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It's the weekly complaint thread! Time to get anything off your chest that's been bugging you or pissing you off.
Remain civil and be nice to other commenters (even try to help).
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My bike got a flat tire last week. I thought it was odd, since it was fine, then I parked at my son’s school and it was completely flat when he got on a few minutes later. But, whatever.
Then, two days ago, I ride the bike two km with a baby on board, zero problems, park it at the same school (but in a different place, just in case) and when we get back, not only is the new tire flat, but the valve cap is missing.
Guess I’m not taking my bike to that school anymore.
my mother in law is staying with us for 3 months.
I’m nine months pregnant and everything I want to eat gives me heartburn and everything else makes me nauseous. Yay.
every goddamn year, I ask why my corporate planning department is the one in charge of making the attendance list for a 200-300-person event. general affairs is always like “you should do it more THIS way” or, when I revised the order of a list so it *made more sense*, they were just like “nah the vibes are wrong, put it back.” and HR, which obviously knows *everything* about *everyone* refuses to do it because waaaah it’s hard. no shit?? but if we accidentally put person A in front of person B, or we didn’t put in person C because they have a super hush-hush contract that normal employees wouldn’t know about, yall flip your shit on us??
I have also been made emcee of a dinner party after said event, which has like 100 attendees, who are all 100% Japanese and 99% jijis. I swear to fuckin god if someone complains that my pitch accent was wrong or I pronounced something incorrectly, well, that is all on the rest of you native Japanese wimps who refused to do it and left a foreigner in charge.
Why do people on bicycles take blind corners as tight as possible?
Youtube has been giving me some really weird ads recently. Like ads that are very clearly scams.
They usually start with some guy clearly reading off a script with little to no emotion in his voice, talking about how if you connect with him on LINE he will teach you the secret to making 20m yen in 1 week.
Dont get who falls for this shit or why youtube allows for stuff that is very clearly a scam.
Feeling pretty humdrum lately, nothing very interesting happening now or in the horizon.
Dumped an eye-watering amount of cash on tools and materials for cosplay, but it’s making me more irritated than anything, the lack of workable space in my home and the trial and error to make the shapes correctly is really grinding my tits.
I got a weird infection in my left ear and can’t hear shit. The doctor said it would be gone in 2-3 days, but it’s still the same. The steroids ear drops I got do nothing…
Also, couldn’t get another ticket for the Expo tomorrow, so now I have a day off and nothing to do, so I’ll be going to the doctor again. Ugh.
What’s with all the new drug stores recently? There was already three in a ten minute walk but now adding a Tomads and another Suga? Why? I don’t understand how the area can sustain the three already there.
The stupidest, vilest, rudest, most disrespectful, hateful, and discriminatory shit can be said and done as long as you use keigo.
Needing to work on the release day of Ghost of Yotei 🙁
Coke going up in price again… Can’t we even have small luxuries anymore?
My go to for crunchy snacks, some “non-fry” edamame chips, has gone the shrinkflation route. Now a pack only has four servings instead of five. The little bags are already only half packed in anyway so I was incredibly nettled.
Why do people in my neighborhood feel the need to go pedal to the medal while driving? You can audibly hear them pressing the accelerator going through neighborhoods where people live. This is especially true among delivery drivers but not limited to them. They then go to a stop sign, slam their brakes, then back to full acceleration. This despite the roads are narrow and children/elderly are around, not safe at all
Why Japanese people?
Still no census form. If I have to go to the city office I will be very annoyed…
This happened a bit ago but I was reminded of it and now need to vent again.
A guy fell off his bike in the park and messed up his head pretty bad. I was jogging and had a towel and extra shirt on hand so was able to use that to staunch the blood flow.
The paramedics show up to take the guy away and ask me to trash the blood-covered stuff and I’m just like, wtf am I supposed to do with it?! I’m in the middle of Yoyogi and you want me to just carry a handful of bloody—not even my blood—clothes around until some store lets me throw it in their trash?! Luckily some Japanese bikers nearby had a plastic bag and said they’d take care of it, but like wth…
Ever since I relocated my PC there has been a constant low hum out of any audio source I use as soon as it shows up in windows mixer. Thought finally upgrading to win11 would solve it, but didn’t. I troubleshot a bit and it’s possibly do to lack of ground but what can I do with a 2 prong outlet..
My daughter wanted to go to an aquarium the other day and as we’ve been to a bunch already I decided on Sumida Aquarium and boy is that place over priced for what you actually get, particularly compared to the other places.
Heard prices are going up again. There was a bit on the news that most pet bottle drinks if not all have broken 200円 since yesterday, October 1st.
One headline read:５００ミリのペットボトル飲料 １０月から１本２００円台に
Managers being dickheads.
Electricity bill for last month cost an arm and a leg – blaming the aircons (plural) – but without them we’d probably have died.
Our “manager” decided our network passwords were not strong enough. Since he doesn’t know how to change it he had the brilliant idea at the last meeting that if we change our service provider we will get new passwords. He isn’t wrong….but..
Anyway my complaint is the new wifi sucks.
I am fed up with Japanese colleagues being poor communicators and having poor logical thinking skills. They are constantly using vague, generic terminology to refer to specific items or concepts and expect everyone else to just read their minds. Any time I point out something or make a suggestion I am always rebuffed with a redefinition of some vague, generic term, and that redefinition conveniently fits whatever agenda they’re trying to push. They also change the premise or objective behind a project after the fact, again to fit their agenda, except any cursory logical analysis of the new premise shows no link to our project. Of course if I point this out I’m shot down with “it doesn’t matter it’s already done.”
