今どきの若者はどうして言うことは一人前なのに行動が伴わないのか。今日だって『退職代行』の業者から新入社員の北山が辞めたと電話口で告げられた。社会人としてあり得ないと憤る俺の元に退職届が手渡されたが、取り出した紙には「あんたの奥さん最高だったよ」と目を疑う言葉が書かれていた。奥さんというのは他でもない同僚である妻の那美のことだと気付いた俺は、妻が北山のサポートを熱心に行っていたことを思い出して…。

Why is it that young people these days can talk big but never follow through with their actions? Just today, I received a call from a company that handles employee resignations, informing me that our new employee, Kitayama, had quit. I was furious, thinking it was unacceptable behavior for a working adult, when he handed me his resignation letter. But when I took out the paper, it said, "Your wife was amazing," which made me doubt my own eyes. I realized that "wife" he was referring to was none other than my wife, Nami, who is also a colleague of Kitayama's, and I remembered how enthusiastically my wife had supported him…