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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A control system I have to use virtually every day has an opening screen with two buttons:
1. A huge green one in the center of the screen reading ‘スタート’.
2. A little silver-grey one in the bottom corner reading ‘English’
(Clicking on ‘English’ changes ‘スタート’ to ‘Start’ but does not affect any other part of the screen or any subsequent screens.)
1. Click on ”スタート’/’Start’.
2. Another screen appears: ‘The system will start.’
3. Click on ‘OK’ or ‘No’.
4. Click on ‘OK’.
5. Another screen appears: ‘The system will start.’
6. Click on ‘OK’, which is the only button to appear.
When it’s time to shut down the system, the reverse process happens: click ‘shut down’; answer ‘OK’ when asked if one really wants to shut down; click on ‘OK’ when informed that the system is shutting down; click ‘OK’ again when informed that the system has shut down. However, the system does not actually shut down until one has closed the application window. If you neglect to do that, the next person who wants to use the system is not able to start the system, though there is no notice that that is the case, and there is no way in the system to learn the name of the previous user.
sick for the millionth time this month and got hit with lower back pain
Found shoes that I want from NZ to learn that shipping it here costs around ￥7000. Can’t help wondering they’re planning to overnight it on a plane or something.
Looking around at people’s faces and thinking they look so young. Only to realise I’m just getting old.
I bought a book on mathematics thinking it looks interesting. I’m definitely getting old…
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I despise Thursdays. Earliest morning in the week after the fatigue of Mon-Wed, worse if my Wed is wasted on meetings. Full day of classes. All with students so low they literally shouldn’t even be enrolled. Two-thirds of my students in one class stopped showing up after GW, and the third that’s left won’t do anything. Trying to get them to do a *game* or even simply move into pairs is fucking draining.
Two complaints this week. The first one is a lighthearted one, the second one has me considering getting all new friends and wife.
My father in law had a traffic cone that he used to deter ducks from eating his rice seedlings stolen. I’ve teased him about the cone before.
My opinion is that ducks don’t fear traffic cones, and they have actually been eating his seedlings.
His stance is that it would have been so much worse without the cone.
Anyway, as a way to amuse myself, I mean as a way to show that I care I called him a couple of times last week with safety tips and concerns.
Are you using the motion sensor light I got you? Are you locking the doors? The gate? You’re not hoarding cash in the house, right?
As it turns out karma’s a bitch and I had to go to the home center with him this past weekend to pick up and then carry a big, heavy safe up to the second floor of his house.
Second complaint.
Me and some friends were talking about mask usage and it reminded me that at the start of the pandemic I saw an old man with a bra cup as a diy mask, lace and all. They all laughed and called me a liar, just like my wife did, but it’s true! I’m like 85% sure that’s what he was wearing.
Just adding the weekly “many many many people here should not be allowed to drive cars/trucks or even bicycles” ..
While I am positively surprised all the police I see daily on my bike rides wear helmets on their bikes, they still have mostly no idea how to properly ride a bike and follow the rules..
started collecting a collection of “idiots on bikes” of my drive recorder that I’m itching to send to some police hq.. mostly of other police clearly breaking the law (riding across pedestrian crossing, against red light, wrong side, too fast on sidewalk etc etc).. or just anonymously dump on YouTube for people to laugh about
Delivery driver complained that I didn’t answer his phone calls.
Dude, I don’t answer my phone EVER, because all I get are recruiters (I’m not LFW) and Chinese scammers. Let me choose when to receive the package or just STFU and leave a note.
Insurance company revamped their accounts. I was using myname+inscompany as the part of the email address for my account. Welp, they invalidated all those accounts. I emailed support and they just told me to sign up for a new account. I emailed again saying I *had* an account. Nope, sign up for a new one. Call support to get it set up with existing policy.
I was going to by my motorcycle insurance from them (currently just have their bicycle insurance). That company can suck my dick and I’m canceling the bicycle insurance and never using them again.
So the dishwashing detergent I use changed from a normal pop nozzle bottle to some squeezy thing, and the sneaky manufacturers used it as an excuse to water down the dishwashing liquid formula, so now when you squeeze the bottle, more comes out and it’s less effective….. Jerks.
On rush hour trains for the first time in a while, didn’t miss this.
Speaking of the rush hour trains, I hate this “Uber eatsでいいんじゃなーい？” mother in law that’s on *heavy* repeat on the train ads. “I have a silly haircut, I wear sunglasses inside and at night, and I encourage bad dietary and financial decisions!” Go home, grandma.
