches, so instead of trying to make it larger so no one has to get hurt I just say “see? you can make it” or even trying to make it smaller because I’m afraid someone else making it puts me back outside.
The result is that nobody wins, the companies crumble over people just not wanting to bleed to get into the hole, realizing “I can just stay outside” which the ones who make in thinks it’s a mockery of their sacrifices, not just, you know, common sense not wanting to get hurt.
It's not normal, but it is positive. Most ppl think kissing up to companies is either what you have to do for success in life, or what you should do to stay on your social class. They're all wrong and I'm glad gen z is taking a page out of the x handbook on punk culture and raging against the machine like our predecessors before y.
Thank you for featuring relevant social realities occurring in Japan right now. It’s true that Gen Z’s in Japan generally quit their job after one year and most of the time when the job begins to become hard so after a year they quit. The old generation and the young generation completely come from two different backgrounds and so the mindset are different as well. I hope that there will be a win win solution for both sides.
honestly the notion of feeling compelled to go out drinking with your coworkers after work is already crazy. 2 or 3 big events in the year, I can get.
but worse is that practice of doing ''networking'' or buisness negociations in strip clubs.
im so proud of them all, its called respecting yourself.
Old people: Youngsters, you shouldn´t drink alcohol, is bad for you.
(Younger generations not drinking alcohol)
Old people: WHY NO ONE WANTS TO SHARE BEERS WITH ME!?
You forgot to mention the very critical issue:
The basic human rights to fall in love reproduce.
And Japanese companies chose to stay Blind of this subject
The ones who prioritize work literally go extinct as the next generation is born to those who prioritize family.
If a generation is half the size of its parrents generation you can know that all those children come from the more family orianted half families.
The “The future is now, old man.” moment.
The problem is the older generation not respecting the private time of the younger generations.
Joined a project in an IT company and was called to the office to meet everyone I'd be working with. It was a 3 hour train ride to the different prefecture. They asked my new coworkers to come outside in the corridor to meet me. All was just to bow at the elevator without them even letting me inside the office room. And then they said I can go back home, right away. Whole thing maybe took less than a minute.
Nothing about the project we'd be working at was talked about. None. Just a stupid face to face greeting ritual in an age of the internet where it could have been done online in 5 minutes instead of making everyone commute. Japan is full of such backwards rituals that slow down the country's progress. It's not that they're just older, but more superior on the social ledder.
The society is too vertical and a worker who is one year older than you or who joined the company a month earlier than you thinks he can command you like a dog, even if he's not your boss and is in the same position as you. They are used to reprimand everything around for acting not like the older self. And the Japanese below them grow up to silently listen and obey such "older" people. Working in Japan is basically like being in an army.
From working for 7 different Japanese companies I've noticed that all of them had zero respect for people's time or people's anything basically. You're treated as a slave who came to do only what you're told, give paw and bark on command. You can't dare to have any opinion. The upper manager can do nothing all day, be late on schedules and mess up your work progress. Because of this we can have many downtimes when "there's nothing to do", but it just means you still have come to work as usual and pretend very hard that you're being busy, staring at a screen, clicking empty spaces etc. 1 hour work gets stretched to 1 month. But then 1-2 days before the deadlines it _suddenly_ gets busy and the manager comes in like "looks like we need to do several hours of overtime to finish". Then where the hell were you for the past 2 months when we had to stare at an empty screen and click it because we "had nothing to do"? The Japanese people around me (even the young ones) are already slaves to the system who can't have an option and must obey so they just silently agree to overwork because "it can't be helped". As a foreigner I could care less and just pack my stuff as soon as its 18:00 and leave.
They are shocked that it's possible to just get up and leave on time. The older guy to the left of me always keeps grumbling under his nose about it and I find it amusing.
It's also the same IT company who just gave me a garakei (feature phonr or flip phone) for "work". Yes, a garakei in 2024.
Privacy doesn't exist in Japan. They know all the details about you from the documents you have to prodive when you join. Your address, phone, the commute routes you take, even your health check results. Every japanese company worker has to go through this annual health check (or be fired if they refuse). That's the rule.
