– If you’re in line at a store, that’s a good time to get your point cards and eco bag ready. Not when it’s your turn at the till.
– Both kids got into it from the time they woke up today. I’m in favour of letting them sort it out, but they start screaming and yelling, a cup of milk gets spilt (guess who gets to deal with that? ), so with a voice just loud enough to be above their’s, I say “Hey, come on, knock it off, look at this mess.”
And then the missus starts “You shouldn’t shout, it’s not good for their development, etc.”
I raised my volume enough to give constructive feedback, you’d think I was howling like a madman, belt in hand.
I was in Hokkaido, found some delicious Hokkaido milk cheese, ate all the cheese, couldn’t buy more, and now I’m back on Honshu with no good cheese in sight. I WANT MY CHEESE 😭
Seriously I love all the Hokkaido dairy products so much maybe I should move there 🧐.
I have been dealing with a foreign company, speaking to their native-English rep in English, and they are still doing practically everything wrong. constantly missing deadlines, completely misunderstanding things I have explained and laid out in the most explicit English I can manage multiple times, largely misrepresenting what the final product was going to be. I am boggled that they are allowed to conduct business given this absolute shit-tier level of customer care.
I will never get over the traditional Japanese custom of telling someone you sent them an email seconds after sending it. It got so bad yesterday someone called a client in another country well past 8pm local time to… tell them they sent them an email…
The shallowness of everything in this country is exhausting me.
I love my wife, but she insists on doing the laundry (I do cooking and dishes). I do the laundry some times because when she does stains rarely come out.
That’s fine, but she always leaves the door open when hanging clothes out – the door is open for 10 minutes or so in this weather. I just try not to be irritated about it but I just think “could you please close the damn door?”
I can’t imagine that anyone would look at a mutilated tree trunk and think “cool and good, this is how a tree is supposed to look!”.
I’ve just found out that I’ve been violating the data retention policy at my company. We’re not supposed to have past projects still on our computers, they must be backed up to secure, internal company servers. I’ve just been backing them up as a secondary to my offsite server where I keep company internal materials. My offsite complies with the highest offsite backup guidelines possible.
We can backup but we can’t pull individual files from the secure backup.
Company has asked that I stop doing that, however, I offered them the chance to try and break into the server I use… They’ve already given up.
My wage stays the same but my food budget keeps going over. My wife doesn’t like it when I mention that maybe she needs to cook more and stop buying the premade food from the super.
Also, I wish I could grow professionally but the only way to do that is to quit and start my own business. I’ve got a mortgage and a family to feed and don’t really have the connections of finances to do that.
made a reservation for collection of 粗大ゴミ, they told me to place it near the entrance before 8:30 am today(Thrusday). They still havent arrived.. :/ Lots of bulk furnitures in front of the entrance looks bit embarrasing .
Update:- they came at around 3 pm and took it .
Another complaint. May be seen as petty cause it’s complaining about a cultural aspect again, but here it goes:
One of my part-time jobs is at a convenience store. Right now the background music is ocean-related Disney music and some summer related Japanese classics. No lyrics, just the background music.
I don’t sing aloud when I’m stocking or at the register, but I have started humming without thinking. I love Disney and these classics by themselves, and they already are an earworm of sorts on their own.
I was grabbed by one elderly coworker and heavily admonished for humming. It wasn’t in front of customers and again, I wasn’t on the register. I got a bit affronted cause she always has to roughly grab me from doing minor mistakes or making me wait for a procedure I am already supposed to be doing anyways, but thats another issue.
I asked my boss why that is, cause he has sneakily shown he understands English and cultural differences.
His explanation makes sense in that I guess to be seen as good serious workers, we have to work silently as we do our tasks. And that there have been too many cases of customers complaining behind workers back if they hum or “act too happy” when doing tasks. He did say it makes sense that culturally to me humming means I’m enjoying doing the work which shouldn’t be a bad meaning, but that has been an issue.
