Here’s the brief, in case anyone’s interested:
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"The agency alleges male employees play video games during the workday while delegating responsibilities to female employees, engage in sexual banter, and joke openly about rape, among other things.
Female employees allege being held back from promotions because of the possibility they might become pregnant, being criticized for leaving to pick their children up from daycare, and being kicked out of lactation rooms so male colleagues could use the room for meetings, the complaint says.
Female employees working for the World of Warcraft team noted that male employees and supervisors would hit on them, make derogatory comments about rape, and otherwise engage in demeaning behavior, the agency alleges."
and the knighting continues…
I’m just trying to make very, very sure this is real before I start going like:
Because this would explain quite a few things…
Jesus Blizzard…
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Yeah yeah yeah
Youre like the 7th person to say the exact same thing to me on this thread.
Can people start to read the whole thread to avoid duplicating replies
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Too many reputable sources for it to be a hoax.
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What HR department?!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA
Heh, ha ha…heh
I made myself feel bad.
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Maybe the reason why they have to keep saying it, is because they’re trying to drive that fact into your brain but your skull is too thick for them to do it in one try.
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Jesus. That’s terrible. And of COURSE it was allowed to slide. Bros before… etc.
I’m really glad I cancelled my sub a few months back.
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Well now I know why crap don’t get done
“pervasive frat boy workplace culture,” including “cube crawls,” in which male employees “drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees.”
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/looks through thread. Nope, still didn’t see you reply anything intelligently to these points.
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I agree with you on everything except “the only people who should be fired are the ones engaging in this type of behavior”. With harassment and workplace abuse it’s important to keep in mind the Management sets the tone. If they harass their underlings, their underlings will feel safe harassing others. Likewise if the managers see people groping coworkers and don’t start handing out punishments immediately the culture will spread.
If there is a manager who 1) did not know what was happening, 2) did not engage in any sexual harassment, 3) and has a reasonable explanation for why they weren’t aware of this culture, then sure keep them in power. Everyone else? Clear out and start sexual harassment training annually for everyone left over like all of us in Banking have to do.
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It means there is proof of misconduct. That’s how State agencies work. This isn’t hearsay from an civilian law suit, this a government agency.
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I’ve yet to see one back to me either
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lol.
In their defense…this crap IS ‘normal’ in this day and age.
I wondered why so many women seemed to be getting louder and louder the last couple years. I chalked it up to politics.
this aint politics…
The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says.
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You probably aren’t wrong with all the people Blizzard has laid off.
Protecting the company from stuff like this is the essential function of HR departments, especially in friendly labor states like CA.
When I was getting my degree, I was really hoping to go into game art- but friends already in the industry told me no way- it’s a boys club- they will make your life miserable. So, sadly, this does not surprise me.
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We’re just trying to understand your reasoning, because to everyone else a 2 year investigation done by a California state department means it’s not just one individual claiming something and suing through a private law firm. The state doesn’t bring charges against a billion dollar corporation that brings significant employment and revenue into the state without substantial evidence to back it, ie. they’re 1000% sure it’s a slam dunk case.
Do you disagree with this assessment?
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Not surprising.
No one virtue signals unless they’ve got lots of skeletons to hide.
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The sick part is Ive known women who would gang up with the men in the company to demean other women employees.
I cant even describe one instance that comes to mind here without surely getting the post removed and maybe the thread shut down.
Ive never seen anything like it…but I will say that clothes were torn off and I saw things that Ive only seen in bad movies prior to that.
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