If I ever write my memoirs as a light novel that would be a genre-appropriate title.
https://twitter.com/arctanno/status/1468072614065287171
The light novel bit is an inside (?) joke that the medium of light novels in Japan, which are… I guess you could call them manga but without the pictures?… sometimes have sentences which are absurdly involved as titles, as a trope.
“Is it actually hard to pay Japanese companies money?”
The total human effort involved in it is much higher than it should be. Sometimes the company absorbs it on your behalf.
The total human effort involved in it is much higher than it should be. Sometimes the company absorbs it on your behalf.
A recent example: due to a Friday/Monday thing I didn’t have enough money in the legacy bank account I have my credit card payments withdrawn from and so missed the auto-deduction.
In the U.S. this is a trivial problem: log into app, schedule new payment, done.
In the U.S. this is a trivial problem: log into app, schedule new payment, done.
In Japan typically you have to wait almost a week for the CC company to catch it and snail mail you a message with resolution instructions.
This time, the CC company had upgraded to the 90s and put the instructions within my account in only 3 days.
This time, the CC company had upgraded to the 90s and put the instructions within my account in only 3 days.
Those instructions were: “Transfer is X to this bank account.”
Me, the payments professional: “But is that a VBAN or not? Because it does not look like it. It looks like an account you use for all your customers. So you have a pile of clerks on the backend watching…”
Me, the payments professional: “But is that a VBAN or not? Because it does not look like it. It looks like an account you use for all your customers. So you have a pile of clerks on the backend watching…”
“… for incoming transfers then manually matching against your list of customers currently with outstanding balances.”
Bank: “Correct!”
Me: “But these instructions did not say to add my account number to my name so how are you going to reconcile this payment?”
Bank: “Correct!”
Me: “But these instructions did not say to add my account number to my name so how are you going to reconcile this payment?”
Bank, to itself: “I mean how many McKenzies do you think we issued that credit card to.”
「 日本の会社に支払いするのに手間がこんなにかかるとは思わなかった」actually has something of a ring to it?
(Not positive that is the most natural way to phrase it.)
(Not positive that is the most natural way to phrase it.)
Memo to self: make extra careful to check both ways for trucks.
“That’s absolutely impenetrable.”
Alright, in the interest of reducing cultural barriers between geeks: there is a light novel subgenre which structurally needs to kill the main character a few minutes before the plot begins and, since this is known to reader and more boring…
Alright, in the interest of reducing cultural barriers between geeks: there is a light novel subgenre which structurally needs to kill the main character a few minutes before the plot begins and, since this is known to reader and more boring…
… than the plot, rather than going to the lengths that C.S. Lewis had to regarding why the children got to be the eternal kings and queens of Narnia it typically gets resolved in perfunctory fashion, sometimes literally the first sentence, with a plot-convenient truck.
… it is dealt with in as perfunctory a manner as possible by a truck accident ex machina.
(Think of how much work C.S. Lewis had to do to establish that the Percy kids were audience stand-ins and how little any reader remembers of it, etc.)
(Think of how much work C.S. Lewis had to do to establish that the Percy kids were audience stand-ins and how little any reader remembers of it, etc.)
Ah well seems Twitter was less than accurate when it reported it lost previous version of this tweet. Oh well.
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