Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. In today's program,

the curious tale of Japanese workers too scared to quit their jobs. People are really scared

to tell their bosses that they want to quit. They are also afraid to tell their parents because

it's culture. to quit is bad.

Also in the program, the US IT worker who quit his job by faking his own death.

We get an email from somebody purporting to be this guy's friend saying, hey, like, I don't

know if you'd heard the bad news, but this person had passed away in an automobile accident.

Yep, there are some weird ways that people are quitting their jobs these days.

Why? Business Daily from the BBC.

How do you leave your job?

A question perhaps all of us have to ask ourselves at some point in our careers.

Will you do it with a wave of the hand?

A firm, forthright handshake, or perhaps a flounce and an obscene gesture to your former boss? All of these are, of course,

options. Whichever you choose, though, you'd think it was simple, a lot simpler than getting a job,

for example. It seems not everyone feels that way, though. Let's hear from Yuichori Okazaki and Tocayuki Nino.

They are both co-founders of a Japanese startup called Senshi-S, which runs exit,

a service which submits resignation notices to employers on behalf of anxious workers.

On a recent trip to Tokyo, I dropped in on them to find out

exactly how it worked. Most of them are scared of their bosses because they know their bosses

are going to say, no, you cannot quit. So they are scared. They're afraid. They're scared of the

boss saying, no, you won't quit. But if you just say, I quit, bye-bye, sayana.

And then walk out the door.

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