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Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over workplace misconduct

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Post by int_19h »

Byteflux wrote: post #183
lmm wrote: post #105

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> Like individuals, businesses also have an inalienable right to free speech. Nonsense. Humans have inalienable rights. Businesses exist on our sufferance, they don't have an inalienable right to anything.

Your statement doesn't align with reality, so I'll assume you're stating an opinion rather than a fact. Free speech is an inalienable right protected by the First Amendment and afforded to both individuals and businesses, that is a fact.

"Businesses" is not a useful distinction here, because an individual can be a business in their personal capacity. What matters are legal corporations, which would not exist at all if not for the government chartering them. The question is whether those fictitious legal entities have a right to free speech that is separate from such right of all the persons who constitute them.

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Post by alimbada »

vanusa wrote: post #319
0xfaded wrote: post #258

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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…

> Apparently the leadership's conduct is just fine for MSFT, though.

A very odd statement to make when at this point all we know is that MSFT is acquiring Acti-Blizzard and very little information about what will happen to the latter's existing leadership post-acquisition.

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Post by Aeolun »

malka wrote: post #206
usbqk wrote: post #200

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He is also not supposed to leave death threats in voicemail.

Kind of, but I’m not inclined to hold something that happened 16 years ago against him today. That’s longer than my entire career.

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Post by fareesh »

dgellow wrote: post #312
fareesh wrote: post #244

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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

So you did not read the article, and are not familiar with the topic, but believe it’s not worth boycotting the company. I’m not implying that you’re trying to be in bad faith or cover the company actions, but your comments sound uninformed and misleading.

I read the article and everything in there I would summarise as company culture

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Post by kodemager »

john567 wrote: post #295
kodemager wrote: post #161

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Metzen Knew about the toxic “bro-culture” while he was in one of the management positions directly above some of what turned out to be the worst sexual offenders, and did nothing about it, for which he apologised on his own Twitter post scandal. Michael Morhaime similarly was the head of Blizzard doing the worst of the sexual misconduct and people don’t things like “cube crawls”. I’ve worked in big enterprise, I know…

If they knew and did nothing that's bad but somehow I don't believe these people didn't care or didn't try to tell these people to behave. In a company with thousand's of employees how can you expect a few people to be responsible for everybody, that's just absurd. You come to a point where you've said and done all you can and nobody is listing. At that point you will make yourself very unhappy staying. This is why I…

You can fire people for misconduct.

If I had an employee that I repeated told not to get drunk and crawl around hitting on coworkers. I would fire that person if they didn’t stop. To be perfectly blunt, I would have fired them right away, but I’m Danish, we can do such things with little repercussions since it’s so blatantly insane that they would have no ground to defend their actions.

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Post by rob_c »

teh_klev wrote: post #89
CheezeIt wrote: post #35

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The U.S. Bill of Rights [1] protects giving negative references. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

Would be more useful if you pointed out which part of the Bill of Rights provides this protection.

might help to stick to the countries laws you should be understanding
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