I’ve recently taken to boarding a much earlier train to avoid the rush hour crowd, and YET, despite how empty the train is, people still gravitate towards me even though all other parts of the train are quite literally empty.
while a super common complaint, but Japanese cyclists who have absolutely zero sense of self-preservation!! please for the love of god, don’t just zoom straight out into a narrow but very congested street without at LEAST checking traffic over your shoulder! if I were an old granny with slower reflexes, I would have no doubt run over you!!
the new guy in my department has *terrible* posture. he’s always hunched over, and his neck is down and forward like a turtle’s. as a result, he is constantly (like in 30-60 second intervals) doing weird shit with his neck to try and stretch it, like weaving it from side to side, jutting out his chin and then retracting it. because I sit close to him, I am subjected to his very ungainly interpretive dancing and twitching throughout the day. I’d feel bad telling him to knock it off because it’s harmless to me, but it’s distracting and… not pleasant to have to look at.
Wasn’t paying attention when making an impulse purchase on Mercari… and it was 着払い. Man.
I’m at work right now but I’d really rather be at home asleep in my pile of futons, blankets, and stuffed animals. Thankfully I live close to work, but needing to make a bento, look presentable, and get to work by 8am only to wait until nearly noon for classes is very annoying.
The weather is hot and humid, and my boss doesn’t stop doing micromanagement for the smallest and most irrelevant things. Fuck you uchiawase.
I spend the whole week at work just browsing random websites and now I have a meeting to talk about my performance and why I haven’t got anything done and my only answer is “I don’t really know”
Because all foreigners are money laundering terrorists, JP bank wants all my residence info again.
They want me to install 2 apps which after all the trouble says I don’t have an IC reading device so I can’t do it.
I sincerely hope those who started this system choke on mochi.
#1. People who think going for a jog through busy downtown shopping areas is a great idea…
#2. I think I may have bitten off slightly more than I can chew by taking manual / stick shift driving lessons in Japanese. Each individually I could handle I think, but the need to concentrate on the clutch / accelerator control, be checking my mirrors constantly, and needing to follow the Japanese instruction melts my brain and I keep making silly mistakes or forgetting something. I’m now needing to take extra classes at extra cost :-/
I’ve been chased by a bunch of recruiters. Most of the jobs that they offered aren’t something that I’d like to do again. I keep telling them that I want to change role/industry, but they either give me the same roles in my current industry or just ghost me.
I still agreed to do some interviews to test the water, but tbh I feel that I waste everyone’s time. I realized that I don’t want to change job, I just want to take a sabbatical leave for half a year and think what I want to do next.
Seven eleven, what were you thinking ? They got rid of the best coffee. You know like they have like four different cups of flavours in the refrigerated section ? One has a red logo, one has a blue, green, and there is one other that I forgot. The red is like just typical latte with sugar, pretty sweet. The blue is non-sugar, so it has less calories but also tastes like crap. Then you have the green one which is like an “espresso bitter” typically. Every major konbini has these. Mt Rainier similar as well, green is espresso, blue is non-sweet.
Anyways, seven eleven got rid of the green espresso one which is not only the one that tastes the best among them, but also has the lowest amount of calories. I guess I will just have to stick to Mt Rainier green one and the Family Mart green one.
*Cries in currency exchange
Won’t have time to play FFXVI until Friday 🙁
Another 7eleven discontinuation : packaged salad salmon. Only chicken and tofu now. Sad.
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Kids eikaiwa trying to slot in a kid who really shouldn’t be there. It’s weird. It’s as if everyone is in denial about the fact that this 8-year-old boy has a mental age of three. They simply won’t acknowledge it, and expect me to slot him into a class of incredibly bright and motivated third-graders. I hate this situation.
I am tired of hearing people making fun of those guys stuck in the mini submarine, I can feel their jealousy when they emphasize the fact that they paid 250K for the ride “haha rich people got what they paid for!”. So what? What would you do with 250K? Fix your teeth? Buy iPhones and an ugly ass BMW? Do botox? I guess you so much better than those guys, huh?
That was my rant.
A massive cockraoch came out of my aircon so that was fun
Crazy old lady from 幸福の科学 appeared in the genkan of my business and started giving me flyers about how were all going to hell and a free book about how to avoid that fate (I guess).
I politely declined and asked her to leave. She was shocked and seemed offended. She asked me why, even though I am gaikokujin, I’m not interested in religion.
