Frelling Day from Hell!!!
Is it over yet?
This morning I got up and checked my online banking to make sure that my money transfer went through. It hadn't. So I pulled out my receit and compared it with the one I got the first time I sent money home and came to the crappy realization that I made a mistake. I wasn't sure how I did it until later this afternoon, but I sent the money to the wrong place. It turns out I had reversed two of the numbers in the account number. 380,000 yen!! That's a lot of moeny. That's 4 months of savings. So I had a small breakdown.
I went to school early and right away asked my VP to call the BOE for me so I could talk to Kodama Sensei. I assured him that even though it was only 7:45am that she would be at work. So he called, and she was there, and he passed the phone over to me so I could talk to her. I told her what happened and asked if she could help me. She told me to come meet her at the BOE in Taira after work. Ok.
People could tell something was wrong with me and the third person who asked was one of the school nurses so I told her. Then she asked me if I was ok to work. lol I told her I was fine. The kids are a good distraction! Actually the only times today that I have felt good was when I was with the kids. I was trying not to cry at that point, part from anger and part from relief that Kodama Sensei should be able to help me and THANK GOD I KEPT THE RECEIPT!!! and didn't lose it!
Then I rememberered that I had made plans with the school's maintenance guy (well, one of them) to watch his band (traditional Japanese music) tonight and it turned out he wasn't in today. So I talked to one of the school secrataries and she called his house so that I could talk to him and explain what happened. I'm going to go watch his group next week.
By the time I got off the phone I wanted to cry again, so I double checked that I still had 10 minutes until class and I went tot he bathroom to cry. After that the other school nurse asked if I was ok - yay for gossip :) - and told me that I should take the 3:47 train to the BOE instead of the 4:29 train like I had planned. So I went to talk to the VP to see if I could leave a few minutes early to catch the 4:29 train...he thought I should take the earlier one too so gave me permission to leave once my classes were done at 2:15. What's the point of staying and worrying and having nothing to do? lol ok. So I agreed to go for the 3:47 train.
2nd period today there was no classes. Because of yesterday's earthquake - where apparently there was structural damage where the quake was strongest - we had an earthquake drill. The fire alarm went off and the VP said it was an earthquake drill and to hide under the desks to protect our heads. Then after a few seconds (15 or so) he told everyone to evacuate the building in case of after shocks.
So the whole school trooped outside and listened to the Principal and VP talk about the drill and why we are doing it and to not push, not run and not talk while leaving the school.
By 10:00am I had talked to Kodama Sensei 3 times and she called again while I was teaching so I had to call her back just before lunch. She tried to get info from me and at one point asked me to get a teacher to read stuff from my receipt to her since I can't read. I looked over everything so many times and never noticed the mistake. I inverted the 2 and the 4. That's it. Such a small thing and suuch a big consequence. goddammit
Before hanging up with Kodama Sensei, she told me that I should ask for 1 hour vacation pay so that I can leave school at 3 and take the 3:47 train. I told her that I would and that I already had permission to leave early.
I got a call from the bank that I had made the transfer from this morning around 11:15, and Kodama Sensei thinks it may be because the other person was trying to get a hold of me through my bank. We don't know for sure yet. The banks close early here so by that time it was too late to figure it all out. So This is going to continue tomorrow. But after god only knows how many hours spent on the phone, the paper work has been filled out and tomorrow I should, hopefully, get some sort of answer. I just hope the person who got my money is a nice, honest, decent human being. I mean holy crap. That is a lot of money to lose over inverting 2 stupid numbers!
At 2:40 my VP asked me if I was ok for time and I said yes. He told me to go ahead and head home. I asked him about taking vacation pay and he told me to never mind about that and just head on home. So I got the extra 90 minutes off from work with pay and not using up any vacation time. I love my visit school! :) I got to the BOE at about 4:15 and spent the next 40 minutes waiting while Kodama sensei was on the phone with the bank.
So because I put the money there myself, the person I sent the money to had nothing to do with it, and since I used a bank machine the bank had nothing to do with it, it is completely my own fault (mistake) and so the person I sent the money to DOESN'T have to give it back. I can fill out a request form for the person to give it back, but they don't have to. great.
Kodama Sensei and Takahama Sensei did some research on this happening to other people and they found a few cases. In those cases sometimes they got their money back and sometimes not. So she said it's a 50/50 chance. How the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight?
I still feel like crying if I think about it too much.
So, pray, or chant or think/send good thoughts and vibes to me please. I seem to be completely dependant on the kindness of a stranger.
