Blizzard CEO Claims Systemic Harassment Accusations Made Up

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Of course he would say that :roll_eyes:
So much drama here today I’m sippin tea

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I just don’t see him staying he might for a little bit, but who knows I could be completely wrong?

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Wow a CEO trying to demonize people unionizing

Clearly the first time of this happening in history

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A leader will say anything to avoid defacement.

Do you think every single job will somehow be better if it’s unionized?

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Lollll bobby loser.
No one believes you okay.

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I’m sorry I have to eat crow here I was completely wrong. Kotick will stay if the deal doesn’t succeed. I misread the news.

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I get it no one wants to admit they were drinking breastmilk from the breakroom fridge

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Hey, Gallywix at least somewhat likable

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Complete non-sequitur. He is blaming the people who wanted to unionize for making this up which had nothing to do with the women who were accusing Blizzard or the house cleaning they did.

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You’re a good person for being honest and we have all been there with misunderstanding news articles. I blame the fact that they’re usually poorly written and I end up skimming them too much and missing things. lol

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Despite him being a horrible individual, he knew/knows how to bring in the money.

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Ahh yes, the person who called and threatened the life of an ex employee, says there is no systemic issue with harassment.

Here let me have a laugh:

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Just a remember that after the Blizzard scandal he decided to show how women friendly Activison Blizard was by hiring Jen Oneal as a co-president. It is funny that he didn’t think she could be president all by herself though. Also she ended up quitting after ACTI refused to pay her the same amount as Mike Ybarra. I wonder if that was all made up by outside forces and labor unions as well,

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First off Blizzard Entertainment doesn’t have a CEO and second he isn’t CEO of Blizzard Entertainment.

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I think the words are technically correct, but said in the wrong spirit. There was problems at Blizzard, and there is a lot of documented cases of it. Bobby is leaning on the word “systemic” and using a rigid definition that their number of serious HR cases doesn’t meet. They still had a lot of nonsense go on for too long, and he dang well knows that. I think this minimizing language is a bad look. Better to just let the issue die, commenting on it again is stirring it all up again.

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I wonder how much Variety got paid for this obviously biased take.

Did bobbi put this deal in motion to get out of not getting paid his bonuses? I seem to remember him bragging up a storm how his compensation was changing. I also seem to remember a clause about ‘if the company is in negotiation for sale’ he gets the full bonuses.

Also the California state employees pension is heavily invested into acti-blizz. That pension is already wobbling and bobbis behavior may risk their pensions.

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Some of the most serious cases were at Activision. Also he blames the labor unions.

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Thanks for bringing this one to our attention.

It’s hard to believe that one of his proofs was he still has famous friends.

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omg, what a lying sack.

Boo, Bobby! Boooooo.

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