Japan is the land of the subtle nuance, especially when it comes to relations between the sexes in the workplace. Straight shooting is almost always sacrificed for beating around the bush and the direct approach is often socially unacceptable.
What that leads to, says Spa! (12/12) is women sending off a lot of messages to blokes they fancy, only for them to shoot wildly past their intended targets.
Of 200 office ladies surveyed by the men’s weekly, 137 or around 70 percent, had tried to let a male co-worker know that they thought he was a bit of all right by remembering how he likes his coffee and making a cuppa for him.
Another 130 said they make up any silly work-related excuse to make an internal call to a feller they fancy. Not that it always works, though.
“Asking him something I didn’t know was my way of trying to talk to him. He was really kind and showed me what he wanted, but has also ignored me ever since,” a 26-year-old woman working in the apparel industry tells Spa!
When all else fails, there’s still the trump card — sex! There were 29 OLs who flirted with male co-workers by giving them a flash of cleavage, and another 17 who wore skimpy lingerie and deliberately bent over to display their derrieres. Many OLs, however, regard the concept of “sex sells” as an absolute last resort.
“There’s no way,” she says indignantly to Spa! “that I’d ever show off my cleavage to any member of the opposite sex who I didn’t like.”
By Ryann Connell. Read more at Mainichi Daily News
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