Some days, working in Japan, you do feel like a salaryman toiling anonymously at your homogeneous desk surrounded by other little rats, all running at the same speed on their little rat wheels.
Being a 'Japanese' company, Beacon has done away with certain creature comforts like ROOMs. Everyone from the President to the office boy sits at a desk, surrounded by a 100 other desks... privacy be damned.
Welcome to my rat wheel... one look and you can see how one's surroundings can inspire boundless creativity. Some days are worse then others, on Tuesdays Arano-San, in desk number 237, brings in his home-made rancid squid innards for lunch, resulting in a serious case of superfluous flatulence. On Thursdays, Mitsui-San in desk 242, likes to indulge in sashimi from the cheap sushi restaurant across the street, the smell can only be described as - putrefied guppy meets rotting rectum of dead dog. Aside from the occasional slurp and if you're lucky, a hushed exclamation of 'Sugoi!', it's dead quiet from 930am till the end of the day.This is probably the most 'un-ad-agency-like' agency I have ever worked at...
Ahh, to be on a white sandy beach on the Pelion peninsula sipping a cold brew, while the catch-of-the-day is slowly sizzling on an open barbeque pit... only the lucky few know how to strike the right balance in life, right Vi?
4 comments:
Haha good one. I should e-mail you a pic of MY desk/workplace where I spend 8 hours daily glued to the screen...
Come to think of it I have one major advantage: I enjoy only my own...gaseous emissions.
Luckily I eat good stuff and usually don't keel over. Got to keep alert, you know.
I'm sure the view from your desk is a lot prettier then mine...
Take comfort from the thought that only great creative minds can be so strenuously tortured and that the end result will be a great flowering of works of genius. Hang in there son, and good things will will fall from the heavens, as doth the gentle rains.
it could be worse, i could be at the next desk ;)
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