do i like this job even??

should this be a drama blog?

[steveyockey]

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

[sand-lily]

my job is pissing me the fuck off

istg im ready to crash out on some bitches

its impossible to appease these bitches at this school

FOR SOME REASON, the teachers and students have to clean the fuckin pool ourselves

they can afford a new sound system and 3 (THREE) professional photographers for sports day every year, but they can't afford to hire professional pool cleaners or 2ply toilet paper, or printer paper, or glue that isn't dried out... mmkay

anyways

i went out to do the pool cleaning, and i asked the teachers already there where they were putting the cleaning supplies since i couldnt find them and they ALL ignored me

so i waited for the students to show up and asked the students instead (turns out they brought the cleaning stuff with them from a locked room and it wasn't out at the pool at all, i ended up borrowing the stuff the students brought with them)

i ended up talking to the students and going around helping everyone a bit instead of just sticking to one job

and i was ofc doing my job and talking to the students in english (they have to do teacher interviews for another class, so some kids were trying to multitask and interview me)

we come back into the teachers room and these bitches are like "why did she even come to the pool, she didnt do anything,, it's like shes never seen a pool before"

FIRST OF ALL BITCH, i did my literal JOB, im not getting paid to clean a pool i never go to, i get paid to talk to the kids in english

idk why they always get mad at me for not doing THEIR jobs when i have the chance to choose between mine and theirs

maybe their jaded asses should go learn english and do my job too since theyre so worried about what im doing all the time

my bad for talking to the people who dont ignore me ig??

my bad for being tired after working without a break for all these days straight when yall had Monday off and i didn't, and yall get Saturday off and i don't

AND AFTER THAT

APPARENTLY they went to clean the pool more after the students went home without telling me

and since other people were in the office, i didn't know

especially since they said everything was done when i asked when the students were still there

and THEN they had the fuckin audacity to complain about how "this isnt my free time" because i didn't go looking for half the staff when the other half was in the teachers room

actually it DOES count as my free time since it's in my contract and i had 6 classes today and lunch with students and cleaning time with students and worked all day,,, and haven't had my MANDATORY BREAK TIME once

so shut the fuck up

but also??? you told me it was over, it started raining, half the staff is in the teachers room, you didn't see me outside, and you didn't?? come? ask me to come???

and you're pissed i didn't come????

theyre literally just making shit up to be mad about, they literally manufactured this situation themselves

at literally every one of my other jobs i cussed out people for less

theyre lucky im not fluent in Japanese

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so they posted important tax info onto their website (that DOES NOT give notifications) and didn't say anything about it and the deadline is soon

mmmkay i guess thats what im doing during the afternoon meeting tomorrow

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so there was a shared map with marked important locations that my supervisor forgot to tell me about

this would have been helpful when i couldn't find grocery stores

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turns out the only thing on there is restaurants

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so there was a shared map with marked important locations that my supervisor forgot to tell me about

this would have been helpful when i couldn't find grocery stores

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pre registered for customs

now all i have to do is scan my passport and the QR codeon my phone and i should be able to just get through customs that way because i basically already did the paperwork??

i think thats what the website is saying

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DO THIS

i cannot stress it enough DO THIS

i looked over at some peoples paperwork, its all in Japanese and they needed to get help to do it

but the kiosk where you just scan the QR had an English, Spanish, Korean, and French setting also there was NO LINE

apparently most people dont know about this option because its only on the embassy website and nowhere else

its faster, its in English, its easy,

DO THIS

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somebody joined my row on tje airplane

theres still a seat between us, but damn it, i wanted all 3 seats

whos booking their seat 3days before the flight???? i bet its another altia person

i bet im not the only one who got a CoE last second

(glad i picked the window seat, the one i was in originally has 3ppl in that row now, it was empty at first)

im gunna check again Sunday night

if somebody sits in that middle seat im moving

i want at least 1 seat between us if possible

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SOMEBODY BOUGHT THE FUCKIN MIDDLE SEAT LAST NIGHT

plane FULL

cant move

at least i got the window

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this was a horrible experience btw

