Tokyo-tastic
Well yesterday as my first day in the office was quite a long day. I was in by about 8:45 and then didn't leave until midnight. They are a bit understaffed on this deal I'm working on (but having said that, there's only 40 staff in the office). Still, they're handling it very well and the other person that's been flown in and I will be handling the bits and bobs that crop up aside from the main in-depth bits of the deal that other people are dedicated to.
Under my desk I've got a hard hat and an earthquake kit. It's in a shiny silver plastic backpack and apparently contains a flashlight, a blanket, food, drink etc. Hopefully not something I'll need to use, being on the 34th floor of a skyscraper...
I've taken a few photos, but I won't be able to upload them for the forseeable future. I'll try and make some arrangements to do so, but I don't know when...
On the walk into work there's a bunch of construction works going on. At every set of construction there is at least one elderly gentleman in a uniform with a hard hat and a fluorescent baton directing traffic or pedestrians around the works. I'm not sure whether this is a job that retired men do to wind down, or whether possibly in some cases it may be the only job some salarymen who were made redundant during the recessions of the past 15-20 years. I remember from my last trip to Tokyo the large areas of homeless shanties which housed salarymen who had lost their jobs and homes. They were all incredibly respectable despite having to live in a tarpaulin-covered shelter, and some had even set up makeshift restaurants out of their shacks to try and turn their fortunes around.
Ken
Under my desk I've got a hard hat and an earthquake kit. It's in a shiny silver plastic backpack and apparently contains a flashlight, a blanket, food, drink etc. Hopefully not something I'll need to use, being on the 34th floor of a skyscraper...
I've taken a few photos, but I won't be able to upload them for the forseeable future. I'll try and make some arrangements to do so, but I don't know when...
On the walk into work there's a bunch of construction works going on. At every set of construction there is at least one elderly gentleman in a uniform with a hard hat and a fluorescent baton directing traffic or pedestrians around the works. I'm not sure whether this is a job that retired men do to wind down, or whether possibly in some cases it may be the only job some salarymen who were made redundant during the recessions of the past 15-20 years. I remember from my last trip to Tokyo the large areas of homeless shanties which housed salarymen who had lost their jobs and homes. They were all incredibly respectable despite having to live in a tarpaulin-covered shelter, and some had even set up makeshift restaurants out of their shacks to try and turn their fortunes around.
Ken
posted by Ken at 2:20 am
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