GameStop allegedly fired a gay employee after he reported a coworker’s threats
When Blade later texted Watson to ask why he was being fired when she knew Espinoza’s allegations were false, she allegedly responded, “you people are always so problematic and dramatic. Move on and live