How does the boss ripping up a resignation letter “force” them to stay? Are the employers falsifying the end of the employment as a firing for cause, or are the ex-employees going to get blackballed, or what?
Being an American who clearly doesn’t get their cultural hangups, which I assume is the whole problem, I don’t understand why they don’t just just video themselves handing over the resignation letter (or e-mail it, or mail it in with whatever kind of receipt Japan’s postal service offers, or fax it since Japan apparently still does that (LOL)) and then quit showing up.
I also don’t understand why, if it’s so hard to get bosses to “let” them leave, employees don’t just work-to-rule and leave after 8 hours, expectations be damned.