[tidenly]

That's not true though because most decision and execution processes in Japan are daisy chained. One person can't just make you send a tonne of money because you'd normally have to forward it onto someone else, who clears it with someone else, and then we all sign a ringisho.

The daisy chaining prevents single responsibility stuff like this.

Also for what it's worth I've done verification callbacks to every single one of my bosses at some point during my career here and no-one's ever questioned it.

[gilleain]

Interesting, I had no idea what a 'ringisho' was, so I found some (likely simplistic) information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_management_culture

> The term of "ringi" has two meanings. The first meaning being of "rin", 'submitting a proposal to one's supervisors and receiving their approval,' and "gi" meaning 'deliberations and decisions.' Corporate policy is not clearly defined by the executive leadership of a Japanese company. Rather, the managers at all levels below executives must raise decisions to the next level except for routine decisions. The process of "ringi decision-making" is conducted through a document called a "ringisho".

(For reference)

[dotancohen]

I take it that you were not raised in Japan? Do you agree that someone raised in Japan would have a harder time questioning their boss?

I'm no expert, I've never been to the land of the rising sun. This is what people have told me of their time there. Your input is very much appreciated.