kobet 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 I always dread something bad happening at home to someone in my family and having to make rush arrangements, not being there, only being there for a week or so, etc etc. That happened to anyone here? Must be terrible.... Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 Getting ill and having to go to the doctor/hospital. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 N Korea lobbing a nuke over the sea. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 Christmas. It comes around every year with dreaded inevitability. You get all the stupid shit that you get with English Christmas - cliched decorations, people dressed as Santa, the same sickening tunes played in every shop. But none of that comes with any of the 'good cheer' or family togetherness that you sometimes get with English Christmas. Still, I suppose you can go snowboarding... Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 I had to rush home once but I had a return ticket It made it quite easy to get back fast. That was a lucky break though. Link to post Share on other sites
DrWho 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 Yes, Christmas is a killer. DOn't like it here. Link to post Share on other sites
sea_lizard 0 Posted May 11, 2003 Share Posted May 11, 2003 Something happening to family is always in the back of my mind. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 My own kangeikais and soubetsukais. These two miserable occasions are the only times I cannot reasonably or unreasonably avoid the dreaded Karaoke Torture. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Summer! Good one. I usually escape, but not for long enough. Link to post Share on other sites
ONIP 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Badmigraine, whether you have to pay for them or not is a big factor in liking those enkais or not I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 ONIP, where I worked we paid every month, regardless of whether we went to any enkai or not... When we did go, it always seemed that you didn't get very much food for your money. That enkai thing at some izakayas is a big racket. 5,000 for a couple plates of appetizers and a couple of drinks...better to skip the enkai and get drunk at home with instant noodles and cans of beer. Link to post Share on other sites
ONIP 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 That is a pain Link to post Share on other sites
sea_lizard 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 you paid whether you went to the party or not? Whats that all about then? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 A lot of companies have a 'friendly society' thing organized. You pay a certain sum every month automatically to some committee who then waste it for you. They give some to somebody who is having a baby, some to somebody whose mother died, and the rest is given with no sane sense of economy to eating establishments and bus tour companies for totally third rate entertainments that very few people enjoy. At my last but one company, I and the older secretary elected not to go on the company trip (she had been called 'baba' at a previous enkai and had taken deep offence). People sidled up to me and said "I wish I could avoid going too. It's because you're gaijin that you can get out of it.", although the secretary was Japanese too. So while these poor fools travelled miles in a smelly bus to see some temple on the other side of Japan somewhere, the secretary and I went in to work, surfed the Web, had a nice lunch with beer, discussed our woes, and both decided to leave the company at the first possible opportunity. Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Funny. I find that lots of those parties don't offer much cheese. Always non-cheese foods. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Yeah O11 and they use that fund to buy the snacks so its dame to bring your own food to much on yourself I dont want any friggen choco! I dont want any friggen senbe! I dont want any of the crappy sweets! Gimme an apple and a museli bar any day that will at least satisfy my hunger. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 My company took me to Hawaii one year and then the next year said that I couldnt go. I got paid out 66% of what I paid in for not going. I still feel ripped off. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Earthquakes, and the threat of them. Link to post Share on other sites
frankfurter 0 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 In my short times in Japan so far, I have once been rocked by a fairly small tremor - but it was quite frightening on the 20th floor of a building. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 That would freak me out big time.... Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Things that I 'have to do' if I dont want to avoid being ostrasized (pick from enkais, neighbourhood meetings, karaoke....) Link to post Share on other sites
ninjaB 0 Posted June 3, 2003 Share Posted June 3, 2003 Luckily we often have the ability to duck out of such things by being who we are. Hurray! Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 All things 'shoganai' are usually dreaded. Link to post Share on other sites
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