Well said mate ! I never talk about money , family , politics view and business . I actually created 2 personas *(also different names) that I put on when I interact with both Japanese and Foreigners . At bars When the talk gets too intimate I take a break for a pee and dissapear hahaha .
I had my headhunting career ruined by two backstabbing foreign coworkers. One even tried to bump me in front of a train and played it off as an accident.
You are 100% correct. I moved to japan this past year and i was warned a lot by colleagues back state side at my company to watch out for foreigner co workers because they will step all over you and sabotage you just to buy themselves more time here in Japan. Im only befriending people who like myself are planning to go back to the states after a few years.
My partner is Japanese, and when i go and visit him in Japan - he has asked me to not have conversations or engage with any foreigners there 😢 scary stuff!
I’m Canadian working in Japan for a decade and I’ve had all kinds of expat colleagues and Japanese talk directly to the manager about anything or everything behind my back just to make me look bad for some bs reason. One simple example of many: I’m a fitness trainer/nutritional coach and an overweight colleague asked for free advice. Over 2 weeks, I offered several ways and techniques to help him get into shape, then he actually went to the manager and complained like a baby that I called him fat! In the end, he got me fired. I have many similarly ridiculous examples you would never believe. Japan is generally a self-policing society. All your colleagues will regularly stab you in the back and tell the managers all kinds of things to get points. I’ve really learned not to trust anyone here. Some people are very threatened by a well-educated, experienced, competent colleague.
Just to add: the Japanese love to gossip. The kicker is, the Japanese will always believe any gossip they hear, especially if the gossip is concerning a foreigner since everyone in Japan believes foreigners can’t be trusted. Gossip is never, ever questioned or verified. It’s always believed in Japan.
I have an episode about this very issue coming up in a month or two I've been fired here for BS just like you LOL backstabbed just like you only to rise again LOL so hang in there!!
@@CHASE88888 Hey Chase, Thanks! I’m actually totally used to it now. That doesn’t mean I like it, but at least I know to expect it. Regardless, as an expat in Japan it is really important to be strong, confident and always believe in yourself. I still have to deal with even some narcissistic colleagues from time to time. It’s annoying, but it’s often part of life.
@ no it’s true, proof is I don’t know anything abt Japan never been don’t plan on going came across your channel and im binge watching all your video has to mean you good at something don’t it ? lol
It’s a shame, but I have heard about this in expat communities in other countries too. Best to keep your mouth closed and not tell your business to anyone just because they speak your language.
Your right it is being yourself and can speak the language and struggle your own situation and keep it real. Yup many up and down. I was born here and I have been to US. I’m both culture since birth. And I came back to Japan and experienced this at work.
I was once sightseeing Kyoto in Gion and bumped into foreign guide who led a group of tourists around Kyoto. I came up to him to join the tour orientation led by him. It was completely denied at the harshest level I could have ever Imagined. Actually I followed the tour group all the way up to one Mansion of restaurants despite being denied. It turned out that the tour guide was volunteer plotting with Mansion restaurant to sherpherd tourists into restaurant bills there. 😅
Hey Chase, I've wanted to return to Japan ever since I spent my first 2 years of high school there, and but I never considered that there could be some weirdo foreigners lurking around. I had great Japanese and foreigner friends I met through gaming who I went to events in person with but we had no business relations so that's likely why I never ran into issues with them. Regardless, your video really opened this space in my brain that didn't even consider foreigners could be against each other. I'm not surprised that people act this way, but its really disappointing that people can be so vile and hateful to others so similar to them.
I had this overall impression from Canadians when I lived in Canada, they initially reached out super friendly and smily, showed lots of interest in becoming friends and had so many questions, in reality they were only collecting intel to go around distorting the intel to make you look bad. When I first arrived in Japan I met this dude from Brisbane who looked nice person and we got kind of close, he seemed to be wanting to help me in an endeavor I was trying to getting into, as time passed and I started to get my things in line the dude became very nasty to me, openly mistreating me and saying sorry and blaming his life stress, after a while I noticed people in the environment we were at started to look me in the wrong way and I realized this dude was backstabbing me all along, I just avoided him and he knew it and didn't even insist on calling or anything, he knew right there his mask had fallen and just disappeared
I've been living in Japan for over 36 years as a "permanent foreign tourist resident" if you catch my drift and I will support everything Chase discusses in this clip. I have met so many foreigners in Japan over the years and befriended many and not one has stuck around with the exception of one who only recently blew me off getting very nasty with me. I don't know what living in Japan causes in foreigners but I have concluded it is some type of mental or psychological predilection for being just plain *ssholes. I have no other way to describe it. It happens so frequently that I ignore foreigners all together now. I haven't had a decent conversation in English with a foreigner in over three years.
