so when you're working for a japanese company or a company in japan
it's a little bit different than your own country
how many other videos have you seen out there of foreigners working in a japanese office
none it's really rare
so i'm a pr coordinator and i'm promoting this hotel right now
and i just want to show you a day in the life of an office worker let's take a look
it takes me about 35 or 40 minutes to get to work which isn't too bad
it's a lot worse for a lot of people in tokyo a lot of people are doing two hours one way
oh that's nothing you haven't seen anything like you'll be on that train
and you can't even look at your phone or move your arms because it's so crowded
in the morning you have to say ohaiyogo zaimasu to all of your colleagues
if you see them for the first time even if it's afternoon or evening it's always ohaiyogozaimasu
and then if you see them again in the hallway or wherever you have to say Otsukaresama desu
and if you don't say it like me and maybe during the first week
then they'll tell you they will tell you
this is what we do at work all day it's important work very important work. Work!
yeah and i got my co-workers here today my co-worker is helping out hey guys I'm Sachin
I'm from Sri Lanka.
enjoy your life enjoy your life that was a good one
we're gonna give you an academy award for that you get the academy award
this is not the first time that I've brought a giant camera to work
no in fact i have to do a lot of filming and taking pictures over here and it's kind of fun
oh my gosh she brought the gun boom terminator is in the house
thank you at our company it doesn't matter what your position is everyone has to sanitize
once a week and guess what today is wednesday so it's my turn whoa this is heavy duty there you go
good job
undefeated champion this counts as work we're also doing work right now so don't misunderstand
this is part of the job no it's lunchtime so during lunch time you can do what you want
yeah i got you our company is a little bit different than most
japanese companies in fact you can't have piercings tattoos anything like that even
a beard is not normally allowed at a traditional japanese company
but hey we're a little different here so you can have all those things but that's pretty unusual
i'm learning so much gosh using japanese and
also not just normal japanese you're using japanese sonnkeigo and kenjogo you have to
talk to people differently when you're here in japan it's not just this casual language like um
so that's important to be aware there's a whole nother category to learning japanese and all
this formal business language especially typing i remember one time i kind of got in trouble here
because i wanted to tell them i could do something anytime like it probably should have been
but i said something like um and i got scolded for that
You can't say that that sounds rude and to me i don't know as a foreigner i didn't know
so i'm learning a lot and i think that this is a good place to make a lot of mistakes
another task that i have every time i come in is i have to post something to our social
media accounts and it has to be in japanese so that's pretty difficult for me to try to use
marketing language in japanese but i always have my colleagues look at it before i post it
yeah it's it's a little different but i'm learning a lot and i'm enjoying it
so just understand you know when you come to another country and you work especially japan you're
going to be the idiot for a while and that's just how it is but hopefully you'll learn from
your mistakes and not get too frustrated and just become better so i would love to do lots of videos
about business culture in japan working in japan working in an office in japan and if you'd like to
see more of that like this video and subscribe and i could make a whole series out of this
my cheeks are all red why they all red we worked hard that's why
and it is not easy to find a marketing job in japan basically the four main categories here are
english teaching and then maybe IT HR and perhaps real estate is the next one it's very hard but not
impossible to find a marketing job in japan i was a marketing major in undergrad so it was really
important to me to work in this field and i got lucky lucky to find this place i'm only at this
location maybe two days a week but i like coming out here it's a lot of fun and there's a
fun atmosphere so come and visit anytime you want go into the lobby have a drink and make
sure you follow moxy follow moxy tokyo on instagram i wonder how traffic's looking right
now is there going to be a lot of people you're going to find out here we go now the commute home
time to listen to some japanese audio lessons