Ubisoft trial witnesses testify to "being tied to a chair, forced to do handstands, and subjected to constant comments about sex"
Ubisoft developers have told a French court that former execs Serge Hascoet, Tommy Francois, and Guillaume Patrux alleg…
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Wtf, the amount of bullshit that happened there.
What. The. Fuck. I had heard about shit at Ubisoft, but had no idea it went this far...
Jesus christ i did not expect to see that headline, c'mon ubisoft, have some respect, you aren't blizzard just yet
Sounds like they went considerably beyond Blizzard, at least in treatment of workers.
I mean Blizard was sued for harassing an employee so badly they committed suicide, so I'm not sure Ubisoft is going beyond what blizzard did. Both companies are trash
Why the fuck are gaming companies like this? If it just that they're smaller companies with very relaxed atmospheres? I have worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and can't imagine anything even remotely resembling any of this shit going down without people getting their ass handed to them by HR.
A part of the answer is that a lot of gaming companies started out as a bunch of dudes in a basement who put a game together. Fast forward a few years and the same dudes are suddenly heads of big multi-million companies with dozens of employees, while they never had to learn anything about management. It's pretty disillusioning how many upper managers in the gaming industry are just "vibing" their way through it all.