y4j1981
Dennis Stamp
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Post by y4j1981 on Nov 16, 2021 16:58:11 GMT -5
I don't know if its just me but when click your link I get sent to WSJ's 'shop' page bout signing up for a price to view site
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Nov 16, 2021 17:00:50 GMT -5
I don't know if its just me but when click your link I get sent to WSJ's 'shop' page bout signing up for a price to view site Wall Street Journal's kinda notorious for making you pay to see any article so here's this:
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Nov 16, 2021 17:10:05 GMT -5
Because of f****** course they are. Of course they brag about their diversity hires. This is the corporate equivalent of "How am I a bad person? look I have a gay black friend!"
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Nov 16, 2021 18:22:53 GMT -5
Hey remember that awful, tonedeaf email that the torture apologist sent out in the wake of the first round of allegations? Turns out that was written by Kotick too. He couldn't even manage to pay lipservice to doing better without throwing a female employee under the bus. kotaku.com/bobby-kotick-actually-wrote-fran-townsends-deranged-co-1848069983He's most likely going to get pushed out a window with a seven or eight figure golden parachute soon, he'll issue a nonpology and will walk straight into the boardroom of a fortune 500 company before 2022 is through, having learned nothing.
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El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
Status: Runner
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 17, 2021 0:06:41 GMT -5
OK, I've only familiar with the story because I watch LoadingReadyRun's newscast CheckPoint when I can and they always try to keep the public informed about what's going on...
From what I understand, Act/Bliz was being investigated by more than one government agency. Act/Bliz had tried settle with one of the agencies (the State of California's Departent of Fair Employment and Housing), and the terms of that settlement included a provision that Act/Bliz could destroy evidence used in the investigation by the DFEH. This includes evidence the OTHER agency (the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) needed for THEIR investigation. So the EEOC was threatening the DFEH with a suit to stop the settlement with Act/Bliz.
So I wonder if the information that was just revealed is something the DFEH had access to and didn't use and Act/Bliz wanted to get rid of before the EEOC found it?
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 17, 2021 10:09:13 GMT -5
So who here asked for another twist in the saga? Anyone?
Well, you're getting one anyway because this one's a doozy.
EDIT: …Oh.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Nov 17, 2021 18:07:50 GMT -5
It's always the person that you expect the most.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Nov 17, 2021 19:43:18 GMT -5
It's always the person that you expect the most. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he slept nude in an oxygen tent he believes gives him sexual powers.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Nov 23, 2021 21:51:45 GMT -5
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 23, 2021 21:58:38 GMT -5
This company's word is worth less than piss. Peter Molyneux is more honest at this point.
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Post by darbus alan on Nov 23, 2021 22:02:50 GMT -5
Activision's board of directors is nearly as disgusting as Kotick. Only way they'll make him resign is if profits start tanking.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Dec 2, 2021 13:46:24 GMT -5
This is the same as asking a cat not to knock something off the counter.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 25, 2022 13:55:59 GMT -5
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Mar 25, 2022 15:00:46 GMT -5
Repugnant.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 26, 2022 7:47:08 GMT -5
to quote Jim Cornette, f*** this Company!
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Post by genericusername on Mar 26, 2022 13:16:40 GMT -5
700 f***ing incidents. This company is complete trash.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 13, 2022 10:56:30 GMT -5
So this isn’t…great.
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 16, 2022 20:58:05 GMT -5
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 17, 2022 5:17:29 GMT -5
I am shocked, shocked that a company led by creeps and torture enablers would believe they did nothing wrong and clear themselves as they strap on golden parachutes.
Bet this is how the WWE internal investigation ends too.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 17, 2022 5:49:54 GMT -5
"Well I already forgave myself, brother!"
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