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Originally Posted by tokusatsufan
Well I'm avoiding the salaryman culture.
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"Salaryman culture" is what you make of it.
It is incredibly popular to paint it as long working hours, no vacation, etc etc - particularly in western media. But there is a reason why there are so many salarymen and why it is considered a good position to be in... And why being a productive adult (社会人) is almost always synonymous with being a salaryman.
Every company is different. Some companies require long working hours. Others will let you do 6 hours a day on flex and allow you to work from home. Some have an unwritten overtime requirement. Others like to have you turn your overtime into free days off so you can take extra long vacations.
In most cases, the only thing uniting "salarymen" is that they are all paid a salary, so have a contract (in other words, a secure position). Working for an hourly wage is incredibly unstable - people tend to avoid it.
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The second one was hell. I have to work for a minimum of 180hours/per month, regardless of the number of vacation that month have. Imagine in May, when we have a week of holiday. I have to compute the rest of the days in the month to be able to get the minimum number of hours. If we go below that for whatever reason, our salary gets deducted. I wanted to quit after my first contract with them , but we made another arrangement and tried it but to no avail. I left them last March.
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That sounds awful. Is that a contract employee thing? All the companies I`ve seen info on have different requirements for different months - they will subtract the national holidays from the hourly requirements when the holidays fall on a weekday.
Definitely good to get out of there.