California sues Activision/Blizzard for employment discrimination because of sex, retaliation, discrimination & harassment, unequal pay
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This is what I want to happen. All of the names out in the public. Name and shame.
Just clean out all the rot. Every bit. Don't care who it is or what they do.
I know nothing about this streamer and had a quick look when it was first posted hours ago and he had the usual scrolling animated dinosaur stuff going on while he talked. In fact the 5 minutes or so I watched he was talking about some subscriber getting moved to "VIP status" since someone had tried to shame them in some way. I wondered why his stream had been posted but then he started talking about this issue again.
I turned it off since I found it unappealing to watch someone shrieking so animatedly about the issue in a way that seemed almost disrespectful.
Yeah I can understand that. He definitely isn't for me sometimes. But him putting it out there like that in front of a mainly Blizzard fanbase was huge.
Other streamers I saw were doing a way worse job though. One guy I saw was talking about it while blasting rock music with his sub tracker directly behind him WHILE PLAYING WoW. It was astonishingly tone deaf.
I hope the company gets hit hard, the thing is though won't it just be the insurance that pays out?
Alanah Pearce has posted a video about her experiences.
As game buyers and consumers of games, what is there that we can do, I don't think boycotting them works and it seems that, I don't know 90% of games companies would need to be boycotted.
Alanah Pearce has posted a video about her experiences.
As game buyers and consumers of games, what is there that we can do, I don't think boycotting them works and it seems that, I don't know 90% of games companies would need to be boycotted.
It's just really fuckin gross they're all using it as content for their streams, I get people wanna talk about it, especially in their audience but fuck turn off all the flashy streamer stuff for a bit.
I'd hope he wouldn't be for you at any point. We don't need to give a platform to a bigoted broken clock every time it so happens to be right.
The lawsuit isn't just seeking out damages, it's also looking for a court order to enforce workplace standards.
Made the front page news of the BBC
www.bbc.com
"Killed herself" in large front as a section article
California sues Activision Blizzard over alleged harassment
One of the world's largest gaming companies is accused of endemic discrimination and harassment.
www.bbc.com
"Killed herself" in large front as a section article
Yeah the ones who are still leaving up their alerts and playing music are terrible. The fact that some of them were still playing WoW while talking about it is just nuts to me.
I am glad though that some of the more recognizable content creators that I know like Preach, Asmon, Tali, and Bellular are addressing it straight away and shining a light on it instead of taking a "wait and see" attitude. Especially since it's so very clear that this is a very real problem for that company. Because they are the ones that are going to put the problem in front of the players. Not CNN or some other news site.
I gotta say, this Trumpian response is incredibly repulsive to me. Really makes me think we're not even getting a "tough esports moment" non-apology this time around.
The timeline makes it pretty unlikely that this is even a Brack/Activision thing. This could well be the underlying culture from the classic Blizzard days when everyone loved them. It's probably time for me to just rip off the bandaid and give up on being a Blizzard fan entirely.
That section shouldn't even be a spoiler. It should be in the biggest font size possible to let people see what this company is like.
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Yeah I don't understand either. Every HR I have ever worked with as been great about anonymity and actually followed through on my complaints. Blizzards HR seems to have only cared about the accused rather than the victim. Especially in cases where it was involving a superior.
"How do I make this go away?" instead of "How do I fix this?"
good to see she found a place where she's treated well, lord knows she's put in the work
This whole thing might be one of the darkest and awful things I've read about the industry. Jesus...
It's incredibly annoying to see a guy pretending to care about misogyny and how women have to deal with constant casual shit, while in the literal same sentence shouting about "big dick energy", not gonna lie. I know plenty people will shrug it off with "lol ists just a meme joke pal buddy friend" but that's EXACTLY what casual misogyny and toxicity looks like.
Like, textbook.
People in his chat saying people are lying - basically, they believe a corporation more than they do women.
That the women are lying. That's what his chat was saying and he went off.
Yup.
It is sickening how he is given a pass because of his follower numbers.
User banned (permanent): concern trolling about sexual harassment and inequality over multiple posts; account in junior phase
No dude, this is another example of the problem with cancel culture. So the good people who work at these companies should now suffer and lose their jobs due to company loss of income all because there are individuals who are a**holes. That's like saying we must block an entire race of people cause a few of them did a crime... Makes no sense dude.
What has to happen is those who are responsible for the harassment must be outed and face criminal charges.
The good people at these companies are the ones we need to continue to support and hopefully they become the only kind of employees left when all the a**holes have be outed.
So according to what I'm reading, the employee who committed suicide on a company trip was at Blizzcon? Nice convention you guys have there, Blizzard.
Lol.
It's about money, the best way for consumers to voice their opinion is with their wallet. This is not "cancel culture" it's just capitalism.
Again you think the best way to handle this situation is to punish all the people that work at the company cause of a few a**holes? That's sound reasoning and logic to you?
Oh boy....
Being a conscientious consumer and taking into account the conditions under which games are made and whose pockets you are lining with your dollars is not cancel culture. The people who make the games Activision Blizzard sell are the same people doing cube crawls, passing around nudes of women, and harassing women in the workplace. It's not a few bad apples, it is rampant.
Yup, hit them where it hurts, their wallet.
The funny thing is, most of the money doesn't even go to the people who worked hard on these games. It's people like Bobby Kotick that get all the big bucks while good developers work like dogs.
So you're saying its every employee that is doing the harassment? So if they're all doing it who's the victims? What you're saying makes no sense. Tell me how many employees are the harassers out of the total number of Activision employees.. I'll wait...
He's a notorious streamer who has been pushing the same kind of toxic gamer culture that feeds into this behavior in the first place. Its fucked that people are actively calling this "earning respect" as if he's not part of the problem. People were already excusing him because he promotes a game they like so its not too surprising that this is being touted as a hero moment.
Of course I land an interview with Blizzard then this shit comes out. Well, it'll be good interview practice at the very least.
When your favorite shoe company uses slave labor do you keep buying their shoes because the nice accountants might lose their job? Again, it's capitalism, this is just how it works. Is it fair to those accountants? No not really, but it's the organizations job to make those changes, and those changes will almost always only happen when it affects the bottom line.
It's normalized as an acceptable part of their work culture. Everything about the report points to this. It's not a few bad apples. It's not about individuals, it's about a toxic work culture up and down the hierarchy, where abusers are protected and promoted and no man is held accountable. Did you read the report? You are intentionally minimizing the abuse, which is very typical toxic male behavior.
By the state though not a pool of individuals; in addition to possible fines/monetary compensation they also have the power to put in controls where if they don't show actionable improvement they can go after more cash/fines if they win.
It's not criminal, but it's not something they can write a check to forget about easily
Not surprising that there are male employees at Blizzard who are assholes/creeps for a long time:
(Watch 4:23 onward)
(Watch 4:23 onward)
Ignore this poster.
Vote with your wallet. You want a company that functions and makes decisions purely on capitalism to make hard changes? Squeeze their purse strings. When the money for investors starts coming up short and sponsors start pulling back, people will start getting fired.
You keep rewarding execs with more money by buying these games, they will ignore your complaints. Boycotts get shit done.
So you resort to personal attacks when you can't actually explain your state of thinking... Ok we're done here.
Pointing out problematic behavior is not an personal attack. Use your head and heart, please.
I am sorry to hear that every job you get harassed. I truly am
Do these animals think it's macho to disrespect/harass women?