{"id":185452,"date":"2014-11-13T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/13\/this-is-a-twisted-equivalent-of-a-japanese-corner-office\/"},"modified":"2014-11-13T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T02:02:00","slug":"this-is-a-twisted-equivalent-of-a-japanese-corner-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/13\/this-is-a-twisted-equivalent-of-a-japanese-corner-office\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Twisted Equivalent of a Japanese Corner Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In Japan, a corner office is not a mark of status.<\/p>\n

The term is Madogiwa-zoku<\/i> (\u7a93\u969b literally”at the window tribe”), and it is a way of cashiering long term loyal employees who have not quite made it to retirement age.<\/p>\n

The twisted bit here is the idea of taking a promising person, and giving them a shiny new “Leadership” position as a way of neutering them.<\/p>\n

The person in question being taken to the Vet’s is Elizabeth Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats are elevating Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to a new leadership position on Thursday. She will help shape policy and messaging for the party.<\/span>

<\/span>Warren’s title will be Strategic Policy Advisor to the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. She will serve as a liaison to liberal organizations, a source familiar with the move confirmed to TPM.<\/span>

<\/span>“Senator Warren will be a liaison to the liberal groups in our base to ensure that they have a voice in leadership meetings and discussions,” the source said.<\/span>

<\/span>A top Democratic leadership aide told TPM that “the idea was to create a position in leadership for her within the Democratic Policy and Communications Center, which is the messaging and policy \u201cwar room\u201d chaired by Senator Schumer and Vice Chair Stabenow.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is all about making sure that Warren is not in a position to agitate for changes in the (frequently inept) Senate leadership now, or to be a public voice for economic and financial regulation in 2016 primaries.  (I do not expect her to run, but I can<\/b> see her being a pain for a Wall Street friendly candidate, like Hillary Clinton.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Japan, a corner office is not a mark of status. The term is Madogiwa-zoku (\u7a93\u969b literally”at the window tribe”), and it is a way of cashiering long term loyal employees who have not quite made it to retirement age. The twisted bit here is the idea of taking a promising person, and giving them …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}