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Man calls in bomb threat because he doesn’t want to go to his own work farewell party (japantoday.com)

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago

The officer, a man in his 20s attached to the central division of the Saga Prefectural Police, was supposed to be leaving the force at the end of March, meaning he had less than a month to go until he’d be free from all such after-work functions.

Unless he was becoming self-employed, there's no way this is true. It's virtually impossible to escape being pressured into a ton of after work events across the vast majority of Japanese workplaces.