Misinformation about foreign communities going viral goes viral in foreign communities due to misinformation. Mercari's Diversity and Inclusion manager, director of Women Who Code: Tokyo and SpeakHer co-founder Tutti Quintella helps us puzzle through the whole Corona Gaijin mess on TV and Twitter.
Ollie recommends a cruise that ticked the "innovation box" and not much else.
Bobby puts on his NO RIVER CRUISE, NO LIFE t-shirt and gets angry at a list, AGAIN.
Topics discussed on this episode range from:
- How to tell whether or not YOUR opinion is valid, and how to make sure others KNOW that it is
- THAT government press conference about corona that the media made about cultural differences, and the foreigner in Japan Twittersphere made it about gaijin sabetsu
- The software engineering/coding boom, and the efforts to get more women into tech, why it appeals to women, especially during the pandemic
- how different perspectives/experiences affect people's problem solving strategies, and why diversity is a plus
- The cross-over between problem solving in coding and problem solving in people management
- How Japan's population aging and decline is affecting the Japan talent pool for tech companies
- Japan's approach to Diversity and Inclusion, and why it's necessary
- Bobby and Ollie's VERY SARCASTIC ideas for what Japan could do to retain its foreign talent
- The Government press conference that kicked off the whole "Media Blames Foreigns" for spreading Corona
- Why the foreign reaction may have been a little over the top, and how we might not even HAVE a full picture of the foreign reaction
- What we could do to expand our perspective and take a more considered approach to DECRYING the media
- How the media got it wrong, and what Tutti thinks their motivations are
- The current state of awareness of diversity awareness in Japan
- Why what the media says about foreigners and corona MATTERS
- Why the approach to diversity training needs to be tied to the motivations of the potential trainees, or it might end up doing more damage than good
- How, as angry twitter gaijin, we can reevaluate our approach to dealing with our feelings of being discriminated against in Japan
Topics discussed on the extras range from:
- Updates on the SpeakHer database, and its first official booking
- The tenuous nature of the current event industry in Japan
- The difference between relying on a gig economy and not being desperately fucked
- ANOTHER classic Ollie Horn Simpsons reference
- The ill-advised Japanese tendency to be honest about work-from-home productivity
- How much work ACTUALLY gets done in a work day
- Human nature as it pertains to time limits
- What Bobby's mom thinks about how messy he is
- How Tutti went from coding to human resources/diversity and inclusion training
- Impostors
- The coding that went into SpeakHer
- Similarities between being a software engineer and a human resources manager
- The duality of human resources as an advocate for the employees and the need to provide benefit to the employer
- Why some encouraging embracing conflict as a form of progress
- How Bobby exploits the "assumption of benevolence"
- The differences in hiring processes between western and Japanese companies
- Tutti's battles re: hiring strategies
- Comparative salaries
- Career woman versus motherhood issues in Japan
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