Japanese companies start doing the training for new employees simultaneously in April which is at the the start of new business year in Japan. A lot of newcomers start their business carrier from this point after graduation from college or university.
It is not quite common way of thinking in Japan that (university or college) students build and start their carriers aggressively by taking advantage of intern system which enhances the possibilities to get official job they want to do in their interested industry.
So most of the Japanese companies hiring new employees who have just graduated from university or college and have no skills and knowledge to make the most of their new job need to do the training for them from scratch by costing a lot. Thus executives try to dye new employee the color of the company in Japan, which means newcomers may be planted skills to be pushed around for companies' own convenience in a bad sense.
New employee training is exactly for new people who hasn't experienced full time job. Speaking of the new people's training, Japanese companies usually give a lecture about basic knowledge or behavior without happening any troubles on job by communication such as how to make a warm reception to clients or how to address to clients in proper way, how to handle phone calls properly. However some of them do a kind of the "brainwashing training" influenced by self-improvement system.
According to a Japanese BBS website, a man anonymously built a thread to confess about objection to the company's brainwashing way of new people's job training. The title is "I was forced to say I was hopeless and useless man to work here while crying over as one of a job training for mental". He took the training by a professional lecturer specialized in cultivation of talent hired by the company he started working then, which is running food-service businesses.
Recently in this season that new people's job training starts, TV programs often bring up the feature of this thing. Interestingly TV programs do not play up this extraordinary job training as a blameworthy feature but they report this training is suitable for " launching out into the severe sea of life" so this must be in need for keeping on living to get used to strict social customs in Japan. Their thoughts are still based on the Japanese bad trend that people can grow up by experiencing severe asceticism, life is not for fun but ascetic practices.
Japanese food service companies' job training is extraordinary. The training contents are something like standing in front of a mirror and repeat shouting "I can do it" many times ,and of two people, to face each other they repeat wailing "I will change myself" again and again. It's embarrassingly crazy.
In addition, trainee are ordered to memorize the company philosophy and repeat shouting it strictly. Finally the training script reaches to the climax, the trainer confess the fact of this training as if he tries to insinuate to trainee that he dares to behave strictly to trainee to make them develop but his real thoughts are different like"I was hard on you everyone severely for this training but actually........" then new people start crying and the training script comes to happy grand finale.
A man built the thread said at the beginning he observed the crazy training with a cold look because he couldn't join this program seriously. On the other hands he embraced opposite impressions against he had thought first. "Actually I come to think that such a people who is serious about this training stupidly may enjoy their lives much happier than me for the sake of their future because I think the condition of people who win success in Japan may be laying their feelings bare and getting into what they are doing. so I mean that is one of the right answer for the training."
Most of the netizens who replied to this man's thread unsparingly criticized about these companies' new people training. Someone put a label on this fact with one of the terrible cult religion's brainwashing manner to believe in. Some of them agreed with the man's opinion that "I am an uninvolved bystander as well as he is so I feel so bored my life because I am really bad at focusing on what I'm doing seriously".
On the other hands, some people say that "Worthless self‐consciousness" tending toward conservative views makes new people hesitate to try new things and to make effort positively so it is much better way for them to break their existing sense of values and self-conciousness to start new job from scratch. However, they reminds us that new people must not be treated as slaves after the training.
Some of them disclosed they had taken this kind of training on BBS. They said " People who took the training barking at each other to point out shortcomings when they made a speech in front of every colleagues like " your voice is so quiet!! now just break out of your shell!!" became just salary men to be pushed around by the company. That is one of the temporary brainwashing".
Additionally there is a case that a boss tried to threaten trainees "Salary has already been paid even at this stage even though you are trainee!! Just focus on what you're doing or quit this company right now!!" No matter how clearly and largely they shouted what they were required, boss barked at trainees "Speak out loud you useless!! you came over here with such a readiness!!??" As was expected, the company was terrible and made new people work more than 15 hours a day. After all some of them quit this company.
What we call brainwashing training uses such an approach as forcing the companies' value on new employee right after driving them into a corner by snatching their thoughts and sense of values. This training works at once but the longer time new people work that company, the more problems are revealed in the future I think.
It is not quite common way of thinking in Japan that (university or college) students build and start their carriers aggressively by taking advantage of intern system which enhances the possibilities to get official job they want to do in their interested industry.
So most of the Japanese companies hiring new employees who have just graduated from university or college and have no skills and knowledge to make the most of their new job need to do the training for them from scratch by costing a lot. Thus executives try to dye new employee the color of the company in Japan, which means newcomers may be planted skills to be pushed around for companies' own convenience in a bad sense.
New employee training is exactly for new people who hasn't experienced full time job. Speaking of the new people's training, Japanese companies usually give a lecture about basic knowledge or behavior without happening any troubles on job by communication such as how to make a warm reception to clients or how to address to clients in proper way, how to handle phone calls properly. However some of them do a kind of the "brainwashing training" influenced by self-improvement system.
According to a Japanese BBS website, a man anonymously built a thread to confess about objection to the company's brainwashing way of new people's job training. The title is "I was forced to say I was hopeless and useless man to work here while crying over as one of a job training for mental". He took the training by a professional lecturer specialized in cultivation of talent hired by the company he started working then, which is running food-service businesses.
Recently in this season that new people's job training starts, TV programs often bring up the feature of this thing. Interestingly TV programs do not play up this extraordinary job training as a blameworthy feature but they report this training is suitable for " launching out into the severe sea of life" so this must be in need for keeping on living to get used to strict social customs in Japan. Their thoughts are still based on the Japanese bad trend that people can grow up by experiencing severe asceticism, life is not for fun but ascetic practices.
Japanese food service companies' job training is extraordinary. The training contents are something like standing in front of a mirror and repeat shouting "I can do it" many times ,and of two people, to face each other they repeat wailing "I will change myself" again and again. It's embarrassingly crazy.
In addition, trainee are ordered to memorize the company philosophy and repeat shouting it strictly. Finally the training script reaches to the climax, the trainer confess the fact of this training as if he tries to insinuate to trainee that he dares to behave strictly to trainee to make them develop but his real thoughts are different like"I was hard on you everyone severely for this training but actually........" then new people start crying and the training script comes to happy grand finale.
A man built the thread said at the beginning he observed the crazy training with a cold look because he couldn't join this program seriously. On the other hands he embraced opposite impressions against he had thought first. "Actually I come to think that such a people who is serious about this training stupidly may enjoy their lives much happier than me for the sake of their future because I think the condition of people who win success in Japan may be laying their feelings bare and getting into what they are doing. so I mean that is one of the right answer for the training."
Most of the netizens who replied to this man's thread unsparingly criticized about these companies' new people training. Someone put a label on this fact with one of the terrible cult religion's brainwashing manner to believe in. Some of them agreed with the man's opinion that "I am an uninvolved bystander as well as he is so I feel so bored my life because I am really bad at focusing on what I'm doing seriously".
On the other hands, some people say that "Worthless self‐consciousness" tending toward conservative views makes new people hesitate to try new things and to make effort positively so it is much better way for them to break their existing sense of values and self-conciousness to start new job from scratch. However, they reminds us that new people must not be treated as slaves after the training.
Some of them disclosed they had taken this kind of training on BBS. They said " People who took the training barking at each other to point out shortcomings when they made a speech in front of every colleagues like " your voice is so quiet!! now just break out of your shell!!" became just salary men to be pushed around by the company. That is one of the temporary brainwashing".
Additionally there is a case that a boss tried to threaten trainees "Salary has already been paid even at this stage even though you are trainee!! Just focus on what you're doing or quit this company right now!!" No matter how clearly and largely they shouted what they were required, boss barked at trainees "Speak out loud you useless!! you came over here with such a readiness!!??" As was expected, the company was terrible and made new people work more than 15 hours a day. After all some of them quit this company.
What we call brainwashing training uses such an approach as forcing the companies' value on new employee right after driving them into a corner by snatching their thoughts and sense of values. This training works at once but the longer time new people work that company, the more problems are revealed in the future I think.