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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hello, hello.
オフィスビルの豪華さ
Do you see that office or something over there?
Oh yeah, I do. Corner.
Yeah.
What about it?
Isn't it so good? As an...
What do you mean?
As an office or something. As a place.
It's like, it looks like they don't have like a roof or something.
Which office are you talking about?
The highest floor.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
So it's like three stories high.
Yeah.
It's like a huge...
Isn't it good?
True.
It's like...
I didn't realize that was all one room.
Like all one floor.
I thought it was all three different, separate floors, but...
I think it's...
It's all connected.
Yeah.
Very tall roof.
And they have like, I don't know what...
They have like a couch or something.
Well, I mean, it's the highest floor in one of the buildings in Tornamon, right?
So it must be luxurious.
I don't know what company that is, but...
What are they?
Must be doing a good job.
Hopefully, yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
And it's corner.
So the views are great.
Yeah, I guess so.
Mm-hmm.
Do you ever want to work in those, like, office?
Become a, you know...
Kaishain and do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Should be nice.
Yeah.
I feel like working here is great as well.
True.
You know, I think the office is great too.
Yeah.
Googleのイメージ
But I would love to, once in my life, work in a place where they have, like, great cafeterias, you know.
That's fun.
It's always fun.
Just like Google.
Yeah, like Google.
I've never been to Google, so I don't know.
But that's the image we have of Google, right?
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
They'll give you, like, all these free food.
Healthy, great food, and fresh, and nice.
I'd love to take advantage of that.
Some weird machine that you push, and, like, you got, like, a couple of M&Ms.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's fun.
I like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Haven't you ever been to the Google office?
I've never been to the Google office.
No?
No.
I've never been there.
I wonder what it's like.
Yeah?
Because somebody said to us that they would invite us someday.
Oh, really?
You know?
Oh.
Okay.
Well, no.
No?
Not yet?
Nope.
Nope.
Yeah.
会社員時代の経験
When you were doing your Kaishain days, did you guys have a cafeteria?
No.
No?
I didn't.
Did you guys—was there any, like, something luxurious?
No.
Anything fun?
Nothing.
The only thing that—
What about the break room?
What about the break room?
No.
No?
It was—no.
No, no, no.
That was—
Okay.
So I'm not—it was in one of—it was in one of the—a building.
Like a—
A building, you know?
Boring old classic building.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the buildings.
And in—yeah.
会社のオフィス環境
It was just an office room.
Okay.
You got some conference rooms.
No.
We didn't even have a conference room.
You guys didn't have conference rooms?
No, no, no.
How is that—okay.
No, we didn't have—
You guys didn't have meetings?
We have a meeting booth, though.
Which is not a room?
So, um, not a quiet—yeah, if you say, it was a room.
But it's not something like this.
Or that.
It was—
Nothing like here.
No, no, no, no.
Where it's like—where you have four walls.
No.
What kind of—what kind of—
No, it was just a booth.
What kind of area is that?
You've got just the wall, the movable wall.
Oh, okay.
Like a partition.
And you make a space.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure.
And you make a space for a meeting.
What the fuck?
No, we were like, um—
And you were working in a pretty well-known company?
Yeah.
Are you sure they have money?
I don't know.
I don't know about it.
But, um, you know, we were in a big, big company.
And the company I was in was one of the companies which handled the, you know, inbound.
International?
International inbound, especially.
And then that was a very new company.
Okay.
And they made a new department that was in Kyoto.
Okay.
And that was where I was in.
So it was kind of a very, very new place.
Oh, okay.
Very new company.
So we were kind of—that wasn't our office.
We were kind of like a rent a place.
Oh, like WeWork.
Kind of like that.
We had like a classic—we had that company in a big holding company.
Right.
Classic Kyoto company.
Okay.
One of the group.
And we were kind of renting a place from that company.
Okay.
Yeah, sure.
So we were very kind of like this.
Oh, so the actual owner of the place where you guys were in was not under the roof of
your parent company?
Yes.
It was the under—
Yeah.
Okay.
So technically it was—you guys were a team.
Yes, yes.
From the outside, yeah.
Sure, sure, sure.
The big picture is you guys changed it.
Like if you go macro—sorry, micro.
Yeah, we were two different companies.
Okay.
Kind of.
Okay.
So we had a very small place to work in.
Oh, okay.
We had a meeting booth or like a guest room, kind of like that.
But we didn't own those rooms.
Right.
So when we wanted to use that, we need to—
Reserve a spot.
Hello, can we use that?
You got to ask every time?
Yeah, can we make a reservation with it?
You guys didn't have access to like the reservation system?
Nah.
Shit.
Oh, that's tough.
And then like a QK place.
Yeah.
We had a QK place, but it was shared by our company and that classic company.
Sure.
And they were big number.
オフィスの雰囲気
Okay.
They had much more employees than our company.
Okay.
And as we were a new company, we can wear some kind of—we don't need to wear ties.
Sure.
We can use like—
Casual.
Yeah, kind of casual.
Sure.
But the classic company, it's very strict.
You have to—
Sure.
Everything is like tied and everything like that.
Suits and all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So every time we entered to that shared QK room, they were like, huh.
Like a side eye?
Yeah.
New company, huh?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, the guys.
The boys are here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Guys having fun?
Playing footsies over there?
Yeah.
That's tough.
Yeah.
So nothing fancy.
Nothing luxurious.
Nothing—
Not relaxing at all.
Nothing at all.
Yeah.
The only escape is just the city.
The city.
Just go outside.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Central Kyoto.
Central, yeah.
You can do whatever you want.
You can stroll around.
That was the single lucky thing.
The only escape isn't getting out?
Oh, man.
Okay.
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I see.
I remember those days.
I wonder what's happened to them.
Do you think they're still in the same office building?
Maybe expanded or something?
会社の現状
So once the COVID came, no foreigners were able to come to Japan, right?
Oh, no.
So the company—like, I don't know.
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The company, like our company's mission is like inviting the foreigners to Japan.
And like, it's impossible.
Sure.
Like, 0 sales.
Nothing to do.
Obviously.
There's nothing you can do.
So...
Kaisan?
Not Kaisan.
Luckily, not Kaisan.
Okay.
That was good.
But it's like close to Kaisan.
It's like half or 40 percent.
Oh, you guys had to.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, and everybody like moved to the, you know, those companies and everywhere.
Okay.
And yeah, we had 55 doki.
I had 55 doki, but I think just, I would say 10, within 10 is still working in that company, I guess.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's, yeah, tough.
But now, you know, now it's all great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm sure it's true.
They're getting hiring and everything.
I think so.
They can, they'd be proud.
I think so.
Of walking into the break room, you know, now.
I'm not sure about it.
Because they were a big company and they were like, they're the classic company I'm talking about.
オフィスビルの豪華さ
They are the company based in Kansai area.
So mainly they were, for example, speaking Kansai Ben, they were from Kansai colleges.
I see.
And we were kind of like Tokyo kind of guys.
Sure.
Konnichiwa.
And they were talking loudly in Kansai Ben and everything.
And we were like, oh.
Oh, I see.
Kind of like, and then we were like, excuse me.
Yeah.
Nice.
I remember that.
Yeah.
Did you make friends with any of them?
No.
No?
Okay.
Not even you?
No.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for sitting guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
