Nintendo Is Laying Off An Undisclosed Number Of Contractors

@jaydan: If Nintendo is replacing their contractor positions with full time positions that is great for a myriad of reasons.

How do people have time in the day just to shit post? I'll never understand this.

Only a matter of time. F*** this industry...

It's really just the same time you found to getting to 50,000 posts.

Interesting pro-Nintendo bias on display here, as they refer to these folks as "Nintendo contractors" implying that contractors are more or less temporary workers (and thus bound to be let go eventually), whereas if this were another company they'd likely have referred to the contractors as "_ employees" implying (falsely) that they are not temporary (even though they might be).

Anyway, this is pretty standard, in either case. Lots of contract work in the tech/game industry, and when your contract is up it often is not renewed.

If you wanted to read into this, you could see it as a sign that game development has slowed, indicating they either finished a new game or are slowing down production on current games.

Bingo.

@jaydan: You sure showed me that you weren't overreacting.🤭

So, some contractor assignments ends, a "significant number of new full-time employee positions" will be made. Unless I'm missing something, sounds great.

Mcdonalds time, suckers.

Fries. Big shake. No microtransactions.

Nah, I was skeptical at first, but after looking more into it. It seems they are moving away from contractors to hiring more full time employees, including hiring a lot of the contractors for that role, that is incredible news if true.

This is how several of my friends got full time employment, we started as contractors before becoming full time employees.

Not looking good for Pedro to get outfoxed by Jaydan🤭

Quoting Ken Watanabe "Let them fight!"

End thread. From what I've heard, they offered some of those contract workers full time positions.

Then you don't know what outfoxed means.🙃

"Contractors" ain't exactly seen as employees per say. They're usually seen as external workers from a company that temporary hires them.

Since Nintendo are opening up full time positions, if those contractors have done a good job and built up enough rapport. I don't see why Nintendo wouldn't consider hiring them on a permanent contract.

well said...I don't understand the sensationalism of lost jobs. Its a job, and while its important, we are lucky to live in a blessed country with so many opportunities in a variety of fields. Many countries don't have that...they don't have the stable institutions, government or infrastructure to support such economic activity. We should be grateful.

People should be far more worried about their health...walk around anywhere and all you see is obesity on an unimaginable scale. Money is important, but end of the day its just a number and has no real meaning to it beyond helping to meet your basic needs, and future security. Health is absolutely critical, and right now the health care situation of society is at a disaster level. Your body should always be your foundation...even in the old days when we didn't have the luxuries we have now, a strong and healthy body would provide so many different job opportunities. I always rank health above wealth in every situation and often times, good health will lead to abundance of wealth. People really need to get off their fat asses.

Well they were contractors... not saying it's a good thing, but that's what contractors do, they do a job and are then released most of the time. Only a small percentage that get hired on full time, it's almost like a temp agency.