Someone from HR or Management can call you and nonchalantly ask "in your health check results you had this bleeding out of your ass, so you need to pick the date to schedule the colonosopy to check for polyps.". As if it's their damn business to begin with.
These health checks are generic and useless. They won't be able to detect a more serious condition like the lung cancer for example.
The company phone must always be on and charged, so they could contact you any time. Even outside work hours. (My friend sometimes gets calls late evening and even at night). You also have to provide 1 or 2 "guarantor" people as an emergency contact, in case you won't pick up the phone.
The oldest person at my place no is probably around 55 I think. But you can see even the youngest new graduate workers have already succumbed to the system and are scared to do anything.
It's not just work but daily life too.
They are so used to this verticality and ordering around that an "older" person from even your close relationships circle can easily ask you to come flying to meet him at a place convenient to him. Without consideration for your time, how far away you are right now, or if you simply can't because you have other things to do. They can be late for a hour but if you're late even 1 minute they will throw a tantrum. It's like they see you as a bell boy at a hotel. The younger obedience Is rooted so deeply in the society. The horrible work culture is just in of the results of it.
It will take decades to break the cycle and we probably won't be alive to see Japan change.
@@HaohmaruHL I think the change will happen sooner than later since the younger Japanese generations are already taking action.
So in the end same issue as in the west: GenZ wants same as older gens but the they do not see a path forward. And old traditions stand in the way. Obsolete to them. If what you want isn't in front of you to 'grab' then they wont even try. Like in the west.
We are SO far past the stage where boomes talk the 'just do it anyway, work whatever is needed'. No, there are 2x,3x,4x and larger amounts of counters added in front of every component they want compared to older gen(s) depending on situation. Few are the sub-components of a good life that are easier and cheaper and all we older gens at worst can do is give our 'we didnt have x when we where young' -talk GenZ dont want to hear. They just don't care and i understand.
Looked through the lens of supply and demand i understand GenZ quite well once you springle on top some of that social dysfunction they all have a level of ranging from 0 to full blown 10 so that you cant even go to a restaurant unless you can order via phone by scanning a QR code.
Yup. Like in the West. Old dad had to work 16 hours/day from Monday to Sunday to get by. He barely escaped poverty, ended up losing everything he gained once he became old to settle debts, and died at 72.
Lessons learned. I'll never work like him, pushing myself beyond what my employer deserves: close to NOTHING. Gen Z are like that: quick to realize how toxic managers, bosses and illogical rules are and pointing it out....or quitting.
They're simply the "bullshit detector" we naturally concieved to find out where changes are needed. Old Gen can hate it: they brought it.
Talked like a real boomer…
@@meanwhale4017 I mean... The last paragraph seemed like a jab. But in all it came across neutral. & considering how entitled the upper management class is & throngs of capitalist thralls they've duped. Our culture is such that mental instability is unavoidable. So we can't really disagree with the assessment.
@@heikkint what do you think happens to the world's economy, and by extension your wallet if the next generation refuses to work and keep things going? Genz is so selfish it's not funny. Our parents did it so you can have the things you have today and still all you can think of is yourself. The "companies" you fight against are also just working to make a living. All of this will blow up in your faces when your bank account is empty, and companies begin outsourcing their jobs to foreigners who want to work. Your country will look very different if it goes down this path. And you'll only have yourselves to blame
@@saiwaqa2573 Let's tackle this one in parts:
> World economy
> my wallet
> Genz in particular being selfish
> parents working hard
> fighting against companies
> companies outsource / offshoring / globalization
Generally when a population is disilusioned they are unable to think long term. This has already happened. I myself being X-gen have a run away pension age. Currently reported at 67yrs 4 months. I fully expect it to be at least 69 when i actually reach it and it's payment to be wrecked by inflation so i will not retire. But i do have a pension albeit it's made up lies as the ones making promises now will be retired when payments come due. My wallet is center to everything i do and try, in the past and now but i am motivated now at 45+ as i was 18+ as i had milestones to reach. own rental appartment, then a better one, then buying my own. Getting my first car, then a better one. Gettign a gf, a wife, a family. The whole steps. Disruptions were there but looking back i didnt have to deal with 2x,3x,4x or 20x prices on things. Inflation in women was not a thing. Pay checks had value and promotions was available if i worked hard, and i did. But i recall i had my best years in 97-08. After that