Yep, exactly what I was thinking of. Somehow, this crap doesn’t surprise me at all.
The biggest motivating factor to me for speaking up is I don’t want other women to have to deal with what I went through.
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Oh man…go check out Twitter.
Many female former employees coming out and sharing some stories.
This is gonna be messy.
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yes its pretty yuck to assume their is a gender bias in wanting accessible evidence on an accusation.
Yep, and that is the entire point of the lawsuit, to see who the victim. The person accusing or the people being brought up on accusations. So you cant say side with the victim when the victim isn’t identified.
It is tragic but a suicide doesn’t automatically rule you the victim in case. If a person say theoretically breaks up with someone and they kill themselves, they aren’t the victim of this court case. The person being brought up and made to seem like they forced them to kill themselves is the victim. Again, its a theoretical example to exemplify just one of many cases.
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So true. Here is Blizzards response per PC gamer…
"An Activision Blizzard spokesperson responded to the accusations in a statement sent to PC Gamer, which claims the filing includes “distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard’s past.” It goes on to say that the DFEH was “required by law to adequately investigate and to have good faith discussions with us to better understand and to resolve any claims or concerns before going to litigation, but they failed to do so. Instead, they rushed to file an inaccurate complaint, as we will demonstrate in court.”
The Activision statement also responds specifically to the complaint’s suggestion that an employee’s death by suicide was related to harassment, saying, “We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family.”
It goes on to suggest that the filing paints an inaccurate image of Activision Blizzard as it currently stands, saying, “Over the past several years and continuing since the initial investigation started, we’ve made significant changes to address company culture and reflect more diversity within our leadership teams.”
If these allegations turn out to be true, everyone involved at Blizzard should be fired. If these allegations turn out to be false, then heads need to roll over at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
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THAT’S WHAT I SAID - can you even believe that?? I can’t believe that went to press, with all their lawyers, their PR people and all their money, I am truly shocked by this blunder.
Crazy man… seriously crazy.
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Like I said let’s see what happens. Charges are filed all the time does not mean you are guilty.
The state of California wouldn’t level these kind of charges without some kind of ironclad proof. Blizzard is screwed harder than a draenei in Goldshire. These are allegations that were still substantiated after a 2 year state investigation.
There is zero getting out of this one. Heads need to roll.
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We know the victims. They have shared their stories.
A woman does not have to out herself to be telling the truth. And women who do go public are often ostracized anyways.
The person who died is a victim. Not the people who pushed them to those measures.
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I live in Arizona and I knew this from when I was management .
Heck it was in the news years ago when it the law was passed in 2019.
It is part of the FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) .
Guess what I’ve know about that for over a decade and I knew about that while just a regular employee .
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covering up a suicide ? thats how low blizz has become. how far are you going to go to defend your blizzard? you sicko.
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This isn’t the time to make me laugh, damn it!
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Allegation: A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
Evidence is presented. The judge then decides whether the law allows such evidence to be presented.
You go to court with allegations. It is up to the prosecution to provide evidence to show that they are not baseless accusations.
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I’m still very very confused on why blizzard wouldn’t settle out of court like proposed. What drugs is the legal team on?
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Of course he was.
Ironically, him having a daughter may have been one of the nails in the coffin for his continued ongoing involvement at Blizzard.
" “We’ve heard our female employees,” he said. “And my daughter tools me out about it. She saw a World of Warcraft cinematic of the Dragon Aspects, and my daughter was like, ‘Why are they all in swimsuits?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know anymore.’” - Chris Metzen"
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Again this is where you people jump off the deep end and start making 3000 layered strawman arguments. Let me try to put this as simple as I can for you.
“suspending immediate belief of all claims until evidence is publicly accessible in order to uphold our innocent until PROVEN guilty court system is not automatically calling the accusations false”
It is simply doing the communities job in ANY legal situation…
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What kind of evidence would you personally prefer to have
Look in order for me to believe this I need the sexual harassment on video. The girl in question to be holding up two forms of ID. A police officer there, 4 or 5 of my buddies there, and Bellular taking notes. Also the dudes grand mom needs to be there to confirm his identity and action.
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Considering the allegations made, they’re probably completely blitzed on the regular.
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It means there’s enough for it to be made official, rather than just an investigation.
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These claims are likely over-exaggerated but this kind of stuff happens just about everywhere.