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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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Didn’t see a stepping stone at the outdoor bath at the local hot spring because I was checking if one of the baths was empty while walking, and broke my toe in the process. So that’s great.
I thought my kids were pretty well insulated from western memes but somehow they started picking up italian brainrot names and have been talking about them non-stop with each other. I’m both proud that their english is so thoroughly ingrained that they can easily break into meme culture but also super annoyed at listening to this nonsense lol.
Dear Customer:
Your computer with a fast CPU, 64 GB of system memory, and 10 TB of storage will no longer be supported because it has the *wrong* fast CPU.
Sincerely,
Microsoft
^(Linux is already installed and I’m training my family in using it.)
So I am going to get my usual conbini snack, and right in front of this magnificent shop ( a Family Mart), there is a Japanese man, 40s, pacing back and forth while coughing his lungs out. No mask, no elbow coughing, just a fucking germs-spreading machine shooting on full auto mode for 2 solid minutes. The guy did not give a shit at all, and I am starting to see more and more individuals like him recently, forgetting the good old Covid habits.
Also, Last time, in the Yamanote, I was seeing in the window the reflection of a guy behind me, picking his nose like forever, his finger almost never left his nostril.
*I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn’t you agree?*
It was disgusting. And the only time he was stopping, was to grab the handle with the same hand.
No seriously, people are disgusting.
So don’t forget:
– Wear a mask
– Don’t touch your face
– As soon as you arrive where you are supposed to, wash your hands with soap
I’ve been so busy and stressed and what’s happening is I’m making small mistakes at work. These then have a tendency to cascade, either at my job in some way or, worse, in my head. I’m longing for work where I don’t have to think very much.
– 運転免許学科試験.
– only being able to take the test at the 運転免許センター, and it’s 13 fucking km away from the nearest train station, and 5km away from the nearest conbini.
– only being able to take the 学科試験on weekdays, forcing you to take days off work
– having to go back because ur damn 住民票expired
– everything at 運転免許センター’s shop is overpriced
I’m really tired of the ineptitude of some of the people in Japanese companies. They pretend to be very isogashii isogashii, but in reality they don’t do anything. And it infuriates me even more that these inept people are getting money when all they do is suck the company’s tits. Coincidentally, I’ve found that this applies mostly to ojiisan and spinsters.
My computer started restarting randomly. When it would stay up, I noticed the CPU temp was a bit high. Bought some thermal paste. Also some voltage issues so bought a power supply. It got to the point I couldn’t get it to stay on for more than a couple seconds.
Thermal paste was a good call; the old paste had basically separated (I think the cooler doesn’t lock in place very well which doesn’t help). Temps are much nicer now.
Turns out, I now have a bonus power supply new-in-box since the problem (at least so far) seems to have just been the cable going to the graphics card (though I haven’t ruled out something in the graphics card itself; modern ones have coolers that make it difficult to see if any pins have bad solder joints or something).
My linux laptop doesn’t like to wake from sleep suddenly and I don’t know what that’s about.
My Pixel watch also loves to vibrate and never show me any notification (activity notifications are off, so not the thing everyone complains about). Yesterday, for the first time, the screen just decided to stop working. Thankfully, rebooting it solved it for now. This is the replacement for my previous one that I had to RMA.
My doorbell (also google) decided to stop working (also had to RMA it once) so I’m looking into that. Suddenly just doesn’t notice any activity and come on at all despite people coming.
So much enshitification on to of other issues.
ragweed season is definitely here which feels not great.
Stop pinging me on Slack during lunch hour! I’m trying to sleep, dammit!
As usual, fuck work.
I’m underpaid, undertrained, under-rested, overstretched, overqualified, overmanaged and overburdened.
I want out.
Not so much a complaint but a funny observation.
The USA pavilion at the Expo seems to have closed due to the government shutdown.
My complaint is that I’m not able to go a last time before it ends on Monday, but at least my last visit was fun and I got to see almost every pavilion I wanted.
Ever heard of “face huggers”? I’ve got something scarier for you this October: wall huggers.
These are horrifying individuals who are convinced that the shortest distance between two points is the nearest wall. A “wall” can be anything—a blind corner of a building, a lone car in a small parking lot, a tree. If even a single half-step can be saved by veering off a visible walking path and instead shoulder checking a wall for an extended period, then the wall hugger will speed-walk along that wall with no regard for other human life.
So be careful this Halloween: Just when you think you’re walking safely along a path at night, a wall hugger may rush out the other side of a kei truck on a dark night in way that will make you say, “Did you really just cut through a 5 meter wide parking lot and sidle along a car to save 5 steps?”
You’ve been warned!
I had a brain fart and mixed up my daughter’s sports day event as being scheduled on Monday, not Saturday, where I had made some plans and appointments for. Luckily I realized and managed to reschedule those plans for the Monday instead so I can attend the sports day event care free. Now the forecast is calling for rain on the morning of the event, and it might be rescheduled to the Monday instead.
It is impossible to get Oasis tickets. I’ve tried every lottery and resale to no avail. Sucks. Plenty on resale sites for 100,000 per ticket though. F that!
