To be honest I would close that thread and only leave this one. It's ridiculous that the other one has way more comments, too. I don't know what the user who made that thread was thinking.
Blocking those means less opportunities to raise awareness about problematic employees.
We can talk about Ubisoft without having threads hyping up their games.
So I was right in calling him Maxime Bellend back when he took over Splinter Cell, he's even worse. What a horrible person.
The Toronto office was especially problematic, six current or former employees there say. The studio was run by Maxime Béland, his wife, Rima Brek, and another husband-and-wife management team. Brek served for a time as interim director of HR, the people there say. Two women who reported incidents to Brek and other HR representatives in Toronto say they felt ostracized afterward and were labeled as troublemakers. Brek didn't respond to requests for comment.Béland was a trusted lieutenant of the creative chief. He was also known for his quick temper and a tendency to scream at subordinates during meetings, say four people who worked in the office. Two of those people say they saw Béland touch women inappropriately at holiday parties and other work events. Béland was also accused of choking an employee at a party, according to the video game website Kotaku. The choking story was regularly shared among staff in Toronto, say the people who worked there, as a warning about the executive. Béland didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.
As horrendous as all of this is, the silver lining is that Ubi will finally be forced to embrace workplace gender equality, and we should see a lot of women step into these editorial positions.
See, I thought they were afarid of backlash that you play as Muslim assassin killing Christian invaders.
Indeed. That would be highly innapropriate on a company with only men in it, let alone with women and harm their career because they choose not to attend such "meetings". That company is completely rotten to the core.
I was thinking about this right nowSo that Ubisoft diversity disclaimer was literal performative progressiveness that meant nothing in the end with the games themselves.
Or in the next meeting they will have to face the fact that specific executives hurt the company profits
Boycotting and raising awareness are some of the only tools consumers have to make their disgust and criticism known of a company. I don't think it's right to use employees as a shield for criticising boycotts.
...fuck, Sam slapping Grimsdottir now has a new context.So I was right in calling him Maxime Bellend back when he took over Splinter Cell, he's even worse. What a horrible person.
The Toronto office was especially problematic, six current or former employees there say. The studio was run by Maxime Béland, his wife, Rima Brek, and another husband-and-wife management team. Brek served for a time as interim director of HR, the people there say. Two women who reported incidents to Brek and other HR representatives in Toronto say they felt ostracized afterward and were labeled as troublemakers. Brek didn't respond to requests for comment.Béland was a trusted lieutenant of the creative chief. He was also known for his quick temper and a tendency to scream at subordinates during meetings, say four people who worked in the office. Two of those people say they saw Béland touch women inappropriately at holiday parties and other work events. Béland was also accused of choking an employee at a party, according to the video game website Kotaku. The choking story was regularly shared among staff in Toronto, say the people who worked there, as a warning about the executive. Béland didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.
