Apr 14 2008I Want To Be A Pusher When I Grow Up
This is the job I want when I grow up. And no, not because it gives you a great opportunity to cop the occasional feel.
Oshiya, or "pusher", is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. This video is a good example of just how crowded it gets on Japanese trains.
Oh man that's great. I love how the pusher starts shoving the guy in the white coat when he's nowhere near the door. So awesome. I could totally do that for a living. I'd love my job so much I'd even go above and beyond the call of duty, constantly honing my ability to efficiently get people on the train. I've already got a few new proprietary techniques in mind. Namely kicking and pile driving.
Thanks to Robin, who would make the best pusher sidekick ever, for the tip
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Reader Comments
1. Ted - April 14, 2008 11:05 AM
dayam...thats insane, why is it so... WOW FRIST! YEEEEE
2. Scott - April 14, 2008 11:26 AM
You've got to be kidding me with this stuff! I wonder how many women have been raped and don't even know it until they get off?
You know what would lighten the loads? If the station attendants started pushing before the train got there.
3. Turd Ferguson - April 14, 2008 12:02 PM
Old.
4. Chris - April 14, 2008 12:04 PM
What I don't understand is how they get off. Unless they are all going to the same stop.
5. nullCRC - April 14, 2008 12:21 PM
Bad place to be if someone farts....
6. Princess - April 14, 2008 12:23 PM
this is pretty much the funniest thing ever... i mean i know its real, but wow haha dont any body pass gas, the last of what little free oxygen will be gone!
7. Mr.Anderson - April 14, 2008 12:46 PM
Hmm...I thought Japan was cool. Now....I don't know. It seems they have a bit of an overpopulation problem....or maybe low train population problem?!
8. Erik - April 14, 2008 12:52 PM
Idiotic. That's a train derailment disaster waiting to happen. The time it takes to get everyone in there, a smaller group could have entered, the train could have left the platform, and the next, less crowded train could be on it's way. I prefer New York City where it's 3am, a train comes every 30 minutes, but oh, screw you if you don't make it through the doors.
9. leg3nd - April 14, 2008 12:54 PM
Um ma'am Its not intended but i think we're joined....Awkward.
10. Yea okay - April 14, 2008 1:03 PM
Boy would i like to rip a fat huge one inside the train when we all get in.
11. Davis - April 14, 2008 1:19 PM
I would do this job, but without pants.
12. SmokingGirl - April 14, 2008 1:34 PM
Yes, I can see Why now I have to be politically correct to the Japanese. I mean, look at that utopia, look at that joy. Why, if only we ALL could live in Japan we could ride on hideous trains and be pushed like sardines onto said hideous trains.
Oh, and of course, we'd all wear platforms and school girl outfits inorder to fit in with the silly midgets that we're being pushed onto a train with.
Next to the Soviet Block, I can't imagine a more idealic place than Japan on a train.
*waits patiently for suggestions on how I need to not say such things*
13. Daniel - April 14, 2008 1:36 PM
wow, f*** that train, I'd be walkin
14. Dutchess of Kickball - April 14, 2008 2:05 PM
OK, I'm officially having a claustrophobic panic attack from watching that. Why do people voluntarily get on that train?
15. c45j - April 14, 2008 2:23 PM
because they have to go to work!
16. c45j - April 14, 2008 2:24 PM
and japanese people suffer a lot and they just put up with it and dont change
17. axel - April 14, 2008 3:34 PM
they compensate by watching films like "tokyo gore police" and "machine girl"
18. Billy Avenue - April 14, 2008 3:37 PM
If I rode that train to work, I would make sure my breakfast consisted of 5 hard boiled eggs and some cabbage.
19. Lucky Strike - April 14, 2008 6:13 PM
This post inspired me to randomly search www.ihatejapan.com
Guess what I found?
20. Sandwich - April 14, 2008 10:24 PM
#12:
It's spelled "idyllic" you twat
21. Crazy Japs - April 15, 2008 3:36 AM
For real?
22. Shoes - April 15, 2008 9:10 AM
I am amused.
At the end of the video some poor sap's jacket is sticking out of the door. ...I wonder if there's any seats or....anything in those trains... Imagine how many more people could fit in there if they were ripped out. Just pack everyone in nice and tight...
Oh Japan, will you ever cease to inadvertently entertain me?
23. Uncle Eccoli - April 15, 2008 12:27 PM
#20:
The correct spelling uses too many phallic letters. Down with the phallocracy!!!
24. xeijix - April 15, 2008 8:49 PM
In HK, a train comes every 3 minutes; its not compartmentalized (you can walk from front to end without opening any doors); it has ac and a breeze; its driven by a computer; and it's almost never crowded. Oh, and people don't push, ever.
25. bingboo - April 16, 2008 1:13 PM
Of course people don't push, they're too busy throwing baby girls onto the train tracks. F*** Hong Kong, f*** it right to hell.
26. Jen - April 28, 2008 12:20 AM
Maybe they have "pullers" to pull them out lol xD !