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