they were a Chinese (? their passports were green???) couple

i have no idea what language they were speaking, but it wasn't Japanese, Spanish, or English,, so i couldn't really talk to them

the guy sat on the aisle and slept the whole time basically, so i just had to get up for the bathroom whenever they did, because i couldn't get out at all otherwise

and the lady was wearing perfume i was allergic to,,, my nose started running AS SOON as she sat next to me, and just kept going until she got off the plane before me

i asked to change seats with somebody before takeoff with a few other people,, they all said they wanted the seats they got, so i was just stuck there

at least the flight attendant gave me a box of tissues and a bag to put the dirty ones in

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wow look at that

the position I got lined up with the lil rant i posted

they said that it was listed as a driving position but it dosnt have to be driving

the 3 schools are a 30min walk from each other and both 15min from the possible apt ill be moving into (the apt i think ill get is in the middle of the 30min walk, so if needed i could always drop by the apt between schools)

so yeah, a bike wpuld work, or even the bus, its inconvenient that the bus passes the schools to get to the stop so you have to walk 5min backwards , BUT THATS LITERALLY FINE

also im saying the apartment i THINK ill get because theres 4 leopalaces in the area but THIS ONE is the closest AND its having a "double sale" (whatever that means) so it's the cheapest, and its the same floor plans as this one

also i think the guy i talked to about the position might be the social media/marketing manager because afterwards he was on the phone talking about online ads a lot

so its possible hes seen my blog???

hiiiiii

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im actually even closer to the first 2 schools than that

its a 35min walk uphill to the furthest school, but theres a bus stop so close that i can take the bus

this literally didn't have to be a driving position

there's a farmers market an coop and a grocery store all in 10min walk from me

a pharmacy super close

and soso many restaurants that look like peoples houses

i haven't had to take the bus once, i actually keep turning up too early for the far away school because i keep underestimating how fast i walk

like damn

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weeee i just got my work schedule from a do not reply email after the office closed so

i cant :) ask :) QUESTIONS :)

AND (get this) its all in Japanese

AND ALSO its for the whole year so i was confused as to when i start working when i read it.

And also, too, as well, it goes up and down right to left so double confused

apparently i meet the teachers on Monday and start Tuesday

that means i have time to go to city hall and the post office tomorrow after i get to the apartment

IF

the company in charge of the apartments gets back to me tonight

the key to the front door

is :)

an :)

APP :)

(for the phone)

that i can NOT register by myself.

they need to put my email in the system and send me a temporary password so i can change the password so i can log into the app so i can unlock the door

i was SUPPOSED to get the email today

GUESS WHAT THE FUCK I DIDN'T GET TODAY

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o update on this btw

it was supposed to be ALTIA THAY SENT ME THE INFORMATION FOR THE APP

and they sent me the password for the keypad half an hour after i got here, and didn't send me the info for the app until 2weeks after i got here

so it took forever for me to set up mail forwarding because i didn't get to go to the post office that day, and it opens after work starts and closs before work ends, so i had to ask if i could leave early when i didn't have anything to do one day to actually set it up

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maxxed out my medium credit card

have a debt on my smallest card

halfway to my limit on my largest card

only have $80 in the bank

not getting paid till june and its going to be a small check because theyre taking out the key money and a few other things first

im going to die

im just not eating until August ig cus i gotta use this last check coming to pay off the baby credit card the minimum on the biggest card and then use the rest to get the card i maxxed down to $1600

and i wanna have $200 set aside just in case i need cash since im not getting paid until after i get off the plane so i cant get cash before i leave

anyways im serious about cashapp

https://cash.app/$firellily

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this is getting insane

hurry up and pay me altia

[firellily]

i think my bank account was cancelled because i had to show my ID to receive the bank card in the mail, and if you dont accept it the account will be cancelled

but that was at the old apartment

and it should have come some time this week,

its still crazy to me that they wanted me to go through all these legal processes that they KNOW take a month AND i need an address for

but they didn't get me an address until 1 week into the month and then moved me 1 week before the month was over,,,

like??? yall couldn't just wait ONE MORE week???

