[High Price]We Buy Your Greetings for One Hour[Welcome to the store] 2009
No matter how hard I worked on job hunting, what I got was not so different from a part-time job. The only work I did was just greeting to the customers for a whole day.
The number of greetings people do among Japanese service industry is probably the biggest in the world.It is unquestionable duty for any clerk to greet to a customer with a smile and everybody conforms to this custom.
I was greeting regardless of whom I am greeting to. I sold my time for greeting meaninglessly even though there's no one greets me back. It was so stupid that I couldn't stand it any longer. Then I came to think why not buy this meaningless greeting.
I counted how many times a clerk in a convenience store (open for 24/7, usually young part-timers are working) greets in one hour. The average was 50. I went into the town and asked various people to do the job for me, "greeting 50 times for 800yen(an average hourly wage in an convenience store)".
"Welcome to the store!", "Thank you for your purchase."
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