California sues Activision/Blizzard for employment discrimination because of sex, retaliation, discrimination & harassment, unequal pay
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God, I've seen letters like that before and it's incredibly disturbing every time. And every single guy who wrote those letters thought he was the "nice guy" who women didn't "appreciate." Narcissistic creeper fucks, one and all.
And what comes next is even worse.
Not only a creep, but someone who threatens to murder people. How come this person isn't behind bars?
So basically Riot is where Blizzard sends their sexual predators after they hit a certain amount of internal complaints.
Also, Riot hired the guy named in the current sexual harassment lawsuit against Blizzard just this year, 3 years after they supposedly "cleaned house and fixed everything " in their own company after being sued by the state of CA for the exact same thing Blizzard is bring sued by the same state for now.
What the fuck is going on with these two companies?
It's like the Catholic Church shuffling sexual predator priests between parishes.
Also, Riot hired the guy named in the current sexual harassment lawsuit against Blizzard just this year, 3 years after they supposedly "cleaned house and fixed everything " in their own company after being sued by the state of CA for the exact same thing Blizzard is bring sued by the same state for now.
What the fuck is going on with these two companies?
It's like the Catholic Church shuffling sexual predator priests between parishes.
Yep, I had this happen once. Management thought it'd be a good idea to bring employees in on a one to one basis to talk about how to "improve" the department. Even the things that were mentioned went absolutely nowhere. It was a pretty clear attempt at getting us to flip one one another especially when they go all "you can say whatever you want in here, it stays in these walls" blah blah blah corporate speak. Actual improvements would better be discussed as an entire group.
These Activision fucks have no shame.
Not surprising. It is well known Riot is another cesspool like Activision Blizzard.
I've received this sort of letter twice in my life. I was "lucky" they had no control over my work. I have no idea what mindset makes men think it's anything but creepy and terrifying.
The New York Times just published an article on the sexual abuse accusations at Activision Blizzard that contains some new reporting. Be warned, some of this is very upsetting content vis a vis sexual harassment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/technology/activision-walkout-metoo-call-of-duty.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/technology/activision-walkout-metoo-call-of-duty.html
New York Times said:
Does this have a bottom? Will California be able to extend the lawsuit to encompass the tidal wave of new findings of abuse and if they could what would proper corrective action possibly look like?New York Times said:
"It's been weeks since your boyfriend died, you deserve to have some fun. Let's fuck?"
Literally speechless. Are these people actually aliens poorly impersonating humans?
Just when I think it can't get more fucking repulsive.
Guess what other big gaming companies are based in LA and have had issues....
Used to do backend IT at a fortune 500 insurance company with locations around the world and they owned their own building by WallStreet. Shit like this was 100% going on. I've seen it first hand and I've seen how long its taken to get certain VPs to stop harassing/testing summer interns. To that companies credit, 1 of them did get fired but it's coupled with the fact their wife also worked at the same company and found out.
This feels like only the beginning. I wouldn't be surprised if ever major paper has its own story with unique stories. This is just horrible, I can never buy another product from these people.
Man looking more at the stuff added, I feeling absolutely ill! Just what the fuck at this company.
Maybe it's different in the US or maybe it's my company, but everyone I know here respect each other and act professionally(with the occasional gifs in Teams for funsies). I speak with a lot of employees in my day to day job and it's always nice and respectful. There is a lot of women in managing positions in our various departments, even our IT VP is a woman, so maybe that's part of the reason why there is no "frat boy" culture in here.
That's the irony of it I guess. My former employer did a LOT of community charity and inclusion work. There were MANY women VPs and Executives, a lot of minority VPs as well. It's a company that had 3 tiers of executives just because it was so large. All the employee groups I was a part of were amazing and over the years got a lot of corporate support.
That doesn't stop certain people from being pieces of shit unfortunately. It sucks knowing that happens but I know the company gave many women a LOT of opportunity for growth. I know so many who had multiple promotions my 5 years there.
So will JAB have another apology speech at Blizzcon this year? Seems like yearly tradition at this point.
Since it's all digital this year, I wouldn't be surprised if they just throw out fabricated release dates for hot titles (that will later be 'delayed') and not even touch on these issues in any substantiative measure.
IMO, I think it would be best if Blizzard does not have blizz con this year.
Most skin crawling thing I've ever read
Can't imagine they'd so anything of the sort with pending litigation.
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From a former Community Manager for Diablo
This is very much my guess. They will, at the very least, announce Diablo IV release date this year.
But if you're going to put any stock in it, I'll have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
I think the polar opposite will be the case. They will literally open the virtual conference with a pre-recorded, supremely carefully worded inclusivity and equity statement and promises to better themselves. And if they do the regular hotswap of speakers, every new speaker will start out with another inclusivity statement ("my experience, in my in experience, my team, my friends at Blizzard" etc.).
Or, the entire show gets canceled this year in favor of publishing separate short trailers with zero human element. Their only upcoming release at this point is Diablo for phones.
this is shit you expect from a teenager who still struggles understanding friendship and relationship.
to be a grown ass man sending people these pathetic letters--to a fucking work colleague--is a whole other level of shitiness.
Yeah like this reads like something a middle school kid would write. Maybe immature lower grade high school.
To be slightly fair, it looks like the company actually did the right thing here. As soon as the cameras were discovered, it was reported to HR, who brought in law enforcement, who charged the employee. Then they provided counselling to other employees. This also happened in an office in Minnesota, and while I'm sure it has its connections to the toxic culture at the company, I don't think there's any mentions of the absolutely ridiculous stuff like the cube crawls and such happening there.
