I knew jeff leaving was a bad sign, but I didn’t expect this
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Oh I know one higher up who’s definitely part of it… and getting paid big bucks for treating their employees like trash so they have to live in cars and can’t even afford food.
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Me neither, but… well, here we are.
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As much as everyone is saying the old guard left due to this, is anyone else scared they left, not because they hated what was happening (yet alone, they actually had the power to stop it, if they knew), but that they all contributed towards it? I know not everyone did, but Jeff Kaplan leaving and now this, either he saw it coming, or he was apart of it and didn’t want anyone to know he was
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Ah how low the mighty have fallen.
To think people clamoured to work at Blizzard at one point.
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Well, this explains J Allen Brack showing up on the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast earlier this week, talking up Blizzard’s charity work and support for women and progressive values in general. And just last month, Bobby Kotick himself was on Jim Cramer’s show Mad Money, talking up Activision’s charity work. They were definitely trying to get out ahead of this story.
I was half-expecting some bombshell like this to come out, just based on those two appearances in quick succession.
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Anyone else find it sad that this company is so notorious at this point that most of us thought this way?
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I want to reserve judgment, but this is definitely damning for sure and is a bad look for Blizzard. You do make a point regarding the Blizzard review.
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This would explain their wannabe “good boy” acts of instantly firing the VA of kael’thas due to false allegations. They want to garner good PR.
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Will they delete this thread
Oh probably. Can’t have any slander when it’s earned, can we?
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another day, another Blizzard PR disaster
company that tries to project a super-woke image is actually a really toxic, world-beatingly sh it place to work
I am SO surprised
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Probably no, they will probably say something like “we believe in justice, and justice says that everyone is innocent until proven guity”.
Hypocrates 
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oh wow, this is utterly devastating to the putrid remains of the company’s reputation:
Numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation were made to Defendant’s human resources, personnel and executives, including to Blizzard Entertainment’s President J. Allen Brack. But, Defendants failed to take effective measures in response to these complaints.
safe workplace?
you think you want that, but you don’t
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LMAO that’s a big oof.
oh it gets worse
Unsurprisingly, employee’s complaints were treated in a perfuntory and dismissive manner and not kept confidential. As a result of these complaints, female employees were subjected to retaliation, including but not limited to being deprived of work on projects, unwillingly transferred to different units, and selected for layoffs.
if my employer behaved like this I’d quit on the spot
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Well no that’s not the same thing. She was bullies by players of the game. Not employees
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A similar thing happened at Riot too…
As it turns out, a culture created and mostly made up of toxic white men isn’t going to be the most tolerant of anything that isn’t straight, white, and male.
Edit: I’m not saying most white men are toxic, or most white male gamers are toxic. Gaming culture is toxic at it’s root, especially in earlier years. Gaming culture is also known to be very exclusionary of others, see gatekeeping. Since it’s mostly made up of white men, the others are mostly women and POC.
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I mean, I can reserve judgement but all the same; the specific allegations mentioned in the report almost certainly have detailed evidence and many, many sources. Some events might even have been caught on camera, as they were mentioned as having happened at blizzcon. (Male employees having to ‘remove’ alex afrasaibi from female employees; the reports words, not mine).
Other claims likely have hard numerical evidence (female employees being denied specific forms of equal compensation for similar work, equal base pay for equal qualifications, equal access to opportunities).
I’ll tell you why I believe the report is telling a factual case, is. If the government didn’t think the case was extremely likely, almost certain to win; they would have had the female claimants file for themselves. That it’s the state of california vs activision blizzard. There’s your ringer.
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You aren’t being any better with your bigoted blanket statement.
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