Rant, rant, rave, rave
I am pretty sure that right now I am real life busto (have no money in Japan). But luckly I have some money online to sustain me till payday.
In December I booked my ticket back home. I get 12 days of paid leave a year. That’s right, averages out to 1 day off a month. But wait for it. Those 12 days include sick leave …
Unfortunately for me I took about 5-6 days off last year nursing injuries and sicknesses. Oh well, nothing like losing half of your yearly holiday at home in your sick bed. I hadn’t looked at how many days I had left when I booked my ticket. I assumed it was like 3-4 or something like that.
So I booked my ticket and went up to the admin lady and explain that I am leaving the 14th and will be back next year when work starts.
The lady logged on to the staff intranet to log the days I am taking off only to uncover that I am taking 9 days off but only have 0.5 days of holiday left…
So yeah it worked out as me being absent from work for 8.5 days. To make it worse since it was the last month of the year and the last few days were holidays, it somehow resulted in me losing half of my wages…
I got back from London and went to the ATM only to find out that I got paid enough for my rent, gym membership and internet bill to be debited from my account leaving me with enough change for a couple of hamburgers.
Kinda pissed off about that. I am the person in control of the intranet in my company and have the ability to fudge the numbers of my paid leave. But in such a small company I would probably get caught straight away 
And if things couldn’t get any lamer I now have the taxman up my arse for taxes I somehow forgot to pay last year. In Japan apart from the normal tax that they rape from your paycheck there is another tax that gets sent to your house you have to pay. From June till the end of the year you have to make 4 x 40,000yen payments to your ward or something. That’s 160,000yen (1,755USD/1074GBP) a year of extra taxes.
The allure of working in Japan might be starting to wear off…
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January 21st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
That sucks.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@lina
Indeed so @_@
January 21st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Yeah, that City/Ward..whateverthefuckitis tax is annoying. I get to____? for that. Maybe line the pockets of the local politicos and their family and friends.
Just read that Ozawa has a 93% negative rating. 93%. Wrap your brain around that one! That he doesn’t step the fuck aside should dispel any myths about “honor among thieves” in this country. It was dispelled in my country back in the Nixon era. Yeah, I really wanna pay my taxes
(Bends over..gabs ankles)
Thanks you sir!!! May I have another!?!?!?
January 21st, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I hope you have someone to help you through this period.
Best of luck to you!
January 21st, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Bummer situation, but good to see you blogging again!
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Whoa, that’s insane. Sorry to hear Japan is getting you down. =/
January 25th, 2010 at 1:41 am
What a bummer. I hope it gets better soon. BTW…did you come back to start the year with 12 days of vacation back in the bank or are you now negative?
January 25th, 2010 at 9:03 am
@Chris B
Die an honourable death!
lol @ 93% dissapproval. He should do that seppuku thing and put a knife to his stomach
@Nino
Dont worry I am a survivor
@Billy
Back for good this time!!
@Racheal
Meh things will turn around
@TravelDiva
I now have 12 days since it is a new year. Taking a day off this week so make that 11
Thanks for passing by
January 30th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
12 days off per year! Thats hardly anything! Hope you survive.