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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Train home from work today was delayed, boo.
Wife had major meltdown over her birthday ‘celebrations’. Missed doing a countdown at midnight, she got upset and started blasting happy birthday music downstairs. Rushed down with her gifts and apologies, and she proceeded to rebuke me for a couple of hours, including complaints about all the gifts.
Fun picked up the next day as well—like being married to a volcano, you never know when it is going to blow!
It is that time of the year when shinnyu shains’ brains are passionately and monotonously fucked by nanoka-chan giving setsumeikai
Put a mug of milk in the microwave to warm up so I can make a coffee. I notice the top of my microwave is a bit dirty so I start wiping it down.
Open the microwave to get my milk and find it has OBVIOUSLY sloshed everywhere due to my cleaning lol 🙁
The worst part is this isn’t even the first time I’ve done this exact same thing haha
Babies in carriers with their heads hanging down backwards – I hate that sight!
Person eating rice crackers on the subway. Do some people not realise how far that smell travels? I must be like 3-4 metres away and windows are open.
Edit: and now I’m in the security line at the airport behind someone with a stinky bag of McDonald’s. He’s actually about to x-Ray it.
Edit 2: Now on the plane and more goddamn rice crackers. I am cursed. Hope I survive this flight.
① The website for signing up for the JLPT is just awful. So clunky and outdated. It crashed on me multiple times as I tried to sign up. Finally got it done but between this terrible website and the price increase to ¥7,500, I don’t think I’ll ever take it again.
This is something that gets me every time. The fancier a leave is, the more meticulously they wrap everything.
Just gimme that hot dog, I want to eat it, NOW!!!
Nearly 7000万円 for a 3LDK house in fucking Oita City. Are you shitting me Daiwa living? I guess I’m not customize my own house in the city. I’ll just wait for some sucker to sell their used one for half the price.
I love hearing about how Japanese people consider the impact of the things they do upon others around them specifically, and society in general. Especially when I see someone in a business suit^* and loafers^† acting as if he’s not just the most important person in the world, but literally the *only* person in the world, and anyone else who might happen to exist should just get the fuck out of his way because he’s on important business.
Especially when that important business is slurping down a quick business lunch on his way back to the office, and be damn to anyone else who wants to fit into the little lunch-counter place he’s hoovering down his salaryman fuel without even tasting, let alone enjoying, it.
^* “I’m so important my boss has to tell me how to clothe myself.”
^† “I’m not smart enough to be able to tie my own shoelaces.”
There are 3 people, but only 2 are talking. Why can’t they understand how sad I am?
Last Saturday, as I watched Karasus destroy some trash bags from my apartment window, I notice some small white car . Thinking it was an ice cream truck, I rushed outside, only to discover that it was a tiny car selling FISH. I mean, seriously Japan, why can’t we have ice cream trucks instead? And don’t even get me started on the fact that the stores don’t sell Kiwi papikos anymore. It’s just too much sadness to handle.
Why is it so windy today wtf
Got fuckin wolf whistled at by 2 European tourists today. close the borders again
J-drivers who, as long as there is a speck of sunlight in the sky, refuse to even turn on their running lights. But as soon as night comes, they blast 10000 lumen Mountain Dew piss LED fog lights and bukkake your face with high beams.
I hereby submit to the Committee Of Compiling Key Stereotypes at Work Or At Home (aka. COCKS WOAH), a new one for the list:
The Groundhog Day Worker: every day is like Day One for them. Despite having been here for years, perhaps even longer than you, they are in a constant state of surprise at policy, process, your existence and indeed existence in general. Half of their vocabulary is just gasping. It’s almost endearing if you didn’t have to explain the same thing to them for the 29th time.
I don’t like the ketchup/mustard package you get at convenience stores. I just want the mustard but it’s so hard to pull that off without accidentally getting ketchup on the hotdog or on your hands. Ketchup is just for fries, everybody knows that.
I’ve noticed an uptick of angry old japanese people on the train towards me. Usually im standing in a crowded train, no big deal. but lately i’ve experienced old japanese people to just walk into me and not give a fuck, nor to do the courtesy tap to get attention and then move.
Super sick, but my company took my health insurance so I can’t go to the doctor without visiting the city office because I don’t have the right insurance. Then next week when they give me back my health insurance I’ll have to take a day off work to go the city office again. It all is so circular and meaningless. I just want to go to the doctor, be able to pay correctly and not be sick.
Edit: My company now wants to message me every morning to make sure I’m coming in to work because they know I’m sick. But they also require a 30 day notice of leave for being sick. At this point why not just not hire me again and put me out of my misery.
Freakin tourists all over the place in Shibuya with their cameras blocking the way.
Work is trying to get me to come into the office more often, but fuck that if I have to sit next to my colleague whose breath just stinks so much I can smell it even if they’re wearing a mask and I’m a few meters away.
My boss has an amazing ability to consistently misunderstand huge points.
As in, at the beginning of a meeting he will get confused about the topic and people will spend the remaining time trying to get him to understand, or he will just attend and walk away with a completely different understanding (“profits increased by 75%” somehow gets interpreted as a decrease in profits, for example).
There have been cases where he then asks multiple people to investigate things based on his misunderstanding (“investigate why profits have decreased”). Everyone just jokes and tries to hide in all honesty but it’s like “oh yeah, he’s misunderstanding again”.
Wife asks me to make sure sleeves, etc. are turned the right way when putting clothes in the wash, the kid’s stuff too.
No problem, simple request, figure my oldest can handle it, so I let him know too.
Later on, my wife is a little ticked, a lot his clothes weren’t done right, got all balled up.
“Damn subcontractors!” got a laugh though
Employers: We can’t find workers! We need workers urgently!
Also employers: We need someone to work 6 days a week for 10 yen an hour.
Edit: formatting
The more I learn about my functions at my new job, the more it looks like it’s going to be extremely, violently unfun. I will gaman through it, but jesus lord, if I knew I was going to be using a cmd terminal *this* much, I would maybe have rethought it.
The mailman came with a package I waited weeks for so I can finish a project.. then left 3 seconds after ringing the bell. (Saw him walk away as I was going for the intercom) I presses the intercom & told him to wait, opened the door and he was long gone. Got a slip in my mailbox to reschedule delivery. This has happened several times over the years, and when I catch them down the hall running away they look horrified.
-Body Pain
-Weekends are fast
-Heat
Neighbor just started blasting music at 10 fucking PM with their window open. Not the first time I hear their music but it wasn’t at this hour and their windows were closed. Worried this is gonna be a regular occurrence. Complaining won’t do a thing. Fuck off.