Report: Contractors at Nintendo of America face alleged sexism, harassment, and pay inequity

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Contract workers at Nintendo of America (NoA) have come forward with allegations that describe a corporate culture where sexism is common. A new report from Kotaku details how multiple employees, some of whom have been around since the Nintendo WiiU era to the present Nintendo Switch generation, have had their own experiences with sexism and harassment at the company. 

One anonymous employee, going under the name "Hannah," informed Kotaku of an incident involving a male translator who was making inappropriate sexual comments in explicit detail. In escalating the situation with Aerotek management, she was allegedly told to be less outspoken, and blamed by her work friends for reporting the incident. Hannah further said that after the translator remained employed and only faced sexual harassment training as a repercussion, she left the company.

Nintendo uses several staffing companies to bring in its staff, and one of those is Aerotek, who has since reorganized into Aston Carter. 

The translator was one of many several experiences of sexist culture at Nintendo, according to Hannah. "There was a male full-time employee that was constantly making really gross jokes and comments, but he was the friend of everybody there," she recalled. She and other female employees felt uncomfortable hearing the employees' jokes, but didn't bring it up for fear of retaliation. "Everybody loved him, [...] we didn’t say anything because if you did, you were called overly sensitive.”

Several employees explicitly named product tester Melvin Forrest as someone they had uncomfortable experiences with, alleging that he made inappropriate advances towards them. Associates would warn each other to stay away from Forrest's desk, according to former