Yesterday was my company hanami. I didn’t feel much like drinking from noon, so I went at around four-fifteen. It’s only about fifteen minutes up to the top of Magata-yama,…

Was listening to Van Morrison late last night and got caught up in memories when the said track played. When he first started his practice, my father often accepted barter…

I just reviewed a technical journal describing recent work-related accidents in our industry (electronics manufacturing) and came across an incident I coincidentally heard about from another source a few weeks…

Due to unforseen circumstances, I just spent a whole half an hour 43 minutes supervising forklifts loading a huge truck with our products. You may recall that this is not…

Thou art a vile pimple on the arse of humanity, yet it pains to smite thee thusly… Were it not for the heinous afflictions suffered unto thine colleagues, thou might…

The guy I work across from, Angry Hiro, spent the whole day teaching a particularly inept vendor a lesson by yelling at them on the phone for ten hours straight.…

Sender: Justin Yoshida Subject: razor blades bring them to work. It’s not what you think, whatever that is. I want to use them to improvise cutting blades for a Thompson…

I always plan to tie up loose ends and complete x amount of work by the end of the year; by the time Christmas rolls around my productivity dwindles to…

One sad fact of business on a salaryman level is that an inexperienced vendor is infinitely preferable to an inexperienced client – you can always slap down a vendor, and…

When you are pulled away from your workstation by the ISO 14001 auditor for an impromptu interview, the correct response to the question, “Do you know your company’s environmental policy?”…