[SeekAndFind]

The task was also meant to teach players to take pride and care in their work, regardless of their role.

“If you see a toilet, you can see the value of a place, the purpose with which the people there approach their work,” Sasaki told the Times, noting the care that Japanese department stores and hotels take in keeping their bathrooms clean. “It’s the most important place in an establishment, just like the mound is the most important place on the field.”

In the years since, Ohtani has remained humble. Even while earning tens of millions in the big leagues, the superstar has been known to pick up garbage when he sees it on the field.

[JZelle]

Wax on, wax off

[NonValueAdded]

Mike Rowe approves

[lee martell]

That was a wise Coach, who developed that training method.
It sounds like something one would do in a military Boot Camp.

[jerod]

I wonder how much he’s betting on tonight’s game... Peter Rose got banned for betting, and this dude gets a pass? Betting through a proxy is still betting.

[Red Badger]

That was my first real job after paper routes, janitor in a restaurant................

[llevrok]

There is a book, You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting that is a good read.

It recounts an American baseball player's time in the Japan League. Very eye opening for the player.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is actually a recent Japanese movie about a public toilet cleaner, and it is a pretty good movie.

[ifinnegan]

And send your translator buddy to prison for you.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Every season when I hired new staff for the Garden Center, the FIRST ‘meeting’ we had was in the bathrooms.

I showed them step-by-step how I wanted the toilets and bathroom cleaned and I did the work myself while showing them.

Then, it was their turn, LOL! Some of the teens were actually APPALLED and squeamish about it - they had never had to perform this task at home! (You can and WILL wash your own hands afterwards, Kids!)

If you passed ‘Bathroom Cleaning 101’ you got the job. If not - hit the bricks!

“If you’re too Big for the Small jobs, you’re too Small for the Big jobs!”

[subterfuge]

Through my teen years and up until the age of 21 all the jobs I had were HARD, nasty outdoor jobs. Battery manufacturing dunking batteries into acid, lumberyard building trusses and girders, furniture warehouse and plant nurseries. Then managed to get low level position at a Department of Defense contractor at 21 and have been doing that for the last 45 years.

My point being, that after those tough jobs anything I’ve ever done in high tech is a picnic compared to that. Try getting some battery acid in your eye or in a cut. LOL!