His words were “we like to complain in Japan more for the sake of complaining, especially with customer service workers”.
Is the Si Sensor Japan’s worst invention of all time? It is a blight on humanity, and my kitchen.
I hate scrum.
I dunno if this counts as a complaint, but in a train station I saw a middle-aged dude physically move a kid standing on the escalator our of the way. The kid was standing in the walking lane of the escalator (which every station tells you to stand on both sides anyway) and I guess the guy wanted to walk on. I thought he was the father at first, until he breezed by and the mother apologized to him.
Hoooooly shit if he’d done that to my kids I would have been livid.
I know job hunting is supposed to be stressful but god damn it *really* is. Just got my 12th rejection. People may say it’s only the 12th but it’s still damn depressing. Especially after ending the final interview with what I thought was on a positive note.
I asked for a feedback but all I got was a “our policy is to not share any information about our hiring processes.”
A new park was made just around the corner from my house. It’s nice and the local kids are all playing soccer there now.
I was walking past there and got really thirsty from the heat so decided to drink some water but soon realized they didn’t even bother install a drinking fountain.
Does anyone else think it’s dangerous and stupid to make a place where kids play sport in 30+ degree weather but have no access to water?
And what’s the deal with making it so hard to find public drinking fountains? I know Japanese people prefer to pay for water in a disposable plastic bottle from a powered vending machine, but a lot of people still drink the tap water.
I think I’m going to have to talk to the city office about this.
In continuation from the Hoikuen complaint, my husband called them and they were super insistent that my 7-11 boss writes paperwork for this month, and then does a new one for October when I go back to my other part-time job. They wouldn’t. Let. It. Drop.
It took a month for this paperwork to be even touched and now they want him to re-do it. And he is super annoyed now. As is my other boss cause they told me they want that paperwork too.
They just keep harping on the exact hours too so now my husband and friends are just asking me to ask the 7-11 boss that we just claim I’m working more than I am or longer hours to shut them up. Even one coworker suggested it.
The paperwork for sake of paperwork and rules for the sake of rules is annoying. It also may make me look like trouble to my boss which I don’t need that reputation of being “difficult”.
Inflation! Oil change even DIY has doubled in price since one year ago!
I only have one person to talk to and he might actually be Jesus so I am trying not to bother him too much.
I might need to ask him why his dad hates me so much.
My only love interest gets cold sores and won’t compromise on never kissing again so I don’t know what’s going on with that side. I don’t got it for anyone wondering.
Moved here so excited to live in Japan and my job is ruining my life. Wake up with so much anxiety, not wanting to come into work. Teaching is not for me, I’m applying for other jobs
Obon holidays: shitty weather for slugs, snails and frogs. Going back to work: Hello Sun! Where were you? Oh I was here, but hiding just to make sure you could not enjoy those few days off. So, how’s your burnout going lol?
PayPay won’t let me link my bank account and reload it with that because my name is too foreign. Half-width, full-width, no space, space, no matter what I try it rejects me. I know I’ll need a new bank account when I move in the spring but I do not know which one my job intends to designate so I just have to wait, I’m hoping that maybe PayPay will link properly with that one. I know my name will be just as foreign at that bank as it is at the one I’m using but every now and again things like that will miraculously work out here. Totally broken in one place, totally fine in another. I’ve stopped trying to apply logic. It’s still annoying though.
Never ever ever ever get hurt during Obon. Never do it.
Why have a lot of conbinis gotten rid of their toilets?? 😫 I have a medical condition and I used to rely on conbinis always having one
My local friend is a great guy, but every time we hang, he asks “so are you used to Japan yet? (日本に慣れた？)”
He knows I’ve been here a few years already, and I’ve explained to him that I had already come to Japan many times and even lived here for a year before I moved here this time, so I was already used to Japan before I moved here.
He asks me if I’ve gotten used to Japan every time we hang, and every time it’s the same answer as last time and damn it’s annoying.