Not sure this is relevant but I've noticed the long-lived migrants in the U.S. seemed the similar to me when I lived there back then. They seemed that they don't consider themselves as "migrants", and they have very strange attitude towards to the newbies. And I think that is why many migrants voted for Trump this election because they don't want to lose what they've earned over the years. I might be wrong.
Spot on Chase I'd argue that in the west too this is exactly the same. Coworkers are not your friends and will throw you under the bus first chance to get a perceived benefit over you. Promotion, kudos with bosses, etc. People in workplace will smile to your face meanwhile smack talk you behind your back. Nature of competitive capitalism I suppose. Everyone's just trying to survive. I'm in general nice to everyone, but firm and don't let people take advantage of me. All my work conversations are business and I don't let anymore know my personal life. In my experience people knowing your personal shit will only harm you not benefit you.
As a foreigner, I do tend to have my personal issues with Behavior, Mental Health (though Behavior and MH tend to go hand-in-hand), building + maintaining relationships outside my family etc. but I'd never lash out at and mock Native folks, no matter what country I'm touring in, especially Japan.
Makes sense given the circumstances. It's already a dog eat dog world, but being a foreigner in Japan working for a Japanese company is just the same thing on a whole different level. Should really only be there if you can work for a foreign company, don't you think?
It used to be called the "My Japan Syndrome" back in the 90s. Guys (and it was nearly always men) didn't like other gaijin males showing up in "their" part of the Japan fantasy they had constructed for themselves. Overall, competition for access to teaching jobs and Japanese women were often the reasons for trouble. I've seen passive-aggressive stuff and I've seen real fist fights break out between gaijin.
It's the same in China, cock watchers and blockers. I never understood how a guy gets turned on by chasing after a girl I'm x-ing with. Like we say in Spanish. It's ashame but "uno tiene que comer solo." You really have to eat alone.
Priceless Advice Chase, Backstabbing is a Western Practice.. specially around Ideas, Business & Girls... everyday is getting harder to survive & trust, it is for a reason that experience is the most valuable asset!
I'm living in Japan and I would never do that to you or anyone I'm sorry to hear what you're going through. I just stumbled upon this video My opinion....the gaijin that does that are also here to take advantage of the Japanese people.
If you can't hangout and enjoy time with the natives, you have a Japanese skill issue and need to level up. There is literally no need to associate with foreigners here in Japan. Also, your co-workers are not your friends! This kind of thing happens even back home.
CHASE , TELL ME ABOUT IT!!! HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS CRAP MANY TIMES!! HA HA HA HA ^_^. EVEN TO THIS DAY I AM ALWAYS WATCHING MY BACK. HA HA HA HA HA UNTIL I LEAVE TO ............^_^..................................
@@CHASE88888 TELL ME ABOUT IT HA HA HA ^_^. NOT EVEN BACK IN THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN DID I EVER HAVE TO KEEP MY GUARD UP ALL THE TIME HA HA HA HA ^_^.
Money and Women, are the two major causes of the jealousy … If you are doing well and he is struggling . Obviously he won’t be happy … And he doesn’t want to go back home ….
Interesting channel. I was introduced to Japan in 02 and went till 15. Kansai is the main area. I remember when Nova fell and all the RATS came running out. Same can be said about USJ when they went bankrupt and sold to the public or when thier entertainers go a little crazy. I think the teachers and esp the newer ESL school owners can be the most dangerous due to personal relationships with other companies or at times corporate espionage. I saw a big lawsuit with cellphones and a large Japanese bank. Now that I'm older I would prefer to house flip or some more higher tech trades.
