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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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When I don’t follow up on a request at work I get told:
“Why did you forget to do this?”
When I ask a coworker to do something and they don’t respond I get told:
“Why didn’t you remind them?”
So in either situation I guess its basically my fault lol
Pollen!
Home sick with the flu, not getting paid, this sucks
Signed up for a new card. Told the registration staff that my long name needed to be on the card to link it with a bank account. “Oh it’s fine, our system has a space limit!”
IT WAS NOT FINE. Immediately got the old “error the name on this card does not match the bank account” message when trying to register. Now I have to waste part of my weekend dealing with the card’s annoying call center.
BIt of a stretch to class this as a complaint, but the description also says stuff that’s been bugging us, so I’ll go with that.
As there have been a fair few posts about landlords trying to raise rent and my renewal is due later in the year, I’m trying to gather data in advance just in case.
While doing so, I noticed my building isn’t listed *anywhere* online anymore, not even on the site for the original real estate where we signed the contract. There is one postbox that’s been taped up for a while and another with lots of junk mail in. From the outside, neither have curtains, so assuming they’re both empty units BUT not being advertised. Got a friend who has access to REINS and they couldn’t find info on the building either so now I’m wondering if it’s going to be sold, if I’m going to be kicked out or maybe even if there was a double murder in those two units I wasn’t aware of….
Ive got to go on a business trip and my point of contact is this loser guy who lives at home still and also works with his parents. He is in hi 40s who doesn’t know how to sustain conversation and has developed no social skills with his time on this planet. Despite this he tries to extend meetings as long as possible despite already covering everything we need to discuss. He practically begs to take me to dinner every time I’m in town, often stealing my time from more important customers who would like to do the same.
If I do end up going to dinner with him, it’s an easy extra 2 hours of akward stiff conversation with a ton of silence in between.
He has even tried to extend further by saying we should get an air bnb together.
Bro is actually nice but his quiet desperation is so off-putting. On my way to see him right now 🙁
Waiting for my kid’s graduation to start and migraine triggered in minutes. So many parents bathe themselves in the cheapest most terrible smelling perfume and cologne imaginable.
Pollen + another running related injury.
As a cyclist who stays in their lane/edge to best of ability/situation, the drivers who speed up to cut in front of me to only suddenly brake and slowly make a turn…(no pedestrians crossing at the moment, just waiting for me to squeeze/serpentine between the curb and their metal death trap??)
Was handed my new contract for next term- Apr 26 to Mar 27- and my monthly wage was raised by 2%. That’s even less than inflation rates. Was expecting at least 3%, ideally 4%+, but alas, not happening. If they don’t convert me to seishain come next renewal- Apr 27- I’ll switch jobs, lol.
I’m still here 🙋🏽♂️
Looking for an import or export related job at a gaishikei but have had no luck thus far, and not sure exactly where or how to look for the best opportunities. Ship is sinking over here with no fixes in sight.
Tourists are annoying and take up too much space but I try to be chill as I have been in their shoes traveling in other countries. But there are certain things that are basic human common sense like: standing in a large group with suitcases right in front of the gates to one of busiest train stations in the world is a selfish and stupid thing to do. So yes, I am chill but if you do this I am going to publicly remonstrate you and tell you to GTF out of the way so don’t look so butthurt about it.
Had a hangnail find its way under my nail bed somehow and now I’ve developed paronychia on my finger. The pain is gone and the swelling itself has gone down, so it’s probably healing but annoying nonetheless.
Still not knowing if the physical release of Crimson Deserts supports full English or nah? 🙁
Also, why is the digital version almost ichiman in the PSN store? 🙁 🙁
Ugggh why is my 5 year old in HOIKUEN coming home with italian brainrot character names and songs (? I don’t even know)🫠 Okay this is a rhetorical question lol, one of the girls in his class knows them all and has a keychain of one of the characters so that’s where this is coming from but. seriously? at age 5…?
Walk straight. Walk straight. Walk straight. WALK straight. WALK Straight! WALK STRAIGHT! WALK FUCKING STRAIGHT!!!! Tired of people going into one direction and then just suddenly decide the other direction is better without a care in the world of people around them. Ffs
Mid day on a weekday in not even tokyo and the train is so packed people can’t even stand without touching eachother. Where is this population decline? I’d like some of that to actually make its effects known.
I hate when I find good restaurants in the popular areas of Osaka. There’s this really good udon place I want to go to in Dotonbori, but I always gotta line up for an hour outside.
One thing that annoys me at the gym is the device use. Not if you’re just checking your phone or whatever but the blatant multitasking type. Taking way too long between sets because you lost your concentration and get lost in the video you’re watching when people are waiting to use the machine. Another example, one guy has a magnetic stand that he sticks to the smith machine to put his phone on and watch stuff in-between sets. Also, sometimes people have tablets which just looks a bit silly.
