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Too timid to say you’re quitting? New service helps with that

Too timid to say you’re quitting? New service helps with that
Shinji Tanimoto, CEO of Albatross, offers a service translated as, "I can’t do it any more". (Image: Miho Inada/WSJ)
The Wall Street Journal
By Miho InadaYuta Sakamoto was exhausted from selling home-improvement projects, including the boss’s demand that he help clean up at renovation sites on weekends. One day, he mustered his courage and announced he wanted to quit. But his boss warned him he would be ruining his future and Sakamoto shrank back.Then a friend proposed a solution. Sakamoto didn’t have to confront the boss again – he could hire someone to do it for him. After sending the equivalent of NZ$320 and his case details to a quitting agency, he was fin...

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