The guy writing a two page stalker-esque letter about being so incredibly in love with a woman who had just started at the company to the point he was borderline suicidal, and then handing it to her, is another fine addendum.
If the thread is to be believed, he works at Riot now as an art lead.
https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-activision-blizzards-week-of-reckoning
A source who has since departed Blizzard talked about how the room designated for breastfeeding didn’t have locks. “Men would walk into the breastfeeding room. There was no way to lock the door. They would just stare and I would have to scream at them to leave.” IGN understands that breastfeeding rooms have since been updated, with locks added to doors.
My hopes, if they can be called even that, were vaguely set at “do not get even worse.” Damn that was low, and yet.
You have to be a special kind of pathetic to do something like that. It would have been unbelievable, had he not pleaded guilty. The absolute state of this company.
So everyone, you think they found the Balrog yet? These guys are digging deeper and more greedily than the dwarves of Moria…
Physically ill at this point.
But there was more.
But of course there was.
Please make it stop.
I can tuck you in and tell you a bedtime story.
That “love letter” makes me retch with disgust. It’s beyond creepy and genuinely scary.
I despise people like that with a passion.
This is just going to keep going, isn’t it?
Good. Bring it all out. All of it. Give the employees every single last piece of ammunition they can get to bring those responsible to justice, and to bring change to the company.
It’s horrifying to read, but also encouraging - the more that comes out, the harder it will get to brush it back under the rug.
I haven’t seen this. Do you have a link?
The toilet-filming is slightly different, as the person was also sentenced and such, though it does speak to the ongoing abuse people have faced at Blizzard even if the perpetrators have been caught in those rare cases HR doesn’t brush it aside.
However, the two stalking-obsession stories (the other is in the Twitter thread I believe) are just gross and horrifying. It seems like generally misogynistic culture was prevalent in the workplace, which is bewildering to me how long it could’ve lasted while Blizzard during Blizzcon and elsewhere puts out supportive statements or events. I can’t imagine how the victims must’ve felt during those events, knowing they were and might still have been abused and the company touts itself as a safe haven for minorities.
Oh totally. It brings back some really unpleasant memories. People who do this sort of thing are dangerous.
And they’ve been allowed to run rampant in Blizzard for who knows how long. Sure they found out this guy but who’s to say there wasn’t more who figured they were being a bit too on the nose?
It’s like each passing day it becomes more and more obvious this has been a systemic problem that won’t change unless the whole carpet is pulled up from under them.
I dunno man that letter was clearly written by a certified Nice Guy 
What could possibly be wrong with that?
Riot was apparently warned about his behaviour and hired him anyway.
They probably liked what they heard tbh, considering their own reputation…
Wonder if the GD chodes consider filming women in the toilets to be just harmless flirting too. 