Social How People Treat Those Underneath Them

[Renard]

In some places the "patriarchy" feels definitely more real. I'm not surprised about Japan. I read that there's a large number of elderly women who commit suicide after their husbands retire because now they're stuck 24/7 with a guy who's ordering them around.

I remember this story from a Korean American girl I met years ago who moved to Korea to work for some tech company there which was trying to be the Korean version of amazon or something. They tried to adopt a western corporate culture with less hierarchy but habits were hard to break apparently. She said she once messed up a report or something because her Korean isn't the best and her supervisor hit her over the head with a rolled up newspaper. I didn't understand how she just took it instead of immediately complaining to HR.

There are videos on YT interviewing random Japanese people on the street and when asked a lot of them said that they don't consider sleeping with prostitutes or having a one night stand with someone to be a form of cheating, both men and women. A woman or two even admitted to sleeping with someone else while they had a boyfriend. Most of them were young. It's like for Japanese people marriage is just another duty or obligation, where love or affection for the wife/husband is not a required ingredient.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

My parents frequently have done so but I never did. I think it's because my first job was a dishwasher in a restaurant and I always had blue collar service type jobs until I finished college. My parents never did blue collar work like that.

 

[deviake]

You sound like an ass referring people doing their jobs as being underneath you.

He said "perceive", it fulfills its role here well IMO

 

[Your Salad]

He said "perceive", it fulfills its role here well IMO

Would you care to elaborate?

 

[Cole train]

At least since high school I've always made it a point to be nice to workers I interact with. I used to see the shitty side of this when I was a bouncer. Some of the rich college kids would act entitled. Especially to me as the bouncer.......meanwhile I already had my bachelor's degree in computer science and worked for huge tech companies. I just bounced because it was fun and easy money. The other bouncer was an accountant who owned his own tax business. But these entitled college students would assume we were some barely literate morons

Yea people really dont understand that guys might work the door as a "hobby"

 

[Spounman]

Yea people really dont understand that guys might work the door as a "hobby"

Yeah and the tips were good. I remember one guy giving me $75 at the end of the night, he had a birthday party for his wife.

 

[pugilistico]

He said "perceive", it fulfills its role here well IMO

Thank you! I thought I thought I was going crazy haha. I was wondering if the meaning of the word "perceive" changed or something.

 

[pugilistico]

When I see old people working as janitors, I try to be helpful and put my trash into the bins so it takes a tiny bit off the work they have to do. Of if they clean around me, I thank them. I've seen people see a janitor and toss their trash on the floor as if to say, "pick that shit up, bitch." Such disrespect especially considering some of these workers are like their grandparent's age. More often I'll see people just leave their trash wherever instead of walking 5 feet to the closest trashcan because "someone's gonna pick it up anyway."