For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You
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#2Wow, hard to believe this is turning a profit. I definitely don't enjoy resigning but unlike other 'difficult' employment conversations I usually have a hard deadline to meet the start date of the next job and these things are never as bad as you expect.
Did once have to give it to my boss's boss though because it was an unexpected snow day and we were 2/3 of the people in the office!
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#3I've never had any issue resigning, but perhaps this could be a new hire perk. "We offer free snacks, 401k matching, and previous employer termination service."
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#4I'm conflicted -- mainly because this doesn't seem sustainable, but maybe it works in Japanese culture. Not only are you not quitting in-person, but you're not doing it yourself. If you think quitting over text is bad, how would they feel if you asked your old buddy from college to quit over text for you? On the other hand, I could see this being the norm in some dystopia where nobody talks to each other anymore or employees are just fluid hands.
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#5I've never had any issue resigning, but perhaps this could be a new hire perk. "We offer free snacks, 401k matching, and previous employer termination service."
>> previous employer termination service
I would pay pretty good money to terminate one of my previous employers.
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#6I don't know why, but I found it really hard to resign at my old job. I actively disliked it and I didn't owe them anything. But still I found it really hard to resign and tell my colleagues that I was resigning, I didn't even care about them.
Most of the team only learned that I was leaving on my last week (I had given 3 weeks notice). I just felt really awkward telling them for some unknown reason. Funnily enough, I worked in a coworking space, and most other people in the space knew I was leaving before my coworkers. My coworkers only found out because they put my leaving party on the "this week" board in the kitchen.
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#7I've never had any issue resigning, but perhaps this could be a new hire perk. "We offer free snacks, 401k matching, and previous employer termination service."
Sounds quite reasonable to me, after all that is exactly how telephony and electricity suppliers, and insurance companies work here in Norway. You just tell the one you want to switch to and they deal with closing your accounts at the one you are switching from.
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#8I've never had any issue resigning, but perhaps this could be a new hire perk. "We offer free snacks, 401k matching, and previous employer termination service."
>> previous employer termination service I would pay pretty good money to terminate one of my previous employers.
I'm sure there's something available on the darknet.
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#9I don't know why, but I found it really hard to resign at my old job. I actively disliked it and I didn't owe them anything. But still I found it really hard to resign and tell my colleagues that I was resigning, I didn't even care about them. Most of the team only learned that I was leaving on my last week (I had given 3 weeks notice). I just felt really awkward telling them for some unknown reason. Funnily enough,…
It's hard to quit anything you've invested time and energy into, especially when it involves relationships with other people. Only way to get better at it, though, is to do it, however hard it is. I awkwardly (and abruptly) quit my first job (for another one) and later ran into my old manager. She brought up how awkward it was, and I replied that I should have done it better. The thing is, I think it was mostly out of shyness, or worry about disappointing someone. But I think that you learn by doing. You get better at framing it correctly, or dealing with objections, and you can quit in a way that brings closure to both parties. People from my past often pop back into it from time to time. It's important to try to leave on good terms whenever possible.
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#10I've never had any issue resigning, but perhaps this could be a new hire perk. "We offer free snacks, 401k matching, and previous employer termination service."
>> previous employer termination service I would pay pretty good money to terminate one of my previous employers.
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