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> … submit a written apology.

What the hell kind of mentality is this?

I’ve been in a workplace that cracked down on phone use. Everyone was pissed. I considered carrying a small block of wood painted black in act of subversion.




I had to do worse than that when I worked for a Japanese company (with a Korean-Japanese president). I was forced by him to apologize to the entire assembled staff for a 'big mistake that I had made'. Except it wasn't really my mistake it was a foundry change which caused a timing change that affected the code in a vendor's startup for a chip we were using. I was so burned out from crunching on the project (14 hour days) to reverse engineer and fix it fast enough for the president to be happy...


I really won't be working in japan I think LOL


> What the hell kind of mentality is this?

sighs Traditional Asian mentality. I, and definitely many others, hate it, but it's definitely not just Samsung.




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