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This is, uh, not the way to reply to such accusations.
by chasing 5y ago
This is, uh, not the way to reply to such accusations.
- totony 5y agoWhat would be a good way? I've never seen a positive response to a reply to such accusations before.
- chickenpotpie 5y ago“We’re willing to fully cooperate with the state government. Sexual harassment and discrimination isn’t tolerated at this company and we will root out any sources of it and remove them expeditiously”
- tick_tock_tick 5y agoThis is 100x worse if you think the state has no case. You're pretty much tactfully acknowledging a degree of guilt.
- chickenpotpie 5y agoI would be incredibly shocked if Blizzard wasn’t guilty to any degree. There are far too many accusations
- totony 5y agoI think for such a huge company it's both hard - Not to have many accusations - Not to be guilty to some degree But I think admitting guilt might not be a good move either way. My question was a bad one anyway since it'd be hard to know if any response would be well perceived.
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- grayfaced 5y agoAnd? Every large company has sexual harassment to some degree. It's all a matter of whether the company actually responds to it. Saying the accusations are a sham looks much worse then saying you'll investigate.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoSome details of the case are a grab bag (I'm not sure I see how "male employees proudly came into work hungover" is an incident of sexual harassment), but there are multiple accusations here that are both far beyond the "every large company" level and clearly implicate senior leadership. They probably should have been less... toxic about it, but a good response can only go so far if the underlying incidents are true. Personally, if I worked for Blizzard, anything other than a vehement denial would have sent me right out the door. That's not to rule out the possibility that it was just a panicked response nobody thought through in detail, since there's gotta be a big overlap between people responsible for this message and people responsible for stopping sexual harassment.
- cratermoon 5y ago"male employees proudly came into work hungover" is an incident of sexual harassment when a female employee who did the same thing would be subject to discipline or termination. The men are excused with "well boys will be boys" or "no harm, no foul".
- ryan93 5y agoProof of that?
- cratermoon 5y agoI'm speaking hypothetically. Unequal treatment.
- henryaj 5y ago
- baud147258 5y ago“we don’t comment on ongoing litigation”
- vkou 5y ago"We won't comment on ongoing litigation. We are conducting an internal investigation. We will discipline anyone who violated our code of conduct. We are committed to being an inclusive and equitable workplace." That would not have lost them my business.
- blibble 5y agothe company never, ever, ever, ever, EVER admits fault or any sort of mistake (even trivial ones)
- raxxorrax 5y agoNot if you are sure you will win without any litigation. Otherwise it is indeed a bit self-implicating...