That isn’t what Blizzard’s statement said at all. They said there were problems in the past, they took real steps to address them, and CA didn’t engage with them at all to validate that they had fixed the problems. Also that the suicide they referenced was not related to abuse at work.
Now is all that true? Who knows? That will assumedly come out in court. But lets not misconstrue what they said.
But the lawsuit isn’t about whether Activision/Blizzard is running a good clean show right now. It’s that they didn’t in the past. A/B hypothetically getting their shit together and not being a toxic cesspool anymore isn’t relevant.
I’m not a lawyer, but the complaint says its an enforcement action, which I read as saying “You’re breaking the law now and we’re going to force you to fix that.” If I got that wrong, then well, I guess I got it wrong!
Reading the whole thing they do ask for both compensatory and punitive damages, so maybe “we’re all good now” isn’t a defense. Really need an attorney to comment.
You missed the misspelling, they called him Crosby. Bill Crosby is a delightful children’s musician who doesn’t seem rapey at all and likely thought long and hard about changing his name.
The discovery for this is going to be brutal. People don’t realize that deleting your email doesn’t really delete it. They are going to hoover up a ton of damning evidence.
This is also not likely to just end in a fine. I’ve been involved in a situation the AG’s office came down on someone for. Now, the AG isn’t involved, but you can expect a court-ordered independent audit and documentation of sustained business process change if they lose.
Several news stories said it was, but if you read the complaint it does not say nor imply it. The women who killed herself was on a business trip with a male supervisor who brought a buttplug and lube. I’m not sure why that was pertinent, that he was planning to take a roadtrip down the Hershey highway, and they don’t actually say the executive harassed her either, which read really weird. Maybe he liked to put a plug in when pleasuring himself, who knows?
Ahh thank you. So it was the same person, and the supervisor did intend to sodomize her on vacay. It doesn’t say that was non-consensual, but it’s inappropriate to date your subordinates due to inequal power etc.