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Workers in Japan can’t quit their jobs. They hire resignation experts to help (www.cnn.com)

submitted 2 months ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Asking to leave work on time or taking some time off can be tricky enough. Even trickier is tendering a resignation, which can be seen as the ultimate form of disrespect in the world’s fourth-biggest economy, where workers traditionally stick with one employer for decades, if not for a lifetime.

In the most extreme cases, grumpy bosses rip up resignation letters and harass employees to force them to stay.

Yuki Watanabe was unhappy at her previous job, saying her former supervisor often ignored her, making her feel bad. But she didn’t dare resign.

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

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...and their birth rate isn't going to stop tanking until this kind of slave-driving bullshit changes.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

The boss tearing up a resignation letter is not legally binding in any way and the employee is not obliged to stay beyond the legally mandated notice period (two weeks in the vast majority of cases). There are many reasons the birth rate here isn't going up, but that's not one of them (though it is an example of power harassment which has recently gained more penalties and legal recognition, though there's a ways to go on that).

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

deny my resignation

Is this weird culture, or modern slavery? I can't really tell.

[–] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 1 points 2 months ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does the boss ripping up a resignation letter "force" them to stay? Are the employers falsifying the end of the employment as a firing for cause, or are the ex-employees going to get blackballed, or what?

Being an American who clearly doesn't get their cultural hangups, which I assume is the whole problem, I don't understand why they don't just just video themselves handing over the resignation letter (or e-mail it, or mail it in with whatever kind of receipt Japan's postal service offers, or fax it since Japan apparently still does that (LOL)) and then quit showing up.

I also don't understand why, if it's so hard to get bosses to "let" them leave, employees don't just work-to-rule and leave after 8 hours, expectations be damned.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There was a scene in Back To The Future Part II (1989) where Marty's Japanese boss fires him via fax in 2015.

It's 2024 and the Japanese are still using faxes.