Pants too short
Tired of commuting in the heat surrounded by BO of people on the train. Didn’t get a summer holiday, just stuck at work. Ugh.
Forgot to ask my Dr for 診断書 I need to apply for accommodations at school AAAHHHH
Seller shipped my monitor to the wrong address.
School gym not open this week
Tried 7/11’s BLT sandwich- was that supposed to be a BLT??? My heart goes out to anyone who paid for that
Therapy is expensive
It’s not that hot today but I had to bring a large object by walk+train today and that was really draining. Also my tinnitus is acting up for no reason. Oh well.
I’m going to live up to my username. I was pre-buying tickets to an attraction, my options were the domestic site or klook. On the attraction page itself on Klook, in the notes section, it said “use the promo code for 20% off”. I think sounds great, it’s technically for international visitors but I don’t see why I can’t use it, so I enter it in and it sends back “Sorry the code is expired”.
Message customer service to ask what gives. They just confirm that the code is expired. I point out that it that it never mentioned an expiry date, yet it’s still on display (very western~americanized mindset here but in all my years of customer service if we left a sale sign up by accident we’d still honor the price). They redirect me to a completely different page that has the code and the expiry date 7/31. At this point, I’m not debating it’s expired, I get it… but I point out that it means this invalid code has been on display on the attraction page for two weeks now. They apologize and say nothing can be done, as it’s in the coupon code’s T&S. When I ask where I can find the code’s T&S, as I can’t find it myself after looking, I’m simply told “Kindly look at our website” and am promptly disconnected.
Found a 5% off code but even then any savings were negated by Klook’s conversion fee. Gave up and bought them on the domestic site in the end.
For almost a decade, I’ve had the same name on my bank account.
Went to the bank to get some documents and in the processing they come to me saying that the name on my residence card doesn’t match my account.
Here’s the thing. My passport has my first name, my mom’s maiden name, and my last name. So when I got my residence card upon arrival, since Japan doesn’t recognize middle names, they combined my entire name to the card.
I told them it has always been this way, and I told them likely it was because their database couldn’t hold that long of a name. (No joke. I had problems with another service because they could not fit my whole name into their database, so they asked if they could cut my middle name. so I obliged. In doing so causes me so much grief trying to use any miles with them)
They were insistent I change it to match.
However, this poses an issue because that account is the same account I receive my salary, and where my utilities are being deducted from So, I have to go to every utility/ service that uses my bank account as a payment to fix it because of the name.
Of course, all that teller could do was apologize to me.
K cool.
Some woman posted my profile on Twitter in order to say that you couldn’t pay her for my services, no way. Yeah okay…I mean, I’ve known from the start that competing with the all the pretty boy ikemen would be an uphill battle and I wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But is it really necessary to broadcast those feelings?
4 – Took both kids for a walk just before. Baby in the pram and toddler walking… for about 20m. Then it was pushing the pram one-handed while holding the other in my left arm. This kid is allergic to walking. I love it but now I can’t move.
5 – shitty tea towels that leave fluff behind after drying the dishes.
People fumbling with their smartphones at the register trying to pay with whatever new gimmick app is all the rage these days. I swear the grannies with their little coin bags are fucking faster than you people.
One of the government’s lapdog leaked my sensitive business info and my personal information. I got bombarded with spam and espionage. They got bombarded with spam and espionage. They tried to pin on me. I got the paper trail. Got 4 out of their 5 men fired.
Shouldn’t have wasted my time. Now I have to build a new story for the new lapdogs
Someone in my research lab was working with me on a model, trying to understand the process, and they overwrote a file that was supposed to be untouched. I’m trying to fix the mistake. It will take hours. My zemi is tomorrow. I wish I didn’t exist.
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– If you’re in line at a store, that’s a good time to get your point cards and eco bag ready. Not when it’s your turn at the till.
