Bumping into your co-workers at the weekend

This Sunday’s silly survey is as usual a ranking survey from goo Ranking, looking at where or when people don’t want to meet people from the office at the weekends, split as usual into male and female responses.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 23th of May 2008 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. Exactly 50% of the sample were male, 5.7% in their teens, 12.9% in their twenties, 31.8% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.3% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Living in the big city and considerable far away from the office, I don’t think I’ve ever bumped into a cow-orker at the weekends, fortunately!

One presumes that as usual more dodgy activities, such as when exiting a love hotel are excluded…

Ranking results

Q: Where or when would you not want to meet people from the office at weekends? (Sample size=536, men)

Rank   Score
1 Holding hands with my girlfriend 100
2 Shopping at a bargain sale 96.6
3 At a different sort of event (presumably cosplay convention, etc) 95.8
4 When there’s an unpleasant atmosphere between me and my girlfriend 86.6
5 On a trip 84.9
6 With family 78.2
7 Buying lunch at a bento box shop 72.3
8 At a dating party 67.2
9 When going alone to karaoke, yakiniku, etc 65.5
10 In the hot tub at a hot springs, gym, etc 54.6
11 When getting henpecked by my wife 53.8
12 Headbanging at a concert 45.4
13 Reading the magazines in a convenience store 42.9
14 Eating while walking 40.3
15 Wearing ordinary clothes 36.1
16 Riding a train 35.3
17 Getting a massage, etc 24.4
18 Hot and sweaty at the gym 21.0
19 At a beauty parlour 19.3
20 Trainspotting 18.5

Q: Where or when would you not want to meet people from the office at weekends? (Sample size=536, women)

Rank   Score
1 With no make-up 100
2 Shopping at a bargain sale 75.4
3 In the hot tub at a hot springs, gym, etc 72.9
4 When there’s an unpleasant atmosphere between me and my boyfriend 59.2
5 Buying lunch at a bento box shop 50.7
6 When going alone to karaoke, yakiniku, etc 47.9
7 Eating while walking 47.9
8 Holding hands with my boyfriend 47.5
9 Wearing ordinary clothes 44.7
10 At a different sort of event (presumably cosplay convention, etc) 43.7
11 Getting a massage, etc 40.5
12 At a dating party 39.8
13 At a beauty parlour 39.4
14 On a trip 35.9
15 Headbanging at a concert 35.6
16 With family 33.8
17 Reading the magazines in a convenience store 24.6
18 Riding a train 13.4
19 Hot and sweaty at the gym 12.7
20 Trainspotting 10.6

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  • 7 Comments »

    1. feitclub said,

      June 29, 2008 @ 23:12

      Very unexpected! I have run into co-workers on the train sometimes while I am with my wife. I never feel embarrassed, but it seems my WIFE does.

      Then again, what DOESN’T seem to embarrass Japanese people?

    2. BlogD said,

      June 30, 2008 @ 09:22

      How, exactly, does one ork a cow? ;-)

    3. Isabell said,

      June 30, 2008 @ 10:31

      That ‘without make up’ answer as number one is scary. Shows what has become the norm here in Japan.

      And why is shopping at a bargain sale embarrassing I wonder? We all do it! :))

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      June 30, 2008 @ 14:51

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    5. Jenny said,

      July 2, 2008 @ 10:37

      The Japanese aren’t embarrassed about shooting heroin? I am so confused by #20.

    6. Drew said,

      July 2, 2008 @ 11:04

      @Jenny: It means being one of the train nerds who stand at the end of the train platform with foot-long lenses attached to $5000 cameras and take pictures of the trains as they enter the station. Typically see at least 1 or 2 in the big stations on the weekend.

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