So I Guess I'm A CIR Now
Jan. 27th, 2005 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkan...Which is pretty cool, although it means that I'll have to leave the Big Hamlet for the Claustrophobically Minute Hamlet (I'm going to miss my apartment) in six months. I'm not looking forward to only being able to buy manga and such once a month (if that), but have otherwise surprised myself with how excited I am. I'm going to be translating and interpreting Japanese - which I currently do for fun - full time come next August, and that will be nice. It's odd to realise that for the first time in my life, I'll be doing something I like for a living. Yes, pay me to sit around speaking and reading Japanese all day. That'll be dandy!
(I'm also one of two people in the prefecture who's passed the test to switch job types. Go me!)
In other news, my supervisors reacted with the not terribly unexpected shitty attitudes. This is exactly why I did not want to make any decisions in October. Six months of attitude will be bad enough; I don't think I could have survived nine of them. (In other news, I'm going to be translating and interpreting Japanese for a living, current supervisors. Bite me!)
I somehow managed to pay my electric bills for October and November twice, while not paying my December or January ones at all. (Methinks a slip up on the electric company's part, but lord knows they would never do anything like that.) I asked if they could just credit the remainder to my upcoming bills, because at the time I received the first phonecall concerning the double payments, I didn't know that I hadn't paid the other two.
"No," I was told, "We have to give the money back to you." A very long, keigo-filled soliloquy followed, which I had trouble understanding on my crappy cell phone in the very noisy staffroom. I came away from the phonecall with the vague notion that something was going to be placed in my mailbox (maybe the money) and that I should continue from that point, although how exactly I was not sure.
Figuring that the electric company would contact me again when I undoubtably did not perform according to plan, I forgot about the incident. Well, I got an envelope from the company in my mail Friday of last week. All they'd been telling me was that I was to write my bank account information on the form provided, post it in the included prepaid envelope, and they would deposit the overpayment into my account. I did as directed.
...And received another call at work yesterday. This is when I learned that not only had I miraculously overpaid two months' worth of electric bills, I had also miraculously not paid the next two months' worth. But I was in luck, because the electric company was willing to credit the overpaid amount toward my two months' outstanding payments.
Except that 1) I'd already posted the form requesting that the overpayment be deposited into my account, and
2) Even after paying the two months' overdue, about 800 yen, which must be paid back to me, would remain.
I explained about the form, and asked them to reissue the two outstanding bills so that I could pop down to the combini and pay them. Of course, this is Japan, where such a thing is not possible. Therefore, I must take all manner of official documentation down to the electric company's main office (about four kilometers from my place of residence), and present it along with my person to the appropriate employees, who will credit the overpayment to my outstanding payment, and hand me my 800 yen back. There is no way around this.
I then asked if that 800 yen (an extremely piddling amount, after all), couldn't just be applied to my February electric bill.
Alas, it could not. I must therefore come, in person and with the appropriate documentation as requested, to retrieve it. Of course, I don't want to march all the way through the snow to do this, especially since the offices close twenty minutes after I get off of work. (It's about a five mile walk from my school to the electric building.)
But it seemed I had no choice. I ask my VP for permission to leave early (which they are contractually obligated to provide when it involves visiting government offices on official business during working hours) and was told that if I wanted to go during working hours, I'd have to take half a day of vacation. I should mention that I have already been forced into taking 20% of my vacation time by this school. This is obviously their big Fuck You to me because I'm going to be translating and interpreting Japanese for a living come August.
So I'm off to dash five kilometers in under half an hour (assuming I can sneak out of work 15 minutes early) today. I figure that as long as I get my foot inside the door before the offices close, I'll be all right. Then I have my eikaiwa from hell tonight. If they think for one minute that they can keep me a half hour after it ends tonight, they've got another thing coming.
Cause after all, I'm not going to be doing English lessons for much longer. >:}
(I'm also one of two people in the prefecture who's passed the test to switch job types. Go me!)
In other news, my supervisors reacted with the not terribly unexpected shitty attitudes. This is exactly why I did not want to make any decisions in October. Six months of attitude will be bad enough; I don't think I could have survived nine of them. (In other news, I'm going to be translating and interpreting Japanese for a living, current supervisors. Bite me!)
I somehow managed to pay my electric bills for October and November twice, while not paying my December or January ones at all. (Methinks a slip up on the electric company's part, but lord knows they would never do anything like that.) I asked if they could just credit the remainder to my upcoming bills, because at the time I received the first phonecall concerning the double payments, I didn't know that I hadn't paid the other two.
"No," I was told, "We have to give the money back to you." A very long, keigo-filled soliloquy followed, which I had trouble understanding on my crappy cell phone in the very noisy staffroom. I came away from the phonecall with the vague notion that something was going to be placed in my mailbox (maybe the money) and that I should continue from that point, although how exactly I was not sure.
Figuring that the electric company would contact me again when I undoubtably did not perform according to plan, I forgot about the incident. Well, I got an envelope from the company in my mail Friday of last week. All they'd been telling me was that I was to write my bank account information on the form provided, post it in the included prepaid envelope, and they would deposit the overpayment into my account. I did as directed.
...And received another call at work yesterday. This is when I learned that not only had I miraculously overpaid two months' worth of electric bills, I had also miraculously not paid the next two months' worth. But I was in luck, because the electric company was willing to credit the overpaid amount toward my two months' outstanding payments.
Except that 1) I'd already posted the form requesting that the overpayment be deposited into my account, and
2) Even after paying the two months' overdue, about 800 yen, which must be paid back to me, would remain.
I explained about the form, and asked them to reissue the two outstanding bills so that I could pop down to the combini and pay them. Of course, this is Japan, where such a thing is not possible. Therefore, I must take all manner of official documentation down to the electric company's main office (about four kilometers from my place of residence), and present it along with my person to the appropriate employees, who will credit the overpayment to my outstanding payment, and hand me my 800 yen back. There is no way around this.
I then asked if that 800 yen (an extremely piddling amount, after all), couldn't just be applied to my February electric bill.
Alas, it could not. I must therefore come, in person and with the appropriate documentation as requested, to retrieve it. Of course, I don't want to march all the way through the snow to do this, especially since the offices close twenty minutes after I get off of work. (It's about a five mile walk from my school to the electric building.)
But it seemed I had no choice. I ask my VP for permission to leave early (which they are contractually obligated to provide when it involves visiting government offices on official business during working hours) and was told that if I wanted to go during working hours, I'd have to take half a day of vacation. I should mention that I have already been forced into taking 20% of my vacation time by this school. This is obviously their big Fuck You to me because I'm going to be translating and interpreting Japanese for a living come August.
So I'm off to dash five kilometers in under half an hour (assuming I can sneak out of work 15 minutes early) today. I figure that as long as I get my foot inside the door before the offices close, I'll be all right. Then I have my eikaiwa from hell tonight. If they think for one minute that they can keep me a half hour after it ends tonight, they've got another thing coming.
Cause after all, I'm not going to be doing English lessons for much longer. >:}
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on 2005-01-26 07:54 am (UTC)Now how much do we need to pay you to get more Silver Diamond translations? :-P
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