– Both kids got into it from the time they woke up today. I’m in favour of letting them sort it out, but they start screaming and yelling, a cup of milk gets spilt (guess who gets to deal with that? ), so with a voice just loud enough to be above their’s, I say “Hey, come on, knock it off, look at this mess.”
And then the missus starts “You shouldn’t shout, it’s not good for their development, etc.”
I raised my volume enough to give constructive feedback, you’d think I was howling like a madman, belt in hand.
I was in Hokkaido, found some delicious Hokkaido milk cheese, ate all the cheese, couldn’t buy more, and now I’m back on Honshu with no good cheese in sight. I WANT MY CHEESE 😭
Seriously I love all the Hokkaido dairy products so much maybe I should move there 🧐.
I have been dealing with a foreign company, speaking to their native-English rep in English, and they are still doing practically everything wrong. constantly missing deadlines, completely misunderstanding things I have explained and laid out in the most explicit English I can manage multiple times, largely misrepresenting what the final product was going to be. I am boggled that they are allowed to conduct business given this absolute shit-tier level of customer care.
I will never get over the traditional Japanese custom of telling someone you sent them an email seconds after sending it. It got so bad yesterday someone called a client in another country well past 8pm local time to… tell them they sent them an email…
The shallowness of everything in this country is exhausting me.
I love my wife, but she insists on doing the laundry (I do cooking and dishes). I do the laundry some times because when she does stains rarely come out.
That’s fine, but she always leaves the door open when hanging clothes out – the door is open for 10 minutes or so in this weather. I just try not to be irritated about it but I just think “could you please close the damn door?”
I can’t imagine that anyone would look at a mutilated tree trunk and think “cool and good, this is how a tree is supposed to look!”.
I’ve just found out that I’ve been violating the data retention policy at my company. We’re not supposed to have past projects still on our computers, they must be backed up to secure, internal company servers. I’ve just been backing them up as a secondary to my offsite server where I keep company internal materials. My offsite complies with the highest offsite backup guidelines possible.
We can backup but we can’t pull individual files from the secure backup.
Company has asked that I stop doing that, however, I offered them the chance to try and break into the server I use… They’ve already given up.
My wage stays the same but my food budget keeps going over. My wife doesn’t like it when I mention that maybe she needs to cook more and stop buying the premade food from the super.
Also, I wish I could grow professionally but the only way to do that is to quit and start my own business. I’ve got a mortgage and a family to feed and don’t really have the connections of finances to do that.
made a reservation for collection of 粗大ゴミ, they told me to place it near the entrance before 8:30 am today(Thrusday). They still havent arrived.. :/ Lots of bulk furnitures in front of the entrance looks bit embarrasing .
Update:- they came at around 3 pm and took it .
Another complaint. May be seen as petty cause it’s complaining about a cultural aspect again, but here it goes:
One of my part-time jobs is at a convenience store. Right now the background music is ocean-related Disney music and some summer related Japanese classics. No lyrics, just the background music.
I don’t sing aloud when I’m stocking or at the register, but I have started humming without thinking. I love Disney and these classics by themselves, and they already are an earworm of sorts on their own.
I was grabbed by one elderly coworker and heavily admonished for humming. It wasn’t in front of customers and again, I wasn’t on the register. I got a bit affronted cause she always has to roughly grab me from doing minor mistakes or making me wait for a procedure I am already supposed to be doing anyways, but thats another issue.
I asked my boss why that is, cause he has sneakily shown he understands English and cultural differences.
His explanation makes sense in that I guess to be seen as good serious workers, we have to work silently as we do our tasks. And that there have been too many cases of customers complaining behind workers back if they hum or “act too happy” when doing tasks. He did say it makes sense that culturally to me humming means I’m enjoying doing the work which shouldn’t be a bad meaning, but that has been an issue.
His words were “we like to complain in Japan more for the sake of complaining, especially with customer service workers”.
