Does immigration first busines department ever answer their phone?
Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems like just about every western movie released in theaters these days is some high-budget well known IP (Star Wars, Marvel, Disney etc). Usually the dialogue feels like it was written by a committee in a boardroom and half of the movie is CGI overload action schlock. I’ve really been wanting to go to a theater to see something that isn’t what I just described.
I was so excited to see Oppenheimer because it looked like it was going to scratch that itch. A historical biopic done by a prolific director with a triple A budget? Awesome! Sign me up.
But of course that’s the one western movie they won’t release over here. That haven’t officially said *why* they won’t release it here, but I think we all know the answer.
This guy at the gym needs to go the fuck home. Snorting his nose and coughing all over the place.
Complaint 2: I filled out a hospital’s contact form online to make an appointment. I had to write my emails address and my phone number. Did they email me? Of course not, and I’m not always able to answer my phone. They only call once instead of trying again an hour later or something, so it’s up to me to start a game of phone tag which I fucking *hate*. Do I tell them I’m returning a call? Do they know who I am if I just tell them my name? This whole thing could have just been an email. So once that’s all done with, they ask me when I’d like to make an appointment. I tell them next week or the week after. “Oh sorry, we’re all booked up until mid-December.” Bitch, you need to lead off with that. Now I look like an idiot because I’m asking for an appointment next week at a place that’s slammed with appointments. I need to start going out of my way to only doing business at clinics that do online appointments, none of this Showa phone bullshit.
1 – toddler really doesn’t want me to sleep. Two nights in a row she woke uo at 4am and started crying for some reason. Then last night, she was in my bed and I was on the floor and at around 2am she actually fell off and onto me. Scared the heck outta me.
2 – no cars behind me but without fail someone just has to pull out in front of me making me jump on the brakes. Time and again this happens.
3 – summer in Japan.
Why is WARM water coming out of my COLD water tap?
Its hot hot hot and I dont want to work anymore. At this point Japan is tropical country just like my 3rd world country homeland, only with expensive living expenses
So many complaints unfortunately. My teaching job just gets worse as more students join. I work from 12/1 to 9/9:30 M-F with about 30-32 classes, almost half being adult privates and the majority of those are bored housewives, obaasans, and college kids who have no interest in learning. Its soul crushing boredom and tediousness to keep any convo going. I also teach from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays. My mistake taking those classes on. Despite all this work I still make peanuts relatively speaking.
As a result of my schedule i almost never see my 1.5 year old son as hes gone before i wake up and asleep by the time I get home. It also leaves my wife exhausted as she works and takes care of him most the time. Its strained our relationship.
We live in an UR, theyve had scaffolding up on our windows/balconies going on 3 months with no end in sight. They do piecemeal projects on all different buildings at different times, rather than banging one building out at a time. So sick of the black curtains and scaffolding blocking any view and sunshine. Had to keep all our balcony furniture and plants in one bedroom and its such a clusterfuck.
And no holidays until Christmas, only 4 more months.
Oh and the cost of everything just keeps rising.
The sun has been about 6 feet from my fucking head for the last eight weeks. When will it go back to its place in the center of our solar system?
Why do they close the outdoor pools at the beginning of sept when it’s still so effing hot?!
Fucking tired of people having to document every fucking thing with their fucking smartphone cameras. I paid for warm food and an experience, not cold food and waiting for everyone to get the fuck off their phones or asking to take pictures of every goddamn thing. Do you people not have a hippocampus? Jesus H Christ.
Downvoted by Zoomers who don’t understand what human interaction is. Fuck this normalization of device addiction and social media popularity contests. The world is a giant fucking middle school.
JAL’s domestic flight check-in machines.
Gone are the days you could put in the credit card you paid with and it would bring up your tickets, now you have to manually input your ticket number, then for some reason confirm your identity by manually entering your name in katakana. And if you’re unfortunate enough to have a 「ー」symbol in your katakana name, then you’re shit out of luck, it’s literally not an option on the input screen – you’ll have to flag down a staff member and get them to check you in on the counter machine.
Someone in Osaka has really pissed of the thunder god.
