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Hello. I’m Yasui, the president of a one-person company mainly engaged in inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
It looks like vehicle procedures may now be delayed.
At this pace, I might not be able to drive anything other than my HiAce for a while.
This is what happens when you neglect what you’re supposed to do—the consequences come back around. I’ve been repeating that pattern.
Taking responsibility means feeling the weight of it. If you don’t, you’re taking your work lightly.
Without vehicles, we can’t get to job sites.
And yet, the jobs are there.
So what exactly are we doing?
The very thing that should have been handled first was left undone.
If it were just a notification between myself and a government office, that would be one thing. But procedures don’t end with just you and one other party—they involve multiple steps and people, so they take significant time.
Add screening and bank procedures, and taking one or two months wouldn’t be surprising at all.
I could have started moving back in December.
But when people feel they have time, they leave things alone. You might as well assume that’s human nature.
So you have to act early, ignoring that false sense of security.
While you keep saying “There’s still time,” each day slips by.
Without a defined deadline, only time passes.
And now, on top of already being unlikely to complete everything by the end of February, I discovered—by reviewing the documents myself—that the vehicle being returned and the one being transferred were reversed on the paperwork.
Yes, the person preparing the documents bears responsibility.
But the professional representative at the dealership said,
“The paperwork was prepared by the staff at Company ○○.”
An excuse.
When I asked, “You confirmed which vehicle (which color) we’re keeping, right?”
“Yes. The black one.”
“Then you received the white one yesterday, didn’t you? But the transfer document lists the white vehicle’s number. How do you explain that?”
The tone immediately dropped.
Don’t make excuses.
Blaming the customer is unacceptable.
Everyone involved is trusting paperwork too blindly.
Assuming it must be correct.
Without questioning, without checking—just accepting what’s handed over and proceeding as if it’s accurate.
If I hadn’t read through the documents myself, this would have gone unnoticed.
Do people even understand what a contract really means?
Those involved treated it far too lightly.
It’s careless. Sloppy.
How does something like this happen with four eyes involved?
This shouldn’t even become a “problem.”
You shouldn’t operate in a way that creates problems in the first place.
Problems should be prevented before they occur.
Actual problem-solving should be reserved for situations that truly couldn’t be avoided.
If something this basic escalates into an issue, it suggests problems are constantly occurring in daily operations.
You end up generating your own problems.
And then you spend your days reacting to them.
Time disappears.
You can’t even do proper work because you’re constantly busy putting out fires.
Truly sharp people probably pay extraordinary attention day in and day out to prevent problems from arising.
They understand that preventing problems is what creates time.
So—what will we do?
Let’s see how this plays out.
Thank you for reading.
See you next time.
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