Is the Si Sensor Japan’s worst invention of all time? It is a blight on humanity, and my kitchen.
I hate scrum.
I dunno if this counts as a complaint, but in a train station I saw a middle-aged dude physically move a kid standing on the escalator our of the way. The kid was standing in the walking lane of the escalator (which every station tells you to stand on both sides anyway) and I guess the guy wanted to walk on. I thought he was the father at first, until he breezed by and the mother apologized to him.
Hoooooly shit if he’d done that to my kids I would have been livid.
I know job hunting is supposed to be stressful but god damn it *really* is. Just got my 12th rejection. People may say it’s only the 12th but it’s still damn depressing. Especially after ending the final interview with what I thought was on a positive note.
I asked for a feedback but all I got was a “our policy is to not share any information about our hiring processes.”
A new park was made just around the corner from my house. It’s nice and the local kids are all playing soccer there now.
I was walking past there and got really thirsty from the heat so decided to drink some water but soon realized they didn’t even bother install a drinking fountain.
Does anyone else think it’s dangerous and stupid to make a place where kids play sport in 30+ degree weather but have no access to water?
And what’s the deal with making it so hard to find public drinking fountains? I know Japanese people prefer to pay for water in a disposable plastic bottle from a powered vending machine, but a lot of people still drink the tap water.
I think I’m going to have to talk to the city office about this.
In continuation from the Hoikuen complaint, my husband called them and they were super insistent that my 7-11 boss writes paperwork for this month, and then does a new one for October when I go back to my other part-time job. They wouldn’t. Let. It. Drop.
It took a month for this paperwork to be even touched and now they want him to re-do it. And he is super annoyed now. As is my other boss cause they told me they want that paperwork too.
They just keep harping on the exact hours too so now my husband and friends are just asking me to ask the 7-11 boss that we just claim I’m working more than I am or longer hours to shut them up. Even one coworker suggested it.
The paperwork for sake of paperwork and rules for the sake of rules is annoying. It also may make me look like trouble to my boss which I don’t need that reputation of being “difficult”.
Inflation! Oil change even DIY has doubled in price since one year ago!
I only have one person to talk to and he might actually be Jesus so I am trying not to bother him too much.
I might need to ask him why his dad hates me so much.
My only love interest gets cold sores and won’t compromise on never kissing again so I don’t know what’s going on with that side. I don’t got it for anyone wondering.
Moved here so excited to live in Japan and my job is ruining my life. Wake up with so much anxiety, not wanting to come into work. Teaching is not for me, I’m applying for other jobs
Obon holidays: shitty weather for slugs, snails and frogs.
Going back to work: Hello Sun! Where were you?
Oh I was here, but hiding just to make sure you could not enjoy those few days off. So, how’s your burnout going lol?
PayPay won’t let me link my bank account and reload it with that because my name is too foreign. Half-width, full-width, no space, space, no matter what I try it rejects me. I know I’ll need a new bank account when I move in the spring but I do not know which one my job intends to designate so I just have to wait, I’m hoping that maybe PayPay will link properly with that one. I know my name will be just as foreign at that bank as it is at the one I’m using but every now and again things like that will miraculously work out here. Totally broken in one place, totally fine in another. I’ve stopped trying to apply logic. It’s still annoying though.
Never ever ever ever get hurt during Obon. Never do it.
Why have a lot of conbinis gotten rid of their toilets?? 😫 I have a medical condition and I used to rely on conbinis always having one
My local friend is a great guy, but every time we hang, he asks “so are you used to Japan yet? (日本に慣れた？)”
He knows I’ve been here a few years already, and I’ve explained to him that I had already come to Japan many times and even lived here for a year before I moved here this time, so I was already used to Japan before I moved here.
He asks me if I’ve gotten used to Japan every time we hang, and every time it’s the same answer as last time and damn it’s annoying.
Pants too short
Tired of commuting in the heat surrounded by BO of people on the train. Didn’t get a summer holiday, just stuck at work. Ugh.
