10% of workers in Japan troubled by ‘revenge quitters’ who leave job in a mess

10% of workers in Japan troubled by ‘revenge quitters’ who leave job in a mess

by moeka_8962

24 comments
  1. Oh no, how terrible.

    Were they overwhelmed people who were doing three other peoples’ jobs and still barred from upward progression in the company by incompetent 60-year-old managers?

  2. “90% of people leaving their jobs want revenge on the totally indifferent company that did nothing but abuse them”

  3. The article properly gives the main reasons for “revenge quitting” to occur: toxic environment, environment with no place to seek corrective actions within the company, and environments where the employees are not respected.

    Also, quitting without proper handover is kinda the norm here I believe. Some of my colleagues are being changed teams or departments on a 2 days notice, with no time to handover at all. While every company I worked with “talked about” handover. None of them actually asked me to do anything for it. They are always too busy to actually think about it.

  4. In my job, I get paid 100 yen less an hour than the new staff who I train. Im seriously thinking about revenge quitting too.

  5. If revenge quitting means finally being so fed up that you don’t come back one day, after trying every other way to solve the problem rationally, I’ve definitely done it. It’s kind of hard not to when you come from a background of being a working professional, among fellow adult professionals, only to realize the norm here is to have a staff full of babies who don’t know how to use their words to communicate like adults.

    Good for the people who finally just up and leave, as long as the company isn’t spiteful enough to sue them for “damages” after the fact.

  6. Again the failure of organizations, companies are being painted as the faults of slaves / employees by japanese media. 

  7. Noone leaves a job if they are happy . I stayed in my previously job with low salary because the project was good, team members were nice and I had good work life balance and enough extra money to enjoy myself .

  8. The same goes for people from Vietnam who come to work as manual laborers. Their government has educated their children and they go online and say everything they were taught.
    A child on Vietnamese social media commented:

    私の究極の望みは、日本の三大島すべてに20発の核ミサイルを撃ち込み、ファシストの許しがたい

    犯罪の代償を払わせることです。

    もし20発では多すぎるという

    なら、残りはすべてフーランサに投下し、100年近くもの間彼らに植民地支配されてきた我が民の血の負債を償わせます。

  9. Proudly part of the 10% after acting as an interim 部長 for over half a year with no pay increase. 

    One of the very first action of the guy they hired to fill the 部長 position was to demote me and reduce my salary by almost 10%.

    Still got that fucking email saved. I quit the next day and refused to sign the part where they retroactively tried to decrease my salary. 

    Fuck you Horiuchi.

    セドリックさん

    お疲れさまです。
    堀内です。

    2019下半期の評価シートを添付します。
    ご確認ください。

    また、グレード変更に伴い給与も変更となっています。

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    以上、よろしくお願いいたします。

  10. ## Too bad.

    * **quitting without a handover** – this is a symptom of people not being able to take long holidays. If only you can do the do job if you are away for a week or two then it is unlikely that you can handover in two weeks from resignation.

    * **leaving during busy periods** – why should I care anymore? This is ethic that makes people trapped in bad jobs and black companies. “I can’t leave because it would cause my coworkers/abusers trouble.”. I knew a guy that informed our boss that he was quitting. To be honest the company didn’t know what to do with this guy after he joined. The boss asked the reason that he was quitting. He told the boss, “Another company offered me double the salary”. The boss said, “Couldn’t you delay leaving? We are busy at the moment.” He laughed in the bosses face. To tell the truth, we weren’t any more busy than any other times.

    ## Illegal.

    Definitely illegal. Don’t do this.

    * **exposing internal information** – Unless reporting the company for black practices.
    * **deleted work-related data before leaving**

    ## Rude or Finally Free of Fear or Retaliation

    * **sent complaints or insults via mass emails or chats before leaving** – I guess leaving without saying goodbye to certain people is categorised in this one. I have certainly done that.

  11. LOL. “Article” dictated to a reporter by a consulting firm.

    >A former employee accused us of harassment that never happened

    Wanna bet money the consulting firm who wrote this article has a profitable practice of making sure this harassment-that-never-happened at their clients’ company is well documented as never-having-happened, and all employees have been trained properly on explaining the never-happened story never happened, when asked?

  12. I have to imagine if AI really takes a hold and they have basically one guy doing the job of 17 this shit will be on the rise.

  13. Well, a job left in mess means a company offloaded way too much responsibility and work load on one person.

  14. Scored a job with a food service company back late 90s, hired to be the USDA coordinator and the lady who was to train me quit, the day she was to start training me, she was a NCNS, so absolutely no training at all. I ended up effectively making my own damned proceses, printed out forms to track the almost 4000 orders not delivered in a timely fashion and needed to get out – managed in one year to be absolutely back up to date in all deliveries [well except one half way house that decided they didn’t want the commodities because the residents didn’t like what was effectively school cafeteria program food. ]

    Actually, for those who don’t know, the USDA takes commodities [government cheese if you like] and distributes them fairly to institutions such as schools, prisons, halfway houses, hospitals and the like. The government allows individuals and certain businesses to pay taxes “in kind” like farm products – hence government cheese from the milk, honey, and manufactured stuff like the stuff you get in school – I used to know the hostess SunnyDee stock number by heart =) So, the government would release stockpiles of commodities and then institutions in the program would have a ‘budget’ and could place orders based on what product was on offer that month. They could also get fresh meats, produce and dairy. SO if a delivery couldn’t be made, it might be pre-empted by the next month and after enough stupidity the orders may be backlogged, product out of stocks, random shit like that. SO, I had to go through every undelivered order, determine WTF happened to the order, arrange to get the older orders actually delivered or properly cancelled. [There is a reason I ended up going back to school and ending up a forensic accountant at the end]

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