Nintedo Contractor fired for Blogging...

[Zeonic Freak]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/notag/nintendo-contractor-fired-for-blogging-302826.php


Nintendo Contractor Fired For Blogging (http://kotaku.com/gaming/notag/nintendo-contractor-fired-for-blogging-302826.php)

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/09/blogging_monkeys-thumb.jpg (http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/09/blogging_monkeys.jpg) In case anyone needed a reminder that nothing's ever anonymous on the internet, and yes, your ass can get fired for stuff you put in your personal blog ... or MySpace page ... or Facebook page ... comes the sad tale of Jessica Zenner, a 23 year old employee of Nintendo, was fired for her personal blog (allegedly). Of course, there's a she said, company said element here, and while Zenner says higher ups never informed her of any Nintendo policy on blogging, a spokeswoman for the company said "[Zenner] was expressly discouraged from doing what she did. I've seen everything that she's written and it's really not work appropriate."

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Wow, i guess you cant talk smack behind someones back on the net and not get caught.

I personally dislike bloggers (ive only ever written like 4 blogs my whole life, i dont think that counts for anything), i mean how many people does she know thats going to read what she thinks of her boss. You might as well write that down in a diary or something...

[Stuckey]

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, she's insulting her superiors which if she did it at work would get her in trouble (and eventually fired). Then again, it depends on where she wrote the blogs. If she posts from work, then I don't have a problem with them firing her.

People on message boards not liking bloggers is hillarious.

[silverwings]

Not sure how I feel about this. It wasn't like she was blogging about company secrets and the like.

Would she have gotten sacked if she had said that to friends, on her own time, but just happened to be overheard?

I agree with Stuckey, though. If she was blogging from work, that's one thing. But if she was blogging from home... eh, it's a fine line to cross.

[krazymed]

Freedom of speech does not exist in the corporate world.

[River26]

Well, she had that comin' to her. From seeing that quote on Kotaku. Gossiping, telling your friends about your boss in an inapropriate way via the [Blog]. What the heck was she thinking?

Wonder what she's gonna do now, with her being fired. And having no job.

[TKnHappyNess]

I believe the reason why Nintendo doesn't want it's employees to blog at work is because they could reveal things that are top-secret, which could fall into Sony and/or Microsoft's hands.

[River26]

lol. Though, that wasn't the case at all. I mean, in Kotaku -- she was just blatantly dissing her boss to her friends.

And you indeed can get fired if you gossip about your workers or boss if you include such messages in your blog.

[Rasputin]

I believe the reason why Nintendo doesn't want it's employees to blog at work is because they could reveal things that are top-secret, which could fall into Sony and/or Microsoft's hands.

This is the video game industry, not the Cold War. There aren't people in grey coats making clandestine exchanges of top secret designs for new Nintendo controllers while feeding the ducks in West Berlin. Talking crap about your boss on a weblog is more than sufficient for a sacking if your boss is a humourless corporate drone with a fragile sense of self-worth. It happens all the time in most other industries.

[Conekiller]

Wonder what she's gonna do now, with her being fired. And having no job.

...Go whine and complain about it on her blog.

[Captain Highwind]

This is the video game industry, not the Cold War. There aren't people in grey coats making clandestine exchanges of top secret designs for new Nintendo controllers while feeding the ducks in West Berlin.

Best analogy I've heard all week. :anime:

[Stuckey]

This is the video game industry, not the Cold War. There aren't people in grey coats making clandestine exchanges of top secret designs for new Nintendo controllers while feeding the ducks in West Berlin. Talking crap about your boss on a weblog is more than sufficient for a sacking if your boss is a humourless corporate drone with a fragile sense of self-worth. It happens all the time in most other industries.


If the video game industry isn't concerned about secret sharing then it's the only consumer-based industry (for lack of a better term) that isn't.

[Rasputin]

If the video game industry isn't concerned about secret sharing then it's the only consumer-based industry (for lack of a better term) that isn't.

Sure, it's a factor, but besides the impracticality of attaching design schematics for complex electronics over a blog, this is usually a matter dealt with via patents and out-of-court settlements, not Area 51-esque shenanigans. There's little about each companys' technology that the others can't copy with a little effort and some rudimentary guesswork. They're just not allowed to. This applies to Nintendo especially, since most of their technology consists of off-the-shelf products, just utilised in new and interesting ways.