Newspaper holiday for delivery personnel
October 9th, 2006 by quaisiIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
The bottom right hand corner of my daily newspaper The Japan Times informs me that there will be no newspaper tomorrow as today is a news holiday designed to give newspaper delivery personnel a day off.
Who are these delivery personnel that they are so powerful, they can halt the spread of news for a day? I ask this as North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb today and I won`t be able to read about it in my newspaper of choice because the workers who deliver it are unable to arrange a schedule which enables people to fill in when others are unable to work.
Do they have no extra people or are their schedules so busy the only days they can have free is when the rest of the population (who seem to have no problem organizing a balanced and fair schedule that doesn`t compromise other workers) are sacrificed?
In England, the only day there is no paper is Christmas Day and that`s okay because nothing ever happens on Christmas Day.
And so a nuclear bomb is detonated around 615 miles from my house and the selfish Japanese newspaper deliverers are lying in bed laughing at the Japanese population.
This is not on.
Posted in Life in Japan |
October 10th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
very good point simon. how very much in contrast to the usual work ethic. their schedule is only at dawn and for a few hours is it not or am I latching on to some stereotype?
October 10th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
hey man what’s the japanese game little kids do when they poke each other in the bum??
October 10th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
kancho - but not sure it`s relevant to nuclear tests in Korea
October 11th, 2006 at 2:59 am
i just want to say that i love your blog it has a dark sense of satirical humour