The lack of interesting gummy flavours here is diabolical. And I don’t get why! It’s so sad. I brought some of my fave sweets back from England and the flavours just can’t compare. I was spoilt for choice for sweeties haha
Now I’ve nearly run out of my mini Percy Pigs and blue raspberry fizzy laces 🙁 but all I can get here is grape, melon, orange, grape again, lemon, soda, cola, peach, GRAPE. I’d be lucky to even find a good strawberry one!! So plain. So Showa. No imagination. Come on man😭
The company organized a party only for managers, going to Karaoke..
Feeling weird specifically for manger…
Fast food pizza toppings here suck, I just want anchovies and/or olives on my pizza but instead they are offering mayo and cream cheese…
I got back to my desk after taking a dump break at work, glanced at the dark sky outside the windows, and for a second I thought it was already like 5-6pm.
Not even close.
Well I like thunders, so there’s that.
I need a nap
My brain is terrible today, yesterday and the day before yesterday, I’m getting so little studying done.
Watching lectures feels like just putting your hand in a stream of water and letting it run by.
Shitty gym session yesterday.
劣等感/insecurity- wonder if it’ll ever go away. It’s tiring
My future- don’t really know if what I want is doable
Tired
I didn’t sleep well so that made walking to the hoikuen, working my shift, and walking back extra painful.
Hoikuen is still being petty, so I’m hoping the process to move effing speeds up.
My cheap employer wants me to fly to EU in economy. It’s 15h flight…
Unfortunately got hit with the Wuhan for the first time. I am officially Beverly Hills down and out at the moment. Body temperature hotter than the weather outside at 40.4c. *sigh*
Pregnant and got covid for the first time. My toddler is so sick he’s constantly wheezing and has a fever. The doctor checked his oxygen levels, and they were ok, but I keep checking him to make sure he’s not turning blue. Still has more energy than he should, too. I’m miserable, but luckily my husband is starting to feel better so he can take care of our son more. I just really hope the medicines we had to wait 2 and a half hours in the car at the hospital work.
For fucks sake can we get a moratorium on Japanese wife threads for a while
Today is not my day.
Went to an event with semi formal dress code in the morning, put on my only decent shirt only to realize way too late that the shirt is not in a good condition anymore. It looks worn and threadbare and has some mysterious stains. Oh well.
The nearby kebab store stopped selling beef. WHY? At least the chicken one is still good so I went with it. However, they have a new guy and he can’t wrap the kebab properly and it falls out the moment I opened the packaging.
Also, some bug I can’t stand was sitting in the stairway of my apartment and I was too yucked out to deal with it, I had to wait 15 minutes to get it to f off on its own.
Ordered Domino’s for the first time in months and totally forgot to select the double toppings option omfg 🙁 sad :(((
Had a real craving for grapes so bought some “regular” (not massive) ones and they were ¥680 and sour as fuck – tasted like wine, with loads of seeds in. 🤬 I miss my home country’s fruits selection and prices.
Went the pool and got complaints from the same staff. The recent one is coz I’m wearing a smart watch. Tbh there are full of people wearing them every time I go there and none of them said a thing. Feels like he is just picky at me. Damn stupid
Fucking dandruff came out of nowhere last November and won’t go away. Last time I had dandruff like this was nearly 20 years ago.
One more complaint, actually.
A new business opened near my apartment that advertises help with…toenail issues, I guess? (Not sure what word to use in English *or* Japanese–they call themselves a “nail salon” on Google Maps.) They have a big signboard up outside that advertises their services, showing before/after pictures with gross, infected and/or ingrown toenails. I have to pass by this sign at *least* once a day. I desperately wish I did not have to pass by the infected toenail sign at least once a day.
Seijo Ishii’s strategy of systematically dropping every item that gives me a reason to shop there instead of at competitors is intriguing. I wonder where they’re going with this.
Due to the heat I often leave my car windows cracked open to avoid it becoming an absolute oven while parked. Well, apparently a frog crawled in and got fried on the dashboard. Noticed it while driving to a friend’s house and once stopped had to scrape the dried frog off my dashboard and out of my car. It fell in my cup holder in the process. It was a somewhat traumatizing experience.
Man i know it’s just how it is sometimes, but my boyfriend (not japanese, working for japanese company) just transferred offices, and the new one is “making” him go on (unpaid) weekend outings with his superiors and have nomikai multiple times per week. It’s at the point where we’ve had to cancel so many plans and it just sucks, but i’m not sure if he can put his foot down
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Does immigration first busines department ever answer their phone?
Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems like just about every western movie released in theaters these days is some high-budget well known IP (Star Wars, Marvel, Disney etc). Usually the dialogue feels like it was written by a committee in a boardroom and half of the movie is CGI overload action schlock. I’ve really been wanting to go to a theater to see something that isn’t what I just described.
I was so excited to see Oppenheimer because it looked like it was going to scratch that itch. A historical biopic done by a prolific director with a triple A budget? Awesome! Sign me up.
But of course that’s the one western movie they won’t release over here. That haven’t officially said *why* they won’t release it here, but I think we all know the answer.
This guy at the gym needs to go the fuck home. Snorting his nose and coughing all over the place.
Complaint 2: I filled out a hospital’s contact form online to make an appointment. I had to write my emails address and my phone number. Did they email me? Of course not, and I’m not always able to answer my phone. They only call once instead of trying again an hour later or something, so it’s up to me to start a game of phone tag which I fucking *hate*. Do I tell them I’m returning a call? Do they know who I am if I just tell them my name? This whole thing could have just been an email. So once that’s all done with, they ask me when I’d like to make an appointment. I tell them next week or the week after. “Oh sorry, we’re all booked up until mid-December.” Bitch, you need to lead off with that. Now I look like an idiot because I’m asking for an appointment next week at a place that’s slammed with appointments. I need to start going out of my way to only doing business at clinics that do online appointments, none of this Showa phone bullshit.
1 – toddler really doesn’t want me to sleep. Two nights in a row she woke uo at 4am and started crying for some reason. Then last night, she was in my bed and I was on the floor and at around 2am she actually fell off and onto me. Scared the heck outta me.
2 – no cars behind me but without fail someone just has to pull out in front of me making me jump on the brakes. Time and again this happens.
3 – summer in Japan.
Why is WARM water coming out of my COLD water tap?
Its hot hot hot and I dont want to work anymore. At this point Japan is tropical country just like my 3rd world country homeland, only with expensive living expenses
So many complaints unfortunately. My teaching job just gets worse as more students join. I work from 12/1 to 9/9:30 M-F with about 30-32 classes, almost half being adult privates and the majority of those are bored housewives, obaasans, and college kids who have no interest in learning. Its soul crushing boredom and tediousness to keep any convo going. I also teach from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays. My mistake taking those classes on. Despite all this work I still make peanuts relatively speaking.
As a result of my schedule i almost never see my 1.5 year old son as hes gone before i wake up and asleep by the time I get home. It also leaves my wife exhausted as she works and takes care of him most the time. Its strained our relationship.
We live in an UR, theyve had scaffolding up on our windows/balconies going on 3 months with no end in sight. They do piecemeal projects on all different buildings at different times, rather than banging one building out at a time. So sick of the black curtains and scaffolding blocking any view and sunshine. Had to keep all our balcony furniture and plants in one bedroom and its such a clusterfuck.
And no holidays until Christmas, only 4 more months.
Oh and the cost of everything just keeps rising.
The sun has been about 6 feet from my fucking head for the last eight weeks. When will it go back to its place in the center of our solar system?
Why do they close the outdoor pools at the beginning of sept when it’s still so effing hot?!
Fucking tired of people having to document every fucking thing with their fucking smartphone cameras. I paid for warm food and an experience, not cold food and waiting for everyone to get the fuck off their phones or asking to take pictures of every goddamn thing. Do you people not have a hippocampus? Jesus H Christ.
Downvoted by Zoomers who don’t understand what human interaction is. Fuck this normalization of device addiction and social media popularity contests. The world is a giant fucking middle school.
JAL’s domestic flight check-in machines.
Gone are the days you could put in the credit card you paid with and it would bring up your tickets, now you have to manually input your ticket number, then for some reason confirm your identity by manually entering your name in katakana. And if you’re unfortunate enough to have a 「ー」symbol in your katakana name, then you’re shit out of luck, it’s literally not an option on the input screen – you’ll have to flag down a staff member and get them to check you in on the counter machine.
Someone in Osaka has really pissed of the thunder god.
