Ex-Konami employees can't put their years of experience with the company on their resumes or Konami will sue.
Also,
>Konami's authoritarian approach is notorious in the industry. Employees are not allowed to have their own corporate email address. When they have to communicate with outside parties, they are given an address consisting of five random numbers and letters, and the address is terminated within a few months. Lunch breaks have strict time limits, and timecards are used to record how long they take. The names of those who go over the time limit are made public throughout the company.
>Employees' social media activities are also monitored. In 2014, Konami workers who liked a Facebook post by an ex-Kon saying he started working for a different company were shuffled to different positions.
Thats what almost all JP companies do. Its considered treason to leave your company and you are considered someone with no honor that is not trustworthy if you do it.
Joseph Collins
Based.
Op probably steals games and does illegal weed.
Dominic Jackson
All companies should do this though.
Jackson Smith
Are Japanese employers so dumb that when they see missing time on someone's CV they don't think 'this man must be a dishonourable job-switcher trying to hide his previous employment' and instead think 'well that seems perfectly normal to have a huge gap there, makes sense to me, no point even bringing it up during the interview or anything.'
James Reyes
go away konami
Oliver Nelson
Remember in old jap games the credits would be gibberish? That's because Japanese companies would literally keep their employees secret to the extent they weren't even allowed credit for the games they made.
It's not Konami corporate culture we are seeing here, it's Japanese corporate culture. That country is fucking shit.
Carter King
Fuck off communist scum
Ryan Murphy
I guess this is one of the reasons why JP project leads stamp their name over everything to do with the games they are releasing.
Justin Murphy
>employees working for a company belong to said company and don't deserve work if they change to a different company
Oy vey, I wonder who could be behind this post
Brody Richardson
>you're literally a communist if you don't support abusive corporate practices
Joshua James
>Ex-Konami employees can't put their years of experience with the company on their resumes or Konami will sue how could this in any way even go through, sounds like bullshit >so user what happend between these years here, were you unemployed, a neet?
Bentley Harris
As much as I love Jap games, that country needs some changes with its work ethics.
Wyatt Stewart
No, that's ego. Most normal people in the industry understand it's a collaborative process and no single person ever deserves credit for a game. Kojima is just a dick.
Michael Wright
More like I'm sick of leftists on this fucking board. Fuck off to plebbit.
Aiden Miller
I don't see a problem here
James Adams
Sounds like they're just not giving positive recommendations. Almost as if Kojima Productions was a giant black hole of money.
Hunter Diaz
If this is the job environment in Japan I'm not surprised that there are more neets and such. Sounds brutal.
Liam Hall
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Jordan Williams
Don't give him any more (You)s, he gets off on that. Just ignore the corporate shill
Jackson Wright
Konami did nothing wrong.
Aiden Wright
>The approach is bringing solid results. Konami is on track to post a record group operating profit of 40 billion yen for the year ending in March 2018. Industry insiders are often in awe of Konami's ability to make games once played on TV screens work on smartphones.
If it works, it works.
Jaxson Lopez
haha fuck OFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Cooper Butler
That is some vile shit right there
Easton Jenkins
It's not japanese culture, salaryman expectations have been dying out and early game companies like Konami are infested with yakuza ties. (just about all big ones except Nintendo are) Note that Konami is infamous for this bullshit in Japan as well.
Nolan Smith
you shouldn't want a hugbox
Jace Jackson
How could you even sue over someone saying they worked for you? It's not like there's a law against that. This shit doesn't even make sense.
Alexander Peterson
Corporate lawyers find a way There's a reason they get paid six figures
Elijah Gomez
Is Japanese justice system copied from Burgerland where anyone can sue anyone for any reason, and you're better off just killing yourself on the spot, unless you're able to wage a 10-year war of bureaucracy and burn half a billion dollars on lawyers to prove you were innocent? And then repeat the war to get compensated.
Ryder Hernandez
>it was kojima fault
Asher Jackson
No it isn't. The length Konami goes to are not the norm.
Nathan Hughes
KONAMI DID NOTHING WRONG
Ayden Hill
>early game companies like Konami are infested with yakuza ties. (just about all big ones except Nintendo are) LOL OLO LOL
Search "Hiroshi Yamauchi Yakuza" and get back to us on that one.
