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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Nothing makes you want to find a new job like coming back to work after holidays. As they say though, the grass is always greener
The Queen Beetle got cancelled due to bad weather, so we booked a flight from Korea to Japan at the last minute. Not the end of the world, just an extra day of nenkyu used.
I booked the return flight for four people and paid in USD. Nobody wanted to reimburse me in USD, so I transferred yen to my American bank account and now everyone gets to pay more money because of it.
JR Kyushu immediately refunded me the cost of the ferry, and it zeroed out my credit card balance for June, so that was nice. 39 JR Kyushu!
Other than that, struggling to do my work because I’m in tremendous emotional pain. Been this way since January 2022 and no matter what I do, nothing seems to alleviate the suffering. And believe me, I’m trying everything I can
I don’t think there has been a single weekend the past month where the weather wasn’t shit on weekends. Same this week. Has been nice and sunny all week. Guess what the weather’s going to be like on Saturday and Sunday? Fucking thunderstorms.
How the fuck is it possible that the weather is only shit on weekends.
I hate going to hospital in Japan. Doctors are so passive. Also, I am always made to wait for 30 + minutes just to pay and leave.
My building got a free internet upgrade to gigabit speeds, which is really nice. However the company they’ve contracted with says in order to use it, you need to replace the hub which only supports up to 100 MB. Now of course they’re offering a *time sale* special hub for 50% off super 期間限定 3 days only for 5000 yen, and they’ll install it for you for an extra 20000 yen.
First of all, network hubs have been dead tech for like, 20 years? I bought the cheapest gigabit TP-Link switch I could find on Amazon for 1200 yen and installed it myself, which was literally just changing 2 cables. Shame on these fools for gouging people so hard. I wonder how many people in the building paid for all of that.
The obnoxious colleague scheduled a meeting with big boss on Monday from 6:30pm. I have plans with friend at 7pm, and blocked my schedule from 6pm onwards.
Tried to think positive, that the GM is busy and we need to do the meeting asap, that’s why he scheduled the meeting at a weird time.
But then I checked the schedule and found out that big boss is free from 3pm, and our team leader is taking PTO that day.
Obnoxious colleague just want to steal the spotlight. Again.
Really old elderly couple who lived in a little semi-attached house behind our line of houses (only reachable from a little walkway behind our street) passed away a couple years ago, and whoever took over the property (I believe it’s their son) turned it into an Airbnb. So now there is a steady stream of tourists pouring into our street (because they can’t find the alley), trying to open the wrong houses’ doors, and once they find the Airbnb are often loud, snoking, inconsiderate guests on a dead-end street populated entirely by elderly people or families with young children. A special circle in hell should be reserved for those who take a house they don’t reside in on a quiet residential neighborhood street and turn it into a motel.
My phone and earbud batteries are crapping out. The phone charge barely lasts a day and I’m not even a heavy user. I’d rather not have to carry around one of those portable chargers. The earbuds only last for about 2 hours, not bad for normal use, but I spend a lot of time on the shinkansen and overnight buses, so that’s not good. I did try to buy a replacement on Amazon but they arrived faulty.
My laptop is also getting old. It takes a long time to wake up and any number of things can cause the performance to come crashing down.
Normally I would love the opportunity to buy some new electronics, but three at the same time is kinda too much for the bank book. :/
Just a dumb thing. Biked to work and when I got home, I realized that I left my house keys inside the house. So I spent another 2 hours and the nearby athletic park walking around inside until my wife got home. Good thing – got a lot of extra exercise in decent weather. Better thing – got to see 11 different cats, one of which is an old friend of sorts.
FFS. This weekend rain all weekend again. 3 straight weeks of beautiful weather during the week while stuck at work and fucking rain on the weekends.
I have proposed something one or two months ago. Just in the last last minute, they tell me no.
Instead, asking me do something else within limited time.
What wast of my time for nothing.
So I was just walking along, minding my own business, when some jerk in his car had to send a disgusting, filthy-sounding cough my way. Ok, so I didn’t get my head kicked in or anything, but it’s still a nasty way to treat someone who isn’t bothering you.
Day 7 of being sick and thus a week of missing the gym. Right now it’s a fun bout of hanadumari (IME didn’t activate, so I’m leaving that as is).
Work is slow. I’m finding myself playing a lot of vidya in my downtime (lots of GT7 and soon TOTK; also playing with my anbernic which is a retro device and not lingo for something else..). It’s fun, but along with the gym downtime and just coming out of GW, I’m feeling as unproductive as ever.
So found out today that Japanese people are taught in school that Pearl Harbor was not Japan’s fault.
Apparently it was caused by the US tricking Japan.
Kept my mouth shut as this is not my country, but yeah, a little grating!
Someone’s pressing the disaster button in Sim City Tokyo today. That was a really cool lightning storm though. What’s next, Godzilla?
More of a question than a complaint: can company bonuses be withheld on a personal basis, i.e. for only one person in a department?
If so, what is stopping a company from just withholding the bonuses of anyone that they want gone?
Forgot to save my work, lost 3 days of work. Kill me.
Feel say when I saw my paycheck. There was no pay increase, but the price of merchandise went up.
Ah, so one of the famously nice things about Japan in general, and specifically Tokyo, is that it has a diversity of seasons. Along with this glorious diversity of seasons (four of them!) comes with a variety of different kinds of weather.
Many kinds of weather include rain, which makes everything wet. In most sensible places, this doesn’t present much of a problem, so long as you keep, say, an umbrella and some sensible shoes handy.