Forgot to ask my Dr for 診断書 I need to apply for accommodations at school AAAHHHH
Seller shipped my monitor to the wrong address.
School gym not open this week
Tried 7/11’s BLT sandwich- was that supposed to be a BLT??? My heart goes out to anyone who paid for that
Therapy is expensive
It’s not that hot today but I had to bring a large object by walk+train today and that was really draining. Also my tinnitus is acting up for no reason. Oh well.
I’m going to live up to my username. I was pre-buying tickets to an attraction, my options were the domestic site or klook. On the attraction page itself on Klook, in the notes section, it said “use the promo code for 20% off”. I think sounds great, it’s technically for international visitors but I don’t see why I can’t use it, so I enter it in and it sends back “Sorry the code is expired”.
Message customer service to ask what gives. They just confirm that the code is expired. I point out that it that it never mentioned an expiry date, yet it’s still on display (very western~americanized mindset here but in all my years of customer service if we left a sale sign up by accident we’d still honor the price). They redirect me to a completely different page that has the code and the expiry date 7/31. At this point, I’m not debating it’s expired, I get it… but I point out that it means this invalid code has been on display on the attraction page for two weeks now. They apologize and say nothing can be done, as it’s in the coupon code’s T&S. When I ask where I can find the code’s T&S, as I can’t find it myself after looking, I’m simply told “Kindly look at our website” and am promptly disconnected.
Found a 5% off code but even then any savings were negated by Klook’s conversion fee. Gave up and bought them on the domestic site in the end.
For almost a decade, I’ve had the same name on my bank account.
Went to the bank to get some documents and in the processing they come to me saying that the name on my residence card doesn’t match my account.
Here’s the thing. My passport has my first name, my mom’s maiden name, and my last name. So when I got my residence card upon arrival, since Japan doesn’t recognize middle names, they combined my entire name to the card.
I told them it has always been this way, and I told them likely it was because their database couldn’t hold that long of a name. (No joke. I had problems with another service because they could not fit my whole name into their database, so they asked if they could cut my middle name. so I obliged. In doing so causes me so much grief trying to use any miles with them)
They were insistent I change it to match.
However, this poses an issue because that account is the same account I receive my salary, and where my utilities are being deducted from So, I have to go to every utility/ service that uses my bank account as a payment to fix it because of the name.
Of course, all that teller could do was apologize to me.
K cool.
Some woman posted my profile on Twitter in order to say that you couldn’t pay her for my services, no way. Yeah okay…I mean, I’ve known from the start that competing with the all the pretty boy ikemen would be an uphill battle and I wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But is it really necessary to broadcast those feelings?
4 – Took both kids for a walk just before. Baby in the pram and toddler walking… for about 20m. Then it was pushing the pram one-handed while holding the other in my left arm. This kid is allergic to walking. I love it but now I can’t move.
5 – shitty tea towels that leave fluff behind after drying the dishes.
People fumbling with their smartphones at the register trying to pay with whatever new gimmick app is all the rage these days. I swear the grannies with their little coin bags are fucking faster than you people.
One of the government’s lapdog leaked my sensitive business info and my personal information. I got bombarded with spam and espionage. They got bombarded with spam and espionage. They tried to pin on me. I got the paper trail. Got 4 out of their 5 men fired.
Shouldn’t have wasted my time. Now I have to build a new story for the new lapdogs
Someone in my research lab was working with me on a model, trying to understand the process, and they overwrote a file that was supposed to be untouched. I’m trying to fix the mistake. It will take hours. My zemi is tomorrow. I wish I didn’t exist.
“Alexa, play [NHK English News on Tunein](https://tunein.com/podcasts/News/English-News—NHK-WORLD-RADIO-JAPAN-p854/)” stopped working for me earlier this week.
Now, she replies “I couldn’t find NHK English News on Tunein”. =(