Wednesday, December 03, 2008

MUFG - The Bank Of Tokyo Mitsubishi

The world's largest bank, in the world's largest city, in the country with the second biggest economy in the world with hundreds of outlets and tens of thousands of staff does not have one single solitary English Assistance staff member. None. All the staff speak in "teineigo" - a rarified form of Emperor-style Japanese crammed with honorifics and redundant, circular obligatudes that triple the length of any sentence and mash its meaning into vague obfustications. But if I go to a remote Aussie town like Cairns - you can bet your @rse they'll have Japanese services...!

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