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Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies

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167 points billybuckwheat | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 01:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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toomuchtodo ◴[18 Nov 24 01:56 UTC] No.42169056[source]▶
Can anyone in Japan share what ground truth looks like around this? Does this churn matter to businesses when they’re in a labor supply shortage? Do these folks have other jobs they’re moving to? Or are they potentially NEETs bailing on being employed?
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1. indrora ◴[19 Nov 24 06:08 UTC] No.42180464[source]▶
A friend of mine recently went through the typical US process of interviewing while he was in a job (Always take the chance to say you're "tending to your elderly family" or some such in these situations) and landed a new position, though it would mean moving from Kyoto to outside Kumamoto.

This was at a Major Electronics Vendor that is known internationally and who produces... "Entertainment devices".

He walked up to his boss, handed his letter of resignation in, and was told "No, you're too critical to this project, I can't accept this." His response was to say "If I'm too critical to this project then you have failed in your duties as a manager, and it would be very inconvenient for you to have to admit that, so you're going to let me go or I'll make it Very Inconvenient for you by telling the whole team you think they're idiots and that the foreigner is the only reason this release will succeed."

He then didn't show up for a month (new job gave him enough time to take a nice, lengthy 3-month vacation to Korea and back) and his old boss kept calling and sms'ing him... On a number he only used for that job.