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hey YouTube brought up this is bryan easy coming at you guys today with a vlog so I haven't done a vlog in a while so I thought I'd just come out to you guys and give you a vlog about the Japanese I want to talk about Japanese work culture as I got a request to talk about Japanese work culture also i will add in when i first came to Japan the big differences in culture like what kind of shocked me and what was a lot different to Australia so will I will go into that a bit later hey guys let's go into also I'd like to thank you guys I'm over 300 subscribers now switch is great thanks a lot guys I'm I'm gonna give away something soon you know because I am staying make a little bit of money on this YouTube thing so it's great guys thanks a lot we've come this far and keep going further and I'll start giving back you know so if you guys have a request for computer part or something like not too expensive than I will probably do something and give away something so let me know guys in the comments below what you kind of keen on so I'll thinking of getting a new mouse and reviewing it and then giving it away so if you guys think that's a good idea then let's go ahead and do that also guys I want to talk about yeah so let's talk about the Japanese work culture so now in Japan when I came here and I started working here there was a lot of differences in the work culture and the big differences are is I is that the the Japanese are very very very very very very punctual so you know if you my old job it was just it was bullshit like nothing I would describe it you know you get to work one minute late man you get like you get literally flamed on this your boss will be like you wouldn't work that's if you get caught though meanwhile job was a sort of a freedom thing that yeah if you got caught being one minute late you got docked like a whole day's salary so there was no point you even working that day it was just so stupid but my job now I am lucky you know if I am two minutes late no one really cares and you know if I'm very very rarely if I'm 10 minutes late no one cares again so I'm lucky at my job now but my job at the moment is a bit rare so most jobs in Japan will be fair a punctual and the Japanese will like they want formality is very important here so like when you greet people you bow you talk politely that is a huge thing here guys you know they're they're very strict on their work culture which is a good thing and they take their work seriously I tend to sometimes think though that it is a detriment because sometimes there's just too much formality and people are afraid of losing so I will give you an example at my school I wanted to build a new footpath because you know there's this dirt road with rocks on it and the parents when it's raining some of the parents of walking and they you know they got their heels on there walking across this gravel and they hate it so they're walking across the gravel and you can just see on their faces that like they wish there was a footpath there so anyway I went to talk to the principal he was like he doesn't really is pretty here's a baller man my principal has you know he's visible he just doesn't really care like little things like that he'll just be like yep okay build your foot path but then he's like I'll go get some help from these people so I talked to the like the guy there and anyway the the sort of the office administration guy and here it is like ah to build this footpath you might have this problem this problem this problem and I'm just thinking dude like let's just build a foot part it's a little footpath it's not really going to matter you know if there's problems along the way we can fix them I'm sure it's a two hundred and fifty dollar footpath I'm sure there's you know it's not the end of the world if something breaks or something stuffs up so anyway this guy wastes about two hours literally two hours explaining to me what I read in you like what could go wrong with the footpath ah you know if there's if you put a block down if there's a stone underneath it could shake it's like yeah you know I did I did you know do physics it at high school so I do know basic principles of you know how the earth works you know and how you know gravity works you know so anyway this guy's explaining crap to me and you know I'm being formal I'm saying yep okay well Connie master yep I understand and it got to the point where I just went out and bought the materials and I just laid the whole footpath myself and that was that I finished it you know so that's one thing to remember that's the detriment about you know the people here they're afraid of failing and it is a big and sometimes it can set back the work culture and I was really surprised I just went and laid the footpath you know because I used to work with my dad as a carpenter why don't know like you know doing a bit of handyman work here in there so you know I do have a little bit of experience doing those kind of things so I knew it was going to be no problem and anyway I put this foot bar down there like all good job excellent job wow that's fantastic and so it's just like well you know it's not really rocket science to build a little footpath so that's an example of the work culture sort of being a detriment but then again the good thing about the Japanese work culture let's go on to the positives that is you know they really work as a team they do like to communicate with each other and give each other a lot of respect so for instance when I was making a new lesson they would give me good feedback good input Briony you know you should use the big projector and use the overhead you really they say you're really good at delivering speeches so why don't you use the overhead projector and get you know more emphasis and more pictures out there and you know I did that and my lessons started getting a lot better and they helped me do that so they're very attentive and they very they focus on the job they work as a team they do everything team orientated really is surprising when you come over here how people don't they're not I don't know there's no there's no sinister people conniving to step on you and you know do anything bad by you so that's something to remember now another thing is too is that there seems to be a system here that is still very strong so the older you are generally the more money you make the more respected you are and of course the more power you generally have so that my work especially as well the older people are the bosses and then it spirals down you know cascades down to the younger people sort of do on the you know the the slave job the works they're really working hard for I guess that system is still pretty strong in Japan age is a big thing for me obviously I'm a foreigner it's you know the foreign at my school I'm the only foreigner there I'm like this outcast that has you