So when a board requests a resignation, as it did at Fujitsu, employees loyally fall on their swords.
Aguirre left his post on October 23 by submitting a leave request, a formality for a resignation in Mexico's political structure.
The simplest such trigger might be that when a justice is absent from the court for a full year, and does not submit a formal request to continue service, such a resignation would become automatic.
The European Parliament can dissolve the Commission as a whole following a vote of no-confidence but only the President can request the resignation of an individual Commissioner.
A request for his resignation has also come from a group of MPs on the left, supporters of President Rousseff, who demanded Mr Cunha be investigated under the code of ethics of the lower house of Congress.
For instance, on June 8, the day Dragas met with Sullivan to request her resignation, Gilliam, an appointee of Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell forwarded the rector an article from the conservative Web site Big Government.
A request for his resignation had already come from government supporters in Congress.
He accused Liniers of trying to appoint loyal members to the Cabildo, and gathered a small demonstration to request his resignation.
At Lt. Gov. Paterson's request, the resignation will be effective Monday, March 17, a date that he believes will permit an orderly transition.
The Vatican confirmed the announcement in its own one-sentence statement, citing a church canon that "earnestly" requests the resignation of a bishop "who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause".
"The judge said that the governor had the right to request his resignation, and that he had voluntarily agreed to resign, so he was not covered by federal or state discrimination laws," said Rosemary Alito, a lawyer who represented the state, the governor and the governor's spokesman, Pete McDonough.
