#youareawful

[faustochou]

My movie is up on Strawberry aka ⁦‪Netflix‬⁩ !

[reyanmakesmagic]

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[you-arent-helping]

The lame-o “heart-to-heart”

It’s really clear that her grip on English was never particularly good, because she could not understand why  not saying “sorry I couldn’t answer, is everything ok?” when I blew my fuse box that time made it seem like she didn’t want to help...

But she tried to have a heart-to-heart anyway.

I just dug in my toes and refused to be in any way understanding of her opinion.

I’m not normally like this, but when I’m dealing with someone who tells me that a sick stray cat is more important than my quality of life, I find it a bit hard to come around to their way of seeing things...

At the end of it, when she decided we were closer to agreeing about things (we aren’t), she told me that as long as I “know exactly what (I’m) asking for” then she can help.

I, of course, will never know this because I am not the one who has lived in Japan for 10 years.

It gets better!

Obviously, my preference is to get the next-door-neighbour-town girls to help me with stuff, because they don’t suck at life, and I said this to CIRfromhell (I didn’t say exactly that, I just said that they seem to understand better what I’m trying to ask because they all arrived pretty recently, and since I won’t ever know EXACTLY what I’m asking for, it’s a no-brainer for these ladies to help instead. Also they’re genuinely happy to help. I didn’t say that. I’m not trying to deliberately wind her up anymore...), I said this all to CIRfromhell, and now she’s packing another big sad...

Jesus.

[you-arent-helping]

Packing a sad when someone points out she isn’t helpful

So today was the day that I snapped and told her how much she isn’t helping me.

I think I was fairly polite; “Hi [CIRfromhell], This isn’t much help to me, to be honest, since I can’t understand a word anyone says to me when they come to my door, and I definitely still can’t read the information, so I just insist that I don’t speak Japanese and then politely close the door. I’m not really sure what I’m meant to do with this information given I lack the capacity to act on it...? Thanks anyway?”

It was a passive-aggressive way of saying “ok yeah this sounds serious, can you come up with something actually helpful for me to do about this rather than just telling me what has happened and leaving it open ended regarding whether I’m going to get arrested for being unable to comply?” and I thought it wasn’t terribly rude.

She genuinely thought that her original email containing no actionable advice (given the whole language barrier that inspired the blog and all), actually would have been helpful, and she has packed a huge sad about me informing her that she indeed ISN’T being helpful. She actually replied “However, if you would rather not recieve information like this in the future, even if it concerns you, let me know and I will refrain from emailing you.”

Being that she is the only person in the town office who can email me and it stipulates in her contract that she has to halp the ALT, this is both monstrous and a breach of her contract.

[dontbeatrashperson-blog]

You fail. You fail and suck.

Hey maybe don’t act like you’re all big on LGBTQ rights just because you have a few gay friends and maybe thought about taking your kids to pride events this one time, all while you on occasions make jokes about HAHAHAHAHAH THIS CIS-GENDERED WOMAN IS TOTALLY A MAN BECAUSE THAT’S FUNNY BECAUSE TRANS PEOPLE ARE FUNNY.

Oh, and when your kid goes “Eww” at gay people? Maybe take that as a sign you are awful and have failed at your parenting goals.