Anyone still convinced of the anonymity of the internet should maybe think twice before complaining about their coworkers. Jessica Zenner recently lost her job at Nintendo of America over some slanderous remarks made on her blog. This, despite the fact that Zenner wrote under a pseudonym, and used no company or employee names when talking about her work.Zenner -- who is 23-year-old and "good looking" according to The Seattle Stranger -- was contracted as a technical recruiter for Nintendo. Her blog, aptly titled Inexcusable Behavior, featured several posts in which she discusses co-workers and superiors, though never by name and without ever mentioning that she worked for Nintendo.
One post in particular focused on a female boss, referring to her as a "frumpy" and "hormonal" woman with "facial hair," and who gives Zenner "a new excuse to drink heavily." This post, among others, appear to have since been removed from her blog. VP of marketing Perrin Kaplan has stated that Nintendo does not forbid employees to keep blogs, but does discourage the practice. This echoes the "officially unofficial" policies of other large tech companies, like Microsoft.
[Via Game Politics]
