PR Boss Nicked £19,000 From Activision

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And maybe she should have thought about her son BEFORE she stole the god damn money.

And yeah as CardinalPiggles said: Probably should've thought about her son back when she was making the decision if she should become a CRIMINAL OR NOT.

Not to support the woman - she's a thief, obviously, and that's bad - but remember that Black Ops, the game she was working on, was finished in November 2010, and her son is 2 years old as of now.
If she was stealing the money before the game was released, and her son only just became 2 recently, it's technically possible that she was stealing money before she was even pregnant. And, ya know, I personally have trouble thinking about something that doesn't yet exist myself, dunno 'bout you.
I mean, the chances are semi slim, but there's still a possibility. Just saying.

Still, I don't think I'd steal money from a big company, child or no. But then again, I suppose the idea of "Hey, it's a big company, they'll cope," coupled with the extravagant lifestyle, and everything else... Might have made it much more tempting to her. So, semi-explainable, though definitely not something she should have been doing.

Oh and, kind of off topic, but;

...she invited her to boss the engagement party.

Typo here, Grey.
...Hey, someone was gonna find it and mention it, might as well be me.
[sub] ... Please don't ban me. ;-; [/sub]

 

[Madman Muntz]

"An Activision corporate spokesperson was too busy reclining on a carpet made of living concubines and admiring his new three piece suit wrought entirely of gold to make a statement."

Personal opinion, this isn't theft, its karmatic justice.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Wait a second. Let me wrap my head around this. People are honestly upset this woman stole all that money from Activision and did no work for it...while Activision bilks far, far more from the wallets of consumers world wide every year (while doing the same amount of work, mind you)and charging exorbitant prices for piddly DLC, and that's okay?

It isn't stealing when people willingly give you their money.

Activision doesn't put a gun to your head and make you buy microsoft points to spend on their games' DLC.

But yes, I'm actively upset that this woman was sentenced to multiple months of Jail time, but the judge said "nah, you didn't think you'd actually have to serve, did ya?" Might as well have not sentenced the woman, and said that her crime wasn't worth prison time.

Trust me, in the wonderful world of legal fairyland, this example right here is pretty low key and boring.

How about a lady that arranged for her estranged husband to be murdered, evading justice for a rough ten years and counting now, because, miraculously, she always manages to get or be pregnant by the time she's supposed to go to jail? All her lawyers and counselors, as well as her medical bills are paid for by tax payer money. She's living the good life.

Some people are playing the system, and not all of them are rich or well off.

Still, what these two folks did deserves punishment. She went on a premarital shopping spree, and her colleague and partner in crime stole half a dozen iPads from his employer and had them pay for his family holiday... but I, too, really think it's not 'fair' in the most traditional meaning of the word if the guy gets what he deserves and the lady who caused n times the amount of damage gets pretty much away with it. The consequences for all of us? More control, less trust, shittier climate. That's what you get for being the same species as some random thief. No fair!

 

[88chaz88]

While I made a joke, I also made a point, but it seems to have been ignored.

As a joke, it worked (may not have been funny though), as a point it fails. People willingly buy CoD games because they enjoy them. Shocking, I know, but that's the truth of it. It doesn't matter how much work Activision put into the series they're not stealing money.

 

[VoidWanderer]

*Reads article, then grabs bag of microwavable popcorn*

*Reads posts so far while popcorn pops*

'Oh no, poor Activision'

DING!

*Grabs popcorn*

It's not really theft, for Kathryn. Misappropriation of funds, yes. Theft, no. And technically it is funding for Activision and Call of Duty, isn't it. As a matter of fact, this could be even more successful when you consider how many online articles there will be about this, and people posting links to it... Not bad for what amounts to free preparations for her wedding.

Her spouse stealing iPads is theft, and he is being appropriately punished. But honestly, given the embarrassing budgets the CoD games get, do we really care?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Thieves and liars working for Activision, I'm surprised they weren't promoted.

How does she get off stealing when a dude who swung on a stone block gets jail time?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8639930/Pink-Floyd-guitarists-son-Charlie-Gilmour-jailed-for-drug-fuelled-rampage.html

Because it wasn't just any stone block, it's about the only thing us English hold sacred (beer and fottball being the other things).

Frankly he's lucky no one hunted him down and killed him.

 

[kailus13]

Thieves and liars working for Activision, I'm surprised they weren't promoted.

How does she get off stealing when a dude who swung on a stone block gets jail time?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8639930/Pink-Floyd-guitarists-son-Charlie-Gilmour-jailed-for-drug-fuelled-rampage.html

Because it wasn't just any stone block, it's about the only thing us English hold sacred (beer and fottball being the other things).

Frankly he's lucky no one hunted him down and killed him.

Being English myself, I know what the cenotaph is. I just think he should have been fined or ordered to do community service instead of being sent to prison.

 

[LordMonty]

Daily Mail is the wisest of all the worlds news outlets we clearly cannot even imagin the scope and breath of ther eunderstanding of the gaming corperation world... but its kinda a fair point at least activision has customer service, back in the day every time wow was down for a day with server instqability i'd get a day added back on my sub, I imagine EA would find a way to charge me for that.

 

[Vareoth]

I would say that it's only 19000 pounds, big whoop.

Still not a good idea though.

 

[1337mokro]

***** PLEASE! Like she even spent any time with that kid. Probably hired some poor woman to do it for 10$ an hour.

Activisions biggest problem is that they are successful and don't want to change up anything. Now whilst I don't resent them for that I resent them for sitting on an OCEAN of IP's that they refuse to use, they don't even OFFER to sell them back to the devs they originally coerced them from.

So whilst Activision still isn't a good company it is a company I can avoid just by not buying their games. They literally make just two or three games that have a fanbase and the rest is all movie licenses. I thin once people get sick of COD the way they got sick of Westerns Activision will get sold for peanuts.

EA on the other hand, is America's most evil corporation two years in a row for good reason. They actively go out of their way to reach Activisions level of success by aping them. In the process destroying and killing studios that made games that I loved all in an effort to BE Call of Duty.

(Mac Walters as lead writer, WHUT?!)

Forgetting that they could run a profitable company just by making the games people wanted on a tightly managed budget. Instead of homogenizing everything into a shooter paste to feed the masses.

 

[Slash2x]

*Reads article, then grabs bag of microwavable popcorn*

*Reads posts so far while popcorn pops*

'Oh no, poor Activision'

DING!

*Grabs popcorn*

It's not really theft, for Kathryn. Misappropriation of funds, yes. Theft, no. And technically it is funding for Activision and Call of Duty, isn't it. As a matter of fact, this could be even more successful when you consider how many online articles there will be about this, and people posting links to it... Not bad for what amounts to free preparations for her wedding.

Her spouse stealing iPads is theft, and he is being appropriately punished. But honestly, given the embarrassing budgets the CoD games get, do we really care?

I submit that it was not even that, it was a PR budget... To draw attention to the game....... That we are all now talking about.... and it getting coverage on networks that would not ordinarily cover it.....

I think they should give her a raise....

 

[Quellist]

*Shrug* its Activision, they can afford it. In her position a lot of people would be tempted to abuse their expense account to some extent. I'm not advocating theft just pointing out how shitty human nature is and i wonder how many people outraged at her might not have tried the same in that situation.

To the people angry at her for getting a suspended sentence i suggest you be angry at the system instead, its not like Kirton was sending poor people to jail in her spare time

 

[unacomn]

I'm sorry but "ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work" is some sort of punishment to these people?
My dad is probably in the thousands of hours by now, and he actually does his job. But hey, that's the economy, amairite?