Workers in Japan can't quit their jobs. They hire resignation experts to help

[thunderbong]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/business/japan-workers-resignation-agencies-intl-hnk/index.html

[JohnFen]

> “I didn’t want my ex-employer to deny my resignation and keep me working for longer,” she told CNN during a recent interview.

I don't understand this. Do these employees need the permission of their employers to quit? How is that not a kind of indentured servitude?

What happens if they tender their resignation, have their employer say "no" to it, but they just stop going to work anyway?

[theGeatZhopa]

Just quit with evidence and stay at home. Call the police if one is harassing. It's not a confrontation to quit one's job. It's a decision. One should work to live and not live to work.

[toomuchtodo → theGeatZhopa]

You should consider providing resignation services!

(no snark, entirely serious)

[NotGMan]

Not really suprising that Japan has that many suicides after reading stuff like this... Soul crushing.