Hello. I don’t wanna lie, I never worked at NoR. I don’t have any friends or relatives who worked there.
I write this post because I was very shocked to find out how bad the situation at Nintendo of Russia is.
Here is my translation of what former Nintendo of Russia employees say about Yasha Haddaji and the working conditions at NoR.
If anyone wants to read the full article (using google translate, for example), you can do it here: [https://gameguru.ru/articles/v\_rossyskom\_ofise\_nintendo\_unijayut\_lyudey\_chto\_proishodit/view.html](https://gameguru.ru/articles/v_rossyskom_ofise_nintendo_unijayut_lyudey_chto_proishodit/view.html)
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\* He screams at people regularly using a combination of russian and english curse words and he does so aggressively – after all meetings the girls are crying in a bathroom.
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\* Yasha pays you more if you don’t care about Nintendo at all. “The less f\*#s you give, the more you get paid”.
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\* He tells girls what they should and shouldn’t wear in the office or during the meetings with clients. “Wear that leather skirt, he will sign everything”.
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\* Speaking about harassment – he told one girl to call him “Papa Yasha”. Some girls said he “touched their butt”, tried to make them sit on his laps and more stuff like that.
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\* He hires people with absolutely no experience – PR is done by people who know nothing about, the same can be said about marketing, logistics and sales.
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\* He’s inadequate when it comes to planning events – 90% of time during meetings he discusses a design of plastic bags and only 10% are spent on talking about budget and organizing. And if an event won’t happen at all after that – it is a fault of a guy designing the plastic bag.
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\* He has connections in most HR agencies and all of the former employees are added to “the black list”. He badmouthes people who left the company 3-4 years ago, talks with their new employers and tries to make them fire people who left NoR.
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\* He doesn’t care for people’s privacy, he could easily read all of your private messages on social media and then tells everybody else all your feelings and what troubles you.
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\* Everyone is scared to talk about what really is going on at NoR because of Yasha’s connections. His favourite way of letting people go can be summed up in the classic phrase “You’re not breaking up with me, I’m breaking up with you!”, i.e. when people try to leave the company, according to russian laws they must work there for 2 more weeks. During this time he picks on you and screams “YOU ARE FIRED!”.
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\* “Just so everyone understands how scared everybody is – when I walked on heels, my colleagues asked me to change my shoes because it sounded a lot like Yasha’s”.
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\* If Yasha knows about your insecurities, he secludes you and tries to make other people gang up on you or laugh behind your back.
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As you can tell already, that’s pretty messed up. I really hope that this guy will be released from his duties and the company hires someone with passion for Nintendo products.
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TL;DR: Yasha Haddaji doesn’t respect his own employees and treats them badly. He shouldn’t be the CEO of Nintendo of Russia. I hope that Nintendo of Europe listens to us and finds a new CEO, who is passionate enough to do this job.
by dor-yaboh