Wait, she approached them wearing a T-Shirt that said “Penetration Expert” on the front and “When was the last time you were PENETRATED…” on the back.
In what world does her company think those T-Shirts are in any way appropriate for a professional workplace?
She wore that shirt in front of them and then got angry about them making jokes about it?
The article also says that she “…was furious and felt humiliated so [she] took the free swag and left.” Like, that’s what you do to the company that humiliated you? You just take some of the free stuff they’re offering to spite them?
Oh and get this, she didn’t say anything at the time because, she “didn’t feel comfortable saying anything to anyone at the time because [she] was a single mom who needed a job, and [she] didn’t want to do anything that may have jeopardized my chances of landing a new job.”
Oh, my bleeding heart!
That is the go-to story, isn’t it? This whole thing is by-the-book.
And then they go on to talk about Blizzard’s reaching out to Sagitta HPC to hire for security work. The CEO is told about this whole story and the fool believes it and then says this to Blizzard:
“Now, rather than dismiss you and tell you that we will not do business with you, we’d like to give Blizzard the opportunity to redeem themselves. We are committed to combating inequality, and I am calling on Blizzard to do the same. As you may or may not know, today is International Women’s Day. And in honor of this day, we are attaching a few conditions if Blizzard wishes to do business with us:
Condition #1: Blizzard will be charged a 50% “misogyny tax”, the proceeds of which will be donated to Women in Technology International, Girls in Tech, and Girls Who Code.
Condition #2: Blizzard will become a Gold Sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2017 conference.
Condition #3: A formal letter of apology from the Blizzard C-suite addressed to my COO, along with verification that all employees have undergone equal opportunity and sexual harassment training in 2017 Q1.”
The funniest part about all of this is that Blizzard said they’d be happy to let this guy talk to their lawyers and he immediately backs out.
What else did he expect would happen?
Also note that this supposedly all happened in 2015 and there’s not a single video, photo, or recording to corroborate any of this. And this also happened the year after the whole #GamerGate fiasco of 2014.