And the delicious irony is that if you do the work and you extend your presence you will find so many locals who will welcome you. Just take off your shoes in the foyer, bow a lot and learn to say idetakimasu when you eat. It’s not so difficult.
In Japan you have to keep everyone at arms lenght when it comes to business as well as when it comes to the people you are in a serious relationship with!!
@ she was so annoying. She filmed her receiving bowl of katsu curry again and again for 10 mins. I just wanted to scream at her “eat your bloody food” lol
The foreign manager at my Korean school forced us all to get multiple injections and he explained it was mandatory and if anything went wrong we'd have no recourse.
They all sound like my former co-workers. But that was state-side, so I'm not so sure if working abroad is what makes people act like that. Maybe they are simply terrible people to begin with. Or maybe its just the culture in "The West". Because when my cousin moved to the US from SEA, she never had backstabbing co-workers until she started working in America. And it seemed to be the same type of people: The ones that seem nice and friendly until they see or hear you get praise for something by upper management. Then they try to do everything to shut you down. In my experience though, its also the same people who complain for not getting recognized for doing the bare minimum. Like they expect to get promoted rapidly for simply being there. Already acting like some hotshot when its their first day. IDK, just seems like the same lot giving grief.
I've had this experience in South Korea, two foreign teachers would always slander my name in front of the Korean teachers and management behind my back. THEN they would say negative things TO ME about the Korean teachers who ignored them. Idiot teachers from Ireland and the U.K.
Too late….. I know because I was caught off guard….. in Hiroshima…… Some wild comment about a black banana (pause) but I’m starting to realize some jealousy is involved, but This out here can be a lonely world, even your own black people don’t give you a nod back. I seen a white dude, and I really felt a level of loneliness….. He was just happy to see me drunk and laughing with wifey. so many mixed emotions out here. I don’t know how you did this for 30 years bro. I probably gotta get my vocabulary up.
@@luffyland4996 it was amazing. There was money everywhere wages for English teachers were super high. There weren’t that many foreigner so when you went out, you felt like a rockstar all that is gonenever to return.
Foreigners can also be a source of mistaken identity. I worked on the JET Program and there was this one other ALT placed in the same city as me who was from the same country as me, had the same first name as me and even had the same job (high school teacher) as me before we joined JET. Well this fella had a tendency to engage in ridiculous and anti-social behaviour after drinks. On one occasion I had Japanese people come up to me and ask me about my wild night in the red light district. Apparently I went drinking with some local rugby team members (Japanese) and was the last one seen with one who was found in the morning passed out in the street with his shirt and phone missing. I had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. Yet my squeaky clean image was getting all messed up because another foreigner was turning into an unruly wanker on his nights out.
9:22 So I should just play the role of an investor in japan? My real job was a music exec in the states and I was successful. Like basically, finance projects?
This is sad. What’s the solution? Where have the good people gone? Chase I guess you’re one of them! I feel very nervous about moving there soon trying to do business. I just want to live a humble and peaceful life.
@@CHASE88888 Yes definitely a peaceful country but worried about the foreigner sabotage. We should all be able to work together in a foreign country without sabotaging. Keep up the great work brother.
@ to be quite honest , I still work with him. This happened recently What’s the way out ? Just shut up and act like nothing happened How do you prevent shit from further escalation
@@Abdullah-bf7rc It depends on where you are in the hierarchy If your lower dow you might wanna stay quiet. I've lost my job in a similar situation once thinking fairness would prevail it didn't
@@Abdullah-bf7rc it depends on where you are in the hierarchy if you are not up there you might wanna stay quiet, fairness will not prevail power will.
@CHASE88888 don't worry. I already heard it was outside of some people's budget like EasternDreamer. There is german youtuber he is in pakistan and Eli from germany.
Your right it is being yourself and can speak the language and struggle your own situation and keep it real. Yup many up and down. I was born here and I have been to US. I’m both culture since birth. And I came back to Japan and experienced this at work.
foreigners that hates new foreigners, a classic in every country
It's not about new foreigners believe me it's about business and love interests
@@CHASE88888Elbows wide open
Well said mate ! I never talk about money , family , politics view and business . I actually created 2 personas *(also different names) that I put on when I interact with both Japanese and Foreigners . At bars When the talk gets too intimate I take a break for a pee and dissapear hahaha .
