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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I have grown from XS to M during the Covid era. For a decade I struggled to become S but now 🙃
Anyways, I just can’t let go my XS excess clothes. Border line hoarding. I got to give them away
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There’s an ancient man who lives in the building next to mine. Probably about four or five times a day he takes his bicycle somewhere and his brakes are louder than a fucking rocket ship. Just the most awful, shrill sound that pierces the air every couple hours or so.
The joys of working from home.
The hot weather has pushed my wifes weight to under 50kg for the first time since the pandemic started. She asked me if I could tell, which I couldn’t, but I thought she was fishing for a ‘yes’ and like an idiot that’s what I said.
What is up with people speeding up when you start to pass them on the expressways?
Come on MUFG, finish up my refund! It’s been a week. Maybe I’m just being impatient but MONEY.
1 year visa. Again. Guess I’ll have to bite the bullet, get a plastic my number and do it remotely next year.
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Us: “when can we get the detailed quotation for the house?”
Architect: “the builder will provide it soon”
Builder: “actually, that’s the architect’s job”
Architect : “please do it yourselves”
Apart from the nice interior coordinator, who isn’t an employee of either but a freelancer, these morons haven’t done anything right when they did anything at all. The architect bills us 12% for taking notes during meetings. I think I’m getting a brain tumor from interacting with them.
I wish these people an early, slow, painful death.
Not really a Japan-specific issue, but though I’m introverted, that craving for social contact does come by from time to time.
My Japanese skills have definitely improved in the past few months, but I do not see myself going to bars or similar since it feels awkward.
I do go out from time to time with (foreign) co-workers but something more would be nice..
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in the gym locker room putting on deodorant…is that why deodorant options are so limited here? Oh my god…
Think I almost got heat stroke because of the delay on the 武蔵野線 this morning. Rushing to work wasn’t fun and having classes with almost nothing to rehydrate wasn’t fun either
Normal complaint:
I’m just tired.
From work, from grad school, from writing my thesis and a literary review to be published and from errands and chores. I need a shot, a blunt and a week off.
Luckily, I can do 2 of those things next week. I took the next 6 days off (all next week and the 19th after the public holiday) and got a nice bottle of green grape soju waiting in my fridge to be drunken (?) from. The blunt’s gotta wait until I go back to the states in August 😉😉It’ll finally be a great time to catch up on a few shows, hobbies and actually cook food.
Minor complaint: I’m sick of the people on the Facebook mottanai page not reading correctly. When I say pickup only, no pay on delivery, meetups or drop off, I MEAN EXACTLY THAT. The amount of people saying “pay for delivery please” “let’s meet up at ____” or “can you bring? I’m injured?”
I understand everyone has certain circumstances and I’m a super kind person overall but I too have my own commitments and problems, I can’t bend over to give you already free stuff I’m giving away 🤦🏽♀️
Only one person read my post right and she got the items everyone wanted. She was grateful so that made me feel better and less irritated.
My husband tends to engage in mildly self-destructive behaviour after we have even the smallest disagreement. For example he’ll over-eat some unhealthy food or gamble money away on the stock market, then say his life is shit and try to blame me for it
I used to get really really upset by this, feeling like I’d made him do it and it was my fault. I used to try everything to fix it. But now I realise that it is his own behaviour. I feel quite indifferent and just say へー when he tells me. Does that make me cold-hearted?
I hate upsetting him. I suspect he suffers from mild depression in these times, but I’m no expert. The rest of the time we are fine and very happy. It only happens about once every 2 months, but I’m secretly selfishly relieved that I’ve somehow learned to save my tears and heartache. I just wait it out until he calms back down instead of crying and making it worse. Sigh. Relationships are hard 🙁
I fucking hate the vinyl flooring in my dorm. It’s disgusting, it’s an ugly blue, it’s hard to clean, it has the worst texture, it attracts and collects dust like a fucking duct tape. I had to mop the shit out of the vinyl floor in my room twice to get it to not be fucking *sticky* and still then it’s disgusting as fuck. Ugh. If only I were rich and this wasn’t a dorm!!! I’d have them replaced in a heartbeat.
