To be fair the first point is an incredible sticking point in today’s culture for EVERY corporation.
It is reasonable to assume that Activision (and others) have taken steps to ensure this doesn’t happen. They lose money. Ads, marketing loss, share drop, shaky investers, no new investments, etc.
Is it really so unbelievable that this may (or may not) be bad acting?
four words.
Settle…out…of …court.
You heard it here first.
If thats the case then none. Sounds like some red herring
WOW, its amazing how people trust the Government so much and just believe allegations before the case has even been heard or tried, SMH.
The state ain’t always 100% correct on a lot of trials and plenty of history in falsifying documents to prosecute folks and businesses.
lol, it is hilarious 3 people so narrow minded enough to flag OP.
I’m just going to quote this:
THEY DON’T GET RE-ELECTED IF THEY LOSE CASES LIKE THIS.
Let’s use some brain power here. This is how AGs, DAs and County Prosecutors operate.
Wasnt Riot in this situation a year or two back? What ever came out of that?
Thats why i said 75%.
You make personal attacks and expect me to do what exactly?
What behaviour do you expect?
Or do you hope you can bully me into your view point?
I wouldnt disagree, but there are AGs all over the place that are doing the dumbest things you could image.
Im just saying, the only way they could be fired is to be recalled, and that has a very slim chance. And for something like this in California, even if it turned out to be 100% false (which im not saying it is) the AG would still be hailed a hero.
Not to mention this is the same California AG that just recently banned state sponsored travel to Florida because a law was passed banning transgender women from competing in high school women’s athletics.
Be careful here you are making a mistake in your logic.
If Blizzard thinks they are innocent they will want to have the matter taken to court instead of paying out.
If the State of California or its representatives think Blizzard is guilty they will want them to settle (to save time and resources) or to take them to court.
Since both parties are planning to go to court this just means that Blizzard believes there is not enough evidence to prove wrongdoing or that there was no wrongdoing, and that the State of California believes they have the evidence to win a court case.
There is nothing confusing about seeing “The State of California wouldn’t take Blizzard to court without evidence” and seeing" Blizzard would not settle if they believe they are innocent".
some people can’t stand on seeing their world shatter.
Well yes i did made a personal attack. Congrats maybe it sickens me to see people defend sexual harrasers behavioral ignore me and move on. Which ill do right now. BYE
I’m all for the benefit of the doubt, but there’s not much room for doubt here. Not only are the allegations believable, they are corroborated in many cases.
I’ve defended all kinds of nonsense that’s cropped up on the forums over the years, but this is beyond abhorrent. I’m at a loss for words.
From another of my posts.
“And for something like this in California, even if it turned out to be 100% false (which im not saying it is) the AG would still be hailed a hero.”
A two-year investigation by the state agency found that the company discriminated against female employees in terms and conditions of employment, including compensation, assignment, promotion, and termination.
These are just statistics and if true can cause some serious problems.
female employees make up around 20% of the Activision workforce
Not surprising as females tend not to want to be programmers. And those that are are often drawn to other industries and not gaming.
According to women in tech statistics for 2020, men outnumber women in the Engineering industry. A whopping 80% of those in the field are male, while only 20% are female.
The agency alleges male employees play video games during the workday while delegating responsibilities to female employees
I’m not sure how this is even surprising. If your testing for bugs in a video game you need to delegate the debugging to interns whom may be female.
Female employees allege being held back from promotions because of the possibility they might become pregnant
As a supervisor if I hear a woman is trying to get pregnant it means leaving for a year, I stop all resources going into training her on anything further. This doesn’t mean she’s no longer valuable to the company, but she will be treated like people who are looking for another job or are finishing school to enter a different industry.
Now if its a case that woman are being looked over for promotion because there is a possibility of pregnancy by the mere fact that they are a woman then there are issues.
being criticized for leaving to pick their children up from daycare
Yeah its irritating. If your scheduled a certain time to work you should be there. If your not then you should be fired. This goes for anyone consistently missing time from work. And it really irritates co workers who are behind on a deadline and forced to work over time…
being kicked out of lactation rooms so male colleagues could use the room for meetings, the complaint says.
Why is there a lactation room to begin with? Thats just odd. But was it currently in use for its intended purpose? Was there any other space for the meeting?
The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor.
Unless there is proof that there was cause and effect then this is circumstantial at best.
This entire thing sounds like a woman who wanted children not being promoted having the child and missing work. Then when management tried to push her out because she couldn’t/wouldn’t push the workload of other employees she filed a complaint with the state.
And as someone else pointed out the two year investigation cover a period of time were there were no offices due to covid.
At this point its allegations and nothing more, we need to wait to see what evidence is provided to support the claims.
Your point is totally valid, but you’re going out of your way to piss people off while making it.
You’re either horrible at conversation, or you’re trolling to get the Reeee.
You should just stop while you’re ahead.
I mean nothing really came of the Hong Kong incident so I would expect no different here. Forums will complain for a week or two and then it’s back to business as usual.
Not even close to what happened.
But you live in your own fantasy world where everyone is either right by your side, or an evil you need to defeat.
There’s a reason you’re called social justice warriors