Current Events > A Letter From Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to All Employees

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https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/letter-ceo-bobby-kotick-all-employees

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Why do gamers hate activision?

they create 100,000 of jobs for the skilled get over it

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SaccharineSmile posted...

Why do gamers hate activision?

they create 100,000 of jobs for the skilled get over it

lol

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A three-dollar bill's more authentic than Bobby Kotick.

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SaccharineSmile posted...

Why do gamers hate activision?

they create 100,000 of jobs for the skilled get over it

Yes why do people hate a company that let the sexual harassment get so bad it led to someones suicide. @SaccharineSmile

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What a bunch of PR bullshit. Listening sessions? Enforced diversity? What a load of rubbish.

Will the people responsible be fired? Will people at the very top who enabled all this be replaced? Will new people be put in to help prevent this? Will HR be fully gutted and replaced for the role in this?

No?

Oh, ok.

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Only way to even remotely begin to fix the problems with Blizzard is for this guy to fire every single person who got away with any sort of harassment / corruption and then step down.

I keep reading these dumb statements and they scream being fake. "We're going to be better". Lol. It's like when Ellen played coy and said she had no idea her own staff hated her.

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All this happened under his watch, Kotick needs to go.

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Its only damage control since he only issued the email after the employees talked about a walk out.

Kotick's probably the biggest scumbag of them all in all of this.

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SaccharineSmile posted...

Why do gamers hate activision?

they create 100,000 of jobs for the skilled get over it

Yikes

I mean not surprising but yikes

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LightningAce11 posted...

All this happened under his watch, Kotick needs to go.

Fact

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Cleo_II posted...

Its only damage control since he only issued the email after the employees talked about a walk out.

Oh no doubt

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https://twitter.com/itshafu/status/1420472254496837632

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More like WACKtivision am I right guys?!

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Funkydog posted...

Will the people responsible be fired? Will people at the very top who enabled all this be replaced? Will new people be put in to help prevent this? Will HR be fully gutted and replaced for the role in this?

No?

Oh, ok.

https://kotaku.com/activision-boss-loses-legal-battle-over-sexual-harassme-452575586

Activision boss Bobby Kotick has lost a legal stoush with renowned lawyer Patricia Glaser over a 2007 sexual harassment case involving Kotick's private jet and one of its former flight attendants.
Kotick and Andrew Gordon, the head of the LA branch of Goldman Sachs investment bankers, run a company called Cove Management, which was created to essentially run a private jet the two men co-owned. One of their pilots was a man by the name of Phil Berg.
Anyway, it was alleged by Cynthia Madvig, a former flight attendant on the jet, that in 2006 Berg pressured her into being his "arm candy"; in other words, a public escort, someone to join him at dinner parties and the like. Madvig declined, at which Berg allegedly "set out to make life miserable" for her, including one instance where she says he made her clean the plane's toilet while he stood there "leering" at her.

Nope


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Funkydog posted...

Will the people responsible be fired? Will people at the very top who enabled all this be replaced? Will new people be put in to help prevent this? Will HR be fully gutted and replaced for the role in this?

No?

Oh, ok.

Oh I'm sure some scapegoat's head will go on the chopping block

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@SaccharineSmile
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No human being with a functional brain believes anything that motherfucker says.

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RedWhiteBlue posted...

But it does seem that Broseph Stalin highly respects him and thinks he's earned every penny.

Defending rotten diarrhea-filled shitbuckets is Broseph's pasttime.

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Activision Blizzard employees respond to Koticks letter

https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2021/07/28/activision-blizzard-statement-1627488256443.png


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From Reddit so uncertain about complete veracity but Kotick found in Epstein's black book

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/dfsrt3/activision_ceo_bobby_kotick_linked_to_jeffrey/

A Letter From CEO Bobby Kotick to All Employees

July 27, 2021 at 8:45 PM EDT

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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jul. 27, 2021-- Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick today sent the following letter to all employees.

July 27, 2021

This has been a difficult and upsetting week.

I want to recognize and thank all those who have come forward in the past and in recent days. I so appreciate your courage. Every voice matters - and we will do a better job of listening now, and in the future.

Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf.

It is imperative that we acknowledge all perspectives and experiences and respect the feelings of those who have been mistreated in any way. I am sorry that we did not provide the right empathy and understanding.

Many of you have told us that active outreach comes from caring so deeply for the Company. That so many people have reached out and shared thoughts, suggestions, and highlighted opportunities for improvement is a powerful reflection of how you care for our communities of colleagues and players and for each other. Ensuring that we have a safe and welcoming work environment is my highest priority. The leadership team has heard you loud and clear.

We are taking swift action to be the compassionate, caring company you came to work for and to ensure a safe environment. There is no place anywhere at our Company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind.

We will do everything possible to make sure that together, we improve and build the kind of inclusive workplace that is essential to foster creativity and inspiration.

I have asked the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of our policies and procedures to ensure that we have and maintain best practices to promote a respectful and inclusive workplace. This work will begin immediately. The WilmerHale team will be led by Stephanie Avakian, who is a member of the management team at WilmerHale and was most recently the Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commissions Division of Enforcement.

We encourage anyone with an experience you believe violates our policies or in any way made you uncomfortable in the workplace to use any of our many existing channels for reporting or to reach out to Stephanie. She and her team at WilmerHale will be available to speak with you on a confidential basis and can be reached at [email protected] or 202-247-2725. Your outreach will be kept confidential. Of course, NO retaliation will be tolerated.

We are committed to long-lasting change. Effective immediately, we will be taking the following actions:

1. Employee Support. We will continue to investigate each and every claim and will not hesitate to take decisive action. To strengthen our capabilities in this area we are adding additional senior staff and other resources to both the Compliance team and the Employee Relations team.
2. Listening Sessions. We know many of you have inspired ideas on how to improve our culture. We will be creating safe spaces, moderated by third parties, for you to speak out and share areas for improvement.
3. Personnel Changes. We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated.
4. Hiring Practices. Earlier this year I sent an email requiring all hiring managers to ensure they have diverse candidate slates for all open positions. We will be adding compliance resources to ensure that our hiring managers are in fact adhering to this directive.
5. In-game Changes. We have heard the input from employee and player communities that some of our in-game content is inappropriate. We are removing that content.

Your well-being remains my priority and I will spare no company resource ensuring that our company has the most welcoming, comfortable, and safe culture possible.

You have my unwavering commitment that we will improve our company together, and we will be the most inspiring, inclusive entertainment company in the world.

Yours sincerely,
Bobby


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It all happened under his watch.
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proceeds to hold his breath for real change

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Bobby Kotick got a $200 million bonus, then fired 190 employees just before Christmas.

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I wanna suplex Bobby Kotick's fatass down in escalator that's going up.


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LightningAce11 posted...

All this happened under his watch, Kotick needs to go.

While he may have nothing do with this, the board of directors will 100% see it this way. He's fucked. He's so done you may as well stick a fork in him.

XxKrebsxX posted...

While he may have nothing do with this, the board of directors will 100% see it this way. He's fucked. He's so done you may as well stick a fork in him.

He was involved in a sexual harassment incident over a decade ago and then all this comes out. He should absolutely be gone.

Plus come on there's no way he didn't know about this.

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