Do movies have influence on people¡¯s lives? Even if it is fiction, it seems that the film I am currently using in my class seems to be strangely very similar to my experience. The film is an NHK tv drama ハケンの品格(Haken no Hinkaku). It is about the problems of the increasing numbers of part-time contract employees in companies and how their part-time salaries and work is affecting the regular employee¡¯s salary. The discussion of accountability and responisiblity of the company and how these part-time contracted employees cannot be held responible because they are only in the company for such a short period of time. The reason why most companies use these part-time employees is mainly because they are cost effective.

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Some time ago I wrote an article somewhere about the brain size of administrators being really small. I could extend this to office workers as well. A really good movie for anyone planning to work in an office is called Ikiru directed by Akira Kurozawa about typical office life and lack of responsibility. The main actor finds out that he is dying of stomach cancer and has only six months to live. When he realizes this he immediately tries desperately to try and live life to the fullest. He realizes what he can do is right in his own office – by trying to take on more responsibility. Another very good NHK TV drama is Hakken no Hinkaku, which is about very much the same thing but discusses the future of typical companies hiring temporary contract workers and part-time staff. The idea is that part-time and temporary contract workers are just an old rusty ship that is left to sink to the bottom of the ocean is what the main character describes the job to be. The companies will take on temporary staff as a way of cutting costs and eliminating responsibility on their part. The temporary staff contribute their 9 to 5 and over-time and the results are always the success of the permanent/full-time staff who do nothing but accept it. When the temporary staff leave they are just forgotten about or left to sink like an old rusty ship. Administrators and other office staff have to be about the dumbest people on earth, they only have one function – sit at a desk all day and shuffle paper.

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My site was transfered over to a new and improved control panel so far I have not seen any trouble in most of the pages, which are just html or php. I have noticed scrambled characters on The Iroha Project site and when I log in there seems to be some problem changing information on the admin page. I hope it is not too serious my knowledge of php is beginner and if it is serious I will have to delete the entire system and reload everything again… that will not be fun.

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I just got sent 100 pps just for being popular? Am I popular? I didn't even know I was so popular. Well thanks for the pps but still I am wondering what made me so popular? Maybe next time someone could let me know when I am popular haha

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