http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/business/international/toyota-defends-diversity-hiring-after-american-is-arrested.html TOKYO — Toyota Motor was forthright, even proud, about why it promoted a group of foreign and female managers this spring: The automaker wanted more diversity in an executive suite dominated by Japanese men.Now the company finds itself defending its efforts to change after one of the executives it promoted, an American woman, was arrested on charges of illegally bringing a restricted painkiller into Japan.Toyota spoke up in support of the executive, Julie Hamp, on Friday, a day after she was taken into custody by the Japanese police. The company’s president, Akio Toyoda, called her a “trusted and essential” aide and said he was confident she had not intentionally broken the law.But fairly or unfairly, the case was being taken as a test of whether Toyota had miscalculated in its decision to reshape its management to more closely reflect the global nature of its business.Mr. Toyoda spent most of a hastily arranged news conference fending off questions from Japanese reporters about whether he would reconsider the diversity drive in light of what one called the “special risks” of promoting foreigners. He responded repeatedly that he would not.“There is no change to our policy of hiring qualified people with the right on-the-ground experience, regardless of their gender or nationality,” he said. He apologized that the case had caused “a stir” and said Ms. Hamp had “worked harder than anyone to adapt to Japan.”Drug-related transgressions carry a particularly strong social stigma in Japan, and prominent people caught breaking drug laws face media hounding and, often, ruined careers. [snip]
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:38:37 -0700 Subject: [Pen-l] the pharmacopeia of wage labor for the other 1% [and to think Steve Jobs and his cohorts just dropped lsd to 'get er done'] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/us/workers-seeking-productivity-in-a-pill-are-abusing-adhd-drugs.html Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. DrugsBy ALAN SCHWARZAPRIL 18, 2015PhotoElizabeth, a Long Island native identified by her middle name, with her Adderall.CreditElizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times Continue reading the main storyShare This PageEmailShareTweetSaveMoreContinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyFading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a wad of twenties and fifties, received a tattered envelope of pills, and returned to her computer.Her PowerPoint needed another four hours. Investors in her health-technology start-up wanted re-crunched numbers, a presentation begged for bullet points and emails from global developers would keep arriving well past midnight.She gulped down one pill — pale orange, like baby aspirin — and then, reconsidering, took one of the pinks, too.“O.K., now I can work,” Elizabeth exhaled. Several minutes later, she felt her brain snap to attention. She pushed her glasses up her nose and churned until 7 a.m. Only then did she sleep for 90 minutes, before arriving at her office at 9.The pills were versions of the drug Adderall, an amphetamine-based stimulant prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that many college students have long used illicitly while studying. Now, experts say, stimulant abuse is graduating into the work force. [snip] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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