Nintendo of America was last month named alongside hiring firm Aston Carter in a workers' rights complaint, when an individual worker claimed their legally protected right to unionise was violated. Nintendo issued a response to this, stating how the worker was "a contractor previously terminated for disclosure of confidential information" and this followed with more allegations about the working conditions for part-time and contract workers at Nintendo.
Now, in an update, Axios Gaming author Stephen Totilo has shared part of an internal message sent out by Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser to employees about "stories appearing in some media" regarding the "alleged working conditions at Nintendo". Bowser said he and the executive leadership team found many of the points "troubling" and were "reviewing the content". He reiterated how Nintendo had a "zero-tolerance for inappropriate conduct, including harassment, discrimination or intimidation".
A current contractor in product testing at Nintendo told Axios they found Bowser's message "disappointing" as it apparently didn't reference "the contractor issue core to so many accounts". Other Nintendo of America contractors also shared their stories with Axios. One former contractor known as Ash, who worked in the customer service center, spoke about their struggle to take time off during a difficult period in their life:
They worked in Nintendo’s customer service center for several years through 2015. Strict time-off rules for contractors and limited pathways to full-time employment added to stress that contractors could be dropped at any moment. That pressure, they said, aggravated a heart condition. Ash says their moment of disillusionment came when their grandpa died: “I was told if I went to his funeral, I wouldn’t have a job when I came back.”
Axios notes how these accounts square with what's been published by news sites like Kotaku and IGN. Nintendo's contractors are employed by staffing firms that reportedly treat them like "second-class" workers - as they apparently don't receive the benefits of full-time employees and are never given the chance to move into more secure positions. Nintendo shared an official PR statement with GoNintendo in April, responding to the workers' rights complaint:
"We are aware of the claim, which was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a contractor who was previously terminated for the disclosure of confidential information and for no other reason. Nintendo is not aware of any attempts to unionize or related activity and intends to cooperate with the investigation conducted by the NLRB.
"Nintendo is fully committed to providing a welcoming and supportive work environment for all our employees and contractors. We take matters of employment very seriously."
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[source axios.com]
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Looks like the report has shaken some trees. Good and well done, IGN. Let’s hope the leadership will use this information for the better of these workers.
Hopefully this gets resolved as soon as possible. It's possible that the problems just weren't that transparent to the higher-ups. If this was apparent from 2015(or at least the earliest the contractor was with Nintendo) then Reggie was still with the company and the problem already exists. Despite him saying it wasn't like this when he was still there. Unless this whole fiasco happened after he left. It's possible it just slipped his periphery. Not that I'm defending anyone in the company, just basing off from the official statements.
Time will tell.
And of course someone has to leak an internal memo instead of letting Nintendo investigate objectively. Yay court of public opinion. :-/
@Ryu_Niiyama These “internal memos”—within any company— are literally consciously written by corporate leadership who know and understand full well they will be leaked and factor that into building the statement. This actually benefits Nintendo of America’s leadership and serves as sort of an indirect press release addressing allegations…without actually saying anything that matters.
The only reason they released this memo to their employees in the first place is to get the corporate equivalent of brownie points.
I love how higher-ups' reaction to a bad work environment 99% of the time is basically:
"Aw man, these poor poor employees, someone has to help them!"
Yeah. You.
Lmao o we didn’t know about this! Ok
I wonder if we can get contractors to unionize.
Well no-one named Bowser could be a bad man.
@ClamDown I don’t know what companies you have worked for but every single one I have including the fast food joints when I was a teen has specific sections in either the employee handbook or the contract/NDA signed upon employment that prohibit or have policy in place for “leaks” or talking to members of the press. Usually with disciplinary action up to termination as a result of violating the employment agreement. I’ve certainly seen people fired for doing so in the tech companies I worked for when I was not in upper management and I certainly would begin proceedings per policy if any of my direct reports were found doing the same now that I am in upper management.
Leaks cause all sorts of disruptions to both internal investigations and company morale. Not to mention that all of this was started on a one-sided complaint where none of us have all the facts but want to pass all the judgment. If you don’t trust the company you work for and feel you need to “stick it to the man” by trying to upend that structure and procedure then you need to cut ties as that company culture is not for you. If there is an issue, the internal investigation and policy will take care of it and if it doesn’t a class action lawsuit will. However NONE of that is facilitated by someone trying to get their 15 minutes of fame leaking internal documents with no context.
