https://notalwaysright.com/it-all-comes-right-back-to-you/272611/
"Living in Japan, you will see that most of the convenience stores have either
Vietnamese staff or foreign workers from Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India,
Pakistan, etc. Service jobs are greatly understaffed there, so you will mostly
see one Japanese worker and multiple foreign workers at the minimum-wage jobs.
I, an Indian, worked at a [Convenience Store] for three years part-time during
university. In my third year there, I was made “leader of the night shift”,
which meant running the whole store at night by myself. The night shift is very
different from the day shift. Besides serving a large number of customers, you
have to sort out the accounts, record and check the inventory, liaise with
supply people, do deep cleaning of equipment, stock up, cook, etc.
Fast forward to a couple of years later. I am in the Japanese corporate world.
I get an apartment in Azabujyuban, a posh, high-income district in Tokyo,
famous for being populated by white ex-pats. It’s two in the morning, and I go
to the nearby [Convenience Store].
It is a big store, and it’s full of irritated, drunk salarymen and rich brats.
The only employee there (Japanese) is confused, panicking, and overworked. The
supply truck guy is yelling. Salarymen are yelling. It’s mayhem."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