Why does everyone whitewash and lie about Nintendo so much. So fucking much.
Lucas Butler
Last I checked, Konami was throwing their weight around to prevent Kojima's new studio from getting health insurance and sending C&Ds to him left and right.
Konami seems batshit insane.
Logan Nelson
How would such a lawsuit even have grounds to win in court?
Blake Allen
Doesn't have to. Companies like Konami just bury you in legal fees.
Levi Evans
But fucking why? It seems like a lot of effort just to piss people off How do they profit from this?
Elijah Roberts
So no one leaves
Tyler Roberts
>ensure that any employees who leave are unemployable so they have no choice but to stay with the company >you now have full control over their work hours and pay >you also don't have to bother attempting to attract new employees with superior working conditions
Jason Nguyen
Isn't any wonder now why Kojima vacated Japan for America.
Jayden Diaz
What fees, though? What kind of court doesn't just toss this out? I mean even if you literally had no attorney and just showed up, how are they gonna justify punishment for putting your previous work experience in your resume?
Xavier Thomas
God damn I'd kill myself if I worked in Japan.
My job is lax as fuck and I still hate it.
Ayden Miller
If that's how Japan handles shit it's no wonder Capcom is having a fucking civil war instead of a mass exodus.
Logan Davis
Still seems counterproductive to coerce people forcibly to stay rather than creating an environment where they want to stay
Wyatt Scott
>use a slightly strict work regime for optimal revenue >nu-males bawl their eyes out because they wanted to work on video games instead of having a real job
Konami is based af.
Easton Clark
Japanese work culture seems to be pretty close to communism
Joshua Robinson
>All the edgy fags in this thread saying Konami is based I hope they go under
Jaxson Bell
Side with the obvious villain for replies
It's just shitposting, pay no attention.
Jaxon Rivera
>All these commies ITT talking about """unethical business practices"""" surely the market will fix this
Daniel Wright
Is Konami run by the Yakuza?
Nathaniel Jackson
if you change something that ingrained in the culture the products would suffer you massive cuck
Wyatt Myers
well yes, konami will go bankrupt eventually, so yeah, market will fix it
Matthew Richardson
I would love to see Kojima's CV, and see if Konami has the guts to "write him a letter"
Asher Baker
You have to make sacrifices and compromises to create an environment where employees want to stay. Konami has created a hostile environment where they can exploit their employees any way they want without repercussion. It's disgusting, but it's not going to change unless they are suddenly forced to pay enormous sums of money as compensation by a court.
Carson Baker
If it is well known that konami does this kind of bullshit than why didn't they went under ages ago due to not being able to get new employees?
Nicholas Lee
They already did after that MG Survive debacle. Apparently Konami is willing to take him onto court if he says another negative thing about the game.
Justin Ramirez
>it's no wonder Capcom is having a fucking civil war instead of a mass exodus What's Capcom doing?
t. Konami
Logan Bailey
I for one support taking all the credit.
Brody Gutierrez
Beyond all the controversy and questions of civil liberties and legality you have to ask...
What type of person enacts this type of shit?
This is tragedy of the commons except you also burn 90% of the grass in an attempt to get a market advantage.
Jonathan Hall
How did Treasure and Good Feel even manage to get formed?
Jaxson Martin
They're probably forced to have a lawyer to "defend" themselves.
Mason Roberts
>willing to take them to court For what
Joshua Jenkins
>What type of person enacts this type of shit?
The kind of person we need to have a good old revolution about to remove them from positions of power while telling future leaders, "It's not okay to do what the last person did."
Jaxson Moore
>What's Capcom doing?
There are claims about a deep split at capcom. Major clashes of ideologies as to how to make games and where to take the company. There were reports some years ago about the absolutely abysmal working conditions at capcom. Harassment of workers, slavery-like pressure and Ono, I think, even suffered a heart attack. At least he had to go to hospital because of some heart issues.
Combine that with the things we know about the Capcom CEO and the idea that capcom is dying from the inside is more than likely.
Konami won't die anytime soon cause even if they kill off their entire software branch they will still rake in money with their pachinko machines.
Levi Thompson
Didn't Ono go to the hospital because he collapsed from exhaustion?
