Yeah, but that's actually really stupid for the vast majority of workers. It's to the advantage of the rank and file employees to know what other employees make. It gives them leverage.
The only people who lose out are the ones who are on the beneficial side of unequal pay. Check your privilege.
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Exactly this.
For Employees, there is really nothing to lose if you know how much your colleagues are making. Companies should have a clear explanation for every position level and additional task and why person X is making more or less than person Y. But that's always is an easier way to make it hidden, so you don't have to explain. Maybe I am wrong, but as much I know in Norway there everyone must know how much colleagues are making by law.
So, I'm all for the accusers side. I'd like to believe them and it's seemingly obvious even to me from an outside perspective, even before this case, that upper management is toxic.
But holy shit, why is no one concerned that Bloomberg, Kotaku, and California are blatantly misleading people with misinformation?
Isn't it the woke thing to do to shame people for spreading misinformation? Or is this an exception because it's their team?
- Bloomberg specifically with the paragraph about the girl who took her life and saying it was due to intense harassment at work.
- California specifically implying it was named the Cosby suite because of Afrasabi's behavior.
- Kotaku specifically only showing one page, with no context, of a very likely multiple page group chat.
These people are genuinely just making it harder for people to come forward in the future and being believed and people should be pissed about it.
Last edited by Mojo03; 2021-07-29 at 06:41 AM.
That's extremely hard to find two employees with the exact same profile, exact same experience, exact same job, exact same strengths... So to justify one is paid less because she has ovaries is usually over-exaggerated.
Simple - if women were paid less at Blizzard while doing EXACTLY the same job, I can guarantee you the Blizzard's employees would be 99% females as Blizzard (as all multi-billion companies) only aim at making money. So why would they even hire men, who apparently are paid more for the same job ?
No, it’s not the ‘woke’ thing to do. It takes one second of googling to understand what ‘woke’ actually means. And it’s not that. Using misinformation is not exclusive to any one political belief. The right use it ALL day but they ain’t called woke for doing it. Otherwise we’d be calling Trump ‘woke’. And literally every bad faith poster in this forum ‘woke’. And so on.
The whole Cosby suite thing is 70/30 for me. Only because I find it hard to imagine someone would happily want to be associated with that name, but at the same time, people are fucking weird and sick.
It's not what we "believe" what we suspected and just needed the few pieces of the remaining evidence. Sexual harassment at their conventions were known in 2012. Glassdoor had some eye opening reviews of the work place quads that showed it was literally all about penises (yes!). People talked. Just people didn't connect the dots.
Blizzard simply said too many lies over the years, that people simply can't trust WHAT they state anymore.
There's PLENTY of reasons why...
"One ex-Blizzard source familiar with the people presented in the pictures identified an HR representative as one of the Blizzard employees present in the hotel room."
https://kotaku.com/inside-blizzard-d...ite-1847378762
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
At this point I really, really do not understand why Jay Allen Brack, Ion Hazzikostas, Jesse McCree and Cory Stockton haven't written resignation letters.
Do they really think people will want to see their faces, hear their voices come next BlizzCon or online presentation? Are they that tone deaf?
Last edited by Voidwielder; 2021-07-29 at 07:07 AM.
Holy fuck that picture is creepy as shit, it is like they had their very own shrine where they worship their sexual harassment God...
As BellularGaming said, the Gaming industry more and more looks like "Sex, Drugs, RocknRoll" Even looking at old Blizzard photos from their first game making. Those were geeks, possibly socially aquitard persons. They got famous, a lot of money, and their mental problems just grew. And looks like none controlled them and this was just fostering till last week's explosion.
You do realise that it’s not hard when you’re in and around the entertainment industry to know things way before the ‘public’ does, right? Or maybe you do. Oh well. No time to argue with people who label everything ‘woke’ as a dismissal for their inability to negotiate basics in their head.