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Hello. I’m Yasui, the president of a one-person company primarily engaged in inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder what’s going on in the world—there are so many people who can only look at things from a very short-term perspective, or who become emotional at the drop of a hat. They don’t break a sweat thinking, so they keep regressing. And as humans tend to do, they drift toward the easy path, again and again.
In small companies, if there’s a sloppy boss, management can start tilting dangerously fast. I’ve seen this firsthand in many places, so I’m sure of it. Even if you’re not meticulous, doing business the old-fashioned way of “profit doesn’t matter!” quickly becomes painful in today’s environment. That “ignoring profit” mindset is truly troublesome—it’s nothing more than taking the path of least resistance.
Because we are in the service industry, labor costs account for a large portion of expenses. Since labor costs are essentially the cost of manpower, they don’t easily generate large profits. That’s exactly why people who consistently produce strong results are extremely valuable. The more output someone can create for the same amount of money, the more profitable a company becomes.
People who produce a lot of results, and people who produce very little.
People who take responsibility for their work, and people who do things half-heartedly.
Which do you think companies and customers actually want?
Basically, ordinary people like us can only exchange our labor for money. Yet there are surprisingly many who want to earn as much as possible without refining their labor at all. Watching people try to raise their price without making any effort to increase their market value is honestly laughable.
In today’s Japan, wages are mainly rising for those working at large corporations—the so-called elite class. For small and medium-sized businesses, forcing wages upward can easily lead to the risk of bankruptcy. That’s because nothing changes in what they do or what they earn, yet the amount they must pay out increases.
If you want your salary to go up, I think you need to proactively take on work and lead by example. If you just sit there with your mouth open waiting to be fed, you’ll be left behind in a labor-short Japan. People like that should feel a bit more sense of crisis. Do your best not to become someone about whom others say, “We don’t really need them anyway…”
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