| mountaindewslave said: its not Nintendo's job to actively get involved in their employee's PERSONAL social media pages its not as if Alison was being harassed as the face of Nintendo or something like that. I would argue that most big company's actually discourage their employees to be hugely active in social media (especialyl with personal opinions) as the opinions may not match up with the company. in the end though we don't know why EXACTLY she was fired. It could have been that she was literally just poor at her job and the timing happened to be funny. or it could be that some of her comments (especially regarding child molesters) broke her contract. Bear in mind practically any large company will potentially fire someone for actively getting involved in political or sensitive conversation that could alienate a certain branch of consumers. |
I understand that coming to a gaming forum, you don't encounter a ton of people in the corporate world, but this just isn't true. If you post anything illegal or something that would determintal to the company's image, you can be reprimanded for it. So, PR employee of child friendly company defends child porn and starts taking NSFW pictures as a side job (with Nintendo merch in them), you're going to get in trouble. The situation has blown up for many reasons, but I don't think Nintendo can really be accused of any wrong-doing. She was drawing far too much controversy and reacted poorly.