it has been a dog eat dog world. Before that i was a company man with my bosses 'you scratch my back i scratch yours'. Globalization wrecked all that. Last time i was fired i was fired above my boss. Some offshore C-man fired the entire division over his head leaving without his best men. Now why should GenZ adore all this? strive for all this with 2x,3x,4x difficulty tacked on top? Some will be forced due to fierce competition from India, Vietnam etc. But others will just do the 'let it rot' route. Gen Alpha will statistically history book in hand be just plain revolutionary, they will get ideology X when they grow up and pump their fists in the air if % odds keep up. I don't fight against companies, they are made of people but they are victims of other companies who in turn are led by sociopathic billionaires who currently play left against right by pumping money into both and doing their best to affect legislation to de-harmonize the west. Where exactly do you insert here the average GenZ who doomscrolls and is affected by daily PsyOps? It is a mess. Life should not be this hard. We all want the same: gf, house, car, a plain queit life with honest work and we get so little. I myself 'have won' in this life clearly but the cost has been staggering and my end game is anything but clear. In fact i expect myself to end up in a war or conflict or just plain be ill when i am old. Things are that bad. And on top of that there will be daily PsyOps bull that tells me 'i am wrong, i am bad, i should submit YET i should work had for a peanut when my parents could buy a house for 3 peanuts and a raspberry but i am told with a straight face if i work REALLY hard i can qualify for down payment of a small appartment at 45 years old'
The current Japanese work culture is the main reason I haven’t even considered moving to Japan. So massive respect to Gen-Z. If things do change (which I don’t think will happen anytime soon), I might be able to fulfill my childhood dream and actually move there.
By then, your reasons for wanting to go to Japan will probably have been erased. LOL.
@@user-ov3zn5uj6h sadly, unironically true? I think the whole point of japan was their conservative culture, once that is gone, it is just like any other country
I mean if they are fed up with gen z now, imagine what happens when the current generation joins the workforce, those who grow up with ipads and tiktoks it's gonna be a massacre. I think gen z born before 2005 are still pretty mature in comparison to those born after.
Yep, the older bunch are fantastic. They are a bit strange until late teens/early 20s then they develop really fast and are more capable and mature than millenials or before were. Honestly I think we will see the same from the younger generation too, it's our (and older) job to let them actually grow into what they're capable of though which is the problem.
@@BozeboThey mature quickly because of the declining state of the world. It’s tough as an older generation, and it’s absolutely hellish as a kid fresh out of high school with no life experience.
The world completely chews you up and spits you out in a way many countries haven’t seen for generations. Zoomers growing up in these harsh times are what boomers think they were.
@@noidsuper people will change their minds after experiencing communism 😂
@@kurrwaits either capitalism or communism to you people istg
@@playdoh658 Hey, have some pity, show some compassion. He's had some of the worst schooling, no health care, and probably grew up eating lead paint, poisonous tap water, and an abundance of fast food.
i cant even handle being in the same place for 8 hours that i dont wanna be at. but have to. cant even imagine how bad this would be in japan.
Millennials walked so that Gen-Zs could run.
“superiors and subordinates” yeah i’d quit too
No getting around that. The whole point of working for someone is that you accept subordinating yourself to a superior's instructions. A worker would be useless if he couldn't be told what to do, after all. That does not mean being some kind of slave. Being a professional means demanding respect for yourself and what you do, as well as keeping work matters separate from the rest of your life.
This is an interesting take, but you haven't touched at all on how many of the companies out there are turning their back on the old system of "employee for life" and going with contract employment so they can easily offload younger workers and avoid having to pay them pensions for a lifetime of work.
In my opinion, this problem is happening everywhere not just in Japan.
I got the double treatment. As a young worker in Japan and expat, I am speaking Japanese, English and French fluently and got associated to a few "purely" Japanese companies. Some of them were not happy with how I was working because I was "just" doing my job. I was paying the minimum wage and they expected me to do more for nothing. In a lot of Japanese company contracts, you have "forced" overtime hours to respect (around 20 hours) and you are not paid more for these. I am now working in an international company and when you can see some Japanese workers still trying their way to force the old Japanese system (I am still in Japan so its "normal") it is also good to see that a lot of younger generations or Japanese bosses in their 40s are trying to change this scale of power to being more a company with employees and not employees for the company.