You've got this !!!LOL
high IQ move. i should do that more often .
I had my headhunting career ruined by two backstabbing foreign coworkers. One even tried to bump me in front of a train and played it off as an accident.
Wow!! That is serious be careful!!!
That is brutal.
@@naoura Indeed!
Psychopathic. It always seems like the coolest people can be found in Japan, but at the same time the most cold and bitter people as well!
@@jordendarrett1725 Most definitely!!
Great wisdom; the mouth must not be opened to everyone.
Nope! especially if you got something good going on.
This is a true "Pro Tip" video for living in Japan as a Foreigner. I can tell this is some real advice! Thank you for this video!
Thank you for the confirmation!!
You are 100% correct. I moved to japan this past year and i was warned a lot by colleagues back state side at my company to watch out for foreigner co workers because they will step all over you and sabotage you just to buy themselves more time here in Japan. Im only befriending people who like myself are planning to go back to the states after a few years.
Sounds like a good plan. I wish I knew the things I know now it would have helped tremendously
My partner is Japanese, and when i go and visit him in Japan - he has asked me to not have conversations or engage with any foreigners there 😢 scary stuff!
I’m Canadian working in Japan for a decade and I’ve had all kinds of expat colleagues and Japanese talk directly to the manager about anything or everything behind my back just to make me look bad for some bs reason. One simple example of many: I’m a fitness trainer/nutritional coach and an overweight colleague asked for free advice. Over 2 weeks, I offered several ways and techniques to help him get into shape, then he actually went to the manager and complained like a baby that I called him fat! In the end, he got me fired. I have many similarly ridiculous examples you would never believe. Japan is generally a self-policing society. All your colleagues will regularly stab you in the back and tell the managers all kinds of things to get points. I’ve really learned not to trust anyone here. Some people are very threatened by a well-educated, experienced, competent colleague.
Just to add: the Japanese love to gossip. The kicker is, the Japanese will always believe any gossip they hear, especially if the gossip is concerning a foreigner since everyone in Japan believes foreigners can’t be trusted. Gossip is never, ever questioned or verified. It’s always believed in Japan.
I have an episode about this very issue coming up in a month or two I've been fired here for BS just like you LOL backstabbed just like you only to rise again LOL so hang in there!!
@@CHASE88888 Hey Chase, Thanks! I’m actually totally used to it now. That doesn’t mean I like it, but at least I know to expect it. Regardless, as an expat in Japan it is really important to be strong, confident and always believe in yourself. I still have to deal with even some narcissistic colleagues from time to time. It’s annoying, but it’s often part of life.
@@ShikokuFoodForest Indeed! You learn to deal with is especially here. Especially when your rights are severely limited and everyone knows it.
@@ShikokuFoodForest
Local or foreign
Enjoy the coffee :). Your demeanour, story telling ability is relaxing
Thank you sir I try my best!! Thanks for he coffee much appreciated! please enjoy your day.
Is second that he is very good at talking on camera
@@BA-cz4is Stop it ! Your blowing up my head I might start believing this LOL
@ no it’s true, proof is I don’t know anything abt Japan never been don’t plan on going came across your channel and im binge watching all your video has to mean you good at something don’t it ? lol
@@BA-cz4is Yes of course it has to mean something good stay tuned more videos coming
What I've noticed while living here is whenever I'm out with my GF, I get stares from only foreigners. LOL
And the Japanese LOL foreigners always wanna see what you got and compare
Damn you can't escape haters no matter were you go.
Definitely not in Japan
It's good advice even if you're not in Japan or a foreigner.
Indeed just from the comment section alone it looks like it's not only in Japan.
A lot of times it’s definitely the ones that act cool with you at first. Them collecting intel is exactly right. The grimy ones are everywhere.
You have to watch your front and back!!
It’s a shame, but I have heard about this in expat communities in other countries too.
Best to keep your mouth closed and not tell your business to anyone just because they speak your language.
That's the best way t go about it
Damn! Talk about providing an insight as to the whole ordeal. I'm sure younger Japanese and more travelled Japanese can really dig this.
Indeed You have to watch your back and front LOL
The Japanese would love this LOL it's a sad reality.
