GameStop Employee Fired After Leaking Tears Of The Kingdom Switch OLED
Last month, Nintendo announced a brand-new Tears of the Kingdom-themed Switch OLED, but the reveal was leaked the day before. This was thanks to a GameStop employee by the name of Mike, who claims that he wanted to give others a heads-up in case pre-orders went live. However, in doing so, he got himself fired.
As reported by Kotaku, it was fairly obvious that a GameStop employee leaked the Switch OLED news since he did so by posting a photo of a GameStop computer screen listing the inventory database with the new model. It had already leaked in December 2022, but Mike speculated that it would be announced during the next day's TotK stream.
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Mike says he was fired on April 11, two weeks after the stream. Speaking to Kotaku, he said that he believes the Reddit post he made wasn't that big of a deal since it was mostly speculative, but he was called into the backroom for a meeting with a GameStop supervisor appearing over a video conference. He was then asked if he made the post and if he knew it breached company policy.
His keys were taken away and he was later fired.
During the meeting, Mike did confess to the leak and denied knowing it was against company policy. However, given that most of his social media accounts were linked to his Reddit profile, it would have been easy to track down the person responsible even if he didn't confess. Mike says that he "wasn't really trying to cover [his] tracks because [he] didn't know it would lead to this".
Now out of the job, he said in a follow-up Reddit post, "Hopefully all of you were able to get your switch pre-orders in as now I will not be able to get mine", to which many replied suggesting he set
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