Good People Are Always Busy
Since early 2008, the media has been pelting everyone world-wide with questions about whether there was a recession or not. Maybe, not enough stories or news to report? Well, we thoroughly believe that champions are champions because of their training. They set their minds to being successful and that is usually what happens.
Looking around Japan, there has been an obvious slowdown in the marketplace. As of today, 11 Nov 08, the word on the street is the following companies have hiring freezes.
Microsoft Japan
KVH Telecom
SAP Japan
Accenture
Infosys
Savis
That’s just to name a few. Then there have been those who have vaporized. Such as NCC, or New City as it was called. Completely gone and no longer in business. Evidently, the economy is down or at least people are believing that.
It is sad to anyone struggle in business. We must never forget, that what our company does affects our whole teams and our partners (clients) as well. We must have good products and services that enhance our partners businesses.
Why are we so busy at AINEO?
It is supposed to be a bad economy. Well, we have a saying at AINEO that “good people are always busyâ€. We believe that “people who work hard and work smart will prosperâ€. This is because they are valued by their partners, suppliers, and even friends.
We are thankful to all our partners, those who
-entrust their day to day IT support to AINEO
-rely on AINEO for their groupware, messaging and website hosting
-the hundreds of telephone systems nationwide
-buy all those boxes from us! We are amazed that those hundreds of thousands in hardware and software orders that flow through our warehouses each month. It does seem to let up. Working with AINEO must be an extra blessing in your business!
As for the economy, it is almost like the media got what they wanted, a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. We are hoping the economy will turn up for us all very soon. We say, keep your chin up, do the right thing with others in mind, and everything will work out well for you.
Thanks to everyone. We honor you, our partners, and will continue to work hard for the respect we’ve earned, to keep your respect and trust. As they say in GAMBARIMASHO! (Let’s work hard).
There is “work hard” as evinced by the insane amount of overtime that Japanese seem to like to do. Is it right to praise “hard work” when most of it is “smoking breaks”, “using cybozu” or “undoing the mistakes of yesterday?”
Then there is “work efficiently” which seems to be an anathema as one can see with pretty much any Japanese company one may meet, Mentioning no names “emplex” of course.
So, which one is Aineo? Efficiency versus Hard Work? Are these really as mutually exclusive one would think when comparing say, Canadian Employees with Japanese Employees.
Thanks BE for your comment!
At AINEO, people that are not BQF, don’t last very long. More about BQF here.
http://www.aineo.com/insights/entry/the-world-needs-more-bqf-people
We are a hybrid between the East and the West. We work smart and we work hard between 9AM-6PM, so that we can have a life after work.
Of course, our AINEO Secure guys work in shifts around the clock to keep systems flowing and up to date.
Come again sometime!