Thursday, April 28, 2005

How Do You Deal with...

...Security cams?

Today's raamen had half an egg, some really small bean sprouts, some oily greasy film on the top, the noodles, a thin slice of fatty pork, and some seaweed, but very little. It cost about US$3.00 and came with nothing. Nada. No onigiri, no pickled cabbage. Nothing. No ambience to speak of, either, as I was snarfing it down in a cafeteria.

However, whilst slurping I meet an Australian and an American who were sucking up to their supervisors, both Americans. Seems both the workers chose the job based on the city rather than the job itself. This didn't make their supervisors estatic, but they were only being honest.


We discussed, among other things, the presence of spy cameras in their office. They were placed there for 'security reasons,' according to their supervisors, who answered questions and then remained silent. Spy-like silent, I might add. Naturally. But we think the real reason is to catch white-collar theft.

Regardless, we proposed ways of circumventing the cameras, the easiest of which was to turn it off. Whoa, what a concept. The others included making a tape-loop of you working hard; turning the camera toward the window so the supervisors could see how the weather was doing; turning the camera toward the supervisors' offices so they could see how they were doing - not a popular one among the, uh, supervisors.

The raamen was mediocre to average while the conversation was above average. Probably because of the mix of nationalities. It was a shio (salt) raamen. Next week I'm going to try the tonkotsu (pork bone?) Kyushu-style raamen.

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