[#ThingsThatChangedMyAssumptions] When you change yourself a little.

I am currently an independent business owner making a living as a sole proprietor, but during my time as a corporate employee, I worked for a major company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and experienced many transfers, moving from store to store across the southern Tohoku and northern Kanto regions.

Because of this, I often found that
“what worked well at Store A did not yield the same results or go well when applied the same way at Store B”
“the atmosphere varies completely depending on the store”
and I strongly felt the differences in the nature of the “colleagues,” “part-time staff,” and “customers” in every store (region) I was transferred to.

In my professional life, the place where I struggled the most to fit in was
Yamagata Prefecture.

Although I only lived and worked in Yamagata Prefecture for a few years, I felt that the people there were extremely polarized in nature, either being very quiet or very lively.

In my personal opinion, it is not necessarily easier to deal with people who are lively, but when they were very quiet, even if I “gave certain instructions or asked for their opinions,” there was “little reaction from the other side, and it wasn't that they were in total agreement with me, nor was it that they had no opinions,” so I felt a sense of unease because there were many people like that.

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There was a time when I gave up my day off to come into work to try and communicate with them, but at that time,
I was often treated coldly, being told, “No, you don't really need to come in,” and
I struggled quite a bit as I couldn't get my work done smoothly on a daily basis either.

However, one time, when a superior brought in a gift of sake,

we decided to drink it during working hours,

and before I knew it, it turned into a big banquet in the cafeteria.

Given my position and personality, I would normally have stopped it (or I would not have participated), but for once, I thought, well, it can't be helped, and left it to the flow, which is how we ended up in a big banquet.

It wasn't an event I had intended to hold, but from the day after this banquet, communication in the workplace became incredibly smooth. In the end, not only did communication at work become seamless, but we became friends who would go out together on our days off, and (which is rare for me) when my transfer was decided, everyone was sad about it. That was the situation.

The trivial act of having a drinking party together
solved everything I had been worrying about.

Among those who started working at a new workplace in April, I am sure many are facing various worries at this time, but
first of all, changing the (small) range that you can control yourself is often the trigger for the current situation to take a turn for the better, this was an example of that.

If you are worried, don't just think about it in your head (you rarely come up with good ideas anyway), try moving your body a little!

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