So it’s NOT a room without a roof?

Oh how I wish Nintendo would re-release the Virtual Boy games somehow; at least Virtual Boy Wario Land.

It is, when the damage is negligible. If your contract stipulates core work hours to be from 9AM to 5PM and you want to fire someone for arriving at 9:05, you’ll be just as much laughed out of court, even though it’s a breach of contract.

Ah yes... the worker’s council. God I hate those guys.

Germany, for once. Immediate termination is seen as an extreme measure reserved for extreme cases. In other cases, a one-time infraction is to be punished by a written reprimand which goes into the personnel file and includes admonishment for specific conduct and the explicit warning that in case of repetition,…

That’s probably the most specious argument I’ve ever read in this comment section. It’s not the “way things have to be”. Laws are changed all the time. And there’s this thing called “The First Amendment”. Look it up.

The previous poster didn’t put in any qualifications but described it as a fundamental characteristic of working for a company. Which is evidently nonsense.

They don’t have to be Nazi-like rules. If the guy is giving up state secrets or something equally heinous, of course, throw the rulebook at him.

I didn’t say it was right, I’m saying it’s not unexpected and possible to avoid. My heart goes out to the guy, but at the same time I think people should be aware of this so that they can learn from it.

Agreed, but it informs why their behaviour is such in the first place, it’s unethical behaviour being used to reinforce unreasonable behaviour.

So they enforce unreasonable punishments to enforce their unreasonable policies to ignore their customers questions?

There is nothing BUT moral questions when you throw your employees under a bus for doing something that has no tangible results.

No, it doesn’t HAVE to be this way, it’s simply the most expedient way a company can assert control and they’ve been allowed to dictate terms like this by authority who’s mandate ‘should’ include protecting the populace from such blatant abuses of power. What use are our governments if they can’t, or won’t through…

Nope. Publicly known procedures aren’t corporate secrets, and to act as if they were is plain and simply ridiculous.

And keeping the punishment in a reasonable relationship with the damage is a perfectly reasonable expectation of a company.

Agree or disagree, a lot of people here are defending the way things are by stating that this is the way things are. Maybe the term “status quo” never made it their way.

Welcome to Japanese overcontrolling companies. One more reason they don’t get 3rd party support.

I think that’s a horrible thing for Nintendo to do to the guy. Fuck you, Nintendo. I love you, but you just don’t do that to people for such silly reasons.

wow, I can understand being reprimanded. But that seems pretty shitty of a company with a rep like Nintendo. It really brings them down in my estimation.