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So suddenly she is entitled to 33 million yen? Funny how it works. Doing the maths quickly it would take her roughly 15 years to earn 33 million extra yen if her salary was 200 000 more, not 3 years... silly person. Ofc she is entitled to something because she got screwed over, but 33 million just sounds like a number some lawyer pulled out of his ass.
Damn, that's a stealthy demotion. Were Kojima Productions involved in the planning?
Seriously, Ms. Sekiguchi must have been disappointed with only getting just shy of a million yen. I assume the other 32 million yen crawled and hid under a cardboard box.
Seriously, Ms. Sekiguchi must have been disappointed with only getting just shy of a million yen. I assume the other 32 million yen crawled and hid under a cardboard box.
Konami has now joined the rare rankings of "shitty japanese devs who were once good but now are assholes".
@lokhe
Thats 200k yen per month, so it would have taken her 16.5 months to have made that extra 33 million on top of what she was already going to make. She was also demoted, which could have potentially cost her far more money in the more long term.
So yes, she most certainly would have been entitled to what she was asking for. It was a perfectly reasonable amount all things considered, and probably far less than a discrimination case here in the states would have fetched. It is almost laughable that she got so much less than that.
Thats 200k yen per month, so it would have taken her 16.5 months to have made that extra 33 million on top of what she was already going to make. She was also demoted, which could have potentially cost her far more money in the more long term.
So yes, she most certainly would have been entitled to what she was asking for. It was a perfectly reasonable amount all things considered, and probably far less than a discrimination case here in the states would have fetched. It is almost laughable that she got so much less than that.
@OneRed
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
@OneRed
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
200,000 yen is about $2575.66, 33 million yen is about $424,983. So a half million lawsuit, which she's received $12,234 of so far. Depending on her income level, 2 grand a year might not be that much of a difference, especially if it's >100k USD. But whatever! Konami got told!
my neighbor's step-sister makes $78/hour on the laptop. She has been out of work for 10 months but last month her check was $8916 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this web site...
I actually wonder if she is the ONLY case of pregnancy at Konami? Call me naive, but if they really did this to every female employee then I could not see how they would only be sued by one.
Then again this is a game company, and not to be sexist, but she might just be about the only.... woman... there.
Then again this is a game company, and not to be sexist, but she might just be about the only.... woman... there.
@agentarsenic Thanks for that, I was about to post the conversions myself. Not a very fruitful lawsuit if it took 2 years to amount to an award of $12,000.
@Mysterious-G
not really for one konami has Yumi Kikuchi(laughing octopus) always with Kojima during press events, and former employees like Ayami Kojima and Michuru Yamane.
so im pretty sure there are tons of women at konami :P
@Apsalus
ROLF as if America is even does a good job of equal rights.
not really for one konami has Yumi Kikuchi(laughing octopus) always with Kojima during press events, and former employees like Ayami Kojima and Michuru Yamane.
so im pretty sure there are tons of women at konami :P
@Apsalus
ROLF as if America is even does a good job of equal rights.
Ditto Elsa...seriously pisses me off when I read about lawsuits like this. And it happens far too often.
I felt the same way as her when I bought Castlevania Harmony of Despair and found more than half of the game was held back for DLC.
As if giving life to another being wasn't enough of a physical burden for Sekiguchi, and Konami decides to burden her even more...
What a great message to send to others! Oh wait, doesn't Japan have a problem with declining birth rates?
What a great message to send to others! Oh wait, doesn't Japan have a problem with declining birth rates?
Konami's retarded. Consider how far ahead of FIFA PES was, now consider the state of things now; pathetic.
Konami made poy poy. In poy poy you can play as a baby. Poy poy suffered with poor sales. Konami hates babies, and not without merit.
Less babies is videogames I say
Less babies is videogames I say
Well she was in her right to go on leave unless they decided to have her give birth their . Oh so they would make a sim about it . The new birthing experience on the PSP Vita
@lokhe: It's a damn two year old lawsuit, of course there were lawyers involved and of course they took that number out of their ass (more or less), that way she gets a substantial amount in the end. If they had demanded a million they would've gotten a lot less than what she got this time, that's how it works.
It's not particularly Konami but Japan in general that's so backward with worker's and women's rights.
Don't know why but this reminds me of a few years ago when Laurence Fishburn got all huffy that his assistant got pregnant without informing him on the idea first. Know what happened then?
Morpheus got to be on CSI for a while. And that shit was CRAZY.
So you know what'll happen here?
Probably more crazy Konami games.
Morpheus got to be on CSI for a while. And that shit was CRAZY.
So you know what'll happen here?
Probably more crazy Konami games.
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