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> 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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“workplace culture” sounds like an unwarranted euphemism for what is very clearly sexual harassment.
Im not familiar with all their problems I assumed there were more than one. Not everything has to be drama, it was just a word with no hidden cunning evil meaning
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I’ve worked in the gaming industry and I was surprised how some fairly standard questions about creativity, playing games, character development, etc. lead to detailed insights into the candidate’s personality. We’ve had candidates answer “You have to organise a fun evening for the 80 employees of this office. Your budget is $10. What do you do?” (a question meant to leverage their understanding that 70 of those 80 a…
>If they walked passed a female employee, I might ask her if she noticed any sideway look. I wonder do female candidates get the same test? Not judging, just curious if there is a double standard, and why.
Until Bobby goes it's all corporate bs. The fish rots at the head.
> 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).
> 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".
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> 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 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".
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?
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I feel like that's an uncharitable take. Even if you take a very nihilistic view of company morality... for simple liability reasons, most places don't want someone fired for sexual harassment. But it's trivial for those fired to not get caught. For example, it's likely some (not a majority, but some) people are leaving Activision Blizzard over what's been uncovered, they could claim to be part of that group. Or they…
As pointed out above, other employees may have left because of the misconduct aimed at them in the same time period. It'd be more than a little ironic to tar all of those with the "suspected offender" brush.
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Morhaime and the leadership definitely had autonomy. Blizzard was the goose that laid the gold egg. Also multiple former employees have stated that there's no way Morhaime didn't know what was going on. So I think you've got it backwards.
Both Mike and Metzen state in the own response that they didn't realize how bad it was and they only respond this way because this lawsuit got huge press. Why is it so hard to believe that when you're running a company from above you have virtually zero knowledge of what's going on in the trenches. And the people around you act as layers to insulate you to some extent. The only way you change that is by building trus…
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Setting culture is a large part of leadership. Most likely one of two things happened: a) the leadership was complicit in the culture, b) the leadership was too weak to prevent a toxic culture from festering. In either case, the leadership is not fit for, ahem, leadership.
Or leadership is new, is correcting the problems, which takes time. Otherwise every time you replace leadership you must immediately replace the new leadership, since they too have not instantly fixed the culture.
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I might be out of the loop, but what is indicating that, this is what actually happened?
Setting culture is a large part of leadership. Most likely one of two things happened: a) the leadership was complicit in the culture, b) the leadership was too weak to prevent a toxic culture from festering. In either case, the leadership is not fit for, ahem, leadership.
Mr. Kotick, who has served as CEO for more than three decades, didn’t inform the board of sexual misconduct allegations that he was aware of, including rape, against managers across the company.
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.
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Setting culture is a large part of leadership. Most likely one of two things happened: a) the leadership was complicit in the culture, b) the leadership was too weak to prevent a toxic culture from festering. In either case, the leadership is not fit for, ahem, leadership.
Apparently the leadership's conduct is just fine for MSFT, though. Mr. Kotick, who has served as CEO for more than three decades, didn’t inform the board of sexual misconduct allegations that he was aware of, including rape, against managers across the company. The Nov. 16 article, citing interviews and internal documents, also detailed misconduct allegations against Mr. Kotick, including when an assistant complained…