I'm not working any harder than I would as a hunter-gather-farmer. 😂
4:42 What the hell is a "black company"?
Oh you poor summer child
A company that works you to death. Normally used together with the term death march (multiple days living in your cubicle, without shower or seeing the sun.)
@@suruxstrawde8322 I just had to google it, it's pretty much just what they call a sweatshop.
Fancy sweatshop
Thing of mappa animators chained to there desks working for hours for shit pay
@suruxstrawde8322 just say the answer
Gen z is the gen of critical thinking.
We are taking in all information and making thoughts on it ourselves
A family cares for its younger members. It is so absurd that these companies want to talk about companies like if they are family
"60 hour work weeks aren't the standard around the world..?" -Every Japanese burnout victim.
About 15 years ago I worked with a young Japanese guy. The place was a joint university/industry lab, so no real hustle there. Still, he'd come in pretty early each day, latest at 8, and would initially leave around 7 or 8 in the evening. But in between he slept on his desk, went shopping, cooked and ate his dinner... His "traditional work values" turned out to be: come in before the boss, don't ever leave before the boss does". Nothing about performance in there, about actually doing work during this time. Just be there, so the boss can see you. We managed to turn him around to an eight hour day of actual work :)
Well i'm glad Japan is changing in this regard, Japan has an absolutely life consuming work culture that leaves little time for the individual, i think if they want people to start families and solve their demographic crisis this is part of what needs to change.
As a Japanese, this is the first time I have heard of a Japanese company hating on gen Z
I do vibe with the yume-hara, honestly. I hate having to put together a personal development plan. Like, can I not just be left to do my job?
well most companys in the world dislike gen z not just the japanese ones
Work to live, not live to work.
Amen.
plz help me. I’m a Japanese gen z lol
Work outside japan and live there once you have earned enough
you guys need to ask political parties to promise a free day of rest (sunday), I don't think your country can survive if it doesn't get this
Be a freelancer or own a business
@@suiken3149 Starting a business is definitely an option, but only if you know what you are doing and have enough money👍
come to Europe, way better work-life balance than anywhere else in the world
A friend of mine got yelled at by the head of one of those hiring committees because his shoes weren't the correct type of leather shoe for a job interview. "If you can't take care of something so minor how can you be trusted within our company?!" for literally ten minutes. Somehow he didn't get defenestrated.
If Japans Zoomers can ruin that guy's day, and the days of everyone like him, the more power to them.
Geez. That's so nitpicky.
I think the appropriate response is to thank them for saving him from working at such a crap company that allows such behaviour.
"Can't bond with them" meaning "can't pressure them as easily".
I love how gen z collectively all around the world we decided we don’t want to be used by capitalisms and the work environment it will be hard for a couple of years but I believe we can achieve a change
wow Rin Miyazaki on the cover😊
Had to scroll pretty far for this comment
I see a cultured man, I upvote.
kanji pls (or her name in kana; if her name lacks a kanji)
@@wiandryadiwasistio2062 she's half Thai. 宮崎リン is her kanji name. I really enjoyed her works with 中山琴葉 although she can be really really noisy which a turn off sometime.
Previous generations grew up without pervasive exposure to the internet, so they did not realise that there were other options to Japanese work culture. The current generation realise that there is a problem. They also realise that the whole 'company is family' and 'employment for life' thing is a tool for control.
I was on board until he started talking about "dream harassment"
It like... yeah, you dont have any aspirations in life? Thats like saying youre being harassed by casual chit chat.
not wanting to go to your boss for drinks after hours is totally acceptable. There's plenty of after work options like going home and watching your fav show or eating something nice
Love Gen Z!!! Keep your boundaries strong, your hearts sensitive and your private lives PRIVATE! ❤
love that you used a JAV actress in your thumbnail 😂. trying to figure out if that's some kind of commentary on the topic or not