Legal Niches

GameStop Fired RapeLay Commenter to Save $$, Stop Boycotts

By pete_gallagher

A GameStop employee fired for discussing piracy and RapeLay in a college newspaper says that he was canned in order to avoid costing the videogame retailer 'millions of dollars.'

Derek Littlejohn told Kotaku that following publication of The Globe article, his District Manager was contacted by a GameStop Vice President, who said he was getting calls about an article in the Globe, which the VP thought alluded to the British tabloid of the same name. Littlejohn's manager told him that he was fired because 'people were threatening to boycott and picket GameStop, which would cost the company millions of dollars.'

Littlejohn indicated that the author of the Globe piece, Ann Straub, was a friend of his, but that he 'Didn't know she was gonna cite me as an employee of Gamestop, which is what they were able to use as for firing me…'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).