The lack of interesting gummy flavours here is diabolical. And I don’t get why! It’s so sad. I brought some of my fave sweets back from England and the flavours just can’t compare. I was spoilt for choice for sweeties haha
Now I’ve nearly run out of my mini Percy Pigs and blue raspberry fizzy laces 🙁 but all I can get here is grape, melon, orange, grape again, lemon, soda, cola, peach, GRAPE. I’d be lucky to even find a good strawberry one!! So plain. So Showa. No imagination. Come on man😭
The company organized a party only for managers, going to Karaoke..
Feeling weird specifically for manger…
Fast food pizza toppings here suck, I just want anchovies and/or olives on my pizza but instead they are offering mayo and cream cheese…
I got back to my desk after taking a dump break at work, glanced at the dark sky outside the windows, and for a second I thought it was already like 5-6pm.
Not even close.
Well I like thunders, so there’s that.
I need a nap
My brain is terrible today, yesterday and the day before yesterday, I’m getting so little studying done.
Watching lectures feels like just putting your hand in a stream of water and letting it run by.
Shitty gym session yesterday.
劣等感/insecurity- wonder if it’ll ever go away. It’s tiring
My future- don’t really know if what I want is doable
Tired
I didn’t sleep well so that made walking to the hoikuen, working my shift, and walking back extra painful.
Hoikuen is still being petty, so I’m hoping the process to move effing speeds up.
My cheap employer wants me to fly to EU in economy. It’s 15h flight…
Unfortunately got hit with the Wuhan for the first time. I am officially Beverly Hills down and out at the moment. Body temperature hotter than the weather outside at 40.4c. *sigh*
Pregnant and got covid for the first time. My toddler is so sick he’s constantly wheezing and has a fever. The doctor checked his oxygen levels, and they were ok, but I keep checking him to make sure he’s not turning blue. Still has more energy than he should, too. I’m miserable, but luckily my husband is starting to feel better so he can take care of our son more. I just really hope the medicines we had to wait 2 and a half hours in the car at the hospital work.
For fucks sake can we get a moratorium on Japanese wife threads for a while
Today is not my day.
Went to an event with semi formal dress code in the morning, put on my only decent shirt only to realize way too late that the shirt is not in a good condition anymore. It looks worn and threadbare and has some mysterious stains. Oh well.
The nearby kebab store stopped selling beef. WHY? At least the chicken one is still good so I went with it. However, they have a new guy and he can’t wrap the kebab properly and it falls out the moment I opened the packaging.
Also, some bug I can’t stand was sitting in the stairway of my apartment and I was too yucked out to deal with it, I had to wait 15 minutes to get it to f off on its own.
Ordered Domino’s for the first time in months and totally forgot to select the double toppings option omfg 🙁 sad :(((
Had a real craving for grapes so bought some “regular” (not massive) ones and they were ¥680 and sour as fuck – tasted like wine, with loads of seeds in. 🤬
I miss my home country’s fruits selection and prices.
Went the pool and got complaints from the same staff. The recent one is coz I’m wearing a smart watch. Tbh there are full of people wearing them every time I go there and none of them said a thing. Feels like he is just picky at me. Damn stupid
Fucking dandruff came out of nowhere last November and won’t go away. Last time I had dandruff like this was nearly 20 years ago.
One more complaint, actually.
A new business opened near my apartment that advertises help with…toenail issues, I guess? (Not sure what word to use in English *or* Japanese–they call themselves a “nail salon” on Google Maps.) They have a big signboard up outside that advertises their services, showing before/after pictures with gross, infected and/or ingrown toenails. I have to pass by this sign at *least* once a day. I desperately wish I did not have to pass by the infected toenail sign at least once a day.
Seijo Ishii’s strategy of systematically dropping every item that gives me a reason to shop there instead of at competitors is intriguing. I wonder where they’re going with this.
Due to the heat I often leave my car windows cracked open to avoid it becoming an absolute oven while parked. Well, apparently a frog crawled in and got fried on the dashboard. Noticed it while driving to a friend’s house and once stopped had to scrape the dried frog off my dashboard and out of my car. It fell in my cup holder in the process. It was a somewhat traumatizing experience.
Man i know it’s just how it is sometimes, but my boyfriend (not japanese, working for japanese company) just transferred offices, and the new one is “making” him go on (unpaid) weekend outings with his superiors and have nomikai multiple times per week. It’s at the point where we’ve had to cancel so many plans and it just sucks, but i’m not sure if he can put his foot down