Phan Hoang Tu Linh feels she has gotten the hang of working in a Japanese convenience store now, but she admits she found it tough at first.
¡°We have three cash registers in our store but only two lines to wait in,¡± says the 23-year-old Vietnamese national, who came to Japan to study at a Japanese-language school in Tokyo in July 2017 and started working part-time at a convenience store two months later.
¡°One of the customers went before another customer who was supposed to be first, but I didn¡¯t see it because I was too busy,¡± Phan says. ¡°The customer got really angry and started shouting at me that they were supposed to be first. I felt really bad after that. My co-workers all told me that there was no need for the customer to get so angry and that it wasn¡¯t my fault. Sometimes people bring their stress from the workplace and take it out on us.¡±
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