Most corporations seem to actually care a little bit how their employees conduct themselves, especially regarding things which reflect somehow on the company. Blizzard seems indifferent to the point they couldn’t care less.
I don’t have the impression that Blizzard employees and higher ups have any respect for their own selves and each other, let alone their customers.
Word. I worked for 15 years in the Legal Industry myself. There is a certain level of animalistic rage which a human being experiences when you finally track them down, and serve them with papers that they have been intentionally ignoring in the mail for months. Especially if they change addresses and hide. But it does make you feel a bit gleeful when you catch your quarry.
My name? It’s Fett. Boba Fett.
Let’s be real about this for a minute, though – if there were a job where you could tell customers who are being sucky that they are being sucky, wouldn’t you want it?
I feel like this angle is more of an argument in Blizzard’s favor than it is against it. If someone’s being awful, I’d like to see them called out on it, personally.
It is a very common practice now. Its way many big companies ask you for all your social media accounts . In job alone, since January 10 people have been seperated because of social media posts
I did once tell a craps player to go copulate with themselves.
I was fired three days later after the internal investigation.
I think they are taking closer looks now since they can use that as a reason to let more people go. This past mass firing was only the first wave . These things happen in multiple waves .
You are 100% correct in fact most states have " at will " employment and can fire any employee they want to for any reason outside of EEOC protections of which violations of are very hard to prove. I have hired employees and disciplined employees and peoples private facebook, twitter etc are monitored and reported on usually by your co workers. If your employers believe your post affects them in even the smallest way you will be made to delete the post and depending on the severity of the post will be disciplined up to and including termination. If you want a troll account to use to complain about your job or customers or ranting in general to an audience for some type of recognition, make a fake profile and don’t hang your picture up.
I disagree but whatever happens, happens. The tweet wasn’t even that bad.
Activision / Blizzard has been in charge since 2008.
You are mistaken a personal account for a private account. Many a person has lost their job for what has been said on social media. Ask Rosann Barr.
I think there’s a bit of subtle difference between telling someone being awful that they’re being awful and going straight to… well, that.
I had my job threatened because a client said i rolled my eyes and sighed at them. What did I do? I was trying not to cough.
I don’t subscribe to the “well this is how it’s always been done” approach. I don’t care how other jobs handle things. Was he wrong? no. Are people overreacting? Yeah lol.
I’ll save my pitchfork for when I need it. Not just because everyone else is doing it
Who cares? It’s his personal account.
Have you ever seen a drunk guy playing craps?
I’m guessing no, because I told him that after he forced his way behind the table and tried to punch me. If security hadn’t intervened I would have knocked him smooth out.
Still got fired, and still have no sympathy for Tech Bros who think they deserve “better treatment”.
I would like to point out, on the social media policy structures many companies employ, that it’s slightly different in a company where their main source of exposure is through the internet, than for companies with first person exposure. Internet based companies have very little in the way of personal, face-to-face methods of regulating their image.
With many companies who have social media policies, their primary exposure is either first person customer service, or it has been in the past, to such a point that they’ve built up a certain reputation. That reputation is something they acknowledge can be damaged by social media, and thus their policies to contend with that issue.
Gaming companies don’t have that personal touch. They don’t build their reputation any other way then through the internet by which they function.
I’m sure i could call everyone I work with an ahole too on my PERSONAL Facebook page.
You don’t think I’d get a talking to or fired over doing something like that?!
You bet I would! And it’s not even close to the scale that said CM and Blizzard are.
Activision has been pretty hands off of blizzard until recently . Once they started putting their own execs in top posistion at Blizzard, things drastically changed. Now Brack who is a Bobby Kottick lap dog is in charge at Blizzard.
Well, that would be nice if they did give their image more thought. I think they should.
There is no such thing as a personal account anymore . Not unless you make a account with a alias and do not link it to your account .
This is why I abstain from it. To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi:
“You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
If Blizzard wants to speak to me, they have GMs, Patch Notes, and Email. They can also have my Discord too if they want to chill and shoot the breeze ever.