World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
pysek
It Didn't Happen, It Should've, and It Will.
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Now take that all the way up to your little constitutional monarchy that takes your money at gunpoint and you're getting somewhere.
We'll make an American out of you yet, Tory.
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He wanted to marry her. And used his shake weight while she was watching.
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Speaking of parking lots... I wonder if anyone beyond Alan "Bill" Crosby abused or gave preferential gender-based people at SOE. Surely there's more cases out there besides the two I know of (Luperza and Tiggs)?
Sieger
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The girl who posted the pile on tweet isn't directly linked to the lawsuit, supposedly she had never said anything before her tweets. Afrasiabi was highlighted in the lawsuit for being involved in reportedly a "pattern of reported behaviors, and Blizzard President J. Allan Brack gave him verbal warnings and he did not alter his behavior." It didn't get super specific but did mention his office was called something like the "Bill Cosby room."
Edit: Keep in mind this isn't a personal lawsuit from employees against specific Blizzard managers, this is a government agency lawsuit about basically institutional control of sexual harassment policies and practices. The DFEH lawsuit doesn't have to substantiate specific instances of sexual harassment, only specific instances of sexual harassment claims behing handled improperly by the company.
CaughtCross
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Fucker
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We are taking swift action to be the compassionate, caring company you came to work for and to ensure a safe environment. There is no place
anywhere at our Company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind.
Translation: free $200 in Blizzbucks for everyone!
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Araxen
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Clean house time is coming.
Ion will be President of Blizzard soon. Prepare for systems overload.
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Dalien
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Fucker
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She was in SEC's division of enforcement, which is about as empty of a job as one can find.
Argarth
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3. Personnel Changes.
"We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated."
That's the most interesting part in Kotick's letter for me. Pretty definitive. One could reasonably expect JAB to be silently exiting stage left in the not too distant future.
If he gets a pass, then the rest of the letter would appear to be nothing more than fluff.
"We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated."
That's the most interesting part in Kotick's letter for me. Pretty definitive. One could reasonably expect JAB to be silently exiting stage left in the not too distant future.
If he gets a pass, then the rest of the letter would appear to be nothing more than fluff.
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Zindan
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The harassment sections are minor compared to the CRT sections which are the bulk of the lawsuit. Its amazing how the Twitter / YouTube and even Twitch crowds are in such a frenzy over the harassment charges. None of which were so vile enough as to be worth making their own lawsuits.
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