Falstaff
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Blizzard dies and Bobby rides
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A White hospital executive says he was fired and replaced by 2 women as part of a diversity push. He sued and was just awarded $10 million | CNN
A White man has been awarded a $10 million payout in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against his former employer, which he said fired him and replaced him with a White woman and a Black woman as part of a push for diversity, according to court documents.
The kicker is he was on the board that advocated for the diversity push. Clown world, and this is where companies like Blizzard are going.
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Title IX is the blueprint for how this will run its course. Companies are being stupid right now largely because the current culture lets them. In the end, no one will actually hire more alphabet employees. Instead, productive positions will be eliminated(officially, for "other" reasons) so that percentage quotas are met.
Perhaps differently from Title IX, maybe companies will actually suffer for their mistakes.
Perhaps differently from Title IX, maybe companies will actually suffer for their mistakes.
jayrebb
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If Activision doesn't divest itself from Blizzard, then they have to rebrand. There is no in between.
It's one or the other. The Blizzard name is mud, and no real influencer or journalist will attend a Blizzcon under the Blizzard name and risk getting the stink of the Crosby suite on them.
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Kirun
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Yup, the brand is totally fucked. Even the "normies" in my social circles think of Blizzard games as trash now. Blizzard might even have worse connotations than BioWare at this point.
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jayrebb
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When shopping for some Corsair/Logitech keyboards at Bestbuy yesterday I had some pro gaming expert staff member (he mentioned he swaps through 5-6 mouses per session) he asked what I play and I couldn't just say some FPS or random ARPG off the top of my head, I had to keep it "mainstream" I felt, so I said "Im doing some World of Warcraft.....some Leagues...".
When I said World of Warcraft the silence was palpable. Clearly it is no longer the golden age and the goose is dead. A few years ago a mention of WoW would have gotten more conversation related to it, or at least a nod like "ok cool" or some familiar acknowledgement. Instead it was met with "....... ..................". Like holy shit people still give that company money.
You could literally measure the cringe bomb in real time before I even finished the "warcraft" part.
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A White hospital executive says he was fired and replaced by 2 women as part of a diversity push. He sued and was just awarded $10 million | CNN
A White man has been awarded a $10 million payout in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against his former employer, which he said fired him and replaced him with a White woman and a Black woman as part of a push for diversity, according to court documents.edition.cnn.com
The kicker is he was on the board that advocated for the diversity push. Clown world, and this is where companies like Blizzard are going.
I read that this morning, and it made my day. They need to root out the cancer that is diverse HR hires telling the hiring folks to meet the quota or else.
Duck Duck Go got busted doing something similar in the hiring process, I can't find an update though:
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Chris
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I kinda of did this to someone lol.
My wife has a friend with a socially awkward husband. Went to their house and his wife mentioned they set up a gaming PC in their lounge and I asked which games...
He said World of Warcraft and was immediately defensive without my saying a word "Some people don't like it anymore but I still enjoy it!".
Then my wife said I was playing Final Fantasy and it got awkward. Tried to sell him on FF14 but he's dyslexic and can't even raid.
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Gutterflesh
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These lawsuits will be glorious.
Unfortunately the company I just started working for is turning out to be pretty fucking based, so chances are I won't get a crack at a cool 10 mil anytime soon.
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Dandai
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Dont worry guys, whales are putting in work to make sure Blizzard stays afloat no matter what;
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Araxen
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Preach is prolly like thank fuck I don't have to play this FF14 game now. I don't think he was really into the whole thing.
Edit: nvm. I was wrong. Preach is cynical about it. Which I feel is the right take. This is all about Bobby saving his CEO position. He should have been let go.
Edit: nvm. I was wrong. Preach is cynical about it. Which I feel is the right take. This is all about Bobby saving his CEO position. He should have been let go.
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When you have 24.4% in stock, it's hard to imagine that's going to impact his bottom line at all.
Dude's set for life. This is all pandering to rights groups in hopes the lawsuit gets tossed. And then he'll probably sell his shares after his departure. Pathetic.
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moonarchia
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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
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They know.
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They don't divest, they bought it, they own it. Maybe that sounds like semantics, but in a world where words are twisted constantly for lies, let's strive for truth. Activision and Blizzard are the same corporate monster. Kotick's shareholder thing BOUGHT Blizzard. Activision is in charge. Don't be confused by the two different brands.
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