In yesterday's diary, I wrote about my boss who wrote the patent specification for me.

That reminded me of this story.

"I want to thank you all for your tremendous efforts. Can I say thank you again?"

However, while this story is a good one in one respect, it also has a frightening implication in another respect.

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When I was posted to the U.S., I was an "employee, etc." as described in Article 35 (Employee Invention) of the Patent Law.

At the time, I had no idea what the future held for me as an "employer, etc." (manager).

Even now, I have not been aware of this.

However, I believe this is a major, fatal problem.

This is because working with the mindset that you are an "employee, etc." will result in

"the people around you working in violation of the law"

In fact, I even wrote a column about it myself.

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However, this time, I was about to do "this".

On the contrary, I may have already done it, many times.

If you receive a warning from the company's line, you will have to write a letter of apology, and in some cases, you will be subject to punishment under the Labor Law, and in civil cases, you will obviously be found guilty of power harassment.

Let's use a concrete example.

Before the end of the workday on Fridays, You say to your subordinates "Please do this work, and submit it at the start of work on Monday"

In other words, it's all about

It's a sense of naivety, of thinking, "It's not my team's problem.

This is really, really scary, I thought.

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"I want to thank you all for your tremendous efforts. Can I say thank you again?"

There is a devilish suggestion in this phrase that makes you break the law, break the rules.

(This is sometimes referred to as the "motivation" scam.)

Let's be really really careful.

If you don't have a strong awareness of it, "It doesn't matter to my team" will be invoked unconsciously -- really.

Anyway, I am a person who

"I'm only this competent" even though I always talk like an great.

I reaffirmed this with desperation.

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Now, there must be many bosses in Japan who don't tell you to "work for GW" but implicitly force you to do so.

Such bosses may not be doing it arbitrarily, but may simply be unaware of the "violation" of the law.

At any rate,

I recently read a column by an engineer named Ebata. It was quite interesting. Especially this one.

It may be effective to casually send the URL of this page to your boss, saying with that.

It's a small price to pay if it makes your boss aware that she/he is going to "breaking the law".