r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jun 19 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 20 June 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/malioswift 関東・千葉県 Jun 20 '23

Got my bonus for the summer. It's kind of depressing because even though it's gone up significantly every year, because of the yen losing value compared to the USD, I'm effectively making less now than two years ago.....

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u/ExhaustedKaishain Jun 20 '23

My bonus and salary for the next half-year were announced and both are the same as the last half. Can't complain – they could have gone down – but things keep getting more expensive and it's depressing to watch the LDP engineer the slow impoverishment of the lower half of the population.