Japan & Malaysia work ethics

When one talks about Japan, the subject of the Japanese workers high productivity always surface. So it was quite suprising to read that a Japanese who works in a local government department had been caught for accessing 780,000 porn web sites over a 9 month period!

I might be lousy with algebra, geometry and pythagorean theorem but simple arithmetic tells me that it works out to more than 10,000 pages a day, or more than 20 pages for every minute that he is at his desk! Now that is a mighty lot of web sites to acesss for one guy. Talk about the 'productivity' of the Japanese. Just imagine the poor guy having to keep one eye on the screen and another for any intruding colleagues. Not forgetting that he has to keep five fingers on one hand on the keyboard and the other five fingers on the other hand scratching an itch!..........and what about toilet, lunch or tea break? This guy is trying to set a world record or what?

...............and the winner of the Guinness World of Records for "Resisting the urge to scratch the itch in the most itchiest part of the body" category, is Yamada "Itchy" Mainichi San!

Itchy San: Shank you, Shank you.......It gives me great honour to win this award for my forefathers, my family, my company and my country. Now if you excuse me, I got an itch I need to scratch........arigato itchy-masu.

In the end, he was punished by having USD200 deducted from his salary and the word is that he is now a more productive worker! And so the theory of "Less pay and more porn sites viewing DOES increase one's productivity!" Hmmmm............This is definitely food for thought for those American Management Guru's.

Thank god, We doesn't have that problem in Malaysia. My guess is that Malaysians are not into surfing porn web sites during their working hours but rather they get more stimulation from the Samy and Toyol Show or the 'Dr Chua is IN' episodes. For those who doesn't haven't any computer access during their working hours, there is always the mobile phone.

Just walk into any offices in Malaysia and one can always find someone at their desk making personal calls on company time.....

Malaysia Worker : Aiyah, It's ok one. Can talk......Boss is in , so what? He is on another line with his china doll......We have another hour to talk cork.......So how? Last night..... he got touch your hand ar?.....got kiss ar?.....mouth smelly or not?......how? how? how?......shiok ar?

Even at the checkout counter at any supermarkets, one will find these workers happily chatting, working the cash register, packing the items into plastic bags and ignoring the customers all at the same time. Whoever said that productivty is low among Malaysian workers?

And try taking your own sweet time giving your meal/drinks order to the waitress and you will find her telling you, "Aiyah! If you have finished deciding, call la hor. I have an important call to make to my boyfriend leh."........We Malaysians doesn't want to waste time, you see. If you can understand that, I am sure you will be leaving a big tip for the waitress.

........and now if you will excuse me, There is someone that I need to call.