You should start calling the channel Chase the Time Traveler lol! Solid content as always
Thank you! It's not easy coming up with useful content LOL
Your right it is being yourself and can speak the language and struggle your own situation and keep it real. Yup many up and down. I was born here and I have been to US. I’m both culture since birth. And I came back to Japan and experienced this at work.
Love your delivery style and the insights. Also, the mysterious tidbit about Japanese showers.
Excellent advice in this video. Agreed. Facts 💯 I've experienced this overseas as well. It's said bro.
We have to fight on two fronts LOL
I was once sightseeing Kyoto in Gion and bumped into foreign guide who led a group of tourists around Kyoto. I came up to him to join the tour orientation led by him. It was completely denied at the harshest level I could have ever Imagined. Actually I followed the tour group all the way up to one Mansion of restaurants despite being denied. It turned out that the tour guide was volunteer plotting with Mansion restaurant to sherpherd tourists into restaurant bills there. 😅
A collaborator LOL they also exist!
Hey Chase, I've wanted to return to Japan ever since I spent my first 2 years of high school there, and but I never considered that there could be some weirdo foreigners lurking around. I had great Japanese and foreigner friends I met through gaming who I went to events in person with but we had no business relations so that's likely why I never ran into issues with them. Regardless, your video really opened this space in my brain that didn't even consider foreigners could be against each other. I'm not surprised that people act this way, but its really disappointing that people can be so vile and hateful to others so similar to them.
@@DerciEXE your experience will be totally different as an adult with different people around
I had this overall impression from Canadians when I lived in Canada, they initially reached out super friendly and smily, showed lots of interest in becoming friends and had so many questions, in reality they were only collecting intel to go around distorting the intel to make you look bad. When I first arrived in Japan I met this dude from Brisbane who looked nice person and we got kind of close, he seemed to be wanting to help me in an endeavor I was trying to getting into, as time passed and I started to get my things in line the dude became very nasty to me, openly mistreating me and saying sorry and blaming his life stress, after a while I noticed people in the environment we were at started to look me in the wrong way and I realized this dude was backstabbing me all along, I just avoided him and he knew it and didn't even insist on calling or anything, he knew right there his mask had fallen and just disappeared
I've been living in Japan for over 36 years as a "permanent foreign tourist resident" if you catch my drift and I will support everything Chase discusses in this clip. I have met so many foreigners in Japan over the years and befriended many and not one has stuck around with the exception of one who only recently blew me off getting very nasty with me. I don't know what living in Japan causes in foreigners but I have concluded it is some type of mental or psychological predilection for being just plain *ssholes. I have no other way to describe it. It happens so frequently that I ignore foreigners all together now. I haven't had a decent conversation in English with a foreigner in over three years.
We are screwed we do it to ourselves LOL
I honestly assume there would be unity since you and them from different lands its crazy
@@MountyCrizto The unity is superficial
Not sure this is relevant but I've noticed the long-lived migrants in the U.S. seemed the similar to me when I lived there back then. They seemed that they don't consider themselves as "migrants", and they have very strange attitude towards to the newbies. And I think that is why many migrants voted for Trump this election because they don't want to lose what they've earned over the years. I might be wrong.
@@BigPicture-z4y Could be I'm not surety can vote though.
Spot on Chase I'd argue that in the west too this is exactly the same. Coworkers are not your friends and will throw you under the bus first chance to get a perceived benefit over you. Promotion, kudos with bosses, etc. People in workplace will smile to your face meanwhile smack talk you behind your back. Nature of competitive capitalism I suppose. Everyone's just trying to survive. I'm in general nice to everyone, but firm and don't let people take advantage of me. All my work conversations are business and I don't let anymore know my personal life. In my experience people knowing your personal shit will only harm you not benefit you.
I agree with all you you said you need to be on guard but when you go overseas you let your guard down to a certain degree so it hurts more.
My Japanese friend said speak of nothing even around family.
Very true!! Foreigners here are the last to know!!
As a foreigner, I do tend to have my personal issues with Behavior, Mental Health (though Behavior and MH tend to go hand-in-hand), building + maintaining relationships outside my family etc. but I'd never lash out at and mock Native folks, no matter what country I'm touring in, especially Japan.