This morning I got up and checked my online banking to make sure that my money transfer went through. It hadn't. So I pulled out my receit and compared it with the one I got the first time I sent money home and came to the crappy realization that I made a mistake. I wasn't sure how I did it until later this afternoon, but I sent the money to the wrong place. It turns out I had reversed two of the numbers in the account number. 380,000 yen!! That's a lot of moeny. That's 4 months of savings. So I had a small breakdown.
I went to school early and right away asked my VP to call the BOE for me so I could talk to Kodama Sensei. I assured him that even though it was only 7:45am that she would be at work. So he called, and she was there, and he passed the phone over to me so I could talk to her. I told her what happened and asked if she could help me. She told me to come meet her at the BOE in Taira after work. Ok.
People could tell something was wrong with me and the third person who asked was one of the school nurses so I told her. Then she asked me if I was ok to work. lol I told her I was fine. The kids are a good distraction! Actually the only times today that I have felt good was when I was with the kids. I was trying not to cry at that point, part from anger and part from relief that Kodama Sensei should be able to help me and THANK GOD I KEPT THE RECEIPT!!! and didn't lose it!
Then I rememberered that I had made plans with the school's maintenance guy (well, one of them) to watch his band (traditional Japanese music) tonight and it turned out he wasn't in today. So I talked to one of the school secrataries and she called his house so that I could talk to him and explain what happened. I'm going to go watch his group next week.
By the time I got off the phone I wanted to cry again, so I double checked that I still had 10 minutes until class and I went tot he bathroom to cry. After that the other school nurse asked if I was ok - yay for gossip :) - and told me that I should take the 3:47 train to the BOE instead of the 4:29 train like I had planned. So I went to talk to the VP to see if I could leave a few minutes early to catch the 4:29 train...he thought I should take the earlier one too so gave me permission to leave once my classes were done at 2:15. What's the point of staying and worrying and having nothing to do? lol ok. So I agreed to go for the 3:47 train.
2nd period today there was no classes. Because of yesterday's earthquake - where apparently there was structural damage where the quake was strongest - we had an earthquake drill. The fire alarm went off and the VP said it was an earthquake drill and to hide under the desks to protect our heads. Then after a few seconds (15 or so) he told everyone to evacuate the building in case of after shocks.
So the whole school trooped outside and listened to the Principal and VP talk about the drill and why we are doing it and to not push, not run and not talk while leaving the school.
By 10:00am I had talked to Kodama Sensei 3 times and she called again while I was teaching so I had to call her back just before lunch. She tried to get info from me and at one point asked me to get a teacher to read stuff from my receipt to her since I can't read. I looked over everything so many times and never noticed the mistake. I inverted the 2 and the 4. That's it. Such a small thing and suuch a big consequence. goddammit
Before hanging up with Kodama Sensei, she told me that I should ask for 1 hour vacation pay so that I can leave school at 3 and take the 3:47 train. I told her that I would and that I already had permission to leave early.
I got a call from the bank that I had made the transfer from this morning around 11:15, and Kodama Sensei thinks it may be because the other person was trying to get a hold of me through my bank. We don't know for sure yet. The banks close early here so by that time it was too late to figure it all out. So This is going to continue tomorrow. But after god only knows how many hours spent on the phone, the paper work has been filled out and tomorrow I should, hopefully, get some sort of answer. I just hope the person who got my money is a nice, honest, decent human being. I mean holy crap. That is a lot of money to lose over inverting 2 stupid numbers!
At 2:40 my VP asked me if I was ok for time and I said yes. He told me to go ahead and head home. I asked him about taking vacation pay and he told me to never mind about that and just head on home. So I got the extra 90 minutes off from work with pay and not using up any vacation time. I love my visit school! :) I got to the BOE at about 4:15 and spent the next 40 minutes waiting while Kodama sensei was on the phone with the bank.
So because I put the money there myself, the person I sent the money to had nothing to do with it, and since I used a bank machine the bank had nothing to do with it, it is completely my own fault (mistake) and so the person I sent the money to DOESN'T have to give it back. I can fill out a request form for the person to give it back, but they don't have to. great.
Kodama Sensei and Takahama Sensei did some research on this happening to other people and they found a few cases. In those cases sometimes they got their money back and sometimes not. So she said it's a 50/50 chance. How the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight?
I still feel like crying if I think about it too much.
So, pray, or chant or think/send good thoughts and vibes to me please. I seem to be completely dependant on the kindness of a stranger.