Looking for a parking space in the local supermarket car park. It’s all parked up but finally find a space exactly where I want and start to back into it. Then in the rear view mirror out of nowhere I see an old bag standing in the space, looking around. I just slowly edge backwards, really slowly, but she’s not moving. Wind the window down to get a good look from the side and keep edging backwards. Other cars have showed up and are obviously getting impatient. It seems this old bag is trying to keep the space for her husband… first time I’ve seen that happen in Japan. I’m not stopping though, and I start wondering how this will play out. Then suddenly a kind of horrible witch face appears at my window, right in my face, saying “Koko de hontou ni chuusha suru no???” Yeah, what do you think I’m going to do?? Just ignored her and parked anyway.
Workplace assholes are allowed to be assholes as long as they kiss the right asses and bring enough to the table. Poor old me who just wants to apply what skills I have while on the clock then go the fuck home when the bell rings gets the short end of the stick because Japan’s harassment laws are so weak that the bully can weasel out of anything by saying “sorry not sorry I didn’t mean to say it like that.” Human society is a travesty. Instead of using our advanced brains to enact progress, we use them to obfuscate basic animalistic shit-throwing under layers and layers of sophisticated structures that try to tell us that our shit-throwing is anything but actual shit-throwing.
Toothpaste: the “unflavoured + fluoride” combo does not seem to exist here. Everything is mint flavoured and/or lacks fluoride. I absolutely despise mint and it makes me gag immediately.
Neighbours got a security camera and some odd thing that sounds like a PlayStation noise. No idea why people have those motion detector things.
Also, apparently, you can’t feed stray cats.
I wanted to go hiking this weekend, but what the heck is this weather 🙁
The worst thing about typhoons isnt the typhoon itself but the lead up in the days before.
Its always the same, everyone talks about the typhoon, people say it will arrive on x day, then later its y day, friends will change plans around its predicted arrival, lots of time wasted talking and thinking about it.
Then 90% of the time it changes course last minute and doesnt even reach Tokyo, or its much weaker then expected and barely classified as a typhoon.
At least this time the projected map looks like a penis and I can make childish jokes with my friends about it.
Typhoon 23’s path keeps changing, and currently looks like it’s going to hit my city on Sunday. Not only is it a weekend day, but I also have concert tickets that day. 🙁
If I had a nickle every time someone fat fingered some file on the server at work, I could buy a house in downtown Tokyo.
Teacher is freaking out because the kids did badly on their speaking test this morning. I suggested she let them practice next time. She said that’s not good because she doesn’t want “memorize English.” This is elementary mind you.
The incompetence of English teaching is just funny at this point.
I am tired of being told in job interviews that I am not a senior frontend engineer because I don’t know answers to obscure trivia questions.
Yesterday was the most obscure question of them all.
> In Javascript, what does `{} == {}` evaluate to?
# WHY ARE THERE STILL MOSQUITOES?!?!
I know, I know, the answer is: AI datacenters.
1 – we just unloaded a container full of furniture and boy was it dangerous. WorkSafe would be rubbing their hands together if they here. Boss almost had a massive fall when a heavy highboard was dropped.
2 – I appreciate the fact you want to help but you’re only in the way. You’re afraid of butterflies ffs, and look like you have never done any physical labour in your life. Please stay away from heavy stuff.
3 – my body is fucked up and distorted. Need to correct that. If only I had some time
Publish or perish is such a fuckin’ farce. With millions of researchers around the globe within the same fields how is it even statistically possible for everyone to regularly pump out novel, useful research?
Newsflash: It isn’t.
After many years I still mix up youchien and hoikuen. Even though learning left and right as a kid took no time.
Those piss grapes all over the pavement, fucking hell
had thai curry two days ago and tortilla chili corn chips yesterday and i have been having acId reflux flare up right now.. 😭
Burnt out on corporate life. Need to come up with a plan to do something else. I have zero motivation at work these days and I know work isnt always sunshine but damn sometimes Id like to have days Im just okay to be there.
Going to Tokyo on Saturday, but our local sports festival is on Sunday.
Boo-urns, I would have loved to stay a night and chill, checking out the burger place someone recommended me on here.
edit: Downvoted for a complaint about a business trip? fun times.
Searching for a new apartment because I’m changing job, all the good ones I wanted to go in are not on for foreigners..
100 searched, 3 available without at least one of the thing I wanted for it
The job market for junior developers is brutal right now.
I have around 2 years of experience at a Japanese Haken company and JLPT N1, but I’m only making around 4M JPY a year.
I’ve been trying hard to find a role that pays closer to 5–6M, but I keep getting ghosted or told that my expectations are too high after interviews.
The Japanese way of basing offers on your current salary plus 10–15% makes it even harder to break out of the low pay cycle, and most of the foreign companies I apply to are only hiring mid-level or senior engineers.
The grind continues.
a sales department done fucked up and got their customers’ data stolen, so while it has *nothing directly to do with me*, as some of the customers were foreign, I have been placed on official English apology letter/announcement-translation duty. I am just sending it through ChatGPT and then editing it afterwards because I have a load of other way more important things to be doing, but it’s still irritating given that each letter/announcement has gone through like, minimum three rounds of revisions at this point… entirely due to the damage control department having like zero protocol for when this kind of shit happens, so they keep changing their mind.
I was messaging someone somewhat formally and his name in LINE was like 井花子, and I thought the 井 was a hashtag and replied back with 花子さん – oops
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