How to survive in Japan [English]

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From: Shintaro Inagaki
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 03:13

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There was a post on "how to survive in Japanese working environment (1),"
how about another one.


2) Be extremely careful not to use bad Japanese, when talking about your boss.

   One of my foreign friends meant "I do not like the way my boss does things,"
   or "I think my boss has bad attitude."
   He accidentally use the direct translation of this:
   "Boku no joushi wa taido ga warui to omoi masu."
   This sounds too magnanimous, and is very impolite Japanese;
   probably this is the last thing to say.
   This was so surprising that no one dared to correct his wording.
   He left my company soon.

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