And no, internal documents are not written with the assumption that they will be leaked. They are written to address the entire population of a company, internally.
I REALLY feel you should be pointing out in the headline that this is about NOA, a company notable for NOT BEING NINTENDO, but instead being a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd which is independently managed.
Nintendo Japan, as well as like ... basically all of Japan, SEA, CIS most of the EU ... well basically anywhere that isn't the US ... not only is far less likely to use part time workers or contract work for positions that could be filled by FTEs, but the mindset around this type of work is completely different.
In the US part time employees have almost no rights, with right-to-work legislation making them second class workers. Contractors are even worse off. For the most part, you don't even have to pay them minimum wage. So the idea that NOA is treating this class of worker poorly is bad, for sure ... but it's systemic of a much bigger problem, and not really a commentary on the company itself.
As for Nintendo, they are generally considered one of the best companies to work for in Japan. Not top 10 or anything, but up there.
@Ryu_Niiyama I am also a little confused by people getting up in arms about contractors being treated differently from employees when contractors are not employees and by definition a different class of worker.
Companies need to be very careful not to treat contractors as employees or they could get sued by the contractor for misclassifying them, which could have serious consequences.
So when they say contractor, they mean temp worker?
A contractor is self-employed. I guess terminology is different in the USA?
Just out of interest, are Nintendo's temp contracts any different from those any other general US company? They are not breaking the law with what they do?
Nintendo should be better, but really it's the law that should be better protect workers' rights.
This sounds like someone was butthurt and expected the regal treatment but when they didn't get it, despite only working on a temporary and contractual basis, they decided to try and cancel NOA. I fully expect some fringe group of disgruntled "offended by every micro aggression" purple haired types to come out and accuse them next of having a culture of "harassment". I'm sorry, I could be wrong, but this whole thing reeks of something being blown way out of proportion by a fragile person trying to rile up the mobs against a former employer.
Although, to be clear, if there ends up being solid, irrefutable evidence of some kind of deeply unusual systemically toxic work environment at NOA, then I'm not too arrogant to say I was wrong, and obviously, I would hope that it is addressed.
This is horrible. America really needs to review their worker right laws and fight against their famous "hire and fire" culture.
American companies have so much money, they have zero need to push this hard for win maximization, you have to strike a balance, your workers need to be healthy, otherwise it doesn't work.
It's also very important to not put Reggie on a pedestal. He's responsible for this, and now he's trying to make it look like everything is Bowser's fault, he just published his book and he's trying hard to present himself as some sort of hero, this is a very coward move by Reggie, it's horrible, it's still time for him to apologize for what he said ("This is not my Nintendo") and admit he made mistakes.
Being a leader is hard, sometimes you don't know what's going on, you have to be honest and always admit that bad stuff could happen under your leadership.
If I worked at Nintendo I would say make a new f zero , 1080, pilot wings, wave race, or I quit! Xxx
@HenHiro
I'm doubtful we actually know enough about this situation to say for sure who or what was the actual cause of this uproar.
@HenHiro Yeah, I agree. I'm currently listening to the audiobook version of the book and he does pat himself on the back quite often in the book. And in another interview I heard him saying something like: "This isn't the Nintendo I left." but I think the media are making the story a whole lot bigger than it needs to be, as usual and Reggie definitely had some influence on how Nintendo of America is operating today, since he helped form their current culture, he even prides himself on creating the culture. So what went wrong, exactly? People need to own their mistakes (as he says in his own book, nota bene).
@Pillowpants would like to read/ listen to it, but heard he doesn't talk a lot about the failures of the Wii U for example, I'm interested in knowing everything, not just the stuff that went right, you can learn a lot by analyzing bad stuff.
I learned a lot as a game designer by playing SM and SWSH lol
@ModdedInkling it is a fact that there are allegations from the time where Reggie was still in the company.
If Reggie says "this is not my Nintendo" he's aknowledging that the allegations are true, but he's trying to blame Bowser, pretending these allegations all come from after his time, that's just not true. All that's very wrong, Reggie is probably more responsible for this since it's the system he established and Bowser has to deal with it now.
Reggie Fils-Aimé: you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
This sentence is just so true so many times in our world.
There is still time for redemption, Reggie needs to apologize before things get worse.
It is an inherit problem of capitalism that companies pursue profit sometimes at the expense of their workers' health. While I realize it's hard for Nintendo to care for this because of its shareholders, I also understand its employees' fight for their rights. The problem lies within the system.
