DOOM: Blizzard

[northernladuk]

I'm struggling to believe this is unique to Blizzard and is just lifting the lid on the standard goings on in most similar software houses, if not many other businesses with a comparable demographic?

[ladymuck]

I'm struggling to believe this is unique to Blizzard and is just lifting the lid on the standard goings on in most similar software houses, if not many other businesses with a comparable demographic?

Lots of companies in a wide range of industries have similarly nefarious practises. I think bringing them to light is well worth doing.

[d000hg]

I'm struggling to believe this is unique to Blizzard and is just lifting the lid on the standard goings on in most similar software houses, if not many other businesses with a comparable demographic?

Well that's OK then. If everyone's doing it...

[northernladuk]

Well that's OK then. If everyone's doing it...

Not really, just the focus is purely on Blizzard so needs wider action if this isn't just confined to them.

[vetran]

It tends to be smaller companies, the big american style corporates tend to have an active HR to mitigate it, bad for their share value.

It still happens but only the high up letches get away with it and its dirty talk not touch in my experience.

[lorakeen]

Lots of companies in a wide range of industries have similarly nefarious practises. I think bringing them to light is well worth doing.

not every other business has a "Cosby suite" or female employees killing themselves due to harassment.

[lorakeen]

It tends to be smaller companies, the big american style corporates tend to have an active HR to mitigate it, bad for their share value.

It still happens but only the high up letches get away with it and its dirty talk not touch in my experience.

How abut a "Cosby suite", a cube crawl in while the higher ups literally harass and grope any female employee in their path and someone killing herself because her boss leaked pics of her private parts?

Blizzard IS a big company. A tulip one

[OwlHoot]

::: The seniors and leads were contantly harassing the female staff while also passing most of their own workloads to them, groping was a normal occurrence and let's not forget the infamous cube crawling. ..

Without wanting to stereotype anyone, I can well imagine many of the kind of borderline Asberger uber-nerds drawn to game programming would be the types to behave like that! Also, perhaps over time the gung ho game play itself rubs off on them.

[NotAllThere]

You'll be tremendously surprised as to how little interest I have in your attention considering your personality and behaviour.
Now since obviously English isn't quite clear to you: I have not claimed to be an expert, just that this whole thing was going on for a long while and was quite a problem.

It is quite relevant for the industry.

Stop harrassing him. Oh wait. This is general. As you were.

let's just say that hopefully people like you will no longer have room in the industry moving forward and that's a good thing

What? Decent people who work hard. That'd be a shame.

[vetran]

What? Decent people who work hard. That'd be a shame.

He was talking to Warty!