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Comment by noahlt | Hacker News Reader

I wonder whether they would have been caught if they had actually quit, rather than simply stopped showing up.

Yeah especially for the superfan who just wanted to break the release date embargo to play the game. He got the game so that's it, mission accomplished. But he had no escape plan. And it's Amazon, he could probably have gotten himself fired by taking 4 or 5 bathroom breaks in a single shift.

"What do y'all think about this union idea?"

Hard to unionize when the average employment length is 30 days

Oh, come on! They aren't that quick to fire. Of course you first get a Performance Improvement Plan that specifies you are not allowed to use the toilet outside of your manager assigned breaks for the next 365 days and are given a handy plastic bottle to help with compliance. They can't possibly be THAT cruel.

Also they're hiring at the nearby warehouse if anyone's interested!

> I wonder whether they would have been caught if they had actually quit

Probably not. Which is to say, I'm sure other people have done something very similar, but because they didn't draw attention to themselves by stopping to show up, they didn't get make the news.

Can you ‘just quit’ in Japan? Many places require a notice period.

I've never known a company pursue legal action for not honoring a notice period - it's going to cost them far more than it's worth to pursue it legally than to just stop paying you for not turning up.

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