by "Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
Published 02/20/2017 at 18:55
by "Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
Published 02/20/2017 at 18:55
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Arrived this morning to find one of the chimneys had literally fallen off the building. :/ The end of the month/notice period can’t come soon enough so I can escape this death trap.
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
02/20/2017 at 19:02, STARS: 0
Now they’ll have (more?) water infiltration to deal with. That’s no good.
"facw" (facw)
02/20/2017 at 19:05, STARS: 1
It may just be stereotyping, but I’d expect the Japanese to have little tolerance for poorly maintained buildings. I’d expect that even if the building’s owners were ok with it being dilapidated, there’d be some inspection regime that would frown on it.
"jimz" (jimz)
02/20/2017 at 19:19, STARS: 4
the one thing which really surprised me was how heavily the Japanese- at least as far as business/corporate culture goes- rely on “we do things the way we do because we’ve always done them this way.” when I worked for Alpine, one of the guys in my office was on a 3-year international assignment over in Japan. when a handful of us flew to Iwaki for various activities, we were BSing about this ‘n’ that. He told us about one time when he was walking from one building to another on campus, and the grounds crew was doing landscape work. mowing the grass, edging, etc. He noticed the guys doing the weed trimming and edging- things known for sending things like rocks and other stuff flying around- were wearing coveralls, gloves, and hard hats. But no safety glasses.
Hard hats, but no safety glasses. The Japanese are big on hard hats, for some reason.
I’m guessing in the case of Kat’s employer, the chimney fell off because they had no plan for maintaining or repairing it. Because, you see, it wasn’t supposed to fall off.
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
02/20/2017 at 19:27, STARS: 3
Wondering if random falling stovepipe had anything to do with the affinity for hardhats.
"XJDano" (xjdano)
02/20/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 3
Repurpose as exhaust tip.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
02/20/2017 at 20:12, STARS: 0
Literally! Dang :/
"Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
02/20/2017 at 20:38, STARS: 2
Rumor is, we’re legally “under construction” perpetually, so that the inspectors are kept at bay. I have also heard another rumor that someone in the inspection office occasionally receives brown envelopes, if you know what I mean.
"V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!" (v8demon)
02/20/2017 at 23:55, STARS: 0
Graft and loopholes are universal.
"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
02/21/2017 at 03:09, STARS: 0
Glad to hear you’re leaving! Maybe they’ll do like bosses sometimes do — figure if you’re leaving you’re no longer fully invested, just pay you your notice period pay and say CYA... (if you’d want that)
Please confirm if this is right — this outfit you’re leaving, it’s a bunch of foreigners, not Japanese, right?
Kind regards,
Taz
"Kat Callahan" (kyosuke)
02/21/2017 at 05:40, STARS: 1
It sounds like it. I even told the admin I would be handing them an invoice for unpaid wages, and they were just like, “Okay. Sure.” I am sure they’re glad to be rid of me, because I don’t give a shit about money, I only care about the kids. They don’t care about the kids, only the money. I get the feeling that the admin does not and has not ever understood why I do what, say what I say, or issue the grievances that I do. Money they get, but sacrificing money for a vocation, that they clearly don’t get, and don’t really believe others do either. I have come to believe they think everything I’ve ever done was a ploy to get more money, when most of what I have done I’ve done in order to actually benefit students and practice the pedagogical methodology I was taught in university and which I have applied in my previous years of teaching.
So I don’t see any kind of solution. We’re just coming from two different views of behavioral analysis.
The school is losing a bunch of the smarter and non-this-country-of-origin kids (including Japanese kids whose parents were looking for a decent English language education), and good on them. I only wish more would move on.
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
02/21/2017 at 09:23, STARS: 0
We had lightning strike (a smaller) one of those on our house a couple of years ago — blew the thing to smithereens. Our neighbors found pieces in their yards. So maybe it’s lucky that this one just fell off? :)