Why I quit a major Japanese corporation just one week after being hired

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Choi Yun-seo (@nanunchegoya) on Threads
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Reasons why I quit a major Japanese corporation just one week after being hired: 1. Reciting the company philosophy out loud every morning. It's damn long, but you have to memorize it in one day, and if you can't, you have to stay late to memorize it. : I get home at 8 PM after work and have to be back at 9 AM the next day, so when am I supposed to rest? 2. Standing salutes 20 times a day. 3. As soon as you arrive, you have to line up with all your fellow new hires in an office of about 100 people and greet everyone. It's the same when you leave (...

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This might be the same company I experienced ㅠㅠ Anyway, I once worked as an intern for a similar company as a prospective hire, and it was so maddening that I ran away as soon as I passed the 3rd round of interviews for another company.

1. Entering the office by shouting at the top of your lungs, "I am [Name] from the [Number]th cohort!! Please take care of me today!!"
2. Greeting people strictly in a military style (It's an implicit rule. If you don't do it vigorously like the military, they subtly mock you for having a small voice.)
3. During the morning assembly, you must recite the company goals and philosophy out loud without fail.
4. At the end of the workday, there is a reflection session on what was lacking in your assigned tasks and how to improve (But the tasks themselves don't require much thinking; they are mostly luck-based or involve tasks that, in a way, inconvenience others, so there's nothing to "do better" next time).
5. They claim they hire without looking at academic background, but they ask prospective hires with lower academic backgrounds about their school and major one by one, and if it's a university they haven't heard of, they mock them for attending an "F-rank" university.
   => Because of this, kids below a certain academic level have a baseline mindset of being brainwashed, thinking, "This precious major corporation hired someone like me."

That's incredible lol