The maddening part is these people have advanced degrees which require clear communication and sound logic to obtain, yet instead they use nothing but sophistry to justify their busywork that I’m also forced to take part in.
One person in particular always frames these communication issues as a language barrier issue because I’m the only foreigner in the department. This person also frequently makes snide remarks directed towards me in public emails. I’ve already filed a harassment claim and talked to my boss but the institution is stuck in a position where said person is too invaluable to penalize, but my departure would also be disastrous for them; though I’m not sure how much they realize that because my value isn’t overtly visible beyond the courseload that I teach.
Bread knife’s handle broke, rendering it unusable (or, at least, wildly unsafe to use). Went to Nitori to pick up a new one, and I nearly forgot that their self-checkout screens run on the shortest timer in the world.
I press the “cash” button. I open my wallet, already in my hand, to pull out a bill. In that time, I get a pop-up saying that the screen hasn’t been used in a while, so it’s going to time out if I don’t touch it soon. Let a guy breathe!
Forgot the 10,000 yen change in the machine after recharging my Suica. I realized it 5 minutes later when paying at the 7/11 next to the station.
Ran back and spoke with the station staff. They checked the cameras, and it seems that one person put it aside, but another took it. FML
What’s with so many cyclists being up on the sidewalk, and then acting as if *’they’* have more rights to the sidewalk, vs pedestrians?
Here in Tokyo, I see all types and all ages, up on the sidewalk (…I’m mainly talking about sidewalks where there is no separate section, for cyclists vs pedestrians…). It doesn’t matter if they are on a mamachari…if they are an older person…many of them are going way too fast, for my comfort.
Every time I’m on the sidewalk here (maybe more so in certain residential areas, and on certain streets)…I must constantly pivot my head to see if a cyclist is coming up from behind…every time I’m crossing a small alley I must look, first, to ensure a cyclist is not about to speed thru (without even slowing down to see if pedestrians are about to step into the sidewalk area, at the end of the alley), etc. The thing is, cyclists can and do injure/kill pedestrians
It irritating, that I can’t even relax while I’m up on the Sidewalk (a place where pedestrians are supposed to feel safe). And I notice that everyone else in my midst…all the other pedestrians…no one blinks an eye at these cyclists (perhaps due to the idea that, culturally, folks aren’t supposed to make waves…they are supposed to avoid conflict, or any expressions of displeasure….). In instances where a cyclist here clearly alarmed me…was going too fast…and I sorta gave them a ‘look’, not once did they say ‘gomen’ or give any indication that they realized they were in the wrong. In fact, it feels like the total opposite…this attitude of ‘what are you (pedestrian) doing in my way?!’
Increasingly bad driving manners in supermarket parking lots. I mean when you’re ready to cross a pedestrian crossing in a parking lot and people just don’t stop to let you cross. Don’t get me started on regular crossings on actual roads. And apparently if you don’t stop at a crossing at a supermarket or drugstore etc, it’s still a fineable offense.
I feel as though, whatever your bad trait is, being at a Costco with a shopping cart in your hands will supercharge that bad trait.
If you are absent minded in your daily life, it will be at a whole new level. You’ll park your cart in the absolute middle of an aisle with tens of people behind you while you go off to wait in line at some promotion stall to try a grape.
If you’re impatient, you’ll grow frustrated in record time after the absentminded clogged up every corner of the store while you try to just get in and out.
If you’re a glutton, you’ll order an entire pizza, sit down at the food court by yourself, crack off a drumstick from the rotisserie chicken you bought on the way in, and eat it on top of the pizza, all by your lonesome.
Luckily, I merely observed the first and last one. Definitely fall into the second one though.
THE TRAIN LOUDSPEAKERS
What. The. Fuck.
My ears hurt from pushing my earbuds in as hard as I can. I’m trying to use Renshuu or Duo on the train but all I hear is nonstop nanny nonsense.
“Don’t walk holding a cell phone, you might fall on the tracks.”
“Don’t talk on your phone”
“Be courteous of others”
They play these three announcements and then announce the next stop, and then announce when we’ve arrived at the stop, and then announce the next stop as soon as we pull out, and then make the three announcements again. They do it in Japanese first, and then English. Occasionally they’ll even throw in Mandarin and Korean. And then the train driver himself will announce the next 2-3 stops. This repeats in an endless cycle.
There’s almost no moment of silence for the entire trip. I cannot state how much I hate this. Japan’s trains are the noisiest trains I have ever rode in my entire life, and I’ve been to 41 countries. For all the blathering about being courteous and not talking on the phone, it is the loudest transit environment probably on the planet.
HOW LONG BEFORE THE COLD TAP WATER STOPS BEING HOT I hate this country’s weather for half the year sometimes.
them stinkbugs gotta go
A long time ago, back home, I once had a colleague who smelled so bad that eventually the manager had to speak to him about it. Turned out he had been unemployed for a long time beforehand, and couldn’t really afford hot water to shower and wash his clothes. The guy on the treadmill next to me today smelled like him.
Remind me again as an admin, why do I have to explain every single thing from SPF records to distribution lists to M365 groups to every single Japanese employee from staff to director level?
Can’t it be just “this is not going to work, so don’t do this but I recommend this”???
Why does every single Japanese employee have to pretend they understand advanced IT terms in order to report to their boss who probably doesn’t understand the same as well?
In my global company, only the Japanese employees are like this, people from other regions don’t ask us to do fucking root cause analysis for every single little thing.
Prick, you’re trying to send to an “email address” with the domain name misspelled, of course it’s not gonna work. I don’t want to or need to explain the history of email to you.
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