There was the 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who got sick of being yelled at when she couldn¡¯t reach her quota. Then there¡¯s the exhausted designer who clocked 160 hours of monthly overtime. And the ramen noodle shop employee who suffered stress to the point of developing depression.

They all shared a common problem: for one reason or another, they couldn¡¯t pluck up the courage to quit. Instead, they asked Exit to make that nerve-wracking call.

¡°Quitting jobs can be a soul-crushing hassle. We¡¯re here to provide a sense of relief by taking on that burden,¡± said Toshiyuki Niino, co-founder of Senshi S LLC, a startup he and childhood friend Yuichiro Okazaki launched last year.