Lashing out disrespecting local populations is not good, explaining a reality is ok !
Makes sense given the circumstances. It's already a dog eat dog world, but being a foreigner in Japan working for a Japanese company is just the same thing on a whole different level. Should really only be there if you can work for a foreign company, don't you think?
@@DC-wo2yb Of course because there is less likely to be a concrete ceiling!
It used to be called the "My Japan Syndrome" back in the 90s. Guys (and it was nearly always men) didn't like other gaijin males showing up in "their" part of the Japan fantasy they had constructed for themselves.
Overall, competition for access to teaching jobs and Japanese women were often the reasons for trouble. I've seen passive-aggressive stuff and I've seen real fist fights break out between gaijin.
I realize this case when I was living in Korea. By the end of my time there, I became a lot more reserved.
Yup everything becomes a secret after living there LOL
It's the same in China, cock watchers and blockers. I never understood how a guy gets turned on by chasing after a girl I'm x-ing with. Like we say in Spanish. It's ashame but "uno tiene que comer solo." You really have to eat alone.
Good analogy!! I guess it's universal
Priceless Advice Chase, Backstabbing is a Western Practice.. specially around Ideas, Business & Girls... everyday is getting harder to survive & trust, it is for a reason that experience is the most valuable asset!
Indeed keep your mouth shut when your about to get opportunities!!
It's a latino practice
@@mrsimpleslowmo LOL
This especially happens in the ESL industry in Japan.
I can imagine everyone fighting over crumbs
I'm living in Japan and I would never do that to you or anyone
I'm sorry to hear what you're going through. I just stumbled upon this video
My opinion....the gaijin that does that are also here to take advantage of the Japanese people.
Thank you so much for your words of wisdom It is much appreciated!!
Thanks!
Thank you so much !!Your gesture is much appreciated!!! Arigato Gozaimashita!!
Your welcome!!! Please have a blessed day!!
If you can't hangout and enjoy time with the natives, you have a Japanese skill issue and need to level up. There is literally no need to associate with foreigners here in Japan. Also, your co-workers are not your friends! This kind of thing happens even back home.
I think a lot of us foreigners have the skill issue LOL
CHASE , TELL ME ABOUT IT!!! HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS CRAP MANY TIMES!! HA HA HA HA ^_^. EVEN TO THIS DAY I AM ALWAYS WATCHING MY BACK. HA HA HA HA HA UNTIL I LEAVE TO ............^_^..................................
wWatch your back and front LOL Japan keeps you on your toes LOL
@@CHASE88888 TELL ME ABOUT IT HA HA HA ^_^. NOT EVEN BACK IN THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN DID I EVER HAVE TO KEEP MY GUARD UP ALL THE TIME HA HA HA HA ^_^.
@@chiptoothtech4937 Life here is tough!
@@CHASE88888 LETS GO FOR A COFFEE , DINNER ETC. SOON IN OSAKA . IM BUYING! 宜しくお願いします。
@@chiptoothtech4937 If you can come to Sannomiya it's a deal!! Send me an email!!
Money and Women, are the two major causes of the jealousy …
If you are doing well and he is struggling .
Obviously he won’t be happy …
And he doesn’t want to go back home ….
Yup and he's closest to you so it hurts
Interesting channel. I was introduced to Japan in 02 and went till 15. Kansai is the main area. I remember when Nova fell and all the RATS came running out. Same can be said about USJ when they went bankrupt and sold to the public or when thier entertainers go a little crazy.
I think the teachers and esp the newer ESL school owners can be the most dangerous due to personal relationships with other companies or at times corporate espionage. I saw a big lawsuit with cellphones and a large Japanese bank.
Now that I'm older I would prefer to house flip or some more higher tech trades.
I guess you have evolved LOL every does
Yo Chase, it’s best to get honne with the real locals. Not everyone can do that but this is the way.
I would never hang with foreigners. It’s just stupid. They can’t open any doors.
Yes sir!!
It’s not what you go there for. Let’s get real.
And the delicious irony is that if you do the work and you extend your presence you will find so many locals who will welcome you. Just take off your shoes in the foyer, bow a lot and learn to say idetakimasu when you eat. It’s not so difficult.
