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The story
On the morning of November 13, 2026, in a ‘corporate drone’ thread that popped up on 5ch’s “Live News G” board, office workers getting ready for work posted a flood of complaints and anecdotes one after another. Reports piled up: a boss chewing someone out by email, a coworker panicking because Outlook wouldn’t work, and a suspicious email claiming to be from the company president urging people to join a LINE group. On that suspicious message, one poster noted that “a warning email got passed around the office,” and the discussion expanded into just how far companies should go in making employees use personal LINE accounts for work.
What people said
At least it leaves a paper trail, so that's something.
This year's going to be over before I know it.
I haven't gotten anything done.
Same here.
My marriage-hunting is going nowhere too.
All I've gained with age is worse health.
Most people haven't even gotten to the office yet so it's calm for now, but this is gonna be chaos.
You think? If it were month-end that'd be rough, but at this point in the month we can probably just barely stretch the deadline and be fine.
IT support (can only use Excel)
How rude.
I can also debug the garbage core system that's still in development 😤
Though I honestly don't get why I'm the one debugging it when we're the client placing the order, not the vendor.
This isn't post-delivery testing — it's a system that's literally still being built, you know?
If that's down too, my company's got zero way to communicate.
Don't you have your boss's or coworkers' LINE?
I haven't done anything wrong,
I've been working my ass off,
so why is this happening to me?
Insurance payout, unlocked! A gift from God 🤗
Speaking of which, apparently a sketchy message claiming to be from my company's president went out to some employees telling them to set up a LINE group.
A warning email already circulated about it, so there's no way I'm installing that — not a chance, company!
That's the exact same thing that hit my company. Are you a coworker of mine?
At my company, we're forced to install some sketchy step-counter app for 'health management.'
And it's apparently absolutely crawling with ads.
Something like 'I'm taking today off' is fine to send over LINE though, right?
Not in-house, but when you go work an overseas job you end up installing LINE, KakaoTalk, Telegram, whatever, just to communicate.
The guy who told me to install Telegram wouldn't stop messaging me even after I got back to Japan, and kept contacting me from throwaway accounts even after I blocked him, so I deleted Telegram entirely.
Might go off like a bomb.
Sorry in advance, fellow Musashino Line riders.
I ride that line too, and it's running way behind.
Did you by chance have an explosive bathroom incident at Misato Station? The train stopped for an 'in-car inspection.'
Exactly this.
Getting contacted via LINE on a company-issued phone is fine,
but contacting me on my personal LINE is way too much.
The work LINE group that was only ever supposed to be for stuff like 'I'm off today' / 'got it, thanks' —
it's now ruthlessly used for work messages with @mentions even after you've clocked out.
I hope it just dies.
Yeah, that's not okay.
What's wrong with that?
I honestly have no idea what crowd actually uses LINE WORKS.
Just switch over to Gemini.
I'm in accounting.
You've still got internal email and stuff, right?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
What stood out in this thread was that multiple posters testified that their own companies had also received a suspicious email claiming to be from the president. Since similar-worded messages turned up at separate companies around roughly the same time rather than hitting just one victim, this looks less like a targeted attack on a specific company and more like a phishing-style solicitation email sent out broadly. Another point of debate was where to draw the line between personal LINE accounts and dedicated workplace tools like “LINE WORKS.” There was also persistent frustration that LINE groups originally meant for simple messages like “I’m taking the day off” had turned into channels for work communication complete with @mentions even after clocking out — suggesting that how far communication should rely on personal apps remains a blurry boundary between convenience and privacy at many workplaces.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Live News G) thread “[Sad News] I’m a Corporate Slave and I’m Venting.”
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