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"So Patrick, is being a salaryman as bad as you've said it is?"
The Japanese tweet Rochelle quotes recounts that the husband was forced to quit his job to avoid the forced reassignment over to Kansai (western Japan) and that the wife is now going to have to economically support a 4 person family.
The market expectation for salarymen is that if you're directed that you will be reassigned you are allowed to decline precisely once and that if you do this you accept that your career is functionally over as of that point.
And re-assignment on 48~72 hours notice is not considered to be an excessive hardship. Including internationally. "Oh BTW you live in New York starting Monday. Here's your ticket."
If this general topic interests you, I wrote an essay about Japanese business norms ( kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doi… ) or it is extremely well-covered in sociological literature about Japan.
