Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)... Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...   Friday, March 29, 2002 Drinking party      Another day, another surreal experience.      Another thing: these transfers are announced only a week or so before they happen. This is fine if the transfer is to another office in the same building, but for teachers, for example, it means to another school. This may be in the same town, but quite often it's not, being to somewhere that might not even be within commuting distance. This means that not only do the teachers have to cope with finding their feet in a new town, they have to move house as well! This doesn't seem like a very pleasant situation to be faced with...      The final day of the business year- and the final day, therefore, of the current state of affairs in the office. I wonder what Monday will be like? It strikes me as odd that this system of transferring people around takes so little notice of experience; someone can spend several years in a certain department learning everything about taxation or welfare payments, for example, and then be transferred, whereupon this expertise becomes almost wholly irrelevant. I can see that moving people makes for variety, especially in a society where even now the majority of businessmen will work in the same company for the whole of their working lives, but even so, it seems strange that people basically start a new job from scratch every five years or so.      © Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth. Updated: 8/1/03; 7:47:01 pm.

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