The Japanese Workforce is Hiring Companies to Quit Their Jobs For Them

Japanese workers are paying companies to quit their jobs for them to save them the guilt trip and shame that comes with quitting a job.

Before we hammer out the details, let’s just say: we’re pretty bewildered too. Some of the most rewarding and fulfilling days of our lives have been the last day of a job when we’ve told a former boss to proverbially suck it. To not only deny ourselves the satisfaction of that exchange, but to also pay a company to have that fun for us seems like a downright travesty.

However, it appears that Japanese workers have more self-respect or shame than us, as they’d rather pay 20,000 yen, or $144, to a company like Exit, which will contact the client’s employer to inform them that their employee is officially Audi 5000. Do people still say that? Back in middle school we used it all the time to announce our impending departure, but we live in a world where people pay companies to quit their jobs for them, so we’re not even sure what’s real anymore.