@HenHiro
Not defending these awful practices, and not defending a man I've never met, but it's not like the CEO is directly responsible for each and every aspect of the day-to-day running of a company.
Of course theirs is the final responsibility, and it should be their head on the block, but what is being described here isn't really that unique in a workplace.
@Rambler
Contractors are people who do contract work, involving a actual contract.
A temp worker is an employee who's term of a employment is limited at the time of hiring.
As a contractor, you undertake a contract to produce a specific deliverable in exchange for the terms laid out in the contract. In the game industry, the most common contracts given to individuals are probably for music scores, graphic design, and documenting and commenting on code. Logic (programming) contracts are less common, but generally include a small aspect of the games UI, writing a driver for custom hardware, or engine work involving something the studio doesn't have in house people for. Keep in mind that an independent contractor can also be someone who owns a business, so it might be something larger like framing out your play testing.
They are almost exclusively fixed price contracts, meaning you get paid a set amount that doesn't increase if complications pop up making the work more difficult and time consuming.
The best thing to ask is "can I be sued for not doing my job because I'm legally bound to producing something" and "do I work completely independent of oversite". If the answers are yes, you're a contractor.
What laws could NOA be breaking? Contractors in the US have no rights outside what's agreed on in the contract. Labour laws don't apply ... you can offer someone what works out to $5 an hour and refuse a contract to a minority by flat out telling them "I don't like working with Black people" and there is zero recourse. Right-to-work is a pretty ugly thing.
@roboshort @Ryu_Niiyama
This is not exactly accurate. It's not some ambiguous " treat contractors as employees", it's a very specific and rigorously defined distinction; if you control any aspect of someone's work day, you can't call them contractors.
For example if you tell someone what hours or days of the week they need to be working or available for, that person can't be classified as a contractor. You tell a contractor "I want this thing done under these terms" and then leave them alone to independently produce that deliverable in any way they see fit.
@HeadPirate
That's kinda what I was implying. If you are a contractor, you and the company have agreed terms and conditions. It's on your own head if you don't like them.
That doesn't sound like what is happening here - these sound like temp workers.
"Contractors in the US have no rights outside what's agreed on in the contract"
Yes and no. It's up to them to agree Ts&Cs, but the company is still liable for their H&S - you can't kill or maim them.
"refuse a contact to a minority by flat out telling them "I don't like working with Black people" and there is zero recourse"
Is that actually true? It would be breaking the law in the UK stating that.
@Rambler
You're right about how it looks! If I was to guess, based of my experience with this type of work, the person who complained is an employee of a company that is owned by someone working as an independent contractor for Nintendo. There claim is that something in the contract violates their rights as an employee, ie, Nintendo said that unionized workers can't be used. I don't know the law well enough to make any meaningful statement about if that would actually be illegal, but my gut says ... not even close.
Just using https://www.upcounsel.com/ to quickly get a source;
"Independent contractors are not provided protection from employment discrimination or entitled FMLA leave via the Family Medical Leave Act."
I guess if we are talking about the US I should include "in some states". I'm not a lawyer and don't know what states can do, if anything, to control that at the state level and which states have done that.
If you are liable for someone's H&S you cannot legally define them as a contractor. By law, you must have ZERO control over anything a contractor does, so if there was any opportunity for you to maim them, they are not contractors. I think the technicality causing confusion here is that in most states you have a burden of care towards anyone at your job site or in your office, so you would be liable if, for example, a contract worker slipped and fell down the stairs on the way to sign the contract because of gross negligence on your part. However, this is an obligation of the party with the burden of care, not a right you gain by being a contractor.
@roboshort I have been trying not to mention that part too. It feels like the people most upset about this have no idea how employment in America works. This seems like such a non story blown out of proportion. As usual.
Yes, how dare contractors be treated.... like.... contractors?
I just don't care.
This isn't some scandal where a CEO was embezzling or refusing to pay workers, or offering promotions for sexual favors.
Some contractor didn't like that they weren't treated the same as hired ons? Who cares.
People make a mountain out of any molehill they can find nowadays, partly because the media is on a constant witch hunt for controversy, and doesn't care if it's overblowing a situation, as long as it drives traffic, and of course they'll claim they're just doing their jobs.
If workers of contractors are complaning about the treatment they receive when working to a CLIENT, they need to complain upwards, that is, to their bosses within the contractor, which is the company they actually work for, not vertically, that is, to their client.
The contractor has an obligation to provide services as promised within a contract - if that leads to worklife balance issues, that is an issue WITHIN the contractor.
However, many companies develop policies to avoid contracting abusive contractors and incentivizing good work policies within the value chain, for social and ISG related reasons. Nintendo needs to follow on their own policy regarding contractors, whatever that is.
As many people pointed out, all of this is regarding Nintendo of America, where "the court of public opinion" is a culture aspect on its own (western markets, north and latin america). Nintendo is a conglomerate contains Nintendo of Japan, Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America, as well as other subsidiaries.
I think there is a key bit of information that is being missed: This is a condition that is, sadly common, in the contracting world for many industries. I and many friends worked as contractors in IT for Healthcare, retail, service and other industries and faced the same challenges.
This is a problem and I counted my blessings when I finally got hired as a full time employee for the company I was contracting for but I know people who were contractors for many years or never got hired by the company they were working for.
That being said it is not just Nintendo's problem, its also the contracting companies and the industries as well.
I have read the report and listened to Kat Bailey (the IGN author) talk about this on Nintendo Voice Chat. As a manager, I always endeavor to treat my employees fairly, no matter if they are FTE (full-time employees) or contractors. Bullying and harassment are never right. However, the truth is that contractors are not owed the same benefits as full-time employees. Nor are they owed a permanent position. Many of them grow into this based on the value they bring to the company. The contract defines the terms of employment. That is the nature of the "gig economy". Further, if the contract is through an agency, then technically they are employed by the agency. Whatever benefits are provided by the agency is what they are entitled to receive. Nintendo has no say in that, though they could (and should) refuse to work with an agency that does not treat their employees well. As a client of the agency, Nintendo can request that a person be removed from their account at any time for any reason. If Nintendo abides by the terms of the agreement, either with the independent contractor or with the agency who employees the contractor, then they cannot be accused of wrongdoing. However, they are responsible for their general work environment and should not abuse or demean their employees or contractors. On the other side, a contractor should not abuse their position with Nintendo by disclosing confidential information. Let the investigation proceed and report back if there is something substantial to report.
The real problem is Contracting companies are the worst - they charge the company double (or more) the amount the employee actually takes home, offers minimal benefits and has very little incentives to transition employees to the company they are contracting for.
Corporations love them for high turnover positions because it is so hard to terminate employees once they are hired that its worth paying the contracting rates. There is also a whole cottage industry of hiring managers getting kickbacks from contracting agencies.
@Ryu_Niiyama Glad to see there's someone else here with common sense! There's a lot of very young, very naive people on this site who think their own personal ideals should be the law of the land, and arguing with them is like trying to reason with a brick wall by ramming your head against it. It's frustrating.
And honestly, at this point I don't understand how anyone still takes the likes of ign and kotaku seriously. They're both essentially activist rags by now.
@HeadPirate Yet in Japan, the work culture is so stressful in some fields that people will literally stand outside of their offices and scream at the sky to relieve stress. The country has a reputation for it's hardcore work culture. Let's not pretend it's without it's flaws!
@JaxonH If you are conducting business in a fashion that is unethical, then contractor or not, it's against labor laws. Some of the accusations, such as harassment and retaliation, have a cavalcade of laws to protect people in those situations. If you're a contractor, you should be treated with the same respect as a full time employee. The complaint isn't about the duration of employment, but regarding accusations of unequal treatment.
I'm sure you're not implying that contractor = trash worker who can be sh*t on whenever.
@BloodNinja
The issue is your interpretation of the data. I don't see "trash worker **** on" anywhere.
Not seeing it.
What I'm seeing is "terminated contractor who leaked confidential proprietary info complains they weren't included in certain company events".
You can come to your own conclusions. I'll come to mine.
Removed - flaming/arguing
@HeadPirate I think you tagged me by mistake.
@BAN I don’t even argue. I just state my assessment and keep it moving. The other thing to keep in mind that not everyone commenting lives and works in the US and thus some folks will be putting their own experiences/laws at home as a lens and you just can’t do that here. Although honestly my biggest issue is the leaked memo rather than the initial situation as we don’t have enough info to weigh in anyway and the complaints are coming from contractors/temps which is entirely different than if direct hires had been complaining. And even if it were direct hires complaining this needs do go through the correct process and not be rumor fodder for clicks (sadly I am contributing to that, I know).
@BloodNinja
"I'll call names and insult anyone who disagrees with my take"
I'll just block you, and report you. Don't have the patience to tolerate trolls anymore.
@HeadPirate
Bah! I wrote what I though was a very elegant response to you (agreeing in the main), and the internet has swallowed it!
Anyways, it was mainly around the difference between being a contactor as essentially a business-to-business relationship, and being a contractor as a person in a workplace.
But yeah, has been an informative and educational time today
@Ryu_Niiyama Mob rule is all the rage these days!
@Rambler that's what I said. It still under his management, he's saying it was not, he's lying.
@BloodNinja
Do you live and work in Japan?
@HenHiro
I honestly think it's the matter of what was the tipping point, rather than simply when it started; What's bad and what's worse.
Even if it did happen during Reggie's time, it doesn't necessarily mean it was as bad as it is now. Whatever's going on now, it was that tipping point for the employees to speak out against NoA. Maybe there was suppression taking place before Reggie left, but to what extent is that even legally possible? If there was an attempt at suppressing, I'm pretty sure we would've heard about it much earlier.
@Andy_Witmyer Some people have watched so much Ben Shapiro / Matt Walsh / Jordan Peterson that it infects their minds to the point that they're convinced EVERY negative thing that happens in the world is actually "fake news" or "blown out of proportion" or "taken out of context" by the EEEEVILLLL SINISTER LIBERALS with their victim complexes. If YouTube existed 100 years ago, we would see "Anti Child Labor Cringe Compilation" and a bunch of people talking about how "kids today are too pampered because they aren't dying in textile factories and how _____ group of people is trying to DESTROY AMERICA!"
We could see things as they are, recognizing both the good and bad of something we love, like Nintendo, but that's too hard. It's much easier to create a social boogeyman to blame everyone's problems on.
Sounds like a bit of BS going on here.
And FYI, IGN’s “investigation” just describes near every contractor/company relationship.
@Ryu_Niiyama I was definitely exaggerating when I said “every company”, I got caught up in my personal feelings of disappointment about Nintendo and this specific controversy; I shouldn’t have wrote that and I apologize.
I really just meant a specific “variety” of massive mega corporations. It just reminded me of the internal memos Apple (usually written by Tim Cook to address controversies involving Apple) used to send out and they were so artificial and demeaning. I remember hearing something similar about either Samsung or Sony too (which still isn’t enough to justify me saying “every company”, again I’m sorry).
Anyway, I think my main point still stands as this internal memo didn’t even address the actual meat of the controversy, as the article points out (being the issues with contractors). No confidential information/material, or anything that could prove disruptive to the investigation was actually leaked here, it’s just the most generic corporate response to any controversy about how the reports are “concerning” to the executives and how the company will “investigate” the reports without actually promising anything concrete—and, more importantly, without promising anything will change. The memo that leaked, in THIS scenario, is the textbook definition of a “nonstatement”.
I do appreciate your respectful response though, I just don’t agree that this specific leak of this specific memo is disrupting anything.
@BAN Is the air to thin up there on your high horse to even consider, just for a moment, about the concept of consuming news and media critically? And you’re the one calling ME naive, lmao
@jedisquidward - Engaging in a baseless flurry of mind reading assumptions with complete strangers in a comments section - purely on the basis of having an opinion which appears to differs from that of your own - can be fun, but ever since I grew up a bit more, the appeal has sort of worn off. I mean, you literally have no clue as to what my politics and philosophies are. It's as if you're insecurely projecting some kind of inverted reflection of yourself onto me. I mean, come on - Ben Shapiro?! LMAO. Please give me more credit than that. That would be like me stating with delusional certainty that you must LOVE Cenk Uyger. Maybe you do, maybe you don't - I honestly wouldn't care either way.
But with all of that aside, you don't have to like Child Labor Cringe, fear SINISTER LIBERALS with victim complexes (your words, not mine), nor have any sort of fixation on "fake news" in order to more broadly appreciate the full range of possibilities for reasons why a company like NoA might suddenly be coming under fire in the way that it is. Maybe the initial complaints are legit and systemic - maybe not. But I will say this: in the age of cancel culture, blood in the water can very quickly lead to feeding frenzies. All it would take is for a sociopathic activist lawyer or three to come out of the woodwork with documents about how Bowser (or perhaps even Reggie) made asome kind of inappropriate sexual joke to a female employee 12 years ago, or even worse, accidentally mispronouned someone in an email or something, and the next thing you know, you've gotten every angry and easily offended person on the internet virtuously ranting and raving about how horrible Nintendo of America is, while at the same time labeling anyone who would still purchase Nintendo at that point as basically being enablers of their "systemic corporate malevolence", by proxy.
I mean, I imagine that even you must know that all of this is at the very least possible. If you think every disgruntled and angry person or group is telling the truth in instance, then you might be more naïve than I would have imagined.
My wife just got fired for standing up against management performing unsafe practices. "Disrespect to management" was their excuse. Literally, no prior issues on the job weren't taken into consideration. No private sit down. Nothing. Just fired.
That's American work life. Shut up and do what you're told or they will hire someone who will. How the jerks get into management is beyond me and the good managers always leave.
That stinks about the grandpa dying and told if they went to the funeral, there would be no job for them. That stinks. The other complaints though, about contract employees not getting full time benefits and not being able to move up...ummm, that's the nature of contract work. And work is well...work. It can be stressful. Alot of these "issues" making headlines seem to be borderline "click-bait". Which I guess worked, since I'm taking time to actually write a comment.
@rosemo well said! Love how this was written. Everyone should read your comment, I think it covered every point well.
Here's my take. REALLY it comes as NO Surprise to the CEO and HeadQuarters they are doing this to contractors and employees? Really people are everyone that DUMB here. When did you last work and enjoy your work and have meaningful conversation and working environment that benefited both Employees and Contractors rather then one sided get more for the Labor of those below them to make it happen. Please List those Companies for everyone here to see and their Website. Don't list Truely NonProfit-Organization but For Profit companies.
@ClamDown Thank you for the more measured response. However you stating that you were caught up in your emotions is exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned the court of public opinion in my original post. We simply don’t have enough information to pass judgment on either side but because this is what humans do, we are going to do it anyway.
I worked for Apple during antennagate so I know all about corporate memos but I do think you are expecting something beyond their purpose. Big companies have tens of thousands of employees. They have to use somewhat generic language because the point is to communicate from a stance of leadership to people in various positions and responsibilities (and loyalty to the company) and to let the employees know that leadership is aware of a given situation.
They can’t go into detail because for one that is none of the other employees’ business the workings of an internal investigation and the the investigation is currently ongoing. They can’t make it overly personal either because that can alter morale. It doesn’t matter if Bowser agrees or if he is mustache twirling in the back. What matters is a thorough, fair investigation conducted internally. Again this is where policy comes into play. Most of the time an internal memo allows for follow up from employees or even another memo with updates.
However we in the public don’t see or have any idea of any of that (and most folks with pitchforks don’t care anyway), meanwhile we are putting mob pressure on the company and employees. You don’t think those employees don’t read the news or have friends and family question them about it? They do, and that is on top of the normal pestering employees of a popular company get. And that debilitates morale and can lead to further breaks in policy and “she said, she said”. The public has no place in this at all. Now sure when the dust settles and an official report to the public is made, we can gossip (because that is all this is) about that. But not before and mob judgment won’t help the employees or Nintendo (or any other company).
So I too stand by my original comments as well and will simply agree to disagree. Have a nice day.
@Ryu_Niiyama You’re right, I fully agree with everything you said here. When all the crap about Amazon’s treatment of their employees came out, it took the fun out of buying things from them. I used to buy hundreds of items of all types from them, but now the only time I buy things from them is when I get a gift card for my birthday or something. I love Nintendo games and I just don’t want the same thing to happen to me buying Nintendo products. My emotions definitely got the better of me, and now I get full well why you posted your original comment. I too just want a thorough and fair investigation and that if any mistreatment really did happen Nintendo takes steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. But, even that is somewhat of a battle in the court of public opinion too now that I think about it. Thanks for taking the time to respond again.
@Friendly IGN actually did something good for once? Impossibly nice.
It's sad that these issues are still plaguing with proof, but Bowser still says the automated excuse, "oh we have the best working environment don't worry"
sounds like some disgruntled worker that got caught stealing is making mountains outta molehills.
Decades ago we worked hard and played hard and if you didnt like your job you got another one. I guess with big monopoly companies it is less and less easy to job hop and also less fun since everyone is bitter.
@ClamDown I like how just being an ignorant edgelord is now being called "critical thinking" lol
@BAN In this context, you’re literally exactly the same as me? Except you’re an “ignorant edgelord” (your words, not mine) defending…the actions of a multi billion dollar mega corporation potentially caught mistreating its workers…? I don’t see how you look any better than me babe
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