14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo is once again getting the spotlight, but this time it's not a console-related affair, but rather a strange employee-firing issue. Jessica Zenner, a 23-year-old Nintendo employee has just got fired after posting some pretty nasty comments about her boss on her blog. One of her posts described her boss a person with facial hair, who feels frustrated and is the main reason for the fact that she "drinks heavily".
Wow! Now I understand why Nintendo's higher ranked employees decided to lay Zenner off, not because of the posts and the problem with her boss, but rather because of her "hobbies", which include heavy drinking and smoking weed. Also, saying that your boss "hasn't been f**ked in years" is a sure way to create controversy and get fired in the process. Zenner claims that she wasn't informed about the company's blogging policy, although her superiors say the contrary.
This is not the first case of an employee getting fired over a couple of radical blogs and it's not just Nintendo doing that, but most major companies, too. Another sure way to get fired is by editing the Wikipedia entry of your competitor's best product, like a Sony UK employee did with Halo 3's Wiki page. Well, at least these frustrated people don't start running and gunning, but settle with a virtual act of radicalism, be it Wiki-vandalism of just a series of badmouthing posts.
Will this entire story be mentioned in one of Zenner's new blogs? I can only imagine the words that she's going to use in order to describe her superiors' reaction... Good luck getting hired now, after Nintendo has turned you into a bad example and a symbol of misbehavior… Maybe the guys over at Sony will want her in their team, specially the God of War designers, who never hesitate to be radical when it comes to rival titles and companies.