Domination Socket Set Bonus Nerfs, Blizzard Employees Stage Walk Out

This is what happens when every child grows up thinking they're special. You're not, we're all just low ends on the totem pole.

Sorry, but life isn't fair.

And all this is is a publicity stunt and will result in nothing. "Staging" a walkout is just beyond fucking stupid. All that is is a cry for attention, positive, negative, toxic, it doesn't matter. Just fucking crying.

Want to make a stance that Blizzard will acknowledge and respond to? Just walk out right now, don't wait, don't set up a time to do it together, get up, grab your shit, and walk the fuck out.

Be a fucking baby about it will never get you the results you want, you have to take a risk and stand up for what you believe. Not pander to bullshit like this and make a play date with other co-workers.

Originally Posted by agentsi

Want to make a stance that Blizzard will acknowledge and respond to? Just walk out right now, don't wait, don't set up a time to do it together, get up, grab your shit, and walk the fuck out.

Be a fucking baby about it will never get you the results you want, you have to take a risk and stand up for what you believe. Not pander to bullshit like this and make a play date with other co-workers.

The argument that single action is in anyway stronger or more effective than collective action is manifestly incorrect.

Personal responsibility and solutions to systemic issues is an insidious lie peddled by the powerful to maintain that power.

Originally Posted by uuuhname

unionize, for god sakes unionize.

Yeah pretty much the only way to accomplish anything. The MLB has to deal with shitty umpires like Angel Hernandez for example, because the umpires in MLB are unionized, which means MLB can’t get rid of him. All they can do is prevent him from appearing in certain big games like the World Series and All Star Game.

The Walk out is a good way to get the higher ups and upper management that they wont stand for this anymore. It's sending a message and it's even got a lot of the people who are still playing their games to also not play tomorrow. Very happy people are standing up for whats right instead of staying silent.

Disgusting, cali is full of self entitled children. This will only screw over the people who can't walk out and risk their jobs, the ones with kids and a family. I swear ever twitter I look at is a single person or married to another employee.

They'll all just go home and play wow

Originally Posted by OokOok

They'll all just go home and play wow

as opposed to management being in the building and playing CoD?

"Wait wait wait, did we just accidentally add something that players actually LIKED to the game?!"

"ALL HANDS PLY TO LACTATION ROOM! FUN PROXIMITY ALERT! FULL ABORT FULL ABORT I REPEAT FULL ABORT! UNMAKE IT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!"

Originally Posted by Dch48

I saw nothing wrong with the company's official response. From a legal standpoint, they have to deny and cast doubt. These kinds of allegations are often frivolous, exaggerated, and ultimately disproven. Complainers should not always automatically be believed. A walkout? What a bunch of snowflakes. If found to be true, then steps should be taken. That hasn't happened yet.

Your aware this is not an isolated case but a 2 year long investigation by the state after receiving multiple complaints right?

Have you read the actual statements and alleged actions taken against these women who have come forward?

Originally Posted by xxdprussxx

If your unhappy with your employer theres nothing stopping them to find a better work place that will treat them properly

Always someone making excuses for the scum of the world...they shouldn't have to look for another job, they should feel safe at their job. Just another example of victim blaming.

Walkouts generally only achive one thing - gaining fruther attention to your cause. Just to be clear, thats a GOOD thing for them, but obviously a walkout has little impact on anything, other than trying to gain some mainstream media attention.

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Originally Posted by Dch48

I saw nothing wrong with the company's official response. From a legal standpoint, they have to deny and cast doubt. These kinds of allegations are often frivolous, exaggerated, and ultimately disproven. Complainers should not always automatically be believed. A walkout? What a bunch of snowflakes. If found to be true, then steps should be taken. That hasn't happened yet.

So you think its acceptable for representatives of the company to openly blame the PLAYERS, their paying customers and fans, for their own personal inhouse behaviour?

This walkout is largely a PR stunt with the apparently additional goal of focusing as little on the actual issues at their company and instead promoting other bullshit. Check the four points in their statement of intent, the first one addresses what they actually have an issue with and the other three are all demands that have nothing to do with the lawsuit and clearly are not about making the company a better place and are just massive assumptions on their part as they don't have that data (even the lawsuit stated as such).

Originally Posted by Darknessvamp

This walkout is largely a PR stunt with the apparently additional goal of focusing as little on the actual issues at their company and instead promoting other bullshit. Check the four points in their statement of intent, the first one addresses what they actually have an issue with and the other three are all demands that have nothing to do with the lawsuit and clearly are not about making the company a better place and are just massive assumptions on their part as they don't have that data (even the lawsuit stated as such).

I don't know man, spitting into the eye of your boss is one weird PR stunt. And I checked the four points, they seem quite relevant and definitely something that would make the place better? And it's not the employees suing the company. I'd imagine they have a bit better grasp at the way they are treated.

If you're actually looking for a change,either unionise or break into the executives' offices and slaughter them. Those are the two things that work here. Especially unionising as it can be replicated in other companies on a national scale in order to strongarm employers into improving the conditions of their workers(granted,murder of higher-ups can also be replicated,but that gets messy).

This is just a pointless PR stunt that will accomplish nothing. They could even all quit their jobs entirely and Activision-Blizzard would have filled their spots again after two weeks tops,as employees are nothing short than a ressource to the higher ups.

Things will never change as long as americans are afraid of trade unions

Originally Posted by Darknessvamp

This walkout is largely a PR stunt

Exactly. Its only 4 hours - its a long lunch... lol

They (and many other IT-type shops) need a union.

Originally Posted by Chakah

Exactly. Its only 4 hours - its a long lunch... lol

Honestly sounds like they had to ask above if they were allowed to walk out,and they were told "alright,but back to work after 4 hours" and they didn't question it

Originally Posted by ONCHEhap

Things will never change as long as americans are afraid of trade unions

One might postulate that is an engineered outcome of a ner hundred year-long PR campaign perpetrated by those in power to keep and maintain power.

Originally Posted by Garymorilix

crawling under cubicles

Not sure if you meant to troll, but just in case - They aren't accused of crawling under cubicles (e.g. 'upskirting') - they are talking about getting drunk and walking thru the cube area being social. Think 'pub crawl'.

Originally Posted by Saltysquidoon

One might postulate that is an engineered outcome of a ner hundred year-long PR campaign perpetrated by those in power to keep and maintain power.

Funny all the nasty tricks a country can pull off in the name of the "fight against communism"
Almost as if the whole thing has been an excuse to fuck the little man over from the start

Wow, I guess we were just having too much fun with a mass exodus to FF XIV, delays to 9.1, shit story, shit expansions, and all that fuckin' abuse. Might as well nerf the gear we'll be saving up for all patch.

That'll fucking keep those subscribers attached to the game, eh?

Originally Posted by Santti

I don't know man, spitting into the eye of your boss is one weird PR stunt. And I checked the four points, they seem quite relevant and definitely something that would make the place better? And it's not the employees suing the company. I'd imagine they have a bit better grasp at the way they are treated.

A four hour walkout with an intent that largely doesn't focus on their issues at their workplace alongside a social media campaign that has the additional goal of feeding funds towards questionable 'charities'? Sounds like a PR stunt to me.

1.An end to mandatory arbitration clauses in all employee contracts, current and future. Arbitration clauses protect abusers and limit the ability of victims to seek restitution.

The first point in their Statement of Intent actually addresses a problem they're having in their current contracts that is related to the alleged misconduct so it makes sense why it's there.

2. The adoption of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and promotion policies designed to improve representation among employees at all levels, agreed upon by employees in a company-wide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion organization. Current practices have led to women, in particular women of color and transgender women, nonbinary people, and other marginalized groups that are vulnerable to gender discrimination not being hired fairly for new roles when compared to men.

The second is literally a demand for a diversity quota along the lines of sex, race and gender with a major assumption about how hiring and applications work at the company which even the lawsuit stated they don't have any numbers that show that to back up their own similar assumption regarding just female employee hiring. Also adopting a diversity quota isn't going to fix their problems in house and even has the potential to just add as many bad apples as they assume good ones.

3. Publication of data on relative compensation (including equity grants and profit sharing), promotion rates, and salary ranges for employees of all genders and ethnicities at the company. Current practices have led to aforementioned groups not being paid or promoted fairly.

The third point literally states they want the data published because they are assuming they're not being paid or promoted fairly but they don't know that which is why they want it published in the hope it fits their assumption which they don't know if it is correct and so- Basically they don't know and it has nothing to do with making the company better.

4. Empower a company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion task force to hire a third party to audit ABK's reporting structure, HR department, and executive staff. It is imperative to identify how current systems have failed to prevent employee harassment, and to propose new solutions to address these issues.

And the fourth point is they want job positions for a bunch of D&I Czars who have oversight and power over the other systems (HR, Executives and ABK) and can just throw funds at a nebulous third party to make suggestions on how they can 'be better'. This definitely isn't a point to make the company a better place if they want to consolidate that much power in one such fickle group that exists to just be paid and act as the hindsight committee that doesn't do anything.