yall were complaining about paying extra fees to move me into the apt in 3 days,

if yall gave a WEEK notice i would have gotten my amazon package no problem, I would have my bank account already, AND id have my SSC

i don't even know where the fuck that is, because it's registered to my old address and it's a SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, i doubt that shit is easy to forward

but what the fuck do i know

and theyre just like "why is this so hard for you, it was so easy for everyone else??"

bitch idk???

maybe because everyone else youve hired that ive met moved here after they married a Japanese person, they probably gave you their spouses bank account when they first got here

or theyre not american, so they arnt subject to the same laws that i am where you have to either wait 6 months while holding a Japanese address or be sponsored by a company so they COULD make their accounts BEFORE coming to Japan

OR MAYBE its because it takes a MONTH to do these things and you subtracted 2weeks from that month

and now im on a schedule where the post office and city hall, THE TWO PLACES I NEED TO GO, always open after I get to work and close before i get off work

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weeee i just got my work schedule from a do not reply email after the office closed so

i cant :) ask :) QUESTIONS :)

AND (get this) its all in Japanese

AND ALSO its for the whole year so i was confused as to when i start working when i read it.

And also, too, as well, it goes up and down right to left so double confused

apparently i meet the teachers on Monday and start Tuesday

that means i have time to go to city hall and the post office tomorrow after i get to the apartment

IF

the company in charge of the apartments gets back to me tonight

the key to the front door

is :)

an :)

APP :)

(for the phone)

that i can NOT register by myself.

they need to put my email in the system and send me a temporary password so i can change the password so i can log into the app so i can unlock the door

i was SUPPOSED to get the email today

GUESS WHAT THE FUCK I DIDN'T GET TODAY

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looks like i can get my suitcase delivered to the apartment and i can have them picked up from this apartment (no having to fill out forms by hand)

ill just send the big one and pack 2 dresses in the small one to take with me

the form is kinda confusing but i figured it out

all i need is the new address then i can submit it

ig i should start splitting things up into what suitcase theyll go in

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okay i might be good with just a duffle bag

this is basically everything

all i have left is this one shelf

and my blanket

i could probably roll that up really tight with some ribbon or something and fit it in a duffle bag

(but it was so big that at the store the only packaging was a ribbon that broke before i got it home sooo we shall see)

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they picked up the suitcase

so i have the pink bag, my backpack and a duffle bag

doable for 2 trains when they have those overhead racks

[sand-lily]

looks like i can get my suitcase delivered to the apartment and i can have them picked up from this apartment (no having to fill out forms by hand)

ill just send the big one and pack 2 dresses in the small one to take with me

the form is kinda confusing but i figured it out

all i need is the new address then i can submit it

ig i should start splitting things up into what suitcase theyll go in

[sand-lily]

okay i might be good with just a duffle bag

this is basically everything

all i have left is this one shelf

and my blanket

i could probably roll that up really tight with some ribbon or something and fit it in a duffle bag

(but it was so big that at the store the only packaging was a ribbon that broke before i got it home sooo we shall see)

[sand-lily]

looks like i can get my suitcase delivered to the apartment and i can have them picked up from this apartment (no having to fill out forms by hand)

ill just send the big one and pack 2 dresses in the small one to take with me

the form is kinda confusing but i figured it out

all i need is the new address then i can submit it

ig i should start splitting things up into what suitcase theyll go in

[sand-lily]

wow look at that

the position I got lined up with the lil rant i posted

they said that it was listed as a driving position but it dosnt have to be driving

the 3 schools are a 30min walk from each other and both 15min from the possible apt ill be moving into (the apt i think ill get is in the middle of the 30min walk, so if needed i could always drop by the apt between schools)

so yeah, a bike wpuld work, or even the bus, its inconvenient that the bus passes the schools to get to the stop so you have to walk 5min backwards , BUT THATS LITERALLY FINE

also im saying the apartment i THINK ill get because theres 4 leopalaces in the area but THIS ONE is the closest AND its having a "double sale" (whatever that means) so it's the cheapest, and its the same floor plans as this one

also i think the guy i talked to about the position might be the social media/marketing manager because afterwards he was on the phone talking about online ads a lot

so its possible hes seen my blog???

