Serious business

Episode from this morning...
Lucille and me sat in the Starbucks near school this morning before class to have breakfast and do some pre-lesson studying. We often do that, it's a good way to start your day, although it's unfortunately benefitting the evil empire of Starbucks :)
This morning there was a special attraction. Next to school there is a beauty and spa salon where hip young guys with colored hair work. To match the hip look of the place and the employees, they held their morning team meeting at Starbucks. So imagine, entering Starbucks you saw this table with about 10 young guys in very colorful Hawaiian shirts, hair dyed in all shades from blonde to reddish brown and cut in one of these fashionable J-Pop styles, white trousers, tanned and a latte in front of them. You would somehow imagine the atmosphere to be quite relaxed and informal, maybe even a slightly chaotic touch that often comes with young, hip companies (I've used to work for one of these...).
But NO! The whole group looked like they were attending a funeral - and that is really an achievement if you are dressed and styled like that. But they sat completely upright and very stiff, with the most serious faces possible and were listening to their boss in complete silence. That guy explained to them how they should greet customers and make them feel comfortable and things like that. There was no discussion, no questions, no reaction whatsoever, just complete concentration on what the big boss said... They surely don't realize, but for us this was highly entertaining...