@@pillowtalker8398 Nope but everyone has there guard down.
It’s called business for a reason mate lol.
I guess you could look at it that way!
(They smilin' in your face)
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
You gotta watch out when it comes to business opportunities and women but when it comes to having a drink you can't replace Them LOL
I figured. There are many jealous foreigners of me. However, they have no idea the work I did with Japan for decades.
In Japan you have to keep everyone at arms lenght when it comes to business as well as when it comes to the people you are in a serious relationship with!!
During my recent trip there I encountered a few food “influencers” which ruined the experience for me
I can imagine !!
@ she was so annoying. She filmed her receiving bowl of katsu curry again and again for 10 mins. I just wanted to scream at her “eat your bloody food” lol
@@CodingAbroad LOL
The foreign manager at my Korean school forced us all to get multiple injections and he explained it was mandatory and if anything went wrong we'd have no recourse.
Injections??🙃
the sad part is...english teaching doesnt pay much in the first place
It's shocking to me what 's happened to English teaching in the late 80's early 90's people use to buy multiple houses with English teaching salaries.
@@CHASE88888 now its 'backstabbing' for low pay
@@ShutingFromTheSky Backstabbing still around but the money is gone LOL
@@CHASE88888 at that point then.they are just sick inthe head to do it for free hahahaha
@@ShutingFromTheSky That's why I don't get it I don't see the benefit anymore.
This is literally how it is everywhere in every workplace. The problem is humans not some foreigners in Japan.
Could be but it hurts more in a foreighn country
Sounds like prison behavior, only Japan is the prison.
LOL good analogy feels like that sometimes
@@CHASE88888 "Misery loves company"
@@DT11199 Indeed!!
Isn't every country in the world like that, though?
@@oriongear2499 We won't know till we travel to every country LOL
snakes everywhere. Always be on the lookout. can't trust anyone.
indeed!
@@CHASE88888 Im planning on moving to japan to get away from these mean backstabbers do you have any tips moving there?
@@ThePulsinater I have plenty can't discuss all of them here
@@CHASE88888 thx
@@ThePulsinater Your welcome!!
They all sound like my former co-workers. But that was state-side, so I'm not so sure if working abroad is what makes people act like that. Maybe they are simply terrible people to begin with.
Or maybe its just the culture in "The West". Because when my cousin moved to the US from SEA, she never had backstabbing co-workers until she started working in America. And it seemed to be the same type of people: The ones that seem nice and friendly until they see or hear you get praise for something by upper management. Then they try to do everything to shut you down.
In my experience though, its also the same people who complain for not getting recognized for doing the bare minimum. Like they expect to get promoted rapidly for simply being there. Already acting like some hotshot when its their first day. IDK, just seems like the same lot giving grief.
I'm surprised a lot of the comments reflect what you are saying
I've had this experience in South Korea, two foreign teachers would always slander my name in front of the Korean teachers and management behind my back. THEN they would say negative things TO ME about the Korean teachers who ignored them. Idiot teachers from Ireland and the U.K.
They always need a boogie man/woman to make themselves look better
Bro love your voice it sounds like winnie the pooh
@@Dfgtyyuhvaghh lol 😂 I’ll take it as a compliment
But in the end they mess up. Me I am having trouble but I am happy in my situation.
As long as your getting ahead that's what counts
@ 英語の先生やだよん
@ yes
OH I KNOW!!!
@@tidalfriction5301 Then you won’t get caught off guard!!
Too late….. I know because I was caught off guard….. in Hiroshima…… Some wild comment about a black banana (pause) but I’m starting to realize some jealousy is involved, but This out here can be a lonely world, even your own black people don’t give you a nod back. I seen a white dude, and I really felt a level of loneliness….. He was just happy to see me drunk and laughing with wifey. so many mixed emotions out here. I don’t know how you did this for 30 years bro. I probably gotta get my vocabulary up.
@@tidalfriction5301 Honestly I don't know how I did 30 year either LOL
Hey Chase, if u been living in Japan for 3 decades, that means u lived through the bubble era? If so, how was life like back then?
@@luffyland4996 it was amazing. There was money everywhere wages for English teachers were super high. There weren’t that many foreigner so when you went out, you felt like a rockstar all that is gonenever to return.
