Comments by "Grak70" (@Grak70) on "The 20 Year Fall of Japan's Sharp Corporation" video.

  1. I lived and worked in Japan from 2010-2015 and visited Sharp sometimes for customer interaction. One of the most depressing and bloated organizations I had to interact with. And for Japan, that’s saying something.
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  2.  @devondetroit2529  living in Japan is awesome. Having to work there, especially in a corporate job, sucks.
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  3.  @ryandick9649  I agree completely. No lack of talent or good ideas, just smothered by excess bureaucracy. In a lot of ways, reminds me of the problems that plagued and ultimately killed Motorola.
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  4.  @wernerhermann9120  jfc some people will start a pissing fight about literally anything.
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  5.  @wernerhermann9120  Japan-chan is not going to sleep with you. Please find a creative hobby.
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  6.  @ad2094  are you being pedantic or just not understanding the difference? I liked being there except for the work environment. Vacations were great. Weekends were always fun. If you’re independently wealthy, it’s a playground. If not, you spend a third of your life doing something soul crushing.
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  7.  @Daz912  I ran the entire division. But thanks for playing.
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  8.  @Daz912  if you like that environment you’re the exception. And if you’re a foreigner, you’re being given special treatment and leeway anyway, so nobody should take your experience seriously.
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  9.  @Daz912  more than some token gaijin who loves his strings even though all the Japanese corpos around him privately think he’s a talking monkey. Assuming anything you’ve said is remotely true that is.
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  10.  @ganganbam  workshop that joke. Don’t give up, you’ll be funny someday.
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  11.  @Daz912  did you read what I wrote? I loved living in Japan. Working there is what blows.
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  12.  @Gameboygenius  yes. It’s practically a pastime in Japan to come up with creative ways to avoid the NHK guy who *comes to your front door to ask for money*. For the longest time “I don’t have a TV” was a convenient lie that worked. Then NHK got wise and claimed any device that could play NHK content, including a laptop, meant that you have to pay the fee. But they have no powers of enforcement so most people just don’t answer the door or say the owner’s not home. For all its quirky creativity, Japan can be ass-backwards. Prolific and mandatory use of fax machines, the NHK guy, and the paper hanko system are just a few examples.
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  13. I felt the same way about the newer Sony Xperia offerings, specifically for their cameras. The stuff you can do is light years beyond any other smart phone camera. Build quality is great too. But it’s almost impossible to buy one outside Japan and even counting domestic sales they’re an unmitigated failure. Yet somehow Sony keeps releasing a new one every year. It’s baffling.
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  14.  @Gameboygenius  I knew someone would come in hot with the whataboutism. It never fails. Yes, every country is fucked up in myriad ways. Right now, we’re talking about Japan and its stereotype as some kind of high tech wonderland when in reality a door to door salesman comes to your door to ask for tax money and you need to do physical paperwork for practically everything. Lots of places don’t even take credit cards: a technology invented over 50 years ago (although the past ten years they’ve gotten way better about this). And yes, some places in the US technically still take personal cheques. But this practice is rapidly fading. Pulling out your checkbook at a grocery store is bound to garner eye rolls from the people in line behind you, if not the cashier. It’s quintessential boomer behavior and it’s dying off about as fast as they are. I don’t know anyone under 40 who has a checkbook and uses it.
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  15. Sharp: [craters into the dirt] YouTube weebs: “another charpter on the anti-Japan war”
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