Comments on: How to get on better with your Japanese cow-orkers http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-73025 Ken Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:17:55 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-73025 Interesting list. #1 is a good idea...though sometimes it can get a bit tiresome to have the same conversations over and over. #4 and #6 are absolute no-nos, ever. #2 and #3, so long as it's the right bunch, and not too much. Interesting list. #1 is a good idea…though sometimes it can get a bit tiresome to have the same conversations over and over. #4 and #6 are absolute no-nos, ever. #2 and #3, so long as it’s the right bunch, and not too much.

]]> By: Me http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72453 Me Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:07:13 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72453 hahaha! so true: "all of them have the manners of peasants" I'd have to add, 'and the humour of an 11 year old` hahaha! so true:

“all of them have the manners of peasants”

I’d have to add, ‘and the humour of an 11 year old`

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72422 Nick Ramsay Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:46:20 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72422 I was just wondering about the spelling in the headline ;) I'd agree with you on no.1. Sometimes different backgrounds and lifestyles leave little to talk about, and often conversations fall into comparing cultures... I was just wondering about the spelling in the headline ;)

I’d agree with you on no.1. Sometimes different backgrounds and lifestyles leave little to talk about, and often conversations fall into comparing cultures…

]]> By: Betty Woo http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72393 Betty Woo Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:08:15 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/09/how-to-get-on-better-with-your-japanese-cow-orkers/#comment-72393 "for 6 I don’t understand their complaints as we have mutually alien concepts of what work really is". OK. Not living in Japan, this intrigues me. Care to elaborate a bit for the nEwBiE here :-) “for 6 I don’t understand their complaints as we have mutually alien concepts of what work really is”. OK. Not living in Japan, this intrigues me. Care to elaborate a bit for the nEwBiE here :-)

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