hiiiiii

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in order to get paid while i dont have a school they're making me do technically training in the support office (its basically watching YouTube videos on how the smart boards and tablets at schools work...busy work)

but it kinda seems like they dont LIKE ALTs that much in the support office

theyre trying to talk one lady into taking 2 weeks off because her asthma is bad and she keeps saying that shes fine because she CANT take 2weeks off because shes out of PTO and cant afford to miss half the paycheck period

they legally cant force her, but theyve been pestering the shit out of her for more than a week

that second training i did was apparently made last second for the one guy i was in training with (but a lot of the training stuff is partner work so they had me do it with him),, and the guy in charge of the trainings was like "what makes him so special that he got his own special training say instead of waiting for the next one in October?"

even though he was looking right at the guys profile and knew he literally already lived in walking distance to the school they needed an ALT for immediately AND he already had the proper visa so it MADE SENSE to start him immediately but the trainings are legally mandated by the school board, so it MADE SENSE to just give him his own training and then let me participate so i could get paid for SOMETHING while i dont have a school

and one guy was complaining to the lady in charge of apartments that his neighbors were cooking something or using cleaning supplies or something that kept setting off his allergies and he had to go to the hospital twice and shes like "idk what you want me to do about it, i cant stop your neighbors"

he asked to move to a different unit thats also the companies in the same building that's empty and she said no because they were MAYBE moving somebody in there NEXT MONTH??? like thatd be hard paperwork?? moving the new person into his unit and moving him to the empty one???

also i saw them grading somebodys demo video and the lady grading him said "how did he make it this far in the interview, he kinda sucks and we fail 90% of the people that apply anyways" and the guy next to her said "the person doing his interview has failed 82% of the 90% that fails so he needs to pass some to keep out of trouble, but YOU can fail him"

also also, they made this whole big stink about us always being in full business suits all the time, even when the principal and teachers arnt because we are not school employees, we are business employees and representing the company blah blah blah

but NO FUCKING BODY since ive been here has worn a suit once, like they arnt wearing jeans, but ive seen slacks and t shirts or dresses with fun patterns (the only patterns ALTs are allowed are pinstripes, checkers, and polkadots)

so fuckin ANNOYING

also?? this one i took personally cus it was about my friend,,, but the other day her company car died on her while she was driving (she sent me a pic, its a real clunker, full jalopy status, basically a lemon),, and today she called the English help hotline so they could help her translate with the mechanic,, and they put her on hold and were like

"isnt there a required Japanese test during interviews?? she cant do this much?? we need to make that test harder"

like???? we need to know how to say transmission in japanese to teach kindergartners the colors????????? thats why theres a fuckin HOTLINE, this is literally your JOB youre getting PAID for

maybe give her a functional car of you don't wanna deal with this, youre already taking car fees from her check, you gotta deal with the consequenced of giving her a shitty ass car

last thing, bossman called me on Friday asked me to come at 9:00 to talk about stuff, he didn't show up at all today, so he called another guy in the office to talk about the stuff with mw instead at 1:00 (that guy keeps his phone loud, it wasn't on speaker but he was standing next to me and i could hear the whole conversation) and bossman said "she seems forgetful so i was hoping she would forget about the meeting and i could put her on probation for not showing up"

so i was right in thinking they dont actually want me here, i was probably one of the people that guy hired to save his own ass,, which makes sense kinds?? cus i get the vibe bossman is always trying to catch me in a lie by rephrasing the same questions on different occasions even though i NEVER LIED,, hes trying to find something to put me on probation