Understanding Japan from a Little Piece of Metal
<p>When I joined a big American company, on the first day on the job I was handed a thick set of documents, the most important of which was the employee handbook.</p>
<p>The handbook included 50 pages of rules and procedures. At the very top was the rule that if I was caught with drugs or alcohol on company property, I’d be automatically terminated.</p>
<p>I understood the logic — besides the engineering and sales offices, we were a factory. And being under the influence of alcohol or drugs was dangerous when you were operating a 30 ton injection molding machine. Or a forklift.</p>
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