This week blew that all away. A guy (tourist I think) came in with his laptop. In-between his bench press sets he had it open and was typing stuff, then on the machines put it on top. Have you no shame?
To be honest, for me the gym is the time I can properly escape screens and the noise.
My cat keeps stepping in their shit.
The amount of people who don’t queue up to get on the trains it’s making me angry.
I don’t know how people can be so blind to walk past people who have obviously been waiting and just push their way on the train. I fucking hate it.
The school year ended with little fanfare for me. No goodbyes. No maybe see you next year. I’ve regretfully been a JHS ALT for 20 years, but by now I wish I could just feel a little bit a part of the team or like what I said mattered.
This isolation is really killing me slowly. Sure I didn’t go to school to be a teacher and I don’t intend to. But my experiences and opinion should matter since I am a part of the team.
On the flipside, thank god for spring break. I need some time to clear my head because my stress is coming out in my comments too much.
Fuck this job.
It’s really unfortunate that of the 5 upper level managers, I truly respect one of them and could picture her as a career mentor. The rest, however, are so tunnel visioned that I’ve already made my mind up to quit after my biannual bonus is paid.
My neck hurts. I’ve had three cars try and pull out in front of me today, one was a cop! I’m so tired from the adrenaline since a fully loaded truck cant stop on a dime. So that was fun.
I’m a private school teacher and a few weeks ago I complained on here about students being horrible, bullying me, following me, sexually harassing me and so on. I followed the advice and told my school about what happened with evidence like recordings and so on. Warned the school that it was affecting my mental health and despite all my previous complaints, nothing had ever been done. I stressed that I didn’t want to be moved to a different grade, I just wanted parents to be contacted.
Well. Instead I got a bunch of fake apologies (with comically fake crying) about how sorry they felt for me, I got asked if I wanted to be escorted around the school by another teacher (who is coincidentally also heavily bullied by students, thus making us both excellent targets) and so on. I declined the escort because I wasn’t afraid they would physically hurt me but rather mentally exhausted by the harassment. They suggested speaking to the parents (my original request…). They came back 2 weeks later saying the student had refused to confess and said they don’t know anything about what I accused them of. I said that it’s as expected.
We received our grade assignments for next year. Despite what I said, I’ve been moved grade. I’ve been with this grade since their first year at this school and was a HR teacher for them. I’m devastated. They asked me if I was happy… I said obviously no??? I explicitly asked to not be moved? And they were like “あ，そうですか？あ，ごめんね!” ????? What the fuck? I’m so angry lol I’m basically being punished for complaining about the serious mental harm it was causing me. I’m never complaining again. The grade I’ve been moved to has no other women and is JUST boring ojisan who don’t speak any English aka I’ve lost all my support and help and friends. I don’t even know these students. I want to fucking quit. I’m so done with these passive aggressive actions.
With all this Takaichi bullshit and the lack of progress in anything in Japan or in the workplace… I think 2027 will be my last year here. I genuinely thought I’d settle here but fuck this, I’m so tired of the way things work here. It’s been 3 years and I’m finally reaching my limit lol.
Nobody in my company knows what lunch break means.
Stop pinging me on slack while I’m trying to sleep, ffs
I’m so effing fed up with doctors and hospitals here!
A while ago I posted about my old diabetes doctor retiring and him telling me I could go back to my internist (nike,who had refered me to my diabetes doctor), only for him to tell me I had to go to a diabetes specialist, which he referred me to, and having to go through the whoe registering and testing process again.
Finally got in to see the new doctor, went through the *entire* process again (because, again, we can’t consult hospital records or request records from a former doctor; “we don’t do that here” 🙄), and meanwhile, I’ve been without my Libre sensor patches or the stab- my-fingers needles and test strip back up…..just to have this doctor tell me “Oh, but if you’re on Mounjaro, we can’t prescribe you Libre sensors.” 😳 Huh?? I’ve *been* on Mounjaro *and* using Libre sensors for the past year *both by prescription* from my former doctor, a diabetes specialist, so WTAF????? When I told him this and asked what he was talking about, and *WHY????*, he just says he doesn’t know why, shrugs, and says that’s what “the medical board says”. WHAT??? So, my former doctor was doing something illegal? And *why* is it illegal if so? All he can do is say, well….no….not really…., and the stupid, infuriating laugh/rub the back of his neck thing.
So, here we are, no sensors, which, btw, were prescribed specifically because there were problems getting enough blood out of my fingers to activate the strip for the reading to begin with, and back again to stabbing my fingers multiple times a day. 😭
FFS!! *SOMEBODY* make it make *SENSE* !!!!!! 🤬
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