Weekly Complaint Thread – 11 April 2026

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2. Marty, by complaining on the 10th, you created an alternate future on the 11th. We have to go back in time and fix it.

3. Why does it take so long for them to install fiber to your brand new house? 2+ months is a joke.

4. Stop buying cheap daiso shit, fellow coworkers. We replace simple items more often because of this never ending idea that Daiso is king when it comes to cheap things. Spending extra 200 yen for a product that lasts 10x as long? No thank you. Buying same garbage every week just cause ‘Daiso is cheap and convenient!’ Yes, daddy.

5. Construction and commissioning at our project finished months ago, and I have literally no work to do. Its extremely boring. I’ve been trying to fill in the time by reading up on some engineering textbooks, but eight hours of nothing everyday is excessive.

   I got a job offer for a site manager position, which is good, but I’m not sure if I can take it without pissing off my current 派遣 and burning my bridges with the EPC. They’ve actually been really good to me, and my current job pays well, but the SM role would lead to a much better future long term.

6. Recently in my sleepy little residential corner of West Tokyo, there’s anywhere from 2-6 middle aged guys from the same global region sitting at the local playground blasting music, smoking, video calling, staring at people uncomfortably and attempting to Nanpa the local mums. There are rules signed around the park for many of these things that of course go ignored and unenforced. The playground in the last couple of months has gone from a thriving social area in the afternoon to basically deserted, and it’s depressing to see.

   I really try to ignore all the negative crap I see online and try sympathize, but it really feels like there are so many shitty foreigners these days, both tourists and residents that it’s dragging us down as a whole.

7. one of my coworkers is so fucking yappy. so much of it is humble bragging about how good he is at his rather niche sport, but another good part of it is forcibly telling anyone who will listen about whatever he heard on the news or a podcast or on YouTube. sometimes it is tangentially work-related, most times it is not. he just talks SO MUCH at work, apparently because he barely talks at home. (which is a whole separate problem as he is recently married – if your wife is happier when you don’t talk, should you really be married? but that’s for another time)

   and another mountain of soul-sucking work on a tight deadline. I am 100% sure my manager and boss can see that my eyes take on the glaze of that of a dead fish whenever they drag me into another meeting about another stupid Excel-oriented project, but they are not the least bit apologetic about it. whatever, I’m still leaving at 5 today, idgaf.

8. Anyone else struggle getting off buses when they’re packed?

   You’re stuck behind a wall of people, no space to move, and by the time you finally squeeze through it feels like you’re about to miss your stop. Everyone just stands there and doesn’t shift until the last second.

   Today the driver even started pulling away just as I was about to tap my IC card to get off. Had to rush it at the last second.

   It’s happened before too where I couldn’t get off in time and ended up stuck going to the next stop and walking back.

   Honestly makes me dread taking the bus.🚌

9. dear jr chuo line, please stop having jinshi accidents. im trying to get to work on time.

10. Refrigerate your strawberries immediately, some are sold to self destruct (kabi) 8 hours after purchase.

11. Mansion management company fucksticks trying to illegally raise my rent. I went through their online form (as instructed) and rejected their 24,000yen increase and 24,000yen shikikin but will renew under my previous terms. Ghosted. Not even an automated confirmation email.

    Today I got a letter saying that the raised amount and shikikin will be withdrawn from my bank account on the 27th. They did not include a new copy of the agreement form so they clearly know I still have it. They also did not ask for agreement, they just said, “here’s the amount that’s going to be withdrawn.”

    Fucking bollocks. Even if I didn’t outright reject their demands, but did not send the agreement form, they can’t legally charge increased rent, can they?

12. Professor showed us a picture of human remains. Of various ages. Like damn dude that’s heavy for 9am…

13. Why do I have to make sure I properly clock in and out to record the overtime you scheduled me to work, then input the overtime code myself into our time management system, and then separately fill out a piece of paper saying that I worked overtime so that management will approve it? 

14. I just moved to Sendai from Fukuoka and it’s fucking freezing.

15. Weirdly unflexible even about part time unsilled jobs. Like why would they need such long unbreakable contracts, and don’t accept short term visas? If they pay that little they should be happy to have anyone.

16. My company told me they aren’t giving me a new contract and I have to find a new job now. Hate job hunting. And I am in a weird position where going to my work is draining me emotionally.

    Just in a weird place in life rn. Not a complaint really, just needed to say this and not feel so sad all the time.

17. Happened to see my coworker when getting on the train after work last night. Gave them an お疲れ様です as they walked by but they completely ignored me. Didn’t even attempt to look at me lol. I’ve heard this happening to other people but it still seems bizarre people can’t manage to a simple greeting back. I get wanting to keep your work life and private life separate but completely ignoring someone you know by just straight up ignoring them seems cold hearted to me.

18. My local super market, Life, just adopted self checkouts with annoying noises and now the whole checkout area sounds like a Pachinko parlor 😫

19. My local supermarket stop selling sugar free Jello that I used to lose weight. Felt like I just got cut off from a drug supply.

20. Highschool kids don’t need to sit when on the train.  The pampered shits are sitting all day at school.  (Fuck, I’ve become a grumpy old man…)

    The neighbourhood association and where it flushes our money.  It gives some of the fees to two local shrines and the big one in Ise.  We managed to get that part refunded (I’m not Shinto), and they pay for insurance for the neighbourhood cleanup  Ffs, I hold a bag and tongs.  We live in a world where you have to pay tribute to some company just so you can pick up litter.  Fuck that.

21. Coworkers told me to take N1 but I am not prepared yet. The exam is Just 2 months away.

22. 26 degrees today, come on, man….

    I guess it is becoming that time of year, but my heart is not ready.

23. Hayfever today is crazy right now my head is blocked up from all the mucus build up D:

24. Checking in a tour group into a hotel. Four staff members at the counter – one Indian, one Korean and two Chinese. The Indian guy greets us in English and immediately disappears. The other three don’t speak a lick of either English or Japanese. At a goddamn Hoshino Resorts property.

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