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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I don't really feel either way about students or people here on short trips cutting things short to head home... The people who I found myself disgusted (a bit strong a term, but "disappointed" would be too weak) by were those who had full fledged lives here... Or who left their jobs and responsibilities at the drop of a hat - often giving little to no notice. Months after things settled down, I found myself encountering countless complaints from those who had just hopped on a plane. They were coming back and demanding their jobs back - and crying discrimination when companies weren't so willing to trust them again.
I even received nasty threats from a translator who had left his job with zero notice a few days after the quake, right in the middle of an intensive project. He was very very angry that I had taken his high-paying translation job, and that the company was refusing to pay him vacation pay because they had to pay me to do the job he completely abandoned. (Seriously. He ran off and didn't even email the company until a week later.)
To me, it seemed that the people who were distant from the disaster but who still packed up and left ASAP were looking for an excuse to get out of Japan... And they found a convenient one.
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That's awful Nyororin, I can't believe you got threatened. What a horrible person. I agree with you that the actions of those sorts of people is really offensive. That woman who ditched her kids is just appalling.
It just bothers me when people go on about ALL the foreigners leaving and all being from that situation. A few of my friends I mentioned who'd been at NUFS got some backlash from a few people for coming home, which was vastly unfair and I've met people since August who've had grief and complaints from people about being 'returning fly-jin', who've not been to Japan before.