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A review claiming that a woman who joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries quit because “it wasn’t the stylish office I’d pictured before joining” was shared on 5ch’s Anything Goes Live board (livegalileo), drawing 43 replies. Thread posters wondered what kind of workplace the words “heavy industries” were even supposed to conjure up, floated the dream image of a floor-to-ceiling glass office straight out of a TV drama, and posted AI-generated pictures of their “ideal office.” Others, however, posted actual photos of the real Marunouchi headquarters, pointing out that the atmosphere can vary a lot depending on which department you’re assigned to.
What people said
>In-house systems engineer, tenure 3-5 years, has left the company, hired as new graduate, female, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
>The reason I left Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was the huge gap between the company image I had before joining and the reality.
Guess "heavy" and "industry" just scream glamour to her
Mitsubishi? A zaibatsu?? Glamorous!!!
Right?
One of those walls with water trickling down it
Floor-to-ceiling glass walls
Yogibo beanbags scattered around
A drink dispenser
A food truck selling açaí bowls parked right outside
Handsome guys who look like actor Ryo Yoshizawa working there
Everyone gets to leave right on the dot
This is exactly what I came here for
Veteran senior → Knows the section chief's true nature. Competent, and when "the chick" (マンコ, crude 5ch slang used dismissively for a female coworker) screws up, doesn't even scold her — just says "Forget that, let's fix the problem first."
Senior coworker → When the chick's mistake happens, plays the reassuring smile-and-pat-on-the-shoulder role: "Just leave it to the veteran, like he said."
Colleague → Insanely competent. Blunt and unfriendly. Has the section chief's total trust. Thinks the exact opposite of the chick — tsundere type. Stylish, "this is good enough as it is" attitude. Regular at the bar. Plays the Kimutaku (heartthrob actor Takuya Kimura) role.
The chick → the chick.
That's basically what a "chick office" drama looks like, right?
It's scary that people still believe this drama nonsense even as adults
https://power-ids-solutions.com/img/59wuwmiu_y-1200w.webp
Stop throwing up Illuminati hand signs
Hey, isn't that Princess Aiko in there? (likely a joking reference to Japan's Imperial princess)
It's easy to move in and comfortable, and it's fine if it gets dirty. Your own clothes only get worn for the commute, so they don't wear out.
All white, windows covering the entire wall, potted plants 🪴 everywhere, stylish chairs and a designer table — it's gotta be a high-rise office building or forget it 🥺
Can you not have someone welding right behind people in a meeting
Cubist art depicting the high-school-grad vs. college-grad hierarchy
Depending on the department, maybe even this place has one
Basically only the sales division that handles client meetings and bank financing talks, plus the general affairs/accounting back-office staff
How about this
What's that Z doing behind the monitor
Put a big aquarium like that in the lobby of your own building instead
The guy who looks like Tadanobu Asano isn't really doing anything either
And the space is cramped
Once you get used to the job you start slacking on stuff like this and it causes accidents, so it can't be helped
It's important stuff
https://tadaup.jp/8M9OsbjR.jpeg
This is the actual Marunouchi head office, and it looks pretty stylish
The food and snacks alone would easily eat up a whole day's pay 😱
Bonus points for "work" only taking up one time slot
Sorry, but what's even good about this? The expenses outweigh the pay, so what's the point of working
Young people poisoned by the media want the office romance and career rise that happens on that kind of stage
As everyone knows, that's no place for eating cafeteria lunch next to some old guy in a work uniform
Something like this, yeah
Used to be totally normal to get treated to all this for free, but these days it'd probably get called prostitution
All they do is eat lol
Background and Key Points
This review follows a familiar pattern seen on job-change and employment review sites: complaints about the gap between how imposing a company’s name sounds and what the actual workplace is like. Heavy-industry manufacturers like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are primarily in the business of building factories and plants, so many such companies have a shop-floor culture that’s a world away from the glass-walled high-rise offices seen in TV dramas. What really got the thread going wasn’t so much the rights or wrongs of the review itself, but how strikingly uniform people’s mental image of a “stylish office” turned out to be, shaped heavily by generation and media exposure — the trend of posters generating their own “ideal office” images with AI became the symbol of that. At the same time, actual photos of the real Marunouchi headquarters were also posted, and it’s worth adding, since it doesn’t come through from the replies alone, that the impression a workplace gives can vary enormously depending on the department and location an employee is assigned to. It should also be noted that some reactions to the review included posts generalizing and disparaging “women’s advancement in the workforce” — since treating one poster’s personal experience as representative of women as a whole is an unfounded generalization, those replies have been excluded from this article.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Anything Goes Live) thread “[Sad News] Woman: “I joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries but it wasn’t stylish… I’m quitting”.”
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