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"They expect one of us in the wreckage brother" as one Reddit comment put it. Bobby has to go, no matter if this is "his fault" or not. Shareholders lost a lot of money, Blizzard lost a lot of reputation. It happened on his watch and new blood is needed. To be honest I think the studio is lost, we can only hope that some of the spin off studios will turn out to be great.
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What's the need of stigmatizing these people? If they did wrong, they have been fired for it. They don't need to be permanently punished for a mistake. That won't help anyone.
This is a tricky issue. I agree in principle because I like to think that people can change and learn. On the other hand if you hire someone with a known track record, if they then harass members of your staff, you've got some serious questions to answer about potentially knowingly putting them at risk.
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Do they deserve a black mark following them around?
It depends on whether they realize the error of their ways and have improved. If not, they shouldn't be around women. I mean, I don't want to stigmatize people and I want to believe that people can change if confronted with the error of their ways, but I've seen too many instances where it just didn't work like that. If they are still behaving inappropriately in the workplace, they should not be in the workplace.
> In a letter to employees made public in October, Ms. Townsend said Activision had “exited” 20 employees and another 20 had faced disciplinary action. “We know there’s a desire to know about the outcome when misconduct is reported,” Ms. Townsend wrote. “Sometimes, there are privacy reasons we can’t share. But where we can, we will be sharing more information with you. We will also be providing you regular, aggregate…
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This has the feel of the CEO rounding up as many patsies as he can find to scapegoat in order to placate the investors. No doubt the culture there is rotten to the core, the rumors of the horrible work environment and harassment are widely known, however, I predict you won't see too many of the exec team having to leave. It'll be all low level expendable IC's that the CEO won't have to encounter at the country club a…
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Hmm in theory it would start to rot from where it has the biggest exposure to air and or bacteria...so my highly scientific theory: It starts from the head because gills, but the stink comes from the guts (lack of fresh air) ;)
i think the original proverb is actually the fish stinks from the head, which later became the fish rots from the head, but this is biologically incorrect. https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposit... for example you can see the decomposition of a pig, it looks like the head is first, but it is actually the bacteria in the gut.
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Anecdotically, to this date and after 4 workplaces (FAANG included), I am yet to see what a bro culture is. To my eyes and experience over 10 years interacting with people, I have seen nothing of the sort, for which I believe this kind of culture must be very conditioned to the right (or wrong?) mix of individuals that by far do not make justice to the average SV engineer.
I've seen it, and to be honest I've only seen it in the ranks to the exec team rather than the tech team in both FAANG and startups. The tech teams and tech managers are usually trying to impress you about how they spent the weekend coding on a PDP-11, playing board games or mountain biking while drinking custom brand protein drinks. Generally harmless stuff like that. The exec teams are where the sociopaths live and…
However, if all of their IP were to be given to a completely different company and Kotick were to be made penniless for the rest of his natural life, I could see myself playing a formerly-Blizzard game again.
Nothing says "CEO" like offering up the firing of ~3 dozen employees to try and cover up his own misdeeds.