Nintendo: Female employee fired for moonlighting, **t online pressure
 

Nintendo: Female employee fired for moonlighting, **t online pressure
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A female employee was fired from her position at Nintendo*because she violated her contract by holding a second job — **t because of her feminist views expressed online — the company tells Mashable.

Alison Rapp, a product marketing specialist at Nintendo of America's Seattle ******, tweeted Wednesday she was let go from her position at the company.*


Rapp had faced more than two months of harassment online, much of which was centered around fans upset about changes made for the American localization of Fire Emblem: Fates Forever. (A great summary of the conflict can be found on Kotaku.)

Nintendo of America provided the below statement to Mashable. Read more...


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