If the average 40 year old Japanese banker wears khaki trousers, a button down shirt and boring shoes on a Saturday when going for lunch with his wife, then why does he wear a Nike cap, Nike Airs, white shorts and a Lycra t-shirt on "casual Fridays" at the bank?
This is the question I asked myself ten minutes ago when I got a call from T at Le Banque in Tokyo. Turns out the electricity hasn't quite come back since last year's earthquake - don't ask - and so they're saving-on-a/c.
Due to it being, well, the middle of summer, the CEO sensibly suggested that employees might "dress casually and not wear a suit or tie" to avoid total meltdown.
Clearly, this was interpreted as "dress for Sports Day" or alternatively, "please all go home, dig around in the rag basket, hassle your 10 year old son for his hand-me-downs and throw it all on. In the dark."
I suppose it was that or the French alternative which would have been to shut down the entire Japanese division. That would be a far-better-way-to-save-on-a/c. Non?
This is the question I asked myself ten minutes ago when I got a call from T at Le Banque in Tokyo. Turns out the electricity hasn't quite come back since last year's earthquake - don't ask - and so they're saving-on-a/c.
Due to it being, well, the middle of summer, the CEO sensibly suggested that employees might "dress casually and not wear a suit or tie" to avoid total meltdown.
Clearly, this was interpreted as "dress for Sports Day" or alternatively, "please all go home, dig around in the rag basket, hassle your 10 year old son for his hand-me-downs and throw it all on. In the dark."
I suppose it was that or the French alternative which would have been to shut down the entire Japanese division. That would be a far-better-way-to-save-on-a/c. Non?
Hmm, something the French and Italians have in common ;)
ReplyDeleteJ.