However, every single architect in Tokyo decided, celebrating the Japanese spirit of consensus, that the entire city must look very grand and wonderful, and be paved entirely in polished, shiny marble. Polished, shiny marble that, when it gets even the slightest bit wet, becomes a veritable frictionless surface from a high school physics textbook.
Clearly these architects live so high up in their ivory towers that they are utterly unaffected by different kinds of weather.
I’ve been trying to get out and be more active but it’s making my mental health worse. I can force myself to go to events but I can’t force myself to be outgoing or normal, which only makes me feel more shitty. Outside of my pre-existing friends, I feel disconnected from other people my own age and worry I’m going to be a complete hikikomori incel by the time I’m 30. Even simple things like going to restaurants trigger awful feelings of insecurity. It used to only be when I was alone, but it happens even when I’m with friends now. Therapy doesn’t seem to be working and I can’t afford it much longer so I don’t really know what to do at this point.
Life is shit city right now and the only tool I have is a shovel to dig deeper.
Wondering if the people in my company are just lazy or incompetent.
Legal: Can you check this supplier contract?
Me: IANAL but shouldn’t there be some kind of indemnity clause?
Legal: Can you add one?
What’s the point of Legal if they can’t do their legal thingy?
I tidied up my boy’s closet this morning and was angry with myself for letting myself get so dragged into consumerism. I literally have 3 bags of boys clothing in size 100, many of them nice brands, that he has grown out of and is now basically worthless. Children don’t need that many clothes and I just need to shop less. And save that money.
Recruiter: Hi I have this position in Tokyo/Yokohama/anywhere in Kanto/Malaysia
Me: Thanks but I’m only interested in something in Kansai for now
Recruiter: Sure no problem. Are you interested in this position in Yokohama?
I’m starting to think half of these recruiters don’t have a lick of reading comprehension
Some asshole just purposely rammed himself into me as I was crossing the street. That is all.
This month’s electricity bill increased twofold, despite me using less electricity than last month. Screw this.
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Train cancelled due to lightning. That was a jovial detour through the busiest stations of rush hour Tokyo. Still going
Really annoyed how the fucking silent society suddenly is shouting at the reception of a clinic or hospital.
They all gotta hear what the fuck is going on with you! Or if the meds worked. Ffs
Was staying at an AirBnb near Shin Osaka station, and since we had some additional cleaning going on while I was trying to take a call, I stood under a neighbor’s overhanging roof for a bit to avoid the rain. The homeowner comes back and finds me standing there facing the street. He wastes no time getting aggressive.
He asks me to get off his property. I step out onto the street.
He asks for an apology. I apologize to him.
He threatens to call the police. I tell him to try it.
He throws down his umbrella. I give him a blank stare.
I offer him a dogeza. He surprisingly doesn’t want it.
I ask him what he wants. He tells me he wants me to get lost.
I inform him I’m staying next door and step in front of the rental property, asking him what he expects me to do. He finally gives up and walks into his castle.
Glad this didn’t escalate any further because I wasn’t aware Japan doesn’t allow much in the way of self-defence (not even equal force if its trading blows for blows?). So confused about what gets some people so strung up though.
For months now I’ve been feeling dizzy a few mornings a week. It usually goes away within a few hours so I still go to work, but the commute is hard.
It really caught up with me this week when I was too dizzy to see clearly, missed a step and fell down the entire flight of stairs at the train station.
My legs and hands are black and blue now and it’s pretty achy.
Tomorrow’s praise is saved for the fact that I somehow managed to avoid breaking any bones in this process.
After a few minutes on the train back home, I saw a spider a little bit larger than a 500yen coin crawling on my knees. I flicked it off me, but didn’t see where it fell since it curved around with its web. I am arachnophobic. So the next twenty minutes I spent looking around me to make sure it wasn’t crawling back on me. To be honest I secretly hoped it landed on the salary man in front of me. It didn’t but it climbed up to the salary man that sat in front of me next. I was intently watching the spider in case it tried to jump on me, and the salaryman to my left noticed my panicked face and the spider and was laughing the next ten minutes until I switched trains to avoid the spider. I did want to tell the guy in front of me (not from altruism, but because I wanted him to throw it to the ground cause it was too close to me) about the spider hanging off his sleeve, but I didn’t want him to throw it towards me. Again, I am arachnophobic. Reading that thread about people living with huntsmen was crazy to me. The complaint is with myself. And with the spider , why didn’t it just climb on the first guy that got off the train 😭😭😭
Took a day off work to go to the Daft Punk coordinates in Tokyo, and all it was was a Snapchat filter that let you see a repeating gif of a guy walking.
I burned a vacation day and 1400 train fare on THAT.
Cheesed.
Not so much a complaint, but getting a bad situation off my chest. My mother-in-law is currently in hospice care, and my husband and I are tasked with cleaning out her apartment in a far away city that costs a lot of money to travel back and forth to. The apartment is a bug-infested garbage house. I don’t think we’ll be through getting rid of everything in there and cleaning for at least another 3-4 visits, it’s just so overloaded with trash. In all these years, we had no idea she was living this way.
Last winter I bought some ~fancy~ gloves because I wanted to have something cute to match with some clothes. I didn’t have that many opportunities to wear it. Now, I’m preparing for a trip to a cold place and I can’t find them… I’m annoyed at myself because where tf did I put them???
Shopping for summer clothes, if I have to read the phrase ヘルシーな肌見せ one more time I’m gonna scream lol
Why do so many bathrooms seem to have no handsoap? Even the shinkansen, of all places? What’s more, I’ve seen so many salaryman just wash their hands with water and nothing else… Are faecal bacteria just not a concept in their minds?