TBF, even if they’re a shit company to their consumers it’s kind of funny for them to point out they still make boatloads of money while keeping employees since it makes others look bad.
“Efficiency” is smoke-blowing bull for the sake of putting a few more pennies in shareholder stocks. Stable profits are far more sustainable and better for the real economy (where real people spend real money) than infinite growth since having a regular paycheck allows people to continue buying things.
Japanese corporations overwork people to literal death, but at least you’re not going to be laid off 2 months into a new job. Not as big of a flex as they think it is
You will never be laid off at a Japanese company.
They will just unassign you from tasks or reassign you to a boring menial task to make you resign.
That way they don’t pay you severence and they pay way less for your unemployment insurance.
They won’t put your name in the credits
This is some weird virtue signalling considering all the other things Nintendo does.
Sometimes there is an option for a company or people to so good things with good intentions, good things with bad intentions, bad things with good intentions and just plain bad shit.
Not everything Nintendo does is bad nor is it good. But when doing a good thing, it can be just that. A good thing.
Yes, their community management sucks. Their trigger happiness with anything legal is awful. But they can do also do good things.
Life is not black and white.
Their other good thing in my eyes is not overextending.
They have been profitable for a long time, and built up a reserve. Shitty CEOs would demand they use those reserves to branch out into a VR division. Make a room-sized toy, a massively online Second Life space, a chain of theme parks. Anything to show they’re hiring, growing, and that the ROI will triple every few years.
Obviously, had they done any of that, they’d be doing a lot more firing now because they’d have no reserves once all those plans go belly up.
So, it’s likely helpful their culture is quartered in Japan where the long term health of the company is treasured and short term gains are not worshipped so much.
That’s pretty nice. When everyone is laying off people by thousands, it’s nice to see a company that provides stability to it’s employees.
They of course aren’t the only one, kudos to all such companies!
Microsoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari’s.
Nintendo: We are not going to do that.
Lemmy: Fuck you, Nintendo!
You guys need to learn to take W’s where you can get them. It’s exhausting not being able to enjoy good news because you’re always angry about something.
Fuck both? but Microsoft harder?
So, a threesome then?
(Jokes aside, nobody in this thread is even talking about Microsoft. It’s all directed at Nintendo. What the hell is up with that?)
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Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios
Your 1st comment:
Microsoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari’s.
Obviously I wasn’t including myself in that statement.
