Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too much at work

Re:Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too mu... by weikju on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:07AM (#41454287)

There is a LOT of slack in Japanese society. Using umbrellas while riding bicycles. Not wearing a helmet. Just two examples off the top of my head.

Lots of slack granted to foreigners who aren’t expected to know the rules. Lots of slack granted to Japanese people who are free to be normal, hikikomori, nerdy, NEET, sporty, etc. Slack to be and do whatever unless you bother someone.

It’s just slack you don’t really notice immediately unlike the menu stuff.

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Re:Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too mu... by ranger_danger on Thursday September 05, 2024 @09:40AM (#41456539)

I wouldn't call those slack in the same sense of the word because rules aren't being bent or ignored. Helmets and umbrellas are things that are simply too widespread to have adequate enforcement on, same for seatbelts in most countries... so I don't consider that actively letting it happen or "slacking" the same way.

Foreigners might have some slack in some ways but in many ways it's quite the opposite... so there's both good and bad IMO.

"Free to be normal etc." I don't consider that slack either, that's just having a generic free society to me.

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