Comments on: Titles and Formality http://www.cynicalstuff.com/titles-and-formality A blog about casual games development, science, culture and cynical observations Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anders Ivarsson http://www.cynicalstuff.com/titles-and-formality/comment-page-1#comment-12 Anders Ivarsson Wed, 24 May 2006 23:22:28 +0000 http://www.cynicalstuff.com/titles-and-formality#comment-12 I am very fascinated and intrigued by the "Far East" and how things work there. Or perhaps, I am fascinated that they do work at all, despite the fact that they do so many things so incredebly wrong. I had a friend who went to China for a summer to a "praktikplats" at a large company which were partly owned by the government. The things she told me about the company and how they handled there makes no sense to me at all. The organisation was extremely top-managed. When someone got an idea they had to go to their project leader to tell him about it. The project leader would then discuss the idea with his boss, who would take it to the CEO who would (and this is the really suspect part) take it to some kind of group working directly under the government itself. And it could be an idea of anything, like for example moving one person from a part of the project to another. When she finished her three months in China at the company she asked her supervisor if she could get a diploma or something written about the time she'd been there and what she had done. The supervisor came back to her with the diploma, sure, but it took them more than a month since it had to go all the way to the CEO and back (the government was left out of the loop on this one though) before they could grant it. How can a country working like this be the single most interesting country in terms of growth, opportunities and in a couple of years be the most developed country in terms of almost anything you would like to measure? It really beats me..... Note: Also heard about a guy in Japan who got sent home from his "praktikplats" after having an introduction seminar for the manager about the stuff he would do at the company, and when the manager asked a question he said "If it's okay with you, I'll rather take all questions afterwards." Doh.... I am very fascinated and intrigued by the “Far East” and how things work there. Or perhaps, I am fascinated that they do work at all, despite the fact that they do so many things so incredebly wrong. I had a friend who went to China for a summer to a “praktikplats” at a large company which were partly owned by the government. The things she told me about the company and how they handled there makes no sense to me at all. The organisation was extremely top-managed. When someone got an idea they had to go to their project leader to tell him about it. The project leader would then discuss the idea with his boss, who would take it to the CEO who would (and this is the really suspect part) take it to some kind of group working directly under the government itself. And it could be an idea of anything, like for example moving one person from a part of the project to another. When she finished her three months in China at the company she asked her supervisor if she could get a diploma or something written about the time she’d been there and what she had done. The supervisor came back to her with the diploma, sure, but it took them more than a month since it had to go all the way to the CEO and back (the government was left out of the loop on this one though) before they could grant it.

How can a country working like this be the single most interesting country in terms of growth, opportunities and in a couple of years be the most developed country in terms of almost anything you would like to measure? It really beats me…..

Note: Also heard about a guy in Japan who got sent home from his “praktikplats” after having an introduction seminar for the manager about the stuff he would do at the company, and when the manager asked a question he said “If it’s okay with you, I’ll rather take all questions afterwards.” Doh….

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