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I'd like to ask a provocative question: if this was always the culture at Riot, why are people who joined the company surprised by it? Would it be wrong for peo
by cal5k 8y ago
I'd like to ask a provocative question: if this was always the culture at Riot, why are people who joined the company surprised by it? Would it be wrong for people to self-select into a workplace that was tolerant of such jokes, knowing that it would not be totally inclusive?
At some point if you have enough employees leadership needs to grow the hell up - but it doesn't exactly surprise me to learn that game developers use language at work that anyone with gamer friends has certainly heard in private.
- badloginagain 8y agoBecause they don't say "We do rape jokes. Be cool with that." in the interview process.
- Chris_Chambers 8y agoNo one is owed a complete lack of unpleasant surprises in their life.
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- Twirrim 8y agoHow would you know before taking the job that that was the culture? Would you expect it to come up in the interview somehow? People are generally on good behaviour when candidates are being shown around (which aptly emphasises that they know certain behaviour is wrong)
- acdha 8y agoMost people are going to assume certain baseline standards at a large company. Maybe it’s not some big conservative financial firm but you’d be excused for thinking things like rape jokes are universally unapproved.