It is technically spring break, no classes, and they are trying to get the workaholic Japanese folk to go home. I'm just waiting for someone to leave. I don't want to be first all the time.
And the "working super hard" is usually reduced to "working" and only in a limited sense. If you are at your desk and the computer is turned on, they tend to be happy. Took me a long time to figure that out.
These guys working 70 hours a week. They were reading email and browsing the web.
Head teacher just said, "come on guys, go home already."
I'm gone, see you later.
When I was working at Kokusai Gaigo, the Japanese working twelve hour days weren't getting anymore work done than we lazy foreigners only working eight. It was just a contest. First one to go home lost. (We had a separate office, so our leaving didn't end the game.)
When I was at Nova ICI, I had a student who was an engineer working at, surprisingly enough, an engineering firm. Their branch manager spent a lot of time dealing with foreign firms, and he tried importing the idea of flexible hours. Workers could come in earlier and leave earlier, come later and leave later, or work longer hours fewer days. It was a great success. The workforce was happy. Productivity went up. Errors and costs went down. But they had to scrap the program. Sometimes when another firm called, the person they wanted to speak to wasn't in the office. The firm got a reputation for being a bunch of slackers.
I mentioned that at Kokusai Gaigo we foreigners had our own little ghetto office. The building was grossly over-lit. Enough to make you squint. The top foot or so of the wall was a strip of windows onto the hallway. We left the lights out in our office and the light coming from the hallway was more than sufficient. Whenever a local teacher, staff, or student came into our office and saw the lights out, they would patiently take one of us by the hand, show us where the light switch was and how it worked. Eventually we took to telling them that because blue-eyed people got more light through the coloured part of their eyes, they didn't need as much light to see by. This was also, we explained, why blue-eyed people more often suffered from red eye in flash photographs.
So, if a Japanese person ever tells you that blue-eyed people can see in the dark, I started that in 1990 because I got tired of being shown how a light switch worked.