Nintendo rejected employees if his date of birth fell on days of bad luck

Hiroshi Yamaguchi wcompany the president of Nintendo until shortly before the launch of Game cube. It wcompany the end of an era, since his family had directed the company since its foundation in 1889. He did it in an autocratic way, because when he made a decision, little could be done to change it. Person Kaplan, Exvicresidents Marketing of Nintendo America, hcompany declared NGC that in the Nintendo of the nineties employees were discarded if his dates of birth corresponded with days considered of bad luck.

It wcompany a different time, Kaplan recalls. For example, I remember that in the nineties all of our dates of birth were examined before hiring. They looked at your birthday, and if it fell into [a date] that they considered bad omen, did not hire you, although we worked in the United States. According to the old executive, Nintendo wcompany and is still a very fend shoo company.

Superstition in the works of its North American headquarters

Not in vain, the new buildings were built with that philosophy in mind. In Nintendo America we were going to expand through the facilities of another company called Eddie Bauer, and the buildings were in angular position. We walked next to Mr. IATA and Mr. Alabama, examined the building and even observed the direction in which the water flowed below. Then, they rejected it with a big one.

In the end, the works began, and the remodel wcompany made, but it wcompany only done with the building looking to the right side and built well, to embrace the good fortune.

According to Kaplan, at the time of Yamaguchi they knew that he wcompany the boss, but for 16 years he only met once with him. It wcompany great to meet you, but Howard Lincoln wcompany in Plan: You will not get reverence well, so you better do not do anything, I present you. With IATA the thing changed, since he visited the North American division, he spoke with the employees and listened to him.