Thursday, November 19, 2009

Tsukiji, school, and work

Today I met up with John for a business lunch at Restaurant Luke in Tukiji. We got the details for a project we're working on a little more together and the food and view was great. John told me about when he worked for Mitsubishi trading company and before he signed on to join the company he was sent out to the countryside where he and the other potential hires had a couple months of martial arts training as a way of gauging how much stress the guys could handle. After that was complete they brought all the new women employees and the girls could choose who they wanted to train them in martial arts. This was a way of determining the guys charisma and would effect future positions in the company. Pretty interesting how something seemingly unrelated like that could affect your career.
Since it's in Tsukiji, at the top you can see the world famous Fish market as well as the Tokyo Skyline. It was rainy and cold today so I couldn't see as much, but it was still cool. We were supposed to meet up with another guy there as well, but he couldn't make it. From there I headed to School for Stat and then to work after.

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