In Japan, embarrassed employees pay agencies to quit for them
aljazeera.com
aljazeera.com
Am I being jaded or does anyone else doubt the employer's motivation was entirely altruistic? I mean your employee pays a third party to avoid ever having you in their life again, and you show up at their fucking parent's place?
“I thought that if someone cannot resign without using this kind of service, it is their own loss and that they are an unfortunate personality who sees work as nothing more than a means to get money.”
Isn't that why most people work though?
“Our world is not that easy to fix or change,” he added. “We have been running this company for six years and the number of clients is increasing, so I guess that means nothing has changed. I don’t think it will change for the next 100 years.”
Jesus that's depressing...
I'm afraid it's just the way Japanese do things with regards to their career. It's not unusual for a person to feel that a company is family, especially new-grads. it's even funnier as a foreigner the words: 組織 (soshiki: organization, usually about the company), and 葬式 (sōshiki: funeral). Pun intended ey
I can think of one MAANG right off that behaves this way. If an employee wants to leave, the most common response is for a manager to get very upset, gaslight them, and try to guilt them into staying or that they're somehow a bad employee. It's corporate BS attempting to exploit the views and vulnerabilities of well-meaning honest employees with deceptive emotional manipulation.
The main thing is that Eastern cultures is all about community (especially so in such a homogenous culture like Japan or Korea where everything is uniform). It can be quite distressful when you feel like an outsider for a group that initially felt like 'home'.