This is different than a single lawyer filing a suit in court. This is an official action by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing. They actually have quite extensive materials that go over their process for determining that a case has worth, performing a lengthy investigation, offering mediation and arbitration, and only then do they go to court if the findings are egregious enough and the mediation fails!
There’s a link at the bottom to the “Employment Complaint Process”. On that flowchart, we are currently on the second to last step, “Prosecution by DFEH in Court”.
Those are a lot of steps that a case needs to go through before we’re here.
Whats interesting about this is that Fran Townsend is a new hire, has only been in a high executive position. Her opinion on the matter really isnt going to be accurate compared to a woman or man that is beneath the management that have been sexually harassing them. She wouldn’t really have any clue whats going on in the offices at Blizzard for the people in lower positions, people always put on an act when a big name executive is around, plus covid has been a thing the whole time shes been at blizzard, and most people arent even at the offices right now. Her statement doesn’t really have any weight, and on top of all that multiple current employees at blizzard have publicly stated that the statements made by the executives dont speak for everyone at the company, and that they disagree with what they have been saying.
Are you suggesting the California AG’s office signed off on a lawsuit completely devoid of evidence? I find that hard to believe. You do realize if the accusations made in the release don’t have evidence behind them that will hold up in court, the Cali AG’s office just committed defamation, yes?
But please, take the person whose sole responsibility is PR damage control at face value.
No clue why people are rushing to defend Blizzard on this.
From Blizzard’s own initial response (likely also written by Townsend):
“We have been extremely cooperative with the DFEH throughout their investigation, including providing them with extensive data and ample documentation.”
Also take a gander at the DFEH process and how many checkpoints a case needs to pass before it actually gets to court under the “Employment Complaint Flowchart” link at the bottom:
The source: a Bush-era presidential appointee who worked to justify torture by American military. People who were aware of this were surprised to hear she had been hired by a company with a public image to maintain. Some of us figured it was a matter of being friends with the right people to shmooze your way into a highly paid job.
Out of curiosity, and not solely directed toward you for an answer - what were Fran Townsend’s views or rather, involvement with the WMD in Iraq ordeal, and the patriot act?
I prefer one that looks at facts and presents evidence to back up claims, rather then she said something happened so grab the pitchforks, and if the courts dismiss it then it’s because they are corrupt.
Kind of ironic to see this accusation in 2021 when Clinton was president in 1992. For a more recent example of similar allegations, you need only look at the most recent Republican president. It’s typical of the same far-right hypocrisy that we saw in Blizzard’s responses to try and paint sexual harassment as the degenerate leftist MO when their side has been on the wrong side of that issue far more often than the left.
You didn’t prove me wrong what lmao you made claims that turned out to be false, than moved the goalposts with different claims and then those also turned out to be false, and then stopped responding to the conversation.
It’s pretty obvious you just have some
Issues with women and are trying to excuse it with faulty logic.
Not really. I personally used a gold token as I said would to come back in 9.1 to see if I would find the game fun again.
The reality is, I actually did and had every intention to keep playing.
But, things change, and currently every Blizzard product, including the launcher, has been uninstalled for the first time since 2005. I still have 20 something days to play left on my token, but I won’t be making use of it aside from coming to the forums to watch Blizzard shills defend sexual harassment.
Nothing you said has anything to do with what you quoted. Its a simple fact that a 2 year investigation does not encompass the entire 2 years.
Also, thats not a lot of checkpoints. Its literally 4-5 things before the last resort is judgement by court. You probably just looked at the chart, seen all the boxes and then posted what you did.
You are just looking for anything to support your claim of guilty and everyone should think guilty because my dubious reasoning. No, its still a claim and allegation. In fact they are supposed to investigate what you submitted.