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The stalking victim told Kotaku that she cried at her desk and had panic attacks every day. “He said verbatim that he would get me fired if I reported it,” 

She recalled her backup coordinator, a significantly older man who tried to hit on her when she had just started working at the company in 2012. When she revealed her sexuality, he said, “Oh, you’re a lesbian. That’s kind of sad.” It was a poor first impression for Hannah’s lengthy career at Nintendo’s headquarters, but it wouldn’t be the only one.

She struggled with her working relationships with male colleagues who would ignore her when she said things like, “I’m a lesbian…I don’t like you that way.” After she explained why she could not return her male colleagues’ advances, they would ask, “Oh, but are you sure? But you’re flirting with me? You’re just playing hard to get.” The comments made her so uncomfortable that she put her male colleagues “at a distance,” which she believed negatively impacted her career.

Another queer tester who worked on Nintendo games for almost a decade claims she was unfairly targeted by Aerotek for her sexuality. During breaks, she and a fellow female tester she was dating would hold hands. She says an Aerotek supervisor called them into the contracting office and admonished the pair for violating the agency’s ‘no-touching policy,’ which was rarely enforced for straight couples displaying affection in the office. 

“A lot of the NOA red badges had reputations for using the tester pool of associates as a dating pool,” Allison told Kotaku. If you were approached by a red badge, and they appeared to be making moves on you, [other women said that] you didn’t want to dissuade them too hard.” The upsides of being romantically involved with NOA employees were opportunities and access.