u/zAlGore

I’ve had this Reddit account for about 8 years. I originally made it as a teenager to promote an event in a games subreddit, then barely touched it for years. During that time, I always had a fairly negative impression of Reddit from what Id seen online, but I decided to actually give it a proper try after watching videos about the platform.

For the last month, Ive been using Reddit regularly. I started by answering questions and trying to help people in relationship advice communities. Later I joined some political discussions, where I ended up getting into heated arguments and received hostility including comments directed at me because Im European.

Most recently I posted in a Japan travel subreddit because my girlfriend lives in Tokyo. Ive been visiting her every 3-4 months for about a year, and we have already done many of the usual tourist activities. I simply wanted suggestions for things that would also be fun for a local.
Instead, a surprising number of replies assumed I was trying to “impress” my girlfriend or that there was something wrong with our relationship. Others mocked me for not knowing specific Japanese cultural terms and one person even insulted my girlfriend. Defending oneself and clarifying just led to getting downvoted. It felt like the discussion stopped being about travel recommendations and became about making assumptions about me and my life instead.

Is this a normal Reddit experience? Ive found plenty of genuinely helpful people, but Ive also noticed that some threads seem to snowball into personal attacks or arguments that have little to do with the topic.

I feel like I encountered the lowest lives on the internet on here.

Hallo,

ich habe meine Ausbildung zum Industriemechaniker bestanden vor ein paar Wochen und jetzt beim Bewerben für verschiedene Betriebe werde ich nach Gehaltsvorstellungen gefragt.
Leider habe ich keine Ahnung, ich habe mich zunächst von der Entgelttabelle der IG Metall inspirieren lassen, zwischen EG5/6, aber ich glaube die Vorstellung wäre ambitioniert, oder nicht? Vor allem als Berufsanfänger.

Ich könnte ehrlich Ratschläge gebrauchen.

EDIT: Die Stelle hat auch Schichtarbeit und Bereitschaftsdienst.

Hallo,

ich habe vor Kurzem meine Prüfung als Industriemechaniker erfolgreich bestanden und möchte jetzt mit der Jobsuche starten.

Ich habe einen Führerschein, aber noch kein Auto und wohne in der Stadt. Viele Industriebetriebe in meiner Region liegen eher auf dem Land und sind nicht immer optimal erreichbar. Deshalb dachte ich zunächst, dass ich vielleicht etwas in der Stadt finde. Bei meiner Suche wurde ich aber regelrecht von Stellenanzeigen von Zeitarbeitsfirmen überflutet.

Mir ist bewusst, dass Zeitarbeit oft eher kritisch gesehen wird. Mich würde interessieren, wie das konkret in der Industrie aussieht, vor allem für Berufseinsteiger. Ist Zeitarbeit dort grundsätzlich problematisch oder kann sie auch ein sinnvoller Einstieg sein? Wie läuft sowas denn eigentlich auch ab?

Mein Ziel ist eine Festanstellung. Falls nötig, würde ich auch eine Stelle auf dem Land annehmen. Trotzdem war ich überrascht, wie viele Angebote über Zeitarbeitsfirmen laufen.

Habt ihr damit Erfahrungen gemacht? Wie seht ihr das als Berufseinsteiger in der Industrie und könnt einem Berufsanfänger Ratschläge geben.

Hello,

so my situation is this. Ive heard of DayZ ages ago and then a couple of years ago I bought the game from Steam and I played the game for 34h on-off before dropping it. The game advertised with different maps and whatnot, but it was always the same map for me and the gameplay was also boring at some point. It was just loot, loot, loot, kill zombies, at some point die and repeat.

People killed each other with no talk and while it was fun at the beginning, I got quickly bored of it and deleted it. The last time I played was in 2024 and I couldnt figure out back then how to even change the map.

So anyway Ive met someone else from a game and that person told me they are playing DayZ a lot. I asked them if they dont get bored of it, since its nothing special. I told the person how I bought it and how I quickly got bored of it and they said I apparently played only on the vanilla official servers or something and that nobody plays in them. They told me theres private servers with RP and custom assets or something like that.

I still dont know how to access all those so if anyone could give me some advice? Thanks in Advance

Hallo,

also zu meiner Lage kurz. Ich hatte eine 3,5 jährige Ausbildung als Industriemechaniker bei einer Firma gestartet.

Die Ausbildung ist an sich ein anderes Thema, aber ich hatte dann im Januar die Abschlussprüfung, wo ich am Ende leider nur 45% erzielen konnte. Die Firma besaß keine Dreh- und Fräsbank, weswegen ich von einer Ausbildungsverlängerung absah, da diese mich als normalen Arbeiter ausnutzen würden wieder bis zur Wiederholungsprüfung und ich nicht wüsste wie man z.B dreht oder fräst.

Ich wollte danach die Ausbildung bei der Firma nicht verlängern. Es gab sehr viel Diskrepanz mit der Firma, weil sie mich nicht gehen lassen wollten. Es war schon so weit, dass sogar die Emails der IHK sie nicht akzeptieren wollten. Schlussendlich musste die IHK dort selber damals anrufen und sagen diese handeln rechtswidrig.

Ich habe auf jeden Fall recht schnell eine andere Firma mit den benötigten Maschinen als Vorbereitung für die Wiederholungsprüfung gefunden gehabt und habe diese auch vor fast 2 Wochen bestanden.

Jetzt ist es Zeit für Bewerbungen und darunter war auch das Arbeitszeugnis gefallen, was ich nicht habe. Ich hatte die Firma nicht kontaktiert seitdem Vorfall, da es einfach nur sehr unangenehm war und ich mit der Betriebsleitung mit den Nerven am Ende war. Ich habe halt Bedenken, dass diese mich im Zeugnis negativ bewerten wegen dem ganzen Vorfall, falls ich die kontaktieren würde wieder.

Ist das Arbeiterzeugnis denn wichtig für die Bewerbungen jetzt?

I (M24) was born and raised in Germany in a Turkish household and a year ago I visited Japan for the first time, made some local friends, ended up meeting my current girlfriend there and now I regularly fly over there to hang out with them all.

During my time there, I also got the impression that some women seemed particularly interested in me, more than Id expect back home. Random girls came up to me and wanted to talk to me, rather than the local friends I was with. My girlfriend at some point even told me she bragged to some co-workers about having a European boyfriend.

This made me wonder if there is actually a noticeable preference among some asian women for Western/foreign men or was I just experiencing a mix of novelty, being a traveler and reading too much into things?

Id be interested in hearing perspectives from people who live in an asian country or have experience dating there.

EDIT: You guys mention white skin fetish but I am in fact tanned (Anatolian descent) so um maybe theres some merit to it but I dont think so for my case atleast

Hallo,

letzte Woche Donnerstag hatten wir die AP2 zum Industriemechaniker.

Ich war ohne Betrieb als externer Prüfling angemeldet und hatte die Monate vorher die Prüfung samt alle Teile selber gefräst, gedreht usw. Ich habe alle Prüfteile auswendig gelernt gehabt und auch die Montage geübt, weswegen ich auch selbstsicher war.

Der Tag der praktischen Prüfung kam dann letzte Woche und ich hatte natürlich wie erwartet die ganze Maschine am Ende fertig gehabt, die Funktion war gegeben, alle Maße der Prüfteile außer eine war innerhalb den Toleranzen. Ich hatte bestanden, aber das Ergebnis wussten wir alle noch nicht, bis ich vorhin sah, dass ich nur 66% erzielt hatte.

Auch wenn das unwichtig ist, weiß ich nicht, was falsch genau bei mir war, dass es 66% ergeben hatte? Das Ergebnis der AP2 war identisch mit meiner AP1, wo ich sehr wenig Wissen über Fräsen, Drehen usw hatte und auch bei der AP1 nicht mal mit dem Bauteil fertig war am Ende, während ich bei der AP2 die gesamte Maschine selber hergestellt habe monatelang hinweg und die Montage mehrmals geübt habe usw.

I used Facebook a lot as a kid around 2009–2012. Back then it just felt like a normal social media site for memes, random posts, games, news, chatting with classmates etc.

Then smartphones became common and pretty much everyone in my age group moved to apps like WhatsApp. Facebook stopped being “the” place people my age used socially. Most of us just abandoned our accounts and never logged in again.

Fast forward many years later and I met my girlfriend in Tokyo and apparently she and a lot of people in her social circle still actively use Meta/Facebook for chatting over there, sharing posts, news, and staying connected. She had asked for my Facebook, so I reinstalled it and logged back into my ancient account.

Honestly, I was shocked by what I saw.

My feed was full of ragebait, fake AI generated images, political propaganda, hateful posts targeting Muslims, Jews, Men, Women, basically everyone. Mind you, this account was abandoned for over a decade and those posts are what the algorithm decided to show to what was supposedly be a "neutral feed" account.
Even completely unrelated posts had comment sections full of hostility and conspiracy nonsense. It felt like the algorithm was constantly trying to farm outrage from old senior users.

Of course there were still some normal posts, but the overall atmosphere felt completely different from the Facebook I remembered as a kid.

