節電 (Setsuden); Saving electricity "Setsuden was a national movement in Japan to encourage the Japanese public to conserve electricity during the 2011 summer months, and adopt an overall energy sustainable lifestyle. " (from Wikipedia) 　Some people on italki might know that Japanese companies had to save energies after the Touhoku earthquake happened. But do you even know they still keep it for cost saving? And the movement has escalated. 　 I studied English at a conference room at lunch break. All of the lights at my office shut down but I needed them to read my textbooks and I thought it didn't matter if I turned on some of them around my space. But one of my bosses came to me and told me to turn off them and use sunlight from the blinds because we had to save electricity and other workers might complain about it. I had no idea. Was it a bad thing to use some lights only around my space to study? I was doing it because my English wasn't good but wanted to use better to communicate with other countries' suppliers, and that meant I did it to increase my productivity for my company! I wanted to argue with it but I obeyed. Well, I couldn't reading with sunlight anyway. 　Moreover, they turn off all of the heaters before opening and during lunch break too. I think it costs more when they are rebooted after the break. Also, my co-workers always say our office is very cold and in fact some of them got a cold last week. 　I don't know why they think saving cost and energies are equal. Why don't they realize they sacrifice their employees' health instead of it? 　 This isn't the first time I thought their way of thinking is weird. Or am I wrong?