Mouse or Fillet??

Searching For A Dead Body

I had a funny experience today.
I wrote about the smell of my boss’s room the other day.
It smelled really bad, and I could not help having a meeting there.
I called a construction company to fix it.
The chief of our factory was there to help them.
This picture made me laugh.
Look his face!
You can tell how sticky the room is.
We opened many parts of the ceiling, but there were no mice’ or fillets’ dead body.
However, the smell was like a dead animal body.
We tried to find a dead mouse or a dead fillet for a couple hours, but we could not find.
We will try again some another time, and will figure out what it was.

Today, before this thing happened, my boss called me to his stinky room.
He told me about a personnel reshuffle of our company.
Usually a personnel reshuffle happens in April, but this is something unusual.
Finally they decided to move me to R&D department officially.
I will move sometime in February.
I will cover my partner position.
He will get one position down and will move to another department.
I feel a bit sad that I have to leave my department now, because I am still not sure if I have been useful for the department ever.
Moreover, I feel really really sorry for my partner.
I talked with my boss and insisted him that the punishment for him was too strict, and unfair.
If he had to make him go down one position, there are other people who had to go down one position.
I this I am going to get a position I want, but I don’t know.
I can’t be happy without feeling anything.
Sometime I feel the business world is too cold.
I guess I just need to do my best on what I can do.

All the people above me were not at office since this afternoon.
I was the highest boss at office today, so I had to take care of all workers and make sure that everyone leaves office.
I told them to go and waited for long although I was planning to go to gym.
I had not been to Gym at all although I pay a lot for the membership fee.
Should I quit? But I don’t want to…
I love Japan, but PLEASE try to leave office as early as you can, Japanese people.
Working till late at night does not always mean that you are a hard worker or a good business person…

Communication Day

Casual Saturday

I totally misunderstood that today was casual Saturday.
Because whenever I go to work on Saturday for meeting, I wear casual clothes.
I went to work with black half pants, long boots, white shirt and black turtleneck sweater, and moreover black net pantyhose.
When I got into the office, I got freaked out.
Everyone wore pair of suits like weekdays.
Dang it! I soon realized that I made such a big mistake…

I stated interviewing all people in my department under me.
It was interesting to listen all their problems.
One of a man below me got promoted one position today.
I had never gone out to eat with him by ourselves, but I decided to celebrate him like I was done by my boss.
He is 39 years old and I felt weird to take him out as a boss, but I did.
We had such a good conversation, and it was good method to know him and other employee’s feeling.
It might take a while to understand all the employees, but I wanna know them little by little by talking one on one.
I could never thought me doing this kind of things soon after I got back from the US.
Very Japanese.

After I had dinner with Mr. Horiguchi, I saw my friend, Mitsunori, who just opened noodle place.
We went to my bar from late at night.
He is struggling getting lots of customers and I really could understand how he feels about it.
We were at bar as the last guests tonight and went to have a cup of coffee afterwards.
It is very interesting to listen stories about opening business, even it is a little restaurant.
I wish I could help them but I feel disappointed that I don’t have anything to do.
The only thing I can do is listening to them…
Friends are corporate each other like listening each other when one of us is down maybe, I hope…
Anyway, I am sooooo sleepy and getting so excited to sleep now.