Did Facebook gradually become like this over time or is it just what the algorithm pushes now if you return after years away? Because the experience genuinely felt dystopian compared to what I remembered and its so cringe to see what became of it.

The whole server seems like the biggest legal cult Ive experienced so far.

You got the racist czech owner niCe, that made his servers throughout the years more unplayable and literally bans everyone without a hesitation for the slightest criticism of his server and blacklisted every modern slang word, you got the asslicking puppet staff team of each respective server that suck each others cocks and wait for niCes approval, sort of like „Notice me senpai“ type shii , but will sell you out faster than whatever if youre ever demoted or kicked out and let’s not forget their bias punishment towards players.

Each one of them have their own interpretation of certain rules and each will punish you according to their own judgement (e.g Admin A sees you mentioned a country and will mute you for mentioning a nationality, which is a rule break, Admin B may see the same but doesnt punish you because it was not used in a negative way). If you point this out openly in a thread, the entire staff team will just band together, berate/insult you for standing up to yourself and warn you not to do it again. If youre unlucky, niCe sees the thread and will ban you for a month for an unright complaint, without having ever read the thread itself. I dont know why they’re feeling like this, some of them have the most broken English but try to sound smart. I personally dont know why the staff even feels themselves, they get paid by niCe through his own game currency tokens for wasting hours and hours of staff work on the server, while he gets all the real money. Once WTLS ends one day, niCe made all that money and the admins just wasted their whole life for nothing at the end and their beloved tokens will be worth nothing.

If the staff dont like you, they will scan the logs and the chat and just wait for you to do anything slightest against the rules so they’re the ones issuing the punishment to you to get their precious tokens. This constant behavior gave them such a god complex, because they hold the power without daddy niCe and all the third world players suck up to them. Let’s not forget the server lags a ton, but niCe and the staff will tell you its not the servers fault, but yours. Crazy, your server is the only game where constant lag occurs for most players. If you try to argue with it, you will get punished.

You wanna go P2W and buy tokens? You pay taxes through the transaction already for a virtual item and niCe made it so dogshit that when you want to sell that virtual item, you have to pay another ingame tax for the trade/transaction?? Man put a cooldown and tax onto everything throughout the years, its worse than EA and Ubisoft combined.

Speaking of the playerbase, let’s be real, the majority of it are third world players with a huge ping and broken English. They dont have any alternates to play with their potato PC so they can only play WTLS and its literally the only community Ive experienced with no backbone against the staff and the owner. They just accept everything shitty about the server and niCe exploits this very well. niCe never caters to the community, but to what feels right for himself.

His FiveM servers are the most questionable thing every, man brought a shitty version of GTA Online to FiveM. Hey moron, if people would want to play GTA:O they go play it and dont play a Temu version of it on FiveM.

Anyway I could go for hours against this server, but you get my point. This server is dying out very slowly anyway, compared to a few years ago, WTLS has less active players. Honestly, the server really needs a competition so the owner gets a reality check.

I hope you enjoyed my bitching and ranting!

I was born and raised in Lower Saxony, and honestly a lot of what we consider “normal” in Germany is pure privilege globally.

Free or very cheap education, strong worker protections, health insurance that actually covers you, unemployment support, public infrastructure that mostly works, these things arent universal standards.

A few years ago I also thought Germany was depressing. But looking back, that had more to do with my own situation than the country itself. Traveling changed that perspective a lot.

I spend time in Japan regularly and have very close friends there. From the outside, many Germans romanticize it as some kind of perfect, aesthetic dreamland. But when you actually talk to people living there the picture changes.

Examples:

- Work culture is significantly harsher. Long hours, less work life balance and taking time off can be socially difficult

- Job security and worker protections are generally weaker than in Germany

- University isnt free in the same way and financial pressure is much higher, especially when you live in a big city like Tokyo

- Social expectations are stricter and theres less tolerance for stepping outside norms.

- Mental health support and open discussion around it are less developed

When I explained how much support exists in Germany like unemployment benefits, healthcare coverage and employee rights my friends there were genuinely shocked and wished they had that too. They told me they just get up work and go back to sleep with almost little free time.

Its a beautiful place to visit but to live? I dont really think so, I think Germany is just a better environment to live in.

(I took Japan as an example because I just keep seeing glaze over glaze all over the Internet and earlier saw a deleted post about it too)

German people complain about taxes, bureaucracy or things not being “perfect“. Yes those criticisms are valid, I mean look at Deutsche Bahn, but they often come from a very high baseline.

Traveling made me realize that Germany isnt perfect but its far from the depressing bleak place a lot of people make it out to be and we should all be thankful for being here.

So back from my experience and opinion, my question is why some people have this mindset that Germany is bleak and depressing and they want to leave?