| TheFallen said: He broke the rules sure, but why does the rule break warrant firing? Surely a warning or unpaid suspension would suffice. |
you have to understand- companies that have a non-disclosure agreement as part of their terms of employment are very serious about this sort of stuff. a lot of companies don't even have this sort of agreement because they aren't in the business of valuable information or secrets
but obviously a Nintendo has a lot of things that their employees could share and potentially hurt or tarnish their reputation (naturally you don't want spoilers about the internal process/development of games or just information about things to come in the future)
the reason a company with a non-disclosure agreement basically has to fire someone if they break it is because it sets an example. if they let this guy off then what happens the next time one of their employees goes off onto some podcast or interview in person and says something that tarnishes the companies reputation or shares information they don't want public? it sets the wrong status quo
again though, people are being naive in thinking this was the guys only strike. Nintendo is not going to come out and say 'so and so was late to work frequently, turned in work late, and was unorganized' but obviously something like that could have been the case. they clearly would have likely kept him if this was an isolated event, but even so it's sort of a serious matter when it's in the employee agreement
the reason I don't put this guy is because it's such an obvious thing not to do. you should have known about the rules and frankly anyone with half a brain recognizes that Nintendo is a pretty private company and that you don't generally see company members blah blah blah-ing to the public about them (no surprise since it's part of their contract not to)