This aint new, it has happened in SEA. Foreigners hating on other foreigners whether they live in country for a while or not.
It's all over SEA ?? Wow! didn't know that.
Foreigners can also be a source of mistaken identity. I worked on the JET Program and there was this one other ALT placed in the same city as me who was from the same country as me, had the same first name as me and even had the same job (high school teacher) as me before we joined JET. Well this fella had a tendency to engage in ridiculous and anti-social behaviour after drinks. On one occasion I had Japanese people come up to me and ask me about my wild night in the red light district. Apparently I went drinking with some local rugby team members (Japanese) and was the last one seen with one who was found in the morning passed out in the street with his shirt and phone missing. I had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. Yet my squeaky clean image was getting all messed up because another foreigner was turning into an unruly wanker on his nights out.
That happens all the time LOL in Japan when someone that looks like you does some thing you own it!!
@@CHASE88888 Drives me crazy, Chase Senpai.
@@SuperWils2010 It drives everyone crazy and there is no medicine for this disease yet LOL
9:22 So I should just play the role of an investor in japan? My real job was a music exec in the states and I was successful. Like basically, finance projects?
I hope you make it here It's a tough market!!
This is sad. What’s the solution? Where have the good people gone? Chase I guess you’re one of them! I feel very nervous about moving there soon trying to do business. I just want to live a humble and peaceful life.
don't worry no one will attack you nut there is a lot of passive aggressiveness.
@@CHASE88888 Yes definitely a peaceful country but worried about the foreigner sabotage. We should all be able to work together in a foreign country without sabotaging. Keep up the great work brother.
@@BmatthewB Your right we should help each other out.
That's probably a condition if you work in any country if it's in Japan, Germany, Sweden, or even in the U.S. within certain Corporate settings.
I'm surprised all those countries are the same.
Yes, it's like this and I think that you meet the same types of "spirits" within certain people that transcends national borders.
@@FingerLaserZ Of course I 'm finding this out here
ありがとう君最高だ。
Thanks you too your the best
Don't believe foreigners. I given 50000 yen to Uzbekistan guy in Japan. Never got the money back. Hihihi. 1 year ago story.
I guess it was a donation LOL
it's the same everywhere, no one who needs to borrow money ever pays it back; you typically learn that at a young age
@@DC-wo2yb fair point
After making such mistakes with co workers and feeling it may go back , is it possible to fix up in Japan? I kinda landed in a similar spot
It depends on how much your willing to forgive and forget !!
@ to be quite honest , I still work with him. This happened recently
What’s the way out ? Just shut up and act like nothing happened
How do you prevent shit from further escalation
@@Abdullah-bf7rc It depends on where you are in the hierarchy If your lower dow you might wanna stay quiet. I've lost my job in a similar situation once thinking fairness would prevail it didn't
@@Abdullah-bf7rc it depends on where you are in the hierarchy if you are not up there you might wanna stay quiet, fairness will not prevail power will.
Apply No Contact & Grey Rock, two techniques to deal with Narcissist (NPD)
Make a video abput your fights!
I did you'll see it soon LOL
Do you think that it's worth it moving to Japan if you are looking for better opportunities? (I live in a third world country)
It depend on your lifestyle in the third world country if you are upper middle class or above in your country I would say no
Oh you didn’t even want to make this video? Well it’s good that you did…both for your ratings and my wellness
Glad I could be of service.
CHASE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DO A LIVE STREAM SOON ^_^!! PLEAAASEEEEEE!!! ^_^.
I wanna do it but not confident yet LOL
Deutschland ist gute länd.
I've heard many people say that I need to get over there!!
@CHASE88888 don't worry. I already heard it was outside of some people's budget like EasternDreamer. There is german youtuber he is in pakistan and Eli from germany.
@lejaponennoiretblanc avait encore raison 😭
Oui Merci Beaucoup!!
Yup ALT sucked.
They could make it better mot enough classes you gotta look busy always uncomfortable LOL
Your right it is being yourself and can speak the language and struggle your own situation and keep it real. Yup many up and down. I was born here and I have been to US. I’m both culture since birth. And I came back to Japan and experienced this at work.