Bro needs to lay off the cocaine.  

Bold of you to think nobody was going to catch you calling a state that is a quarter black “savages”.

No, for keeping your house from burning down.

Not to mention a lot of municipalities now require defensible space - so whatever tree you pick, it has to have a certain setback.

Looks like they brought him back after he made Very Sorry Face and pinky-swore not to do it again:

It was a different environment in that the people he’s interviewing aren’t his subordinates and he has no real power over them. “Kiss up, kick down” is a thing.

C’mon. There is a huge difference between “high emotional quotient” and “not being an asshole”. It is insulting and ableist to suggest that people who struggle with emotional sophistication (e.g., people who are neurodivergent) just can’t help but be bullies and assholes.

She wasn’t even “forced to resign” over her crap-ass writing. She was bullying junior staffers.

Honey isn’t ‘bee vomit’.

It depends on the laws, but in California it appears that the DFEH has the power to do a lot more than levy fines - among other things the complaint asks for injunctive relief and declaratory relief, which is to say, the court ordering Blizzard to do (or not do) certain things. Without digging into the exact…

Exactly. The shareholder lawsuit and the shadow of SEC enforcement are BIG scary for them.

A company on the receiving end of a government lawsuit doesn’t have control of the narrative the way they do if they’re just shuffling deck chairs to try and make negative publicity go away. 

Thing is, a competent HR department does treat reports of sexual harassment and bad behavior seriously, for the very reason that those things are bad for the company. It puts the company at risk for, oh, say, massive DFEH and shareholder lawsuits, and in the shorter term, it drives away good talent and impedes…

He already heavily implied that one victim was overreacting because she’d been sexually assaulted in the past.

Hey, not offended but I appreciate that. I get what you’re saying about giving people the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to make amends because we’re all imperfect. The problem comes when those good intentions become reflexive, to the point that we’re bending over backwards to insist on ‘second chances’ for p…

It’s harder to let people go in that if you fire them, in thatthey might file a complaint, and then 2-3 years later the NLRB might wag a stern finger at you and make you cut them a moderate check, by which time your other employees all got the message and you don’t have a union.

That’s the problem - we have a lot of idiots who want him out as a “protest vote” but have no clue about what that means for a replacement.

Ah, there’s the other shoe dropping. Blizzard was able to bury employee harassment lawsuits with its arbitration agreement, but it’s a lot harder to distract shareholders losing their money. 

When he had to testify in front of the jury - which almost certainly meant he was put under oath - he admitted he’s used racial slurs.  

“Hostile workplace” means something different, but yeah, there’s not much you can do when the douchebros and their pals in HR are running things.