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Until Bobby goes it's all corporate bs. The fish rots at the head.
by icu 5y ago
Until Bobby goes it's all corporate bs. The fish rots at the head.
- usbqk 5y ago
- Aeolun 5y agoPunishment for allowing that shit to happen in the first place, and for not doing anything about it until forced to? Either way, it’s hardly a punishment. He’ll undoubtedly get a nice golden parachute.
- usbqk 5y ago
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoThe recently completed summary also says Activision had collected about 700 reports of employee concern over misconduct and other issues—in some cases separate reports about the same incidents—since July, when a California state agency filed a lawsuit against the company over harassment claims. The Nov. 16 article, citing interviews and internal documents, also detailed misconduct allegations against Mr. Kotick, including when an assistant complained in 2006 that he had threatened in a voice mail to have her killed There are other examples of the culture in the article. I simply don't see how the CEO didn't know this was in the culture, especially considering the allegations against him. It isn't like this is the first time we - non blizzard employees - are hearing about the culture there, either. How, exactly, is expecting him to be held responsible vindictive?
- listenallyall 5y ago
- malka 5y agoHe is also not supposed to leave death threats in voicemail.
- Aeolun 5y agoKind of, but I’m not inclined to hold something that happened 16 years ago against him today. That’s longer than my entire career.
- eproxus 5y agoHe’s not. He’s responsible for making sure it doesn’t happen. Create processes and hire people to run them.
- me_me_me 5y agoApart from his public disgraceful behaviour (who know how bad he is in private), how come majority of other companies avoid this shit happening inside them?
- JaimeThompson 5y agoHe gets paid millions per quarter to deal with issues like this and to stop them from happening which he is not doing. If he wasn't an executive he would have been fired a long time ago.
- gameswithgo 5y agoone of the champions of their games for speaking out for the plight of hong kong for one
- lithos 5y agoVery publicly his flight attendant, then fired her, and then left death threats on her phone’s voicemail. Yeah he’s comfortable enough with blizzard culture to willingly make recordings.
- bilekas 5y agoDidn't he also write a letter on behalf of the HR/People manager around the sexual misconduct claims and then put her name on it ? It may have been Helaine Klasky - I'll find the article.
- SSLy 5y agoNo, it was Townsend's, the one cited in OP too https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/qvl4xd/bobby_kotick_actually_wrote_fran_townsends/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/qvl4xd/bobby_kotick_ac... She later left / was made to left the company
- bilekas 5y agoThats the one ! Thanks for clearing up !
- Terretta 5y ago> The fish rots at the head. This isn’t a fish. And as a kid living on the water, saw plenty of dead fish — usually the head is the last identifiable part to go (middle goes first).
- bigbillheck 5y ago> This isn’t a fish Are you familiar with the concept of 'metaphor'?
- thebean11 5y agoThey are saying it's not an apt metaphor
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoTrue, yet irrelevant to the discussion, which is I think the part people object to.
- webmaven 5y ago> > The fish rots at the head. > This isn’t a fish. > And as a kid living on the water, saw plenty of dead fish — usually the head is the last identifiable part to go (middle goes first). The metaphor isn't about "rotting away", it is about "rotting and stinking". The head definitely goes first. Many languages have this phrase as "the fish stinks from the head".
- true_religion 5y agoThere is a difference between dead fish you find by the waterside, and dead fish in your kitchen. All fish rot from the soft organs first, and muscles and skin last. In the kitchen, you’ve already removed all the fish guts so the fist thing to rot is the eyes and tongue in the head. So… er… you are both right?