Just thought I’d share this:
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/activision-blizzard-has-hired-a-legal-firm-known-for-union-busting-to-investigate-sexual-harassment-claims-3006266
I suspect that things won’t be getting better for the rank and file employees at Blizzard any time soon.
When you think it can’t get worse (even if some statements seem a bit exaggerated in this article).
These madmen are really going straight for the core… The reputation of this firm already bodes ill, and truth be told I do not expect much from this.
This seems like as much as one would expect from Bobby.
Hardly surprising, when Ion was working in the said firm. Going to be exciting to see their “renewed policies”
it feels like Blizzard are playing Russian Roulette but every chamber is loaded, but they just keep on pulling the damn trigger
russian roulette but it’s with a minigun and every chamber is loaded considering how much and often new things have come out
the russian roulette comes in as some chambers in the minigun are loaded with actual bombs
But how does one hold a minigun against their temple, especially one loaded with bombs?
I don’t think you gotta aim for the temple for the minigun to be effective really.
And since this is just an allegory, you could say they were basically just staring down the barrel. Use some kinda app to press the trigger idk, I’m sure there’s some found in the US for that purpose.
probably a mobile app
With an entire fraternity, all together, of course
“We’ll get through this… Together.”
You hear a minigun start spinning.
They misunderstood the rules and blew up the Vatican.
wait did i miss some reference
did i make a reference
I feel like the WoW team is hiding more than they know, for good reason of self preservation. I think a majority of them must have known throughout the years. Where I work if something similar happens the gossip runs wild in an instant, and from what we know the issue was very widespread in the company. I think practically everyone has known something of the culture there at least on some echelons; which is explained in the written letter to Blizzard and the lawsuit in general. Seeing them all acting surprised and attempting to wash their hands of it does not appear entirely innocent to me and I think further investigation into the teams themselves needs to happen.
I started thinking of this again since more surfaced about Ghostcrawler and his involvement with the Cosby stuff – having previously tactically decided not mention that. He and the others were far more involved than previously thought, so who else? People know more than they are letting on and attempting to wash their hands of it. The higher ups all knew what was happening and quietly tried to prepare for the coming lawsuit and I think a good chunk of the teams have as well. I imagine a lot of them did know, but failed to act on it out of fear for their jobs, financial issues, complicity, simple avoidance etc. We know a good few tried to report this to HR but it went nowhere, that means a lot knew and a few in that group tried to do something by pure ratio at the very least.
It is understandable some departments could have been out of the loop, the very side lines of Blizzard like QA. But business and development definitely understood the culture and what was going on, and it’s roots in the teams. It must have been such a problem that simply firing a couple of guys wouldn’t fix it. This is very much explained in the lawsuit and it isn’t just a problem on the ‘top’ of the business.
While it’s nice they’ve all gone out for their corporate mandated two minutes of hate (as the union busters look on behind them with glaring disgust), I feel like it’s to save face and quickly distance themselves before people find out they could have been complicit through action or inaction. 100% many social media profile purges have been going on as we speak.
I think a lot of them are really saying now this has all been exposed to the public eye, they now have an opportunity to strike without fear of reprisal from Acti-Blizz. rather than acting shocked this has been going on obliviously. They can use the baying mob to force change.
So damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Well, no. I just don’t like the idea of Blizzard placing their collective guilt on one man as a korban. There are those in the community that are pushing that guilt onto a few and lionizing the other ‘good ones’ as a coping mechanism I feel. The rabbit hole is evidently deeper than they’re letting on; especially as more things come to light.
On today’s episode “I didn’t know it could get worse”…
https://twitter.com/waypoint/status/1421106742381924352
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aq4vv/blizzard-recruiters-asked-hacker-if-she-liked-being-penetrated-at-job-fair
They really should consider going into the grave digging business, but then I’ve heard you’re not supposed to dig too deep.
Edit:
There’s a double entendre for y’all.
Expect more and more and more and more of these sorts of stories to get prominence as the case draws it. Tip of the iceberg and all that.
…Good grief. At first it started like “yeah, pretty much every woman-in-tech story I’ve heard in my circles” and then it spiraled into “too disgusting even by those stories’ standards”.