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So it's funny because anyone who says things like "states where employment is At Will" know almost nothing about employment law. Employment at Will is the standard in the United States. I can go into much more depth if you want, but the only state that isn't At Will is Montana, and it's a common...

I mean box sales are revenue, stock price declines don't have a direct impact on the company's revenue or profitability. They have an impact on the short term stakes of the investors, which is why the CEO will be sensitive to it. Except you get the same shit at every non-union company I've ever...

Unions don't really make lazy workers. I've never been unionized and have worked in white collar jobs my whole career. Most large organizations carry some % of people who do minimal or no work, because it's difficult to manage a large organization so tightly that you can entirely prevent it...

The big issue with unions in America is our labor laws create "shop" unions, where a single specific union has to win an election at a specific work site, once they do, everyone at that work site is represented by that union (in a closed shop which I think may not even be legal anymore, but if...

I like all the people acting like the world is ending because a bunch of manbabies is being held to the same standards most of us who aren't in the games industry have been held to at work our entire adult lives. If you want to play grab ass at work go work in a bar or strip club or some shit...

It's also because they're stupid as fuck dude. I'm a literal nobody and I knew better than to put this shit on the internet 20 fucking years ago. Afrasiabi was basically a gaming celebrity and a higher up at Blizzard, Ghostcrawler was a very public face of the biggest game in the world back...

The lawsuit is civil, it won't turn into criminal action that isn't really how it works. A prosecutor would have to be investigating specific crimes and find probable cause a crime was committed. Pre-indictment criminal investigations are also usually more or less secret (grand jury proceedings...

Yeah I mean the military isn't a great prepper for corporate life, or any real employment at all to be frank. Some of the worst employees I've ever had in software development are retired military. There's a few diamonds in the rough, but a lot of the programming in the military is just so...

Yeah I've never been big on social media at all. Facebook came out in like 2005? I think when I was in college and me and most of my friends spun up accounts, I had a profile pic and that was it. Around the time I graduated I noticed a bunch of people had tagged me in photos from parties and...

Nah, Cosby being a rapist was fairly well known in the 2000s, but it never got legs. I definitely was aware of it, but the context was like "a few women have accused Cosby of raping them", and then no follow up. The difference in the MeToo era is the media doesn't let these stories die, which...

And like literally any PR person with any experience at all could have predicted this is exactly what would happen, corporations don't have a ton of rules and boring cultures because the upper execs jerk off over how thick the Employee Handbook is, it's because it's an effective way to manage...

As I've said a number of times DFEH isn't looking to prove specific cases of harassment. Its looking to prove disparate pay, promotions, anti-pregnancy discrimination, and HR practices out of compliance with California law. It doesn't have to prove a single case of harassment to carry the case...

I must have missed the part where anything in the story about Tiggs shows inappropriate corporate behavior? She was told told to do something and refused (insubordination) and was fired. Part of a corporate PR job (which is what a CM is), is messaging the way the corporation tells you to, your...

Man, again--have you never worked in corporate America? Bro I was being told in 2007 when I graduated college "sanitized all social media, get rid of any drinking photos you have on Facebook, don't post on social media from accounts that could link you to your employer." This stuff isn't new...

I don’t really remember anyone saying Afrasiabi raped 60 women over 40+ years by drugging them like Cosby did. You’ve really Clarence Darrowed here refuting that completely unalleged strawman. Some of you guys have never worked in corps and it shows. You absolutely get in trouble for “words” at...

Maybe people shouldn’t be cucks.

Funny thing—the movie Moneyball which was about Billy Beane applying sabermetrics to running the Oakland A’s actually featured Bobby Kotick doing an uncredited cameo as Steve Schott (the A’s owner.)

My corporate bro analysis of the current situation is that the first statement the company put out was circling the wagons, especially around J Allen Brack, who is specifically alleged to have known of various things and done nothing in response. The new statement feels a lot like Bobby Kotick...

The MeToo shit gets all the soy boys, incels and feminazis ramped up so of course it gets more coverage. But yeah a big part of the meat of the filing actually relates to things like the California Equal Pay act violation. Violations of that act tend to be pretty easy to prove since DFEH likely...