know a different set of jobs and a different whole thing that applies to me so that's something to remember now there is a that's the Japanese work culture in general yet going on about that lastly is that its overall it is different to what we know they're not so big on asking for pay rises and promotions and stuff like we are you know in the West so you know in Australia especially we you know we our goal is to just keep upgrade and get that cash get that cash their goal in Japan is to really do their job and their job is really important to them it's just doing their job it's not it's not really going for promotions and stuff like that you don't really see that much in the work culture so that was a good thing when i noticed i did you know for me it it you know it brings people like i'm a down-to-earth guy and I thought of I don't I'm not focused on promoting myself you know if people present the opportunities to me then I will take the promotion which you know it wasn't when I quit my last job and went to this job I sort of saw that as a promotion that it was because I was you know of people's like I was starting to become a people's person and network so you kind of you meet new people and they you know offer your offer your new opportunities so that's something to remember guys you know and just try a network that's in regards to promotions and stuff I don't know but yeah that's basically the work culture in a nutshell now i will talk about when i first got to Japan what was the big differences in culture compared to the also i got this new thing here this is pretty cool so i got this for ten dollars the hardware store it's really cool like it really is good but you can work out your back and stuff like that it's awesome so sort of like my new little toy for now so i'm gonna play with it and you know you might think I'll too easy but if it's too easy start getting you know start going in morn really you know really getting into it so this thing is a cool I recommend this was only ten bucks pretty cool thing to carry around with you while you walking around stuff get onto when I first came to Japan big differences was for me coming from Australia it wasn't so much the culture it was the weather I mean I came from summer to winter and I got one of the actually it was the worst cold I've ever got in my life I had a real big ear infection is ringing had to go to the doctor get antibiotics it was horrible so that be careful guys if you're coming over in the winter if you're from Australia especially the weather is like bang that it is colder here I mean it's not ridiculously cold but you know after living here for a few years but it is colder than what i would have in the gold coast and I just was never used to it so it was a big shock for me the culture is it the culture itself what what surprised me was that arm how like generally how polite people were I mean like in general if you you know people helped me a lot oh this is my my own experience when I went somewhere you know for instance it was raining when I got first got here I went to a restaurant it was raining the ladies like you don't have an umbrella and I'm like no I don't have an umbrella so what happened then was sorry my computer just the monitor blent dimmed down been talking for 10 minutes what happened was the yes she gave me an umbrella cause she saw I didn't have an umbrella and I was like thank you very much that's a really nice thing to do you know offer a stranger and umbrella so that was a really nice thing the culture people yet like to talk a lot I was in Nagoya when I first got here it's a very big city very nice City I do recommend it really nice city as well I really had a good time in naga where my two weeks two weeks training they're the biggest things to were not just the culture but like the thing I guess you could sort of put into the culture was that the restaurants you know you've got all these little cool restaurants and I will do another vlog on that guys i'll do another vlog on restaurants in Japan because it was really interesting like you had convenience stores everywhere where you could buy food buy drinks like you know one kilometer down the road another convenience store another 500 meters there was this little food store yoshinoya you know there was all these little restaurants and they're a lot different to what we get in Australia you go in there you've got a drink bar you've got a menu where your organ you know you yeah so that you do start like your order and then you just pay and you go so the definitely the eating and the and the food and stuff was a lot different the they've got a lot of pachinko here which is if you guys know that it's like the Japanese casinos they're really crap I hate them because you know as soon as I walk in there they're just smoke infested there's so much smoke in there that I just cannot stand it you know I mean I occasionally smoke with my friends but pachinko is just too much it's like you walk in there is just this smoke oven so be good if it was a Dutch oven but unfortunately it's not you know and that's another thing to remember when you come to Japan is that you know there's no gambling really like in the sense of we play poker on the tables and play roulette you know blackjack they've got none of that there I'd really do miss my blackjack I love my blackjack at the casino so in terms of supermarkets they're generally the same our banking is the same getting a phone here is one thing that does kind of suck it you're limited to getting a contract that's all you can get that shocked me as well because I just wanted to get a prepaid mobile phone cuz you know I tend to use my computer a lot you skype a lot to call people and talk to my you know friends and relatives yes you have to get on a contract with a phone that was a big shock to me also another thing that was sort of some good things was that the internet was really differ a lot faster than Australia the internet here is unbelievable I can do anything on this internet like literally just download movies play games at the same time upload videos on youtube at the same time you you know it is crazy what you can do with the Japanese internet so hopefully you guys that's answer your questions about you know the fur the biggest things when I first came here what was the kind of the shock obviously the language when I first came here I just did not understand much but you can get by with English like I found I could get I within wish you know but just living but you know if you obviously if you want to enjoy yourself a lot more you should get out and meet people and have a bit of fun so you guys I hope you've enjoyed this vlog today if you've got any comments guys live in the comment section below and I'll answer them as soon as I can and if you've got a burr let me know and i'll make a video for you okay there you guys a peace out for now Brian easy and enjoy yeah bye