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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The Roomba is much louder than I expected. I hope my neighbors aren’t hearing this.
Is Rakuten blocking credit card payments frequently for everyone?
We have been using their CCs soon 10 years and I feel it wasn’t like this before. Past few months we’ve unsuccessfully tried to buy flights for one person – blocked, requires a call to the customer service during business hours. Tried to buy a bicycle, same problem. Now I was trying to make a 15k purchase on a foreign online shop and it’s blocked, but this time even customer service can’t clear it but we must wait for their security team to call back. Seriously? None of the transactions are the least bit suspicious and it’s a pain in the arse to wait & call every damn time. I dread thinking we take a family trip abroad, have any sort of emergency and they start blocking all of our purchases.
My head has been ringing since yesterday and I feel dizzy even just walking to the store to get groceries.
Registered for JLPT. It’s so expensive T_T
Hate how expensive certain products are now. Needed to buy a sunscreen and was just shocked at the prices. A few that were reaching nearly ¥1000 for a mere 70mL tube! The cheapest one was still around ¥600.
Day off today. Sleep deprived and did two loads of laundry, only to realize I completely forgot to put detergent in. I need one of those fancy washer-dryer combos that automatically put detergent in but I can’t afford it.
Metro was super crowded since last week.
Just got pushing and crushing.
How it’s possible!!
While I appreciate the low costs and the ease of getting an appointment, I find doctors here, especially in clinics, to be utterly incompetent. They’ll prescribe antibiotics for anything, and they don’t bother to order tests to rule out potentially very dangerous possibilities. You really have to take your health into your hands, like pretty much everything else.
Pinched a nerve in my back doing light warmups for deadlifts. Took me out instantly. Leg was hurting so bad I was thinking I might have torn something there instead. Sigh, it was supposed to be a deload week too. Guess I’m on bed rest for the next month.
Will say, it’s nice that there’s like a bajillion clinics near me. The American in me said to tough it out and just let it pass, figured it’d be better to at least get it checked out. In and out in less than 30 minutes with x-rays and some pain meds for under 3k yen made me feel real stupid for ever thinking otherwise. Should’ve taken an ambulance at that point, given that they’re free.
Dealing with Immigration is less pleasant than dealing with the post barium test Russian Roulette laxatives.
I bought a bathroom scale, I stepped on it and it showed 3 digits the first time in my life.
I think the time to change my lifestyle has arrived.
There are too many white knighting weebs who don’t even live in Japan on various japan subreddits.
Another one for today…
Was watching the news yesterday evening… the usual stuff… OMG huge numbers of foreign tourists downtown, look at them, what are they doing?, what’s in their shopping bags?… huge invasions of privacy already pissing me off. Anyway, the news team then smoothly followed up with the problems of “overtourism”… the main three of which seem to be crowded roads, cultural differences (=gaijin are noisy etc) and something else, can’t remember. I mean it’s so blinkered… what about all the massive traffic jams we’ve had in Japan every Golden Week since the 60s or 70s… the roads to Izu fully blocked, etc… way before any “inbound” were coming here… and as for noise… I was in a coffee shop the other days and you should have heard the screeches and cackles from a gaggle of Japanese obasans on the nearby table… my ears were ringing after that. And of course, the Japanese are free to visit wherever they want overseas… Guam, Hawaii, Europe… they’re never contributing to overtourism in other places…
Why do J-drivers love idling their cars so much?
I get it if someone’s sitting in the car on a hot day, but what’s the logic in leaving your engine running for ten minutes with no one in there? (especially when the weather is mild)
Interview with company A and company B. Both are great. B is better because it offers remote work and more growth opportunities.
A: You’re hired! Work starts in three weeks!
B: We *really* like you but would like a fifth interview, just in case.
Me: No problem, I have time.
Go through the fifth interview with company B two days before the start date with A.
B: You’re hired! Here’s your naitei!
Me: Great! Sorry, company A, I just got a better offer!
B: But actually, we need a bit more time to finalize your salary number and start date, so can you wait a bit now.
It’s been two days now. The recruiter who got me this opportunity is as baffled as I am and I’m worried out of my mind that company B is now going to try to back out or low-ball me.
This goddamn Chinese sand!
Goddamn pregnancy hemorrhoid. I couldnt go to toilet without seeing blood.
And then work is getting busy but with more stupid shits. I’m counting days to my sankyuu leave but the day to day stress is turmoil it also affects my metabolism and appetite. Theres a new guy who finally came to the team and now getting ready to take some of my works but i got the feelin he’s gonna be as awkward and lost as I was even months and years after getting used to the company. I know I shouldnt do this too early but since I only have little time left I decided to just burst out negativities about this job to him, everything I have bottled up for years working alone. At this point I dont care about the risk of this backfiring me or anything, tho it turns out that he agreed with me and he himself let out some things he felt strange and stupid bout this company. Not sure if its just an act or pure sympathy, at the very least I felt very sukkiri and lighter after letting out lots of my thoughts in our native language.
Yellow dust has been quite bad here on the southern coast of Hokkaido. The missile alert was also a bit of nostalgia I wasn’t particularly looking for.
On the personal side of things: I knew I’d kind of stalled out/gotten lazy about losing weight, but seeing the side-by-side of my health check paperwork and realizing I weigh the exact same as I did last year was a bit of a downer. That being said, managing to not put any of the ~30kg i lost in 2021-2022 back on is nice, but really gotta get back on the wagon.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure being a レンタル on Amazon Prime video
There being no Japanese subtitles for Mashle and Jigokuraku on Amazon Prime video
I cannot seem to deadlift properly??? It always feels weird on my back no matter how I adjust my stances and brace and all.
I want first week of uni to be more intense so I can build a routine around maximum workload and schedule my baito around it, but I guess I’ll have to wait till next week.
I want to go to a manga cafe but can’t seem to find the time to. I feel bad for pirating all my shit all the time.
I have never disliked any of my coworkers until this year because a new teacher has been transferred in and. Jesus. Literally incompetent
Part 2:
Cannot fathom how we have to pay so high for childbirth to a hospital but still have to bring/provide everything by ourselves. I looked at some pregnancy chats, forums, and magazines/books and almost all shared how we have to bring even some tidbits like tissue, slippers, kairos and towels by ourselves. Of course there are lucky ones who only needed to bring their personal toiletries and clothes, but most of them have to, like. bring LOTS of things and packed them into several bags or suitcase. Again, I understand its not a luxury hotel but damn with that price at least they can include some more disposable things to lighten the mothers burden..
“I’m going to quickly sign up for a gym membership at lunch!”
Narrator: No he wasn’t.
Still, not as bad as I expected it to be.
We got some 24 pack cases of drinks delivered this morning. My boyfriend opened the door to bring them in, sneezed while lifting one of them and pinged his lower back pretty bad (ぎっくり腰) 🙁
That damn kousa!!!
Have been verbally extended an offer by one company, but they are taking their time on giving me a written offer.
Told them my preferred start date and they asked for my salary and proof of it. They’ve said they’re going through the process but every day they wait is pissing me off, honestly.
An old man shouts at you at office saying that my team are being loud for a one normal toned reaction towards colleague during his online meeting. If it was that much of an important meeting, he needed to book a meeting room. Lazy big a hole who think he’s superior when it was his fault for lack of own preparation. Disgusting sad old Rude as hell Japanese men who throw their frustration about their
sad life where they can not speak their true opinions tend to throw their anger towards others to feel better. Pathetic category of people whom I’ll never interact.
I find interactions with the Japanese quite exhausting. Latest example, a new Japanese acquaintance (who spent most of her life abroad) invited me for tea over the phone and I accepted her invitation. Then she brought up hayfever and I said that, yes, it’s tough and I had a bit of a headache, so she goes into panic mode and goes on and on about how if I’m not feeling well I don’t have to go, apologizing for she didn’t know I was sick, that it’s ok if I can’t make it, that she didn’t want to make me feel bad – she went on and on and on repeating the same things in 80 different ways.
It’s exhausting having to listen to all this, and if I can’t go I’ll say “no” ffs. I try my best to understand the culture, but who has the time and energy for this self-indulgent exercise in narcissism. In the past I’ve wasted energy reassuring the other person that, no, they didn’t do anything wrong, but this time I just said, you know what, I can’t go anymore. Bye. I don’t even want to talk to this woman anymore as it’s basically this same thing every single time.
After gathering so much stress that my health has taken multiple hits, I finally decided to leave Japan in a few months. I really wanted to finish school here and make a life here, but I’ll have to leave early. I wish I could’ve found my people and could’ve been financially stable. I watched a YouTuber before coming here and he said “don’t rush coming here or you’ll regret it” and I wish I had listened to him. Hindsight is amazing. My family, even my little sister who I barely talk to, have all said that I won’t be a failure for coming home, but I wish I could’ve at least finished my last year at my current school.
Also, my little sister said that I can have my old room in the basement back, but it stinks and there’s apparently a family of mice… whether or not they got taken care of, I’m going to try to convince her to give me back my old old room back. She claimed it after the oldest sister moved out (2nd floor room I used to share with oldest sister, but then I wanted privacy, and moved to the basement) because my lil sis has another room, but she is very stubborn and wants any unused space in the house for herself… And I don’t want her old room since she’s always been unclean and it’s the worst in that room. It would be nice to finally sleep on the same floor as the bathroom and the room not be freezing in the summer and uncomfortably hot in the winter. I would live with my mom instead, but she has 2 big dogs and I’m allergic and don’t like dogs anyway.
Our landlord just sent an email trying to raise our rent from 16 to 21.5 man?!!? Like excuse me???
Yes our original rent was cheap for the area and average rent has gone up a lot, but it’s ridiculous.
It definitely has something to do with us refusing to leave when they requested it last year(their problem, as it was their home that is being remodeled, and this is an old money obasan with multiple properties and gets a free shiny mansion when redevelopment ends in 2 years)
Their “research material” included random rental research that definitely didn’t reflect the building age or floor, etc…
So yeah, gloves are off.
What’s in スタミナ-type food? There’s stamina ramen, udon, but sometimes stamina is just slapped onto stuff. I took it to mean it just has more calories per serving (for more energy) but pls correct me if I’m wrong
PayPay disabled autocharge from my bank account, because after I did the identity confirmation using MyNumber, the name doesnt match katakana name on my bank account. I am tired of having a middle name.
Some big fish in small barrel comments me at work where I recently joined “Oh, you are actually Japanese” for behaving like non-Japanese woman. Which is racism and moral harassment. Just because of a full Japanese blood does not mean that they have spent all of their lives in Japan. This ignorance towards diversity and lack of respect for individualism needs a major update because I’m looking at jobs overseas nowadays.
No wonder no Japanese have their opinion on their own. People who actually have opinions are the survivors who withstood the social pressures to be just like one of them; opinion-less controllable robot like workforce.
Fuck, I *just* realised it’s Thursday. I lost a day. I have no idea where it went.