You are all laughing, but this cartoon is EXACTLY happened to me on my second day as a Hitachi technical editor. A bug-eyed engineer right came up in my face (less than 10 cm) and said EXACTLY that: "I have been [working here] for 20 years! Many foreigners, like YOU, have worked with me. They all are GONE. Do you know what happened to them?..."
I would have had my Hanko at the ready, primed to fire, aimed right between the bugged out eyes, ready for the kill. My breathing, shallow, tense, yet steady. The white's of my eyes exposing not only the fear of my face, but actually how much of it can be covered by my widening eyeballs. I had no idea that they could stretch to actual dinner plate size. I looked like a wig, two dinner plates and a grimmace holding a Hanko stamp at the ready, waiting for his teeth to inch past the point of no return for the both of us.
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You are all laughing, but this cartoon is EXACTLY happened to me on my second day as a Hitachi technical editor. A bug-eyed engineer right came up in my face (less than 10 cm) and said EXACTLY that:
"I have been [working here] for 20 years! Many foreigners, like YOU, have worked with me. They all are GONE.
Do you know what happened to them?..."