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I mean to be fair if the allegations are "You were in charge, why didn't you stop this?!" the response "I never fucking saw anything" is about as good an answer as you can give.
When you're that far up top in the chain of command or in charge of making the rules, you've had to see something. They saw something, but chose to ignore it like the pussies they are.
Fair. Or they purposefully never were in a place to see anything, so that in the eventuality allegations come and people ask them what they say, the honest and legally protecting response is "I didn' see nuffin coppers!"
In a corporation that big, I actually expect them not seeing anything to be the most likely answer. Have we not talked about how people at the top don't interact with or know anything about those that work under them before?
Pretty much this. Executives expect HR departments and the individual department managers to handle this kind of shit. Even if a report ever got to Kotcik, he likely gave instructions for HR to handle the situation and fire people as nessecary and then expected it to be done. If nobody specifically brought it to his attention that the managers werent doing this then he would have no idea what was happening.
In other words, it's a failure of leadership at all levels of management and HR.
And I already know most of that is bull crap and a rarity when they genuinely don't know.. Pat and Woolie pretty much debunked this in their video. They know what's going on, they just choose to be selectively oblivious or ignore it. Or make excuses or make the victim sign this type of fancy form, so they can get away with it or to people above/below can get away with it in their favor. And even if they truly didn't know, it's still a failure on their part. A huge failure. They're not getting my sympathy either way.
If you want to be a leader, then everything that happens under your watch is your responsibility. Including... no, especially the stuff you didn't know about until it blew up in your face. I have zero respect for the majority of corporate management. They're not leaders, they're just micro-managing petty tyrants.
No disrespect, but who the fuck are Pat and Woolie and what credentials do they have in regards to what happens as the head of a billion dollar company or ANY company.
Like i said, If Kotick was notified of this he likely issued orders to the people in the company that handle that sort of thing and expected it done. It is much more likely that Blizzard officials tried to keep this isolated to within Blizzard and kept a lot out of Activisions' notice. I'm not saying management isn't to blame but directing such ire towards the top of the ladder simply due to it being the highest rung is just not a realistic ideal of how a corporation works.
Then you, like Jim Sterling, are just unreasonably angry at the wealth, and are misdirecting that anger from the people who are actually responsible and at fault. No one person can know or handle every situation in a company that big, there is a reason why corporations have HR departments and various layers of management.
It didn't matter who did what, everybody was trying to hide something or make it go away. They're all assholes for doing it.
And once again, that's the main problem: you getting mad at somebody for being justifiably angry. They're not unreasonably angry; especially if they've been trying to tell us this for nearly 10 years. Not my fault you or others refuse to listen or downplay the points they brought up. Jim's been telling us this for years, you just finally chose to listen in the last couple and take notice. And his anger is pretty much at those at the top. The structure too, but I don't blame them for that reasoning. Honestly, I would not mind the system getting a huge overall. Otherwise, if nothing changes, then what's the freaking point?
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Well that is certainly a valid argument and should happen. it wont. but it should and i agree with that idea.
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I wonder if its a coincidence that Riot does League of Legends, and Blizzard does Overwatch, both of them huge in the E-sports scene, and from the sounds of it both companies act like their big sports companies.California has an ongoing lawsuit with Riot Games as well as Activision Blizzard
The state of California is in an ongoing lawsuit with Riot Games as well as Activision Blizzard.
It's a bigger coincidence that Greg Street, who was in the Cosby Suite, is now a lead dev at Riot.