The Japanese aversion to actually mopping floors with a proper honest to God mop, a bucket of water and floor cleaner. Holy fuck do I hate those wet tissue “mops” and those mops that are a rag hard attached to a head with no way to remove and clean them…. I swear one of the reasons why the floors are this disgusting in my dorm is that nobody has ever actually mopped them since the 1980s. Fuck.
fucking weather forecast. It’s off as hell.
I missed so many epic mornings to do my laundry because the forecast said it was gonna be cloudy and rain.
fuck.
So okay obviously long boring post coming from me lollll. So I found out that I missed a few pension payments when I first arrived in Japan because I wasn’t registered in the system. I went to sort it out and the lady in the pensions office was a SAINT, she helped me out sooo much. She also somehow got me an exemption so the back payments were reduced. Yay. I got the bills in the post and it said they were payable until 2024 so I started paying them gradually 🙂
I then got a scary letter in the post on June 24th saying YOU MUST PAY ALL PENSION BILLS BY JULY 7th!! I was like OMFG what okay the bills say 2024 but ok 😭 they enclosed the outstanding bills so my boyfriend payed them all from his online banking there and then (bc my bank doesn’t offer payeasy). Okay phew all good
THEN YESTERDAY I got a call from a kind of pension debt collector lady like SO WHERES THE MONEY??????? Good Lord I shat myself. I passed the phone to my boyfriend because I couldn’t understand why they were chasing the money he paid almost 2 weeks ago. My first thought was that we got scammed by that letter LOLLL
We told the lady we paid it and she was like Hmmmm okay then bye! Like huh 😭 I guess we will just have to wait for the payment to process? And if it doesn’t then follow it up… but the lady was satisfied so I won’t have the bailiffs come knocking to take away my tv I guess hahaha. A very stressful Wednesday!
Expected to pay a max of 800,000 for something recently, but it was more like 1,100,000. There always seems to be five+ extra fees for things.
Paying 10% of my salary even when I’m working as a freelance
Where is my electric car government subsidy money FFS. Everybody else is posting how they got it already since a month ago but for some reason, my application is ‘still examining’. And we did send it the same day the applications opened.
I want my 650k like now.
no bonus 🙁
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took a spill because the plastic leg of my home office chair broke under my weight. So now I have to call for oversized garbage pickup. Debating on calling for two: one for the chair, one for me.
My wife got a bill from NHK the other day. She’s been paying diligently via her bank account for over a decade.
Turns out they were unable to charge for something like 3 months 6 years ago.
wtf…
Another one year vi…oh wait I finally got three years! 3 1-year visa in a row streak has finally ended. Woohoo!
As for an actual complaint. Girlfriend quit her job so she is home almost all day. I miss being alone during the day. I would usually watch youtube and listen to podcasts while working but now i have to wear headphones. Its not the same.
All new cars in Japan now have auto lights. If it’s dark and the engine is on so are the lights. No way to turn the lights off if you’re parked and waiting for someone and want to keep the AC or heater on.
Wtf is wrong with the 総務事務センター lol. I’ve been unemployed for months and am about to start a new job tomorrow and I still haven’t received my 離職票 after multiple follow-ups. Good thing Hello Work accepts applications without it
Still paying my school loans in the states. This yen/ dollar exchange value really hurts…
Fuck those two useless cunts in Osaka all over the news these days who left a toddler in a closed off playpen for 2 days while they went off to play. What I wouldn’t give to see them publicly stripped naked and violently spanked with kendo shinais.
Creator of Yu Gi Oh died 🙁
Does anyone else in Tokyo feel like most ramen joints are stupidly expensive now? I’ve watched the prices increase at least once every couple years since arriving and now, it’s like, “shit, I want some addictively delicious unhealthy noodles, but over 900 yen?! Over a THOUSAND?!” Christ… I thought junk food was supposed to be cheap.
I feel like my car has been the target of a lot of projectile bird missiles lately… I’ve had to wipe bird shit off my car what feels like several times in just the past couple of weeks. and today it looked a bird had diarrhea all over the hood. what have I done to piss off the local avians???
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Rakuten Mobile has been spottier than ever. Signal will suddenly drop and things will stop loading in the middle of Tokyo. I was on the phone with the tax office once and the phone call dropped midway through and refused to recover for several minutes.
Finding it near impossible for me to gain muscles / lose weight. My current med makes my appetite super huge and it’s so hard to endure eating too much.
Considering giving up the fight alone and going to a gym with a personal trainer, but they’re so expensive!!
Does anyone has any suggestions for コスパがいい personal trainers around Shinjuku area?
I do not know if only I experienced this but I think I might be able to find any friends while studying here. For the past months, I think mostly because of differences in interest or language barriers, I just cannot make friends although I had done many approaches.
I feel so lonely… cause in my home county I used to hang out a lot with my friends and here I just waste my time almost every day in bed.
If anyone has any advice or wants to chat, I really appreciate that!
Ok, since it’s Tanabata and I’m in a foul mood anyway: Shitennoji has quit their Tanabata festival again this year. That makes 3 in a row now. Never mind this large temple has large scale events all year long, all through COVID, like a giant flea market and book fair every month, which attract large crowds. That’s in addition to the regular religious ceremonies. What makes the Tanabata festival any more risky? Lots of shrine matsuris also dark again. Glad my ghetto neighborhood has decided to get on with it, at least. Looking forward to getting back into the summer festivals, and even a single small bon odori again this year! It’s a start.
Why is 80% of the shit on Pal System frozen? I hate it. The only frozen things I’ve ever ordered are gyoza and chahan for my husband and popsicles for myself. I don’t like frozen meat or fish.
I already get a farm produce box, but I decided it would be nice to get some normal groceries delivered as well. Are any of the other delivery services better? Because I’m thisclose to canceling Pal System. (I also always forget to place my damn order.)
I got my first Amazon credit card which is actually from SMBC. Instead of putting my real name on the card like one would expect, they used my katakana name, written in Romaji. So the name on the card is something like “Sumisu Arisu”… *facepalm*
I was standing in line for tickets to a mini live, probably number 20th in line out of 200+ girls, sweating in the heat for almost 2 hours, when the organizers decided to change the tickets from “priority” to a raffle. Guess who didn’t “win” a ticket?
I might have to take on a second job or change jobs for various reasons and was feeling kinda upset and hopeless. I checked out Craiglists to see the bottom of the barrel that I’m dealing with and surprisingly found a bunch of fun looking jobs over there!
If Craigslist looks okay, surely I can find something good if I look properly right! Feeling strangely positive. Sorry my complaint has dried up hah!
Feeling sad thinking about Tanabata in 2019. They [decorated the river around Nakanoshima with floating glowing lights!](https://imgur.com/a/cTCVU80) Looking back I had just met my boyfriend and we went there on a date… it was so fun and beautiful. Little did we know covid would hit and we wouldn’t enjoy another summer like 2019 for years 😭😭😭 so sad
One more complaint: I hate how negative social media makes me feel, but disconnecting from it also disconnects me from a lot of people I really care about. The catch 22.
Bright lights blinding me when the sun is just setting. People can’t be that blind.
Just found a mukade. It was chilling in bed with me.. freaked the hell out and it ran away. Finally found it 20 minutes later across the room crawling on a curtain.. opened the sliding door and yeeted it out with a broom.
But they travel in pairs, right? So it could have been the other one.
The post about not posting about Abe being shot… Is it not conceivable that people living in Japan would want to process this information by speaking to other people living in Japan? This event sure has more impact on my JapanLife than the “Hey guys, whats your favourite Weird Japanese Treat from the famous Japanese Convenience Store, and why?” posts. But hey, who am I to criticize?
This woman by my side, she’s Dr. Jeckyl Mr. Hyde
Can’t get my head on right, problems day and night
To calm my nerves I’ve tried smoke, Doctors give me dope to cope. My life has been sad!
Getting a カードローン is so difficult