These calls would be sooo much faster if you could just say “hey I’m calling from *blank*, regarding *blank*, and I need to know *blank*.”
I’m in such a mood that I can’t be in the house listening to Tatsu make business calls in Japanese. Wastes soooo much time being polite.
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maybe that is one of the reason Japanese office workers work so late. They waste too much of their time in BS.
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I'd believe it
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But with all the socially obligatory keigo phrases it takes like ten minutes to get the answer to a simple yes or no question.pic.twitter.com/VLQ5ptp9zm
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I swear in East Asian cultures (especially Japan) it's more important to be polite than to be productive.
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