Nem said:
mountaindewslave said:
you're wrong, he could speak privately about Nintendo, surely, but to go on a public podcast and announce private things about his company was not okay considering Nintendo deliberately has expressed they don't want that
some of the stuff he mentioned was kind of inappropriate in my opinion, he went on about the process of some of his job and testing some games at one point. he also made some comments that made Sakurai not look particularly good, something about how Sakurai got quite frustrated that he and some others did not get very good test footage of some Smash Bros. or something or other, and bear in mind Sakurai is a huge executive there
and then to comment about the localization of Nintendo's Japanese games and to essentially mock the fans who constantly are asked for things to be translated and brought to America- it was inappropriate, it wasn't his place
I think the guy was polite for the most part but it's just common sense, you don't share private company information about the runnings of how things are done or decisions if the company specifically has a non-disclosure agreement
and bear in mind guys- any company with this sort of agreement goes through this in orientation, there is no thin line about this sort of thing. most companies these days if you simply wear a work t-shirt to certain events or have a picture of yourself in a work shirt online next to an inappropriate may fire you
nothing new
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Its fair enough if thats how it works (in the US). But in principle its just wrong. It means a company can be a country inside its own country by setting a group of arbitrary rules that allow them to lay off workers. That is extremely abusive, but i had heard that work laws were pretty brutal in the US before.
We do see it constantly on the games industry when teams are fired after they finished their project and then they rehire new staff when they decide on the next thing to do.
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The emboldened is an absurd and nonsensical interpretation, because all companies obviously have to abide by the laws of the countries in which they operate.
This isn't wrong, it's just you are looking at the principle in the wrong context. Yes, yes, we all know about freedom of speech, yada yada yada, but just stop for a moment and Google the term "Doing a Ratner".
Read some of the results and you'll soon understand how damaging a single throw-away remark can be for a company, and why most businesses have these rules in one form or another, including in your country. It's bad enough when an executive screws up in public, but to give thousands of employees free reign to do the same would be a disastrous move for any business.
Pranger badmouthed his employer and its fans, then discussed the reasons for some of Nintendo's decisions that Nintendo obviously didn't want publicised in that way. He went against the rules of his employment and was fired as a consequence.
