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The vibe of this seems pretty interesting and I absolutely love how everyone in her department resigned knowing they were screwed after she was fired. Absolutely hilarious.
I'm looking forward to the slice of life tag and I'll really love this if it's a topical work on how companies can't replace human resources with automation andnot even really AI AI.
2) Even going with what your saying, it's not on the employee if she's caught in the wrong dress code by upper management especially if this is a repeat thing. What would actually make sense if you genuinely care about that behavior is reprimanding her superior who allows that and the work environment they've established as a whole. At most you'd give the employee whose out of dress code themselves a warning and make them come to work in normal clothes the next day. I could see the manager firing her to save face and protect their own job, but it's really not upper management's job to fire her directly over the clothes alone (and granted they gave the excuse of restructuring). The exception being if there were numerous HR complaints about her and the manager just wasn't doing his job.... but literally most of her department quit when she was fired, so I get the feeling literally no one who actually worked with her had a problem with the way she dressed.
3) This is manga and fiction, so it's over dramatized, but this is a REAL issue in the workplace and business world as a whole. The fact of a matter is we're stuck with archaic ideas of what "professional" is that come from a heavily prejudiced time. I'm black and something that was a big shock to me was things I always grew up having thought of as normal being perceived as "inappropriate". I'm not even talking anything major, but stuff as insignificant as popular black hairstyles. Other things I've heard about were like men wearing nail polish (as in its professional for women, not men), stylized finger nails, etc.
How people choose to dress and stylize themselves IS important. It's how we show are individually or for some people how they show their cultural pride. Heck, a lot of what is considered "professional" to us just isn't in other parts of the world. The fact that we still determine people's worth in the workplace especially in places where we don't even see other employees much less customers by these arbitrary standards is ridiculous. It's also frankly an insult to our individuality and does serious damage to people. Like I said how we choose to dress ourselves is a core part of our identity. Historically, whenever civilizations have tried to assimilate other civilizations they've ALWAYS forced them to dress how they do. A not too long ago example is with native Americans in the US. The clothes we wear do have powerful psychological and sociological effect. By stripping away what people choose to wear and forcing everyone to confirm to a singular norm you can change entire states of mind. This is especially a problem in Japan which has SUCH a homogenous culture and so much social pressure. Like do I really need to remind you of their suicide rate? I'll actually give the positive news. It's been going down recently, because they've been easing up and newer generations are growing up with much more freedoms and opportunities to express their individuality without shame.
The MC described it very well in this chapter. She just wasn't happy before dressing up as society demanded is professional. In fact she was dead inside, but for her cosplaying became an armor. It allowed her to do her best work everyday (good for the company) and express herself (good for her own happiness and mental health). She wasn't doing any harm (in fact she was doing her best work and highly motivated). But hey, what does it matter? The company fired her anyway and they'll see just how much they lost soon enough.
Yikes. I responded way too much. Getting, "read the comments on a news* article." vibes now. I'm gonna shut off my phone before I respond to every comment on this website.
I'm looking forward to the slice of life tag and I'll really love this if it's a topical work on how companies can't replace human resources with automation and
It's understandable but still heart breaking. Also while the cosplay is what got her noticed, but ultimately got her fired was a "restructuring" and the upper management insistence that her position didn't matter because she was doing it alone. I'd be laughing if there haven't been so many tech layoffs this year using the same logic. While companies are valued at more money than ever and brining in more revenue than every and continuously growing, they insist on forgetting that their BEST resources are human.
Yeah, no. So for one, it's arbitrary fashion rules like this that keep us in the stone ages. The idea of a dress code is just that, an idea. I mean it's literally not even actually consistent to all workplaces. Hooters won an actual supreme court case because their employees HAVE to be big breasted scantily dressed women (the case itself was more about Hooters not having to hire men, but that was the reason that won just you know, more officially said). And that's only in regard to job positions where the employee is in front of customers. In this case, the employee is in an office job. There is never anything more depressing than realizing we impose the strictest dress code in a line of work where people literally don't even see their co-workers. Like imagine forcing people to wear full business suits just to sit down all day inside a bland office in their tiny cubicle... oh crap we do. Now there is SOME merit to the psychology of dressing up. It empowers people and establishes a sense of dignity, but at the same time not all clothes affect people the same way and most companies don't give a crap about any of that. For them and clearly for you what's acceptable and unacceptable in the workplace is solely based on what everyone has done in the past, which is ridiculous.
2) Even going with what your saying, it's not on the employee if she's caught in the wrong dress code by upper management especially if this is a repeat thing. What would actually make sense if you genuinely care about that behavior is reprimanding her superior who allows that and the work environment they've established as a whole. At most you'd give the employee whose out of dress code themselves a warning and make them come to work in normal clothes the next day. I could see the manager firing her to save face and protect their own job, but it's really not upper management's job to fire her directly over the clothes alone (and granted they gave the excuse of restructuring). The exception being if there were numerous HR complaints about her and the manager just wasn't doing his job.... but literally most of her department quit when she was fired, so I get the feeling literally no one who actually worked with her had a problem with the way she dressed.
3) This is manga and fiction, so it's over dramatized, but this is a REAL issue in the workplace and business world as a whole. The fact of a matter is we're stuck with archaic ideas of what "professional" is that come from a heavily prejudiced time. I'm black and something that was a big shock to me was things I always grew up having thought of as normal being perceived as "inappropriate". I'm not even talking anything major, but stuff as insignificant as popular black hairstyles. Other things I've heard about were like men wearing nail polish (as in its professional for women, not men), stylized finger nails, etc.
How people choose to dress and stylize themselves IS important. It's how we show are individually or for some people how they show their cultural pride. Heck, a lot of what is considered "professional" to us just isn't in other parts of the world. The fact that we still determine people's worth in the workplace especially in places where we don't even see other employees much less customers by these arbitrary standards is ridiculous. It's also frankly an insult to our individuality and does serious damage to people. Like I said how we choose to dress ourselves is a core part of our identity. Historically, whenever civilizations have tried to assimilate other civilizations they've ALWAYS forced them to dress how they do. A not too long ago example is with native Americans in the US. The clothes we wear do have powerful psychological and sociological effect. By stripping away what people choose to wear and forcing everyone to confirm to a singular norm you can change entire states of mind. This is especially a problem in Japan which has SUCH a homogenous culture and so much social pressure. Like do I really need to remind you of their suicide rate? I'll actually give the positive news. It's been going down recently, because they've been easing up and newer generations are growing up with much more freedoms and opportunities to express their individuality without shame.
The MC described it very well in this chapter. She just wasn't happy before dressing up as society demanded is professional. In fact she was dead inside, but for her cosplaying became an armor. It allowed her to do her best work everyday (good for the company) and express herself (good for her own happiness and mental health). She wasn't doing any harm (in fact she was doing her best work and highly motivated). But hey, what does it matter? The company fired her anyway and they'll see just how much they lost soon enough.
I mean it's kinda the opposite. In Japan, the work place culture is "potentially" toxic (it really depends; it's really just more traditional, which isn't exactly a compliment), but generally it's MUCH harder to fire workers. Even in the case where their position is gone. Workers themselves are also discouraged from quitting and there's a level of social pressure that makes it hard to job hop. In other words, the idea of moving between jobs until you find one you like is not nearly as common as in the US. You kinda trade one thing for the other. Like yeah in the US there's less job security, but you also won't get shamed for quitting a toxic workplace (or several). Then it's more or less the opposite in Japan (though times are changing for the better).
Yikes. I responded way too much. Getting, "read the comments on a news* article." vibes now. I'm gonna shut off my phone before I respond to every comment on this website.
