Have fun? Many people equate whores with filth, disease, and ruined familes. If that’s your idea of “fun” then you deserve whatever you get while having it.
This is a cultural issue. Americans, in general, don’t bond that closely with those they work with. The Japanese treat work like family. I don’t know how this will play out but some “diversity training” might be due at that company. A little bit of mutual understanding could have gone a long way toward preventing this.
I am light as a feather, since I don’t have to worry about clap, HIV, syph, pecker warts, herpes, fatal attractions, divorce, etc etc that comes with “fun” as Anon calls it.
I agree with Al, the last thing I would wish on my family are the problems brought on by sexual infidelity. I am a Japanese decendant and know something about the culture, so to me this story is very believeable.
I may have attended a strip club or two with business associates when I was single, but now that I am married I won’t even do that. I honor my wife.
If my boss tried to talk me into a brothel, I would not so kindly tell him that he could get his kicks out of shoving my job where the sun don’t shine.
Mr Obvious, this is your Boss speaking, Im sorry to offend you, Id like you to know we really value your contribution to our company and I dont want to lose you.
Please join us instead at the company cookout tomorrow instead for some male bi-sexual bonding. I hope that will suit you, more hookers for me :)
When you’re a foreigner who accepts a job with a local company, it’s your problem not theirs to deal with their culture or get out. Nobody should expect another country to change it’s morales and or customs and or habits to accomodate one person. If he didn’t like it he should have simply quit and found another job in a culture he did some “due diligence” on before he accepted the job.
I agree. There’s less basis for a lawsuit here than for a look askance if not a punch in the schnoz. The offended guy should have walked away the first time, and the offender should have apologized rather than force disease-ridden public toilets on an employee.
I had a customer tell me that I was going to take him to a strip joint for lunch, and I just ignored him and went to lunch where the waitstaff were fully clothed. He dropped us, so we don’t get his business any more, but neither do I have to deal with lowlife like him.
Anyone know how strip joints came to be known as “gentlemen’s clubs”? The word gentleman means “well bread,” connoting that one’s ancestors were not lowlifes. It’s related to genteel, gentry, generation, genesis, etc.
Someone decided to lend an air of respectability to them, just like low-life pond scum is known as attorneys or politicians. No offense intended to pond scum.
Claims Guy, this guy didn’t work in Japan. He worked in the US branch of a Japanese company (yes, one incident did occur while the man was abroad). The Japanese company doing business in the U.S. should have more respect for U.S. culture. Although based on some of these posts, it would seem strip clubs and brothels may be an accepted part of U.S. culture to some. VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!!
Why do you all insist on going off on these rants ? Your missing the most important aspect of this story…..please someone, anyone, could you tell me if this position has been filled as of yet.
I don’t think Al is too far off the mark. I had a friend who lived in Japan and he said that it wasn’t uncommon for JAPANESE businessmen to participate in activities like this. But I think we can all agree that while it may be “common” here in America (as some may argue), it’s certainly not something you go to work and enjoy as part of a team building experience. Whores are to the Japanese what Dave and Busters is to America.
Strippers are not “public toilets”. My ex-fiancee was a dancer at a “Gentleman’s Club” (hense many of my friends were at the time). Suprisingly you’d have a better chance of getting laid and or catching a communicable disease going to a Top-40 dance club than you would trying to pick up on a dancer. You’re more likely to bring home a freckle on your schmeckel using an actual public toilet when the paper ***-gasket tears.
Now the brothel, I would have probably been very uncomfortable and would certainly have not participated in any “activites” while there, I’d have likely protested at the time and suggest we complete our business someplace else and then have the limo drop him off.
Thanks for noticing Drew. Really, couldn’ dude go along for the drinks and limo, go into the brothel, keep his pants on and take notes for his sociology paper titled ‘Watching my employers make jerks out of themselves’ and move on? I think it would be funny as hell to watch the goings on without participating so I could come home and tell my buddies what a sorry bunch of scumbags these so-called businessmen are. Peer group pressure? Those miscreants are not my peers.
from various branch offices.While they were in town, hit a few strip clubs, car got towed when they parked in a Convenience Store parking lot. Had to take a cab to the Tow Shop– closed! They were totally blitzed and screaming racial slurs, beating on the door, trying to get in.
Darn, boys just wanna have fun!
I used to live in Los Angeles and the Chairman of a well known defense firm complainted complained they had to hire escorts for Japanese clients. In response to that knowledge I quit using the firm. That firm is no longer in business.
Perhaps they should have attended the Nancy Reagan School Of Management where the slogan is…Just Say No.
Seems to me there had to be a way for everyone to have a happy ending.
They… they… forced me… *sob*… to… to… *sniff*… to have fun.
Have fun? Many people equate whores with filth, disease, and ruined familes. If that’s your idea of “fun” then you deserve whatever you get while having it.
This is a cultural issue. Americans, in general, don’t bond that closely with those they work with. The Japanese treat work like family. I don’t know how this will play out but some “diversity training” might be due at that company. A little bit of mutual understanding could have gone a long way toward preventing this.
Lighten up Al.
Maybe he should have tried male prostitutes.
I am light as a feather, since I don’t have to worry about clap, HIV, syph, pecker warts, herpes, fatal attractions, divorce, etc etc that comes with “fun” as Anon calls it.
He, He… You said “pecker”… He, he…
This is a serious issue. Gay employees like this are too often discriminated against in the work place.
I agree with Al, the last thing I would wish on my family are the problems brought on by sexual infidelity. I am a Japanese decendant and know something about the culture, so to me this story is very believeable.
Was he scared the prostiture would laugh at his small penis?
I may have attended a strip club or two with business associates when I was single, but now that I am married I won’t even do that. I honor my wife.
If my boss tried to talk me into a brothel, I would not so kindly tell him that he could get his kicks out of shoving my job where the sun don’t shine.
Mr Obvious, this is your Boss speaking, Im sorry to offend you, Id like you to know we really value your contribution to our company and I dont want to lose you.
Please join us instead at the company cookout tomorrow instead for some male bi-sexual bonding. I hope that will suit you, more hookers for me :)
When you’re a foreigner who accepts a job with a local company, it’s your problem not theirs to deal with their culture or get out. Nobody should expect another country to change it’s morales and or customs and or habits to accomodate one person. If he didn’t like it he should have simply quit and found another job in a culture he did some “due diligence” on before he accepted the job.
I agree. There’s less basis for a lawsuit here than for a look askance if not a punch in the schnoz. The offended guy should have walked away the first time, and the offender should have apologized rather than force disease-ridden public toilets on an employee.
I had a customer tell me that I was going to take him to a strip joint for lunch, and I just ignored him and went to lunch where the waitstaff were fully clothed. He dropped us, so we don’t get his business any more, but neither do I have to deal with lowlife like him.
Anyone know how strip joints came to be known as “gentlemen’s clubs”? The word gentleman means “well bread,” connoting that one’s ancestors were not lowlifes. It’s related to genteel, gentry, generation, genesis, etc.
By the way, are morales anything like tomales?
Someone decided to lend an air of respectability to them, just like low-life pond scum is known as attorneys or politicians. No offense intended to pond scum.
Claims Guy, this guy didn’t work in Japan. He worked in the US branch of a Japanese company (yes, one incident did occur while the man was abroad). The Japanese company doing business in the U.S. should have more respect for U.S. culture. Although based on some of these posts, it would seem strip clubs and brothels may be an accepted part of U.S. culture to some. VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!!
Why do you all insist on going off on these rants ? Your missing the most important aspect of this story…..please someone, anyone, could you tell me if this position has been filled as of yet.
Touche Mr. Risky Touche!
Is that a pun? If so, its a good one!
I don’t think Al is too far off the mark. I had a friend who lived in Japan and he said that it wasn’t uncommon for JAPANESE businessmen to participate in activities like this. But I think we can all agree that while it may be “common” here in America (as some may argue), it’s certainly not something you go to work and enjoy as part of a team building experience. Whores are to the Japanese what Dave and Busters is to America.
Strippers are not “public toilets”. My ex-fiancee was a dancer at a “Gentleman’s Club” (hense many of my friends were at the time). Suprisingly you’d have a better chance of getting laid and or catching a communicable disease going to a Top-40 dance club than you would trying to pick up on a dancer. You’re more likely to bring home a freckle on your schmeckel using an actual public toilet when the paper ***-gasket tears.
Now the brothel, I would have probably been very uncomfortable and would certainly have not participated in any “activites” while there, I’d have likely protested at the time and suggest we complete our business someplace else and then have the limo drop him off.
Thanks for noticing Drew. Really, couldn’ dude go along for the drinks and limo, go into the brothel, keep his pants on and take notes for his sociology paper titled ‘Watching my employers make jerks out of themselves’ and move on? I think it would be funny as hell to watch the goings on without participating so I could come home and tell my buddies what a sorry bunch of scumbags these so-called businessmen are. Peer group pressure? Those miscreants are not my peers.
Poor guy. At least he didn’t have to pay for the ‘booty’
from various branch offices.While they were in town, hit a few strip clubs, car got towed when they parked in a Convenience Store parking lot. Had to take a cab to the Tow Shop– closed! They were totally blitzed and screaming racial slurs, beating on the door, trying to get in.
Darn, boys just wanna have fun!
I used to live in Los Angeles and the Chairman of a well known defense firm complainted complained they had to hire escorts for Japanese clients. In response to that knowledge I quit using the firm. That firm is no longer in business.
Perhaps they should have attended the Nancy Reagan School Of Management where the slogan is…Just Say No.