Gabriel Perez
all this nonsense in one post
you're so fucking stupid, people will actually take this for granted and repeat it
fuck off from Sup Forums
Jayden James
Explain.
Ethan Cooper
Welcome to the new americana
Eli Nelson
I wonder who could be behind this post
Brody Edwards
What the hell is wrong with Konami? Even for a Nip company they've gone a mile over the usual.
Isaac Baker
>Your honor, the defendant has committed SHAMEFURU DISPRAY after leaving our company by daring to keep living, causing us to lose face >NO WAY FUCKING HANG THE BASTARD
James Nelson
Konami was one of the greatest videogame companies of all time,right now they are barely even a shadow of their former self.
Carson Thompson
Maybe not "run" by it, like the CEO and boardmembers probably aren't, but I would imagine the majority of the share is owned by a yakuza family firm, or by banks that they firm owns, and board members and the CEO have to go to dinner at a Yakuza bosses house occasionally. There's not a bunch of yakuza tough guys in an office making the decisions, but ultimately the company will always serve the interest of the family or families it supports.
Anthony Cox
Makes sense to me. GUILTY
John Bennett
>Why does everyone whitewash and lie about Nintendo so much. So fucking much. Just ask anyone how Gunpei Yokoi died. Nobody will say it was a motor "accident"
Jose Sullivan
You pour money and your own, jealously guarded know-how into your employees you dont want them to lmao go to another company and apply your philosophy
They should have employment contracts for their employees where you have to pay like $500,000 if you quit the company and work for another within 15 years that would solve this issue
Jonathan Garcia
Well I guess the takeaway here is don't work for Konami.
Caleb Collins
Usually they launder money through arcades and sketchy financial records like Bamco does.
Wyatt Nelson
Thank fuck you're stuck on Sup Forums and will never surmount to anything with your fucking retarded ideas.
Michael Taylor
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Jace Thompson
Sup Forums retards who have never had a job
Tyler Ortiz
>Ex-Konami employees can't put their years of experience with the company on their resumes or Konami will sue.
because koji-pro fags were talking shit about konami. kojima plays innocent but hes been starting just as much shit.
Joseph Fisher
literally neo-feudalism
Logan Parker
>because koji-pro fags were talking shit about konami
Apparently rightfully so.
Dominic Fisher
American companies have no unions, give shit tier wages and treat most of their employees like shit. What is so different?
Nothing, they're more interested in their MMO business than say, the main market out there. If MHW fails, they have Frontier to fall back on. Which means they are free to Frontierfy Anjanath and Jagras as they please.
Jack Reyes
Thank you blessed phone poster for believing what they want you to believe.
Remember, at this point, he had made the GameBoy line which was the only thing keeping Nintendo afloat after they started hemorrhaging money left, right, and centre with the N64 and Yokoi's failed Virtual Boy. Then, Yokoi decides to leave, go to Bandai, and develop the WonderSwan, which Bandai somehow got Square on-board with to remake their early Famicom Final Fantasy titles on it.
Meanwhile, Yokoi was the big dog when it came to video games at Nintendo. Yamauchi was very hands off when it came to them, and preferred to let Yokoi run the show since he didn't really understand video games. Then one day, Yamauchi suddenly decides he does understand video games, starts undermining Yokoi, rushed his Virtual Boy to launch before it was finished, hints at him to resign over his failures, etc.
Yamauchi having the Yakuza kill Yokoi has been an open secret for years, my dude.
Jonathan Hernandez
Nobody is trying to point out a difference. Walmart is terrible too.
Kevin Bailey
>except Nintendo >this delusion
Justin White
Holy shit Tamio looks like the only one that actually enjoys video games. The other three look like villains
Camden Evans
Leftists are the ones who don't want to work and support destroying businesses.
Go away with your pol bogeyman.
Christian Perez
>Still seems counterproductive It werks
Brody Price
>revolution You don't want revolution in Japan.
Dominic Cruz
He is most evil one
Landon Rodriguez
How is this even legal?
Mason Adams
No, it's not. It was the norm a few decades ago to stay with your company for life, but most modern companies have moved away from that and Konami is extreme no matter how you look at it.
Thomas Robinson
>Capcom Directors No I'm pretty sure they're all evil, thanks
Xavier Russell
Does this ever explains why they enjoy raping their franchises?