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Welcome to...
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello, hello.
What's up, guys?
Hello, guys.
オフィスの概要
What about your office?
My office?
Yeah, the new Akai Shrine.
Yeah, um...
I mean, mine also was a classic.
Okay.
But I know your office.
We were close.
Yes, yes, yes.
Your Tokyo office was close to my office.
Yes, that was very surprising.
Yeah.
Yes.
I never actually worked in that Tokyo headquarter office, so...
But I know the building was big.
No?
Well, I mean, yeah.
So, the area had a lot of big buildings.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
True.
It was one of them.
I think they had like...
I mean, your building was just as big as mine.
What are you talking about?
No, it's just nothing inside.
What are you talking about?
No, it was massive.
You know, the entrance hall, you know, very classic, you know, kind of a high ceiling.
Yeah.
They have some art, a piece of art in the center of it.
No one knows what that is.
It looks expensive.
It looks expensive, right?
And then, like, you know, you have the bathroom, you have the elevators.
Yeah.
You've got reception ladies.
No reception.
Okay.
So, that's not that fancy.
Okay.
Right?
You're starting to get the picture of how fancy it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
And it goes up to high as, like, I don't know, maybe like 30th floor or something.
Yeah, pretty high.
I remember us being in, like, the...
I don't know, like, the S14 or something.
Something like that.
So, not as, you know, not that high, you know, or something in the middle.
Really?
Yeah.
It's not bad.
Not bad, but, you know, not, like, 28th high, you know.
The boss of the building.
Right, right.
We were, like, I don't know, 14th, 15th, something like that.
Yeah.
We did, though, occupy the most amount of floors.
Oh!
I think we had, like, four floors.
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
So, we were like, yeah.
We've got four floors, bitch.
So, that's that.
And...
The only luxury we had in our office.
Yeah.
So, if you walk into my office, you'll see a bunch of cubicles.
Okay.
There's no, you know, there's no commons.
There's no common.
オフィスの構造
There's no lobby.
There's no, like, address free shit.
I see.
They're all cubicles.
Everyone has a cubicle.
And around the walls, they have a private room for the bosses.
Okay.
The managers, you know.
Private rooms?
Yeah, they got private rooms.
The rest is all cubicle.
Oh.
Yeah.
休憩室の設備
And on the side, you have the break room.
Okay.
Break room.
Yeah.
I guess that's the most exciting part about the offices.
Okay.
In the break room, you have a coffee machine.
Nice.
You know, the buttons.
Yeah.
Oh, nice.
You know, the triangular cup.
Remember that?
You know, you have the plastic white triangular cup, and you sort of place it into, like, a black holder.
Yeah, I know that.
Yeah.
And then you reuse, you recycle the black holder, but you throw away the white triangular cup.
Yes.
You know that, right?
That one.
Yeah.
Right.
And the thing you only see in those offices.
That's right.
That's right.
It's office limited.
Yeah, yeah.
That's right.
And right next to it, you have the vending machine.
Okay.
Classic vending machine.
Nice.
Nice.
Right next to it, you have the microwave.
Oh, nice.
Yep.
You have the microwave, and then the refrigerator.
Oh, okay.
Like a tiny-ass refrigerator.
Okay.
Tiny.
Okay.
And that was the break room.
Nice.
Okay.
That's it.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, if you hang it, you know, if you're in there, sometimes you'll meet a buddy.
Okay.
Sometimes you'll meet a colleague.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sort of like spark up a conversation for like three minutes.
Yeah.
And then you're off.
Yeah.
Kind of like that.
Yeah.
Nothing fancy.
Well, yeah.
But to me, like, it sounds, I don't know, it sounds very much like gaishikei.
上司の部屋
Mm-hmm.
Because your bosses, like, every boss has their own room.
Oh, yeah.
And then that sounds...
Oh, really?
Sounds like a very gaishi.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
And...
How big is the boss's room?
So...
So it's not as big as this office room.
Okay.
オフィスのサイズと性格
So this office room fits 10 people, but not as big as this.
It's like, I would say half of the size.
Still.
Size.
Still.
It's good to have a break room.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
And, you know, the thing is, you know how I quit the job in, like, a year or so?
Mm-hmm.
Around when I started doing the job hunting for my next job...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
カフェスペースの導入
Which was a cafe chain.
Mm-hmm.
And a word came that our company was going to do a huge redo of the office.
Okay.
And that they were going to build a huge cafe space.
Ooh.
Wow.
In one of the floors.
Yeah.
Right?
So one of the floor is gonna be completely sort of like a relaxed, you know, kind of
like a, you know, lounge-ish looking kind of thing where everybody can come in, sort
of like...
Wow.
You know, do some communication.
Man.
So they were gonna bring in this cafe.
Wow.
And I talked to my managers.
I was like, let me work on the cafe.
Let me work on the cafe.
Whoa.
Like, right?
I was like...
Yeah.
I was applying for job at, like, all these, you know...
Right.
Restaurants and, like, cafes.
Mm-hmm.
And I was like, fuck.
I wanna be there.
Yeah.
Let me be the barista.
The extent that...
I promise.
This is what I said to my manager.
Hey, I heard that you guys were making a cafe.
Yeah.
I'll be the barista.
Can I change jobs?
I literally said that.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the best choice.
Right.
I know, right?
It's in the office.
In the office.
It's in the same company.
You guys already know me.
Yeah.
I'm trustworthy.
Yeah.
Like, you know, let me be the manager for the cafe.
Right.
They're like, no.
We already called the external something, you know.
Yeah.
I never got to see what it was like.
You quit before that.
I quit before.
Right.
They started working on it.
I see.
Yeah.
I'm thinking about trespassing there.
But they have, like, a huge floor of cafe or lounge thing now, right?
Yeah, if the plan worked out.
I guess.
ケビンのオフィス体験
It's good.
Yeah.
It's like a Google.
I know, right?
You know?
If I'd stay there.
Yeah.
Then I would enjoy that, you know?
So, yeah.
Yeah.
It sounds a good choice for them, too, to hire you as a store manager or a cafe manager
or something.
That's what I said.
You know?
I'm like, this is so much better than logistics.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see.
So, all right.
That was my office.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Bye.
Bye.