I gestured to the door more firmly, and she finally left in a huff. I mean, lady, you’re the goofy cultist interrupting my day, ya know? Why do you think you’re the victim in this interaction?
Japan’s universal love of crustless triangle sandwiches sucks! We need some damn sandwich variety
At the park in the rain right now because toddler wanted to play in the sand. She’s in her little poncho having a blast. I’m standing here in the wind and rain wearing shorts and a tshirt.
Complaint is that I’m too stupid to bring a rain coat. Bloody hell I’m cold.
Mercari account blocked arbitrarily for no reason, I can’t buy an item I really want, I am sure it will be sold before my account gets unlocked. Surely the deal of the year, it’s sooooo frustrating
My in-laws are coming this weekend. I’m excited to see them because they’re all lovely people, but I don’t really have anything to talk about with them as we don’t share any common interests, and it’s exhausting to be in 100% Japanese mode for 3 days straight.
I had hoped to be pregnant by now, but I’m really having trouble getting pregnant :/
Busy Train Station, 10:40pm.
“Well folks, it’s been a fun nomikai! See you all at work tomorrow!”
“Woah, Kenta-kun! Where do you think you’re going?”
“…Home?”
“But we’re not going to see each other again for at least *nine hours!* Stop and chat with us a while.”
“Err…sure, fine. But we should move out the way, at least. We’re standing right in front to the ticket gates.”
“Nonsense, Kenta! Look, let’s gather in a big-ol circle for our conversation! Riiiiiight in front of the gates. Look at us all, like stubborn rocks in the midst of a pissed off river, who could this possibly annoy?”
We get it. She cheated, and now we won’t see her again on variety shows for a long time. Do we really need daily articles about it ? I swear, celebrities cheating / celebrities getting caught with drugs have a way longer life span than any other news.
I hate the 気遣い culture here. On paper it seems fine – be considerate of others and their situation. The problem is that people don’t communicate properly, or even if they do they don’t listen properly. So then people make assumptions and act based off those assumptions, but those assumptions are often wrong leading to the person making the assumption doing the opposite of what the other person wants. It also takes away agency – let me make my own choices.
1) the manager for this branch of 7/11 put in my shifts for Saturday and today in different colors-why. I didn’t notice and thought I didn’t have work today until my coworker called me at 6am. Fuck.
2) I have a test next week and an assignment due 10pm today. My laptop broke on Monday.
3) MY LAPTOP BROKE ON MONDAY. And couldn’t be fixed- charging port broke, it was connected to the motherboard and it was a Huawei I brought 3 years ago back in Malaysia…The Huawei worked fine until now though, rip, it served me well
4) I need to buy a new laptop quick but I suck at making decisions and know nothing about specs. My dad told me to look for something with a Ryzen 4/Intel i7 or i5-10+. The only thing I seriously, without a doubt, need as a responsible uni student, is something CHEAP with the ability to run as much chrome tabs as possible. But that easily swayed, frivolous, consumerist voice inside me is telling me that getting something that can also work as a drawing tablet (*dreamy voice* dynabook v series), so I can finally get into digital drawing, don’t need to get a separate drawing tablet, it’s both an ethical (less plastic waste, buy it for as long as possible, I’m contributing to less water waste because one less electronic=one less chip= less ultrapure water used up?) and personal reason, right?? So I haven’t brought anything yet and will be without a computer for time being….
Not sure whether it is because of these crazy temperature changes with AC on or just a-hole colleagues coming sick to work all the time, but I have been repeatedly having soar throat issues.
Anyone else?
Also, why there is no sick leave mandated by national government?
Up to two months waiting for the response for my “permission to engage in an activity beyond scope of visa”. How is this a working system… I have to get a job, then get permission to do it… then the company needs to wait 2+ months for me to be able to start working? I have the sinking feeling they’re just going to pull the offer.
I feel zero motivation to continue studying the language, beyond I guess finishing all the joyo kanji so I can read paperwork without a dictionary.
It seems like every interaction I have here devolves along one of three paths: nihonjinron conversation-stoppers from incurious people with primary school educations, people treating me like an animal (either in a fearful way by refusing verbal communication, or in an overly intimate way by touching and patting), or just weirdly demanding invasiveness because they don’t extend me the protection of their social norms. The breakdown in communication is pragmatic and not semantic, so how am I supposed to fix it by just scraping up more grammar and vocabulary? 🙁
New PE teacher at my school is gorgeous. My complaint is that we are not happily married with 2 kids and a cocker spaniel