Working at a Japanese Company

After living here for a couple of months, I've started to notice the ins and outs. Even though, I'm fully adjusted here and I like it. Overall, I decided that I would not work for a japanese company in Japan. I definitely do not want to do this and so I give you my reasons.

• Working Culture= There's a whole political system and a working culture in a typical Japanese company. How so?! Well, first of all the woman still has to serve tea to her male co-workers before and during meetings! Even today it is still like this, personally it is still a little inferior
  
  
• Promotion= People don't get promoted based on merit or how hard they work. It's based on age and seniority. In other words, don't matter how hard you work if you're not a certain age then you will not get a promotion no matter how good you how!
  
  
• Speaking=To your boss you must speak keigo honorific form which certifies that you are below him so you must speak to him a honorific way. Like "Yes, mam, or no mam" but much more formal than that. 
  
  
• Two Track System= Women will and always be on the low paying track and men will always be on the high paying track. (Reasons are explained below)
  
  
• Reasons= The reason why women will always be on the low paying track is because they know they will not last long because women that are working at a company are not there for serious reasons it more to find a husband there. As crazy as this sound this is true, even though there are women out there that want a career due to society and social pressure they must quit to find a suitable husband there or recieve backlash from family and society. 
  
  
• Good Company= The important part for women to go to a good school is to work at a good top company like Panasonic, and other top firms. So in the end, they can marry a man that works for that good company and of course to please their family and parents. Again I know this sounds crazy, but this is how the society works women still don't recieve the respect as they should recieve. Also so their parents can brag about how they worked at this company and what their husband does. 
  
  
• Good College= It matters much more what company you go to because companies take the best students or students from the best colleges and there's a connection with them too. Plus it's uncommon for people to go to grad school afterwards. 

We had a discussion about this in Japanese Business. It sucks but this is true so best company and international or small firm. In my japanese business course, it was intresting on how my professor would have a seminar every year and he would get to know the students. There were 2 types of students one that wanted to work for a big firm and the other that wanted to work for a small firm. Every parent, wants their kid to have a stable job which is not bad but are they happy. So you'll have kids that will work at the top companies to please their parents and kids that will fight with their parent to do what they want and work for a small firm. In the end, the kids that worked for a small firm had fulfilled happy lives and the others that worked for a big firm weren't happy and very bored. So it was interesting learning about that in Japanese Business and I'm glad I'm taking this course this semester. On another note, I went grocery shopping and got some great items if I didn't say this Izumiya is the best store and cheapest ever. They really do have some great deals!! Also the trick to getting the cheapest items is to wait until they're about to close and then they mark down their items because it becomes cheap and they make their items fresh! Also I looked at my docomo bill and I'm like that's it I'm changing plans! Also I've been trying to join some circles but they're so darn clicky it's like you have to jump through social hurdles to gain and enter them which should not be like that. There's this whole Senpai and Ko-hai system Senpai is like the president except it's taken more seriously everyone takes him seriously and no one does anything until he does it.  Also everyone goes to the Senpai's graduation, parties and it's like  that for life in a way. Always a senpai and ko-hai is everyone listens. Also you have to speak formal to your senpai too. There's different types of forms to speak in japanese like honorific, humble, formal, and plain well with your senpai you always have to use formal. Yeah circles here which are like clubs are that serious! Well, anyways that's my update and I will give you more details!