Yah it is all a part of a systemic problem coming from within blizzard themselves as a company. To the point where all the managers, and al the higher ups, president, etc. EVeryone all values the same harrasment values.
Like seriously. Feels like everyone in the positions that are supposed to be promoting good behavior, all support promoting bad behavior. It suppresses anyone below in little to no power, and creates a sexist mysonynistic agenda. Creating a monopoly against anyone who disagrees with the the higer ups are doing.
This is insane lol. California law firms came in and investigated because they had reasonable suspicion that the company was not doing things by the code of honor of the government and all that, and have enough evidence to present a case in court and sued blizzard. Like i cannot get over that lol.
I just wonder when it started. Are we gonna get people coming forward from like 1999 to 2004 that are like, yah this is a awesome company. Including females at the company in that time frame. And then from like 2009 forward, the documentation from the workers saying it promotes sexism and horrible behavior. I would be curious what the pattern is.
I wonder what kind of response people who say stuff like this are expecting. How socially inept do you really have to be to think of this in your head and say it out loud thinking it’s going to be a good thing?
The story is that in 2015 at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas Blizzard had a recruitment booth in the “Career Zone” section of the vendor area.
A female currently employed as a senior vulnerability researcher at large security consulting firm on a contract bases approached the Blizzard booth and asked about the penetration testing position. She was a Diablo player as well as a security expert and was interested.
A Blizzard employee asked if she was lost, another one asked if she was at the conference with her boyfriend, and another one asked if she even knew what pentesting was.
One of them then asked her when was the last time she was personally penetrated, if she liked being penetrated, and how often she got penetrated.
And yes she was wearing the “Penetration Expert” shirt, I did mention this was at a Black Hat conference?
Other women who had approached the Blizzard booth also clamed that they were not taken seriously. Only girls and all that you know.
I don’t get the focus on the t-shirt and the remarks about it in this thread ignoring the context. If the story is true and Blizzard actually sent idiots of this caliber to represent them at this venue, the integrity and professionalism of the company certainly looks suspect.
yes I got that out of the article too, but in another section it says she was an unemployed mother (oops can’t call them mothers now - unemployed ‘birthing person’) so I am really confused about her employment status when this happened.
At job fair, yeah I absolutely expect them to not behave like a high schooler. They are at work. Professional behavior should not only be expected it should be required.
why do a tiny group of people get to change a word from mother to something totally offensive to most mothers though? I don’t understand that. You have reduced that role to straight biological function - I don’t understand why that was allowed. It is akin to calling a woman a ‘body part’ and we know you can’t go around doing that.
Did anyone ask mother’s if they were okay with that?
No, this isn’t a “Well look at what she was wearing! Her skirt is only 2 inches below her thigh! situation.” Her shirt may as well have said ask me if I…
Dressing for the job you want doesn’t mean the same thing for every job or every circumstance.
Perhaps things have changed since my retirement but:
Wearing a suit and tie when you go to a corporate HQ in most companies to apply for a marketing position is mandatory or you won’t be taken seriously.
Wearing a suit and tie at a Black Hat hacker event to apply for a job doing security probes guarantees you won’t be taken seriously.
No, I don’t know of any position where a tank top would work
Politics, politics, politics.
We can hope it’s a passing fad.
If you’ve read 1984 we all hope it isn’t the beginning of Newspeak; but language is power.
