w00kie's ramblings

Tag: work

  • REAL TALK 🇯🇵

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    I appreciate the transparency effort of giving average monthly overtime at your company in a Job Description for recruitment. But how can you write down “40 to 70 hours” and not think “we have a problem” ?

  • What is your job?

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    I have a private mailing-list with my closest childhood friends which we use to keep in touch now that we’re spread all around the world. One of them, who recently finished an MBA at Waseda and has yet to jump into the business world, started a thread asking all of us to describe our jobs…

  • Alone at work for Christmas

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    It’s christmas day and I’m at the office, working… Actually, it’s nothing unusual for Japan where the 25th is a day like any other day. But this year is special: you should know that I work for a big French automotive parts manufacturer, and this is not a very fun time for us. Car production…

  • Meeting shenanigans

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    Just a random conversation during one of my team’s daily meetings at work: Colleague: We have a problem with the *censored* server. Boss: Where is that server located? Colleague: It’s in the Intellectual Property room, on the 2nd floor of the Reliability building. Me: Yeah, you know that place? It’s right next to the office…

  • I signed!

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    This morning, after almost 2 weeks of negociations between HR, my boss and I, I signed my employment contract at Valeo Thermal Systems Japan. I’m hired for 3 years in a position slightly higher than I had before. I’m staying on the same project and on the same team but I’ll drop all the basely…