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Mist

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Better negotiating skills? And when she said she wasn't getting what she thought she was worth and left, maybe she will learn and take that to the next job offer where she can negotiate better instead of blaming it on the man. There's your equal rights.
It sounds like they offered her equal pay after she had already quit, which is very similar to my experience leaving my previous employer.

So she did exactly what she was supposed to. And speaking publicly about it is the right thing to do considering the company apparently has a major pay equity and pay transparency problem. Things only get fixed when they are brought to light.
 
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jayrebb

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What the fuck is so special about Jen and why does she deserve the same pay? Has she done anything note worthy in the gaming industry other than grow a pair of tits?

What was so special about the mythic keystones Ybarra is running during work hours?

the company is a fucking joke. If she can take a few M's out of Kotick's pockets in this corrupt consoomer mechzilla, good for her.
 

Utnayan

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It sounds like they offered her equal pay after she had already quit, which is very similar to my experience leaving my previous employer.

So she did exactly what she was supposed to. And speaking publicly about it is the right thing to do considering the company apparently has a major pay equity and pay transparency problem. Things only get fixed when they are brought to light.

If I apply for an executive position, and I fail to negotiate and a lady comes in and gets more in a parallel position, can I scream gender inequality too?

Personally I think this is all one big sham to get game development unionized anyway.
 
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BoozeCube

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She was a stupid cunt of no value. If she had value she would of been able to he paid what she wanted. It sounds more like a stupid twat who couldn't negotiate then got envious that her male counterpart made more because he was smart enough to ask for it up front. Now the cunt can be forgotten, oh well worthless affirmative action hire, know your limits.

Play dumb cunt games win dumb cunt prizes.
 
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Mist

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If she had value she would of been able to he paid what she wanted.
She was offered the equal pay she wanted on her way out the door.

Offering to pay people what they're worth on their way out the door is always the mark of a shitshow company.
 
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Gavinmad

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I mean leaving aside the fact that she was responsible for highly successful releases over the past couple years, something literally NOBODY at Blizzard can claim, the fact that they couldn't anticipate a further scandal if they didn't offer her identical pay her male counterpart is hilarious.
 
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Mist

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I mean leaving aside the fact that she was responsible for highly successful releases over the past couple years, something literally NOBODY at Blizzard can claim, the fact that they couldn't anticipate a further scandal if they didn't offer her identical pay her male counterpart is hilarious.
Exactly. She's hired into a company already under scrutiny for poor pay equity and poor pay transparency, ostensibly to help fix said issues, and they decide to stiff her on pay in the process. This is the definition of an unforced error.
 

TJT

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Corporate roles literally don't work that way though. Especially at that level. To think they do is delusion by idiots who never worked in corporate. There is no specific payscale for people at that level.

Pay bands and shit apply to the rank and file, usually. Not the C-Suite or execs.
 
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Cybsled

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Yes usually. But like they pointed out, they did this in the midst of legal troubles.

If your restaurant is being investigated for health code violations, you don’t cook the meat that fell on the floor in view of the health inspector
 
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Utnayan

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She was offered the equal pay she wanted on her way out the door.

Offering to pay people what they're worth on their way out the door is always the mark of a shitshow company.

Yet happens quite regularly across all industries regardless of gender/race when the company finally realizes they fucked up keeping that qualified person happy. If that happened here like in that example, it happens every day and is nothing new.

My guess is they thought she was shit and didn't care if she left - and HR got involved along with the PR team saying "due to the circumstances we are in you may want to re-think this" at the very end. Reactionary based on political PR rather than was she ever qualified to hold the role to begin with who was put there for one purpose and one purpose only - and failed miserably at it.
 
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Gavinmad

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My guess is they thought she was shit and didn't care if she left
So the retards at Blizzard who have done nothing but fuck up for the past 5+ years thought she was shit. I cannot think of a more glowing recommendation for O'Neal.
 
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Mist

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So the retards at Blizzard who have done nothing but fuck up for the past 5+ years
It's gotta be at least 10 years. I would say the last year of Diablo 3 development, when they should have been balancing and polishing the game and instead we got Jay "AND THEN WE DOUBLED IT" Wilson's idea of game balance instead is clearly when this company went off the rails, and it feels like they've been operating without a compass ever since.
 
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Yes usually. But like they pointed out, they did this in the midst of legal troubles.

If your restaurant is being investigated for health code violations, you don’t cook the meat that fell on the floor in view of the health inspector
yeah, she was literally the face of their "we hired women" rehabilitation, and they chose to pay her less than her co-lead. And they obviously knew she was worth more, since they offered it to her when she quit over the disparity.

Even if people want to say "she should have negotiated better", someone at Blizzard needed to realize that paying the woman they promoted publicly in the midst of all of this shit needed to be, at minimum, the same as the man she was joining in that position.
 
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GGS Bobby.
This the same head of Sony responsible for their woke culture and censorship? Yea he can get fucked too. Anything coming out of Sony that isn't coming out of Japan is going to be rife with virtue signaling and lots of hair dye.
 
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I can't decide if I hope the rumor regarding selling off Blizzard IP's is true or not. I don't see Blizzard coming back from this shit.
 
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Blizzard will just be renamed SnowStorm and no one will be the wiser.
 
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