This reminds me of seeing leave records for older salarymen (in same place mine were for recording my own leave, explicitly so that taking leave was visible to coworkers for shaming).
300+ calendar days of untaken leave over 20 years.
300+ calendar days of untaken leave over 20 years.
In a law of unintended consequences story, it is forbidden in Japan to pay leave out when you separate from a job, to avoid monetarily incentivizing salarymen to not take it during career.
So instead they just lose all the value when retiring (and/or separating earlier).
So instead they just lose all the value when retiring (and/or separating earlier).
Like all cultures, the culture that is salarymanhood changes over time. One of the scandalized comments regarding millennials in Japan (generally said about “grass-eating men” not millennials but with similar social function) is that they take most of their leave, like savages.
(Grass eating as compared to meat eating, which was originally mostly a comment regarding this generation not being chainsmoking order-following salarymen elite and now mostly gets used to identify what in the US popular culture would be called beta males. Memetic evolution.)
