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Emp<\/span><\/strong>loyee accused of not being devoted enough to his work<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The punctuality of trains in Japan<\/a> is famous all over the world, but that level of efficiency doesn\u2019t just happen by chance. It\u2019s the result of a lot of hard work under very strict conditions that some would consider unbearable.<\/p>\n Case in point is the matter of a train driver for JR Hokkaido for \u201cnot devoting himself to his work,\u201d as the railway put it. At about 5 p.m. on 7 October, a train was stopped at Otaru Station, when a passenger spotted the driver reading a book and reported it to the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n This was a \u201clocal\u201d train, meaning a train that stops at all stations along a line, as opposed to an \u201cexpress\u201d train, which only stops at major stations. Because of this system, sometimes local trains will stop for extended periods of time at lesser-used stations while express trains get the right of way to zoom through. In this case, the train was scheduled to wait at Otaru Station for eight minutes before setting off again, so the driver decided to kill some time with a book.<\/p>\n \u25bc They say you haven\u2019t truly lived in Japan until you\u2019ve been late for something because you got on the wrong kind of train.<\/p>\n Not only that, but the book he brought in to read was about railways<\/strong>. The driver admitted that he had done so before in the past too, and that he takes the opportunity to relax for a moment when he has the time. No incidents or delays occurred as a result, but JR Hokkaido apologized for the concern it caused among passengers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Readers of the news online were largely defending the driver in their comments and condemning the person who tipped off JR Hokkaido about the reading. However, there were a few who felt what the driver did was inappropriate for a workplace.<\/p>\n \u201cLet him do what he wants when the train is stopped. Why would someone rat on him?\u201d<\/em> It\u2019s probably safe to say a lot of people read books during their downtime while on the job. It seems better that he was engaged in something during that time as well, rather than just staring at his console to make sure it doesn\u2019t fly away.<\/p>\n That being said, in addition to the foibles of certain drivers, JR Hokkaido was hit with an \u201cenhanced safety inspection system\u201d audit by the national transport ministry and Hokkaido Transport Bureau earlier this year. This is a polite way of saying the leash has been tightened on the railway after a string of problems regarding insufficient track maintenance and safety measures were found. Knowing that, it should be no surprise they aren\u2019t taking even the slightest inconsistencies lightly.<\/p>\n Source: HTB News<\/a>, YouTube\/STV\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u5317\u6d77\u9053<\/a><\/em> Employee accused of not being devoted enough to his work. The punctuality of trains in Japan is famous all over the world, but that level of efficiency doesn\u2019t just happen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/pakusIMG_0022_TP_V4.jpg?w=640\")
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\n\u201cPeople who report every little thing like that are really annoying.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no safety issue, so let him read a book.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to read at work.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with a train driver reading about trains in his spare time?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cNobody cares.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cHe loves trains so much he reads about them while driving them.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cDoes everyone think reading at work is a joke? Do you read books at work?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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