The girl who posted the pile on tweet isn't directly linked to the lawsuit, supposedly she had never said anything before her tweets. Afrasiabi was highlighted in the lawsuit for being involved in reportedly a "pattern of reported behaviors, and Blizzard President J. Allan Brack gave him verbal...

For me Shadowlands was already kind of like a last chance for Blizzard to demonstrate that it still had its old chops. The disastrous Diablo Mobile bullshit, lackluster games like Heroes of the Storm, failing at a remaster of Warcraft III (how do you fuck up a remaster?), Battle for Azeroth...

As much as HR is oft-reviled at like every company I've worked at, I do think the most egregious shit like this is no longer very common at "normal" large businesses. HR just has so much power for structuring legal liability mitigation that they tend to have the organizational heft to kind of...

I think the original genesis of "Believe Victims" was specifically as a pushback against the organizational stance that the default behavior should be "ignore victims and sweep complaints under the rug." I put it akin to what if someone shows up at a police station saying they've been defrauded...

Frankly I don't even think most WoW fans want new content, we want content that actually makes the game fun again. I don't think the core structure of the team has changed so much since Legion that they physically can't produce good content anymore, I think it's more that bad decisions are being...

I don't doubt that an otherwise reasonable employer who just fucked up would make things right. In my experience most employers that really fuck people on back wages are smaller, and often in various states of financial distress. One of the shadiest fucks I ever worked for owned a few...

$20k in back overtime is largely an uncollectable debt. If it was $200k, maybe. Employment lawyers unlike many plaintiffs attorneys generally do not work on contingency, you're going to pay for every hour of trial time and discovery, and then if you win, you're going to probably pay for appeals...

I mean I've done crazy drunken shit in the last year that I 100% guarantee no one has video of, it's almost like in small social gatherings it's easy to tell when someone is shining a video recording iPhone in your face.

I mean so would I, unless it was me and like 1000 other people, then probably not. There's a reason collective action is actually a thing in workplace history.

For what it's worth the 1000 employees didn't sign a letter saying they had all witnessed shit, they said they disagreed with ActivisionBlizzard's official response to the DFEH filing.

I can agree with most of this, but keep in mind the DFEH investigation says there are clear instances of HR being notified and HR not investigating claims, and retaliating against people who made the claims. Those are people who did come forward, and if the claims in the DFEH filing are true...

How did so many priests get away with raping kids for so long? Few factors were present: Hierarchy actively complicit in helping cover cases up. Victims who were generally marginalized in society (the Priests were often targeting lower income kids from broken homes) Government officials...

It’d be highly unusual for government attorneys to just make shit up in their filing documents, unlike plaintiffs attorneys they can face serious career consequences for wasting time/taxpayer money on frivolous cases. My experience is that often times government agencies like this will do...

Generally getting reamed doesn't have to include a trial. If you're on the wrong side of cases like this it's usually borderline legal malpractice to even take it to trial.

The only bit of mitigation I can give him is among a lot of devout Muslims it's actually felt you should know Arabic (to read the Quran in its original language) regardless of what the native language is where you grew up. That being said Iranian identity and the fact it practices a sect of...

It's almost like it's such a fucked up company that the state of California is suing them, after a two year investigation (and one most companies would have agreed to settle w/DFEH to avoid this publicity), including claims from their investigators that: All the incel mouthbreathing in this...

This feels like the same logic that was used to cover up priests raping kids for like 100 years.

The Maw expanded over time and had a decent amount of stuff in it. I also think individual zones have a lot more content now. Going back to Legion or so the model has been 4-5 zones but much more content packed. Like Suramar in Legion probably took longer to get 100% quest completion in than...

This is actually a variation on the Kevin Spacey “Live as a gay man” defense, the problem is it doesn’t actually work as well as you’d expect.

I'm not going to say other industries don't have sexual harassment issues but you nerds in the game industry need to grow up and act like professionals. One tenth of this shit would get you fired at any corporate / Fortune 500 job I've had, and fast. The fact that people even feel they can get...

Not to at all detract from sexual harassment bullshit which needs addressed and idiots need/deserve to be fired, but the last story reminded me of this scene from Seinfeld: