As per every Thursday morning—this week’s complaint thread! Time to get anything off your chest that’s been bugging you or pissed you off.
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Rules are simple—you can complain/moan/winge about anything you like, small or big. It can be a personal issue or a general thing, except politics. It’s all about getting it off your chest. Remain civil and be nice to other commenters (even try to help).
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Got diagnosed with IBS last week, after suspecting I had it for months and months. Doctor didn’t give me any medicine to deal with it, or any advice at all really, save for a hastily scribbled piece of paper with advice on how to manage symptoms. Most of the advice seemed to be “be less stressed” which is easier said than done.
Anyway, had a huge flare up yday and had to take the day off work, which in turn is making me more stressed because I’m missing out on important things at work, and in turn making my IBS worse and worse. My stomach is in agony this morning but I know I’m just gonna go in to work and ride it out.
Just wish I’d been given some medicine or something!
Guy walking his dog on a leash over the entire width of the road, dog on the left side, guy on the right side. Sees me coming on the bicycle, wont pull his dog towards him. Like I cant make this shit up and the day has only just started.
Some asshole (with some witnesses saying a white dude) graffiti’d over 50 spots on mount Iwate with spraypaint. I hope they catch and punish that guy. This was apparently a few weeks ago, but I just became aware of it.
My Number card won’t let me get tax forms in my city. Have to go to the office which is only open during my work hours (no weekend hours).
Knee pain doesn’t want to stop.
My 13 hour flight earlier this week had a grand total of 2 hours with the seatbelt light off. Miserable experience.
And while I appreciate that Japan has gotten tons better with their re-entry procedures than they were last year, the fact they’re still relying on MySOS app to do all the paperwork they required last year was a big pain in the ass. Wasted a good 5 minutes because the QR code that I took a screenshot of wasn’t good enough, I had to connect to airport wifi and go through the app which opens a browser that displays the QR code (which is what I had taken a screenshot of). Rounded off the experience with airport employees saying one word in English for communication purposes and ignoring the fact that I am speaking Japanese. . . FYI “TOKYO TEN” repeated 5 times in a row is English slang for “the wifi name is tokyo10”
Oh and as always there seems to be no communication with any overseas airports that residents can come back to Japan, because I spent 20 minutes at my regional airport explaining to the staff “no, I am not a tourist. No, I don’t need to take a test. No, I am not military. Yes, I am allowed back in”
God-damned raining again… This week is going to be worse than the typhoons…
Somehow the fact that the Ruroni Kenshin mangaka was found with hundreds of DVDs of CP and only got a 200k yen fine and nothing else came up on my feed again and now my day is ruined. Why is Japan so lax on pedophilia?
New system coming to work. iOS, MacOS, and Windows only. I use Android and Linux. “IT” worker I talk with has never heard of Linux.
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>Worker: Windowsね.
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>Worker: Windowsか.
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>Me: Linux.
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>Worker: iPhone.
Getting money into an Interactive Brokers account via MUFG is an exercise in futility.
IB offers two methods, one with a 10 digit local account which is impossible since Japan uses 7 digit account codes, and a remittance option which MUFG says is impossible because they only remit to banks with overseas addresses.
The whole thing is a clusterfuck and intuition tells me that MUFG are the ones who are at fault, but it could be IB’s fault as well. I’ve spent 3 hours via their bank, ATM, app, and 窓口. Dealing with Japanese processes and bureaucracy is my own personal version of hell.
The trains having the heat on already. Just let us enjoy some nice cool temperatures without sweating please
My absolute favorite burger place that used to be within biking distance from my house was forced to close down (the building is getting demolished), and they’re moving to the other side of Tokyo :(((
ALSO, end of the quarter and of 1H is always super fun at work – everyone and their mother suddenly wants to have meetings, there’s a fuckload of forms to fill out, including fermenter what my meaningless goals actually were and coming up with ways to show that I was diligently working on them for the last six months and it seems every single day someone has an urgent request (but it’s a really small one, so you can SURELY squeeze it in, right?)…
Weak Yen Weak T_T
Yesterday was a shitty day. Bad headache that wouldn’t go away even after taking pain killers (the strong stuff from back home), kids at work were being frustrating and everything was just irritating to me.
We have a busy busy day today and I won’t wanna work. I just wanna sleep at home today because I feel another headache coming….
Last week I reported that my lens broke just after my extended warranty ran out. So I sent my lens in, and Sony’s online system said that for autofocus problems, it’ll be ¥20,000, including all parts and service. Yesterday we get a message saying it’ll be 25,000, because *reasons*. Their call centre just says that this is their price or they can send it back for 3300, no explanation about the discrepancy!!
SoftBank. They charged me 10,000 yen in a cancellation fee because I had the audacity to not cancel my broadband in the 2 month window. Never mind I’ve been with them for 7 years. But I agreed to it. Now they want the devices back. For the NTT modem, they sent me a postage paid box to send it back to them. Good. How it should be and how it has always been. For the SoftBank router, which i never used anyway because if I recall they lock features behind subscriptions, SoftBank sent me a Takyubin slip with the phrase 送料はご依頼主のご負担となります。ie, sender pays shipping.
And this just pushed me over the edge. I’ve had a few cases of this recently, but I am now sick of being nickel-and-dimed by these companies that could easily afford costs of business but try to find creative ways to get out of it.
I ignored the slip and sent it back by chakubarai with a note saying that since I used your service for 7 years and paid 10,000 yen to cancel, you pay the goddam shipping fee頂ます. I guess I’ll find out today whether they just take it in or I’ll have to end up paying double the fee.
Yesterday I had a craving for indian food for dinner.
I had a light lunch to make room for it and got through a kind of stressful day at work by thinking of the wonderful dinner I had planned.
Finally the moment arrives and I walk to the restraunt by my house in the rain and walk in with a big smile on my face ready to consume the food I had so longed for.
“Sorry we are only serving deliveries for dinner”
“Oh thats fine Ill just get it to go”
“No I mean we are only taking orders from Uber Eats etc.”
My jaw hit the floor. I had my wallet in my hand and littlerly looked like that Futurama meme with a Fry going “Take my money”
I stood outside and let the rain wash the tears down my face.
Like I can kind of get them not doing eat in orders if they want to prevent corona or are too busy with delivery orders to serve customers but by denying take out you are just turning away potential sales. Unless this is something more nefarious and places like Uber Eats are paying restaurants incentives to only accept delivery orders?
Last week I wanted to make an appointment with a nearby dermatologist to talk about doing some mole removal.
I google search for one by my station and went embarked on the adventure of trying to make a reservation.
First they had some automated call system where you could call in with a member number and make an reservation. The online system also let you check how many people were still in line and I saw that at 5 PM on a Friday there were still 20+ people so I figured I should try to schedule for a different day.
But I had no member number so I cant reserve this way so I just call the clinic directly foolishly hoping I can schedule that way.
They pick up and I tell them Im trying to schedule a mole removal but can’t figure out their call system can they please just let me set up a time directly.
“Oh are you a first time patient? Yes you cant use the phone system you will need to walk in and register when you come in to see the doctor the first time”
“Ah I see but it seems like you guys are really busy now, can I go there and just give you guys my info to get a member number and set up a reservation so I dont have to sit around there for what could be hours?”
“Sorry no, you need to walk in and have an actual session with your doctor and from that point on you can schedule with our phone system”
“Hmm ok well I only work from home Tuesday and Friday so other days would be hard to come in. Are you usually busy those afternoons?”
*teeth sucking * “Yes we are pretty busy those days so you will likely have to wait a while.”
“Ok but in anycase I just have a really small mole I want removed, Would it be possible to have it taken off real quick the first time I come in so I dont have to drag it out through multiple appointments?”
“Sorry we only do mole removals on Friday mornings. You will need to talk to the doctor then find time to come in on a Friday morning.”
Que internal screaming. Why in the high heavens is the reservation system so convoluted and why does a dermatologist do mole removals for only half a day a week.
The prices on all the things have gone up and now my meagre paychecks will be stretched even thinner. I would ask for a cost of living raise, but I know for goddamn sure my shitty dispatch company would never *dream* of doing such a thing least the shacho wake up sweating in the middle of the night in a panic that they actually did something *positive* for the people they ~~exploit~~ employ.
Being cut from a project sucks.
Being hungover from drinking after being cut from a project sucks harder.
But being given the cold shoulder at home after being cut… like jabbing a knife coated with ghost pepper juice into the wound.
Fuck this week.
Mentioned the girl who doesn’t want to get in the elevator with me. Still cowers if we pass each other in the hallway. We have worked together in the same office for at least 2 years.
Well that’s okay, it’s Japan, enough said. But recently there’s this other girl that catches the same elevator, for a few months now. She works in another office, same company though, and she has been here for about 3 years.
Anyway, she and I both walk out of our offices at the same time, opposite ends of the hallway. Bitch scurries to the elevator and shuts it in my face. I now either wait for the elevator to come back up or run down down 7 flights of stairs. I chose the latter, and still walked past her on the way to the station. Her shocked look confirms it was deliberate. WTF!
it’s crunch time at my office (start of a new fiscal year), and all the newbies are, predictably, absolutely not pulling their weight. one of them deliberately acts stupid and can’t handle even super basic office responsibilities that I don’t have time to be doing, while the other can’t get over their Gen Z distaste for just picking up the phone and calling people to confirm shit, instead dragging out a simple task that should take half a day to complete over 4-5 days. everyone else is rightfully breathing down our necks to get shit done. I haven’t slept well for the past few weeks.
to add on another entirely unrelated complaint, my office crush is still hot even though he’s almost 50. god, I wish I could kick this disgusting, pathetic crush to the curb, it’s been like 5 fucking years already
My load work is too damn light. How do I kill an 8 hours of work time today?
Why the fuck is this LinkedIn recruiter sending me a “great opportunity” for me that is an intern position for “preferably 1st/2nd years in uni” when I haven’t seen the inside of a school in decades.
I need new nissin cup ramen flavors. I’ve tried everything. :'(
Apple pay refuses to accept my mufg card. I tried googling why but nothing comes up. The mufg website also only states that yes, their card works for apple pay and here’s a step by step guide on how to register it. I KNOW how to register the card, they just refuse to accept it.
Last week I started watching Initial D and that shit is like DBZ. Every “battle” has to last at least 3 episodes. Just as addicting though lol.
Like half flavors? No, i haven’t seen any of these in my local supermarket. Maybe i should check convenience stores. 👀
Look tofuya-san and junk collector-san, we’re four freaking years into Reiwa, do you REALLY think the loudspeaker on your truck is still effective advertisement?
Saw a job posting. Did some research and found out that it’s paying 1000 yen less per hour than last year. When the cost of everything is increasing, this company is lowering pay. :/
Spilled water on my bed last night 🙁
Found out that I failed biology
Would like to take an elective class on psychology development but I don’t know if it’s a good idea.