Blizzard Activision Sued Over Company Culture

In the office, women are subjected to “cube crawls” in which male employees drink copious [amounts] of alcohol as they “crawl” their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees. Male employees proudly come into work hungover, play video games for long periods of time during work while delegating their responsibilities to female employees, engage in banter about their sexual encounters, talk openly about female bodies and joke about rape.

I can’t imagine someone not filming some of these incidents, I’m sure if they did happen they will come out eventually.

Also: fuck does bastards

Ultimately it the leaders that create the culture though. If the top is rotten the rest of the company will follow.

This is pure and simple a leadership issue, nothing else. Stuff like this doesn’t happen if the Boss isn’t involved and actively promotes it.

I have worked all my life in heavily women dominated companies, if a group/section turned «bad» (never to the level described here tho because O_o) it normally happened after a change in leadership of said group (via promotion or external didn’t matter).
It was usually fixed pretty fast by changing (firing) the leadership and «recommending to leave» (firing) to the main culprits once a certain treshold was reached, too late for many for sure but, well, you kinda need things to go bad so people can see and do something against it.

I am in doubt it’s says Kerri’s chef on the trip was female and that the employee driven to suicide was traveling with male chef. But how many employees can blazzard have that commit suicide on business trips.

Are people so insecure about their job opportunities or their personal abilities that they put up with this shit for years without quitting on the spot or recording it and blowing the whistle?

If I joined a company and saw such shit going down I’d immediately demand people be fired or quit myself and went to the press. That’s assuming I only saw that, were I being harassed like that I’d bring hell down on their heads.

Perhaps it’s just the US/corporate employment issue in general, where people are not inclined to fight for their own rights and dignity as an employee.

Developers worldwide should definitely unionize and stick it to the corps.