Comments on: Japan Rearing a Nation of Civil Servants

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:44:47 +0000

But civil servants are badly payed :O

By: mechwarrior

mechwarrior — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:23:17 +0000

Im glad Im an engineer. Now I can afford eating cup noodles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:05:16 +0000

This book deserves The Nobel Prize!!:D Must read for all children so someday there will be no feminazis!;)

By: Member548

Member548 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:21:00 +0000

In the USA the average government job pays a little more then twice, with all benefits included, then the average private sector job.

Also the government is the fastest growing employment sector.

Between a bloated beaurocracy and tens of millions living off the government to some degree there won't be enough honest working people left to pay the taxes. Opps.. guess that's already happened since the federal government will need to borrow over a trillion dollars this year.

By: Char

Char — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:54:59 +0000

True and don't forget you can bribe them with bananas.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:30:29 +0000

Screw you,AoM for the win.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:23:16 +0000

>when was the last time you heard a bunch of civil servants made redundant?

They had to cut the salary of civil servants in Hong Kong at one point because of bad economy.

Doctors, lawyers and engineers are the 3 most popular careers back in the olds days.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:19:11 +0000

>costing 5% of the GDP anally

Annually and ANAL-ly. ;P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:10:05 +0000

Same situation here where I live. However, not ALL would get that kind of job, since civil servants comprise of the top of the population in academics. Many top-brass officers in the military usually cross over to the civil service as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:58:38 +0000

Well, Japan is fucked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:31:56 +0000

Hello Mr. Anderson

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:10:34 +0000

and as always, it's mostly sons expected to work

By: Stiyl-Magnus19

Stiyl-Magnus19 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:08:56 +0000

civil servant...LOL, hikikomory or otaku must be the first!!!

By: spectre257

spectre257 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:41:26 +0000

I can see why though.
The public service is easy to get into, stable and the pay is good enough that you can live on it in relative comfort.
It's the same thing that's happening in Australia if you can get into the public service build up experience and become a contractor you can make a very good living.
This is speaking strictly for the IT industry though.
Except in our case the government want more people doing trades...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:05:56 +0000

"a soul-crushing irreplaceable job."

So...a Mangaka then?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:55:05 +0000

And Gorillas are less likely to have a nervous breakdown and start flinging feces.

By: Char

Char — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:55 +0000

You sir win an internet for that post.

By: Darkrockslizer

Darkrockslizer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:42 +0000

All your parents are Agent Smith.

By: Char

Char — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:48:57 +0000

Yah looking at this they probably can really tone it down a lot and use that money to take care of their elderly.
No need to learn high level calculus or organic chemistry if all you going to do is push paper.
You can almost train a gorilla to perform a bureaucrat's job.
Only difference the gorilla will usually be much more agreeable to deal with and cheaper to bride.

By: Char

Char — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:42:07 +0000

Madness is all I can say a good Lawyer or Doctor makes 10x more then a civil servant.
Also who wouldn't want their kid to be a scientist It's only the coolest job ever.
Hello can you say Large Hadron Collider anyone?
No wonder the suicide rate is so high in Japan if my parents pushed me to be a paper pusher instead of going in to engineering I probably would have killed my self too.
That or go postal.

By: hasegawamiki

hasegawamiki — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:41:55 +0000

dude, being a hikki ain't cool at ALL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:41:19 +0000

It applies in mine too.
Seriously, lawyer doctor politician entertainer sportsman those are all common dream professions.

I am more impressed by the addition of engineer and researcher that high, those are usually weird professions.
But hey, Gohan ended up as researcher right?

By: First Posting Idiot

First Posting Idiot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:38:08 +0000

An Elite Salary man is like a normal salary man, only he has martial arts skills and carries weapons.

He's regularly sent out to beat down the competition and clear out anyone hurting company profits. In addition to that, every year there is a secret Elite Salary man tournament that takes place in an underground arena. The winner of this tournament gains fame and fortune for himself and his company.

I'm making it up of coarse, but it would be interesting if it were true. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a manga about that already.

With so many civil servants, architects and engineers, Japan will have a NICE(Borat voice) Infrastructure.

By: J3SSUH

J3SSUH — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:37 +0000

Please don't end up like America..
>w<