If you havent been paying attention to our lovely namesake you may have missed one of the numerous articles that have been circulating the "tech" sphere about sexual harassment and a "frat boy" atmosphere. This has now escalated to an "open letter" decrying Activision for saying the allegations are false. I want to make sure you read this right, company was accused, company refutes accusal, people protest company for not instantly ceding guilt. The term victims was already used in the open letter which is making me scream allegedly more than Micheal Jackson. These troglodytes dont want to make you games, they want to parasite off of the company that was supposed to make you games.
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It's not the things that are in the charging document, it's the things left out.
Like drunk "cube crawls" are talked about like they happened at 2 pm outside the HR office, or were they at 2 am after working 16 hours straight to fix release bugs? This happened in "The Office" where Jim, Andy, Karen are staying late doing work drinking. No public outcry about it because this kind of drinking happens all the time in these sweatshop overtime workplaces.
Another case somebody was inappropriate with two "inebriated women" at an convention afterhours party. Maybe they said exactly what happened, I just glanced at some excerpts, but if you're a woman getting drunk at an unofficial party -- just don't do that. Well maybe they were made to feel like they had to go get drunk to keep their jobs or something.
Like I'm sure there's substantial wrongdoing there, but I'm also sure that California has misrepresented / exaggerated parts.
It's like Dongle-gate all over again.
Either way I foresee the company settling, no one is going to jail for making a woman "feel uncomfortable" (i.e. smiling at her while ugly/fat/short).
I'm not saying that what happened is right, but am I wrong for thinking that if getting drunk with the boss is "required" for you to keep you job, then maybe this isn't a job worth keeping? Its the same with the women who slept with Weinstein, maybe starring in that lead roll just isn't worth your dignity.
I actually think in both cases, a lot of it is that these women realized that these behaviors would lead to career enhancement as opposed to keeping whatever career they already had, and were more than willing to trade sex for money, power and status (which is a story as old as time).
I also wonder if the person doing the inappropriate behavior towards the drunk women was even sober.
I suspect they figured that Blizzard is finally dead, one could claim that the SJW nonsense and oversensitive new and most likely diversity hires were to blame, but now they can say that it is do to the backlash against boy culture and is toxic masculinity that finally killed it.
Do not let a crisis go to waste.
I trust California Investigators as much as I trust KGB Investigators. All I saw from the documentation is a muddled bunch of “accusations” clearly told from only one perspective, this eliminated this being anything other than a shakedown from California in my opinion. California wants blood from the stone and they will damn sure get it.
Where are you finding them talking about specifics?
I have what someone said was the complaint, and I can't find anything specific other than their "we hate gamers so hire us into a gaming company" and "women should always be paid more and promoted before men" generic stuff.
The layoffs I believe were customer support jobs for destiny after bungie ended their publishing partnership with activision. Some things are also something that sounded like a one time thing that probably happened and got dealt with by he immediately like the drunken cube crawl. Other allegations are next to impossible to prove without it being written down somewhere. there is no way to prove that you were overlooked for promotion because of sex and race. No one admits that they are mediocre or bad at their jobs.
Eh, I've seen how this actually comes about.
1. They imply to women that software dev is where the party is happening.
2. They force the company to hire women.
3. The women show up and are like "where's the party??" and encourage men to start one. Naturally a group of women encouraging men to start a party...what do you think normal men are going to do?
4. Women want to sit back and have the party come to them, then decide if they feel like it that day or not, or want to party with those people or not, so they get the men to come to them in a way they can join or not join depending on however they're feeling that day.
I've heard a phrase "going around creating problems, so you can be called into solve them" that's pretty close to what it looks like they're doing here.
I saw this ryan long video where he talks about "just talking fast enough and constantly switching the subject so eventually you just give in and believe what I say out of exhaustion" and that's what these remind me.
If it's this one:
https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
It's literally a collection of every female-centered manipulation they could find put into one doc.
"anti rape" organizations quickly run out of easy cases and needing to justify their existence they create more and more dubious "studies" and redefinitions because they need to keep claiming they're doing something.
"anti racism" organizations also ran out of real cases and needed to justify their existence, thus the endless broadening of "racism" and fanatical promotion of fake racism incidence.
"anti sexual harrassment" organizations....yada yada yada...