cn72554@gmail.com wrote:
> I am working at a Tokyo office, and the attitude towards work here
> sickens me.
> 
> WHY do people here think it appropriate to be working past 9 or 10
> PM ? I even got the last train home a few nights ago.
> 
> I will quit after doing one year, but there are many Japanese staff at
> my company who have been working 14 hours days for years, and will do
> so until they retire (or maybe die of koroshi). Why do they accept it?
> If that was my permanent lot in life, I would suicide.
> 
> Also, my company thinks it appropriate to house me 1.5 hours commute
> from the office. There are salarymen on my train every morning who are
> obviously doing 2+ hour commutes each way - any they accept it? It is
> not acceptable.
> 
> Japanese people say they don't mind a long commute because they can
> catch up on some sleep, or reading etc. Well maybe it would be better
> to get an appropriate amount of sleep AT HOME, instead of sprawled out
> on a train with your mouth gaping open. I even see people trying to
> sleep standing up... maybe if they worked appropriate hours, such
> exhaustion would be avoided.
> 
> It is beyond my comprehension how people can accept this sleep-commute-
> work-sleep-commute-work lifestyle, their only reprieve being the
> occasional holiday, where they can get on an organized tour bus and go
> to an overcrowded destination at peak holiday time.
> 
> Why don't people go insane and rebel against the system??

... and your point is?