Bragr
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IGN is angling without bait. I hate this shit. Like a lot of the discontent-employer stories, it's based on a few employees and not the whole company. This one is incredibly thin though, it's just low-brow argumentation all-around. This usually comes down to a few QA guys who hate their job.
So IGN released this video aimed at problematic working conditions at Nintendo.
- They have one, ONE, anonymous source, that says she worked at a call center for 10 years and didn't get a "red Nintendo badge", and now she is disgruntled. This apparently, is the main cause for this video? they said they "spoke" to many others, but how many or who? this "I heard it through the grapevine" approach makes the entire thing pointless. It's hearsay, for all we know they spoke to 3 guys at the same call center and made all these assumptions from that. (the call-center person also said she loved working at Nintendo.)
- They say that some people who work at Nintendo "view themselves as second-class citizens". Who says that? you? one person? two? three? who? I might as well say "some IGN workers hate IGN". It's nothing based on nothing heard from nobody.
- They say it's problematic that Nintendo hires a lot of contractors because they got fewer rights than full-time employees, and that Nintendo rarely hires a lot of new people but instead keeps them as long-term employees. Do you expect Nintendo to turn into a western company and create a union for non-employees? if you don't have any real data that it's a real problem apart from that one anonymous call-center person, then why even try to build this case? there are plenty of issues with contractor rights, but they haven't really found anything tangible to base this on apart from their own personal issues with contract work. They just have an issue with contract work and take it out at Nintendo.
- They show a clip of Reggie saying he never saw any issues with Nintendo hiring a lot of contractors and said that it was working well when he was working there. IGN then says "this clearly has changed since Reggie left". ??????? WHAT? what exactly do you base this on? there is nothing, no data, no nothing that says it's changed in the last 3 years.
- How many contractors have a problem working with Nintendo and feel disgruntled compared to those who are not? how many call-center employees have issues with Nintendo? what percentage of employees have any problems at all? no answer. Nothing. This is speculation because they found a few (out of thousands) people who have frustrations. Minor frustrations even. They should have just made a video about their issues with contract work rather than tangle Nintendo into this.
They also try to angle Nintendo shutting down Redwood as some sort of "lack of empathy". What a hell does that even mean?
There will always be annoyed QA guys and some people who don't like working there, like any big company, but if you try to shade a company name, at least have a case instead of making up something for clicks. They have nothing.
That's it, that's IGN right there, a fucking beacon of integrity and journalistic capability.
Here is the video:
So IGN released this video aimed at problematic working conditions at Nintendo.
- They have one, ONE, anonymous source, that says she worked at a call center for 10 years and didn't get a "red Nintendo badge", and now she is disgruntled. This apparently, is the main cause for this video? they said they "spoke" to many others, but how many or who? this "I heard it through the grapevine" approach makes the entire thing pointless. It's hearsay, for all we know they spoke to 3 guys at the same call center and made all these assumptions from that. (the call-center person also said she loved working at Nintendo.)
- They say that some people who work at Nintendo "view themselves as second-class citizens". Who says that? you? one person? two? three? who? I might as well say "some IGN workers hate IGN". It's nothing based on nothing heard from nobody.
- They say it's problematic that Nintendo hires a lot of contractors because they got fewer rights than full-time employees, and that Nintendo rarely hires a lot of new people but instead keeps them as long-term employees. Do you expect Nintendo to turn into a western company and create a union for non-employees? if you don't have any real data that it's a real problem apart from that one anonymous call-center person, then why even try to build this case? there are plenty of issues with contractor rights, but they haven't really found anything tangible to base this on apart from their own personal issues with contract work. They just have an issue with contract work and take it out at Nintendo.
- They show a clip of Reggie saying he never saw any issues with Nintendo hiring a lot of contractors and said that it was working well when he was working there. IGN then says "this clearly has changed since Reggie left". ??????? WHAT? what exactly do you base this on? there is nothing, no data, no nothing that says it's changed in the last 3 years.
- How many contractors have a problem working with Nintendo and feel disgruntled compared to those who are not? how many call-center employees have issues with Nintendo? what percentage of employees have any problems at all? no answer. Nothing. This is speculation because they found a few (out of thousands) people who have frustrations. Minor frustrations even. They should have just made a video about their issues with contract work rather than tangle Nintendo into this.
They also try to angle Nintendo shutting down Redwood as some sort of "lack of empathy". What a hell does that even mean?
There will always be annoyed QA guys and some people who don't like working there, like any big company, but if you try to shade a company name, at least have a case instead of making up something for clicks. They have nothing.
That's it, that's IGN right there, a fucking beacon of integrity and journalistic capability.
Here is the video:
