Ironically the company I mentioned with paid overtime was actually a big gaming company.
Truth be told the opportunities to advance were extremely limited and generally not done by merit but by relationships or playing the outlasting game, hence why many people were quite unfit for their positions and why I left without looking back.
GC's response seemed reasonable. It's sad people are trying to pigeonhole him into a position of guilt.
It's sickening to use phrases like "he should have known" and "he should have done" and use that as evidence of a crime
Even if he did know, I doubt that anyone posting on this website would be some paragon of virtue and out every single workplace issue they see, especially if they are in a seemingly coveted job position. (spoiler alert, they wouldn't).
It's because he himself is professing that he's above it and that he is now fingerwagging other trivial shit Blizzard colleagues did (that wasn't sexual harassment or abuse) in order to save his own hide.
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It wasn't directed at you. I was explaining why I linked that.
For me personally I'm not really sure as to whether people knew pre 2014 or didn't know pre 2014. Post 2014 it should've been seen as clearly not awesome, but then sometimes people say edgy shit to be funny. So it's why I don't really put much stock in the Cosby suite thing. It could've just been edgy behaviour.
However, all that said...
1. By wording it as 'she claims to be a victim', there's a perceived implication that you think it didn't happen.
2. It's further complicated by you saying 'naturally because she's a woman'. So if a guy said this, it would be suspicious?
What she's saying is correct in her other tweets. She didn't KNOW that what was a drinking party would involve Afrasiabi being a fucking creep. If the room could've been called 'The Unicorn Hideout' and what Afrasiabi did happened, then what? She would've had no forewarning that 'Unicorn is code sexually inappropriate behaviour by the hands of Alex Afrasiabi'. People need to realise that if sexually inappropriate behaviour, across a broad range of 1-10 in bad to worst happen, it happened. You don't need a room to be named something to strengthen or weaken the possibility of it happening.
The fact that people are dying on this hill is so fucking dumb and misses the entire point. 'BUT HER EMAILS!'
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Alleged sexual harassment.
Alleged is the key word here. So far the only thing that seems to be true is the party that Afrasiabi attended. How much of that was really true in the end will be seen. The biggest problem here seems to be that every single accusation is lacking context. Making a joke is not harassment, trying to kiss someone at a party who doesn´t want that is...yet we know nothing of the supposed “victims”. How many? Who? Where they going along with it of did they say no?
The Bloomberg article was written like a hit piece and does not reflect the actual wording in the lawsuit very well. And Kotaku is a joke no one reads anyway. People should relax and actually wait what comes out in court before jumping to conclusions.
Salary is an agreed annual rate generally dispensed either weekly or monthly, this is as opposed to a wage which is paid according to hours worked.
Overtime is a separate issue again that varies wildly by jurisdiction.
The greater point however remains the reason salaries even exist is an attempt to ameliorate/minimise paying overtime and/or holiday rates from their white-collar workforce.
Tonight for me is a special day. I want to go outside of the house of the girl I like with a gasoline barrel and write her name on the road and set it on fire and tell her to get out too see it (is this illegal)?
https://www.wowhead.com/news/investo...against-323598
RIP Activision-Blizzard
Well, for what it's worth, it seems the sexual assault allegations only started becoming "viral" in September 2014 (vs August 2014)
Even if they kept the joke going after that, at that point it was already an inside joke to them, which they were discussing privately, so it's entirely possible that it wasn't in any way a rape/abuse joke.
Well yes, that's the point. Let's not lose our minds over how scandalous every little out-of-context comment any Blizz develop has made over the last 10 years might sound now, and focus on discussing facts and supporting the employees how we can.
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Again, Blizzard AND The State of California have carried out their own investigations. Blizzard also carried out an INDEPENDENT investigation.
All three investigations came to the conclusion that Afrasiabi was culpable of sexual harassment. So it's not alleged.
If you're upset that harassment happens at Blizzard or just that harassment happens, that's fine. Just don't be in denial to make yourself feel better.
No, the point is she was involved in that situation and undoubtedly knew about shit. Now this comes out and people look at her with a raised brow, expecting her to explain what she meant and she goes "Actually, I was a victim too, I just didn't want to tell anyone," therefore deflecting any potential complicity and involvement, and people eat it up and call her brave for sharing her story where she was pressured into it.
What she purports to have happened to her may well have happened, but it doesn't take away her part in knowing about what was going on. If it was a small time male developer in the same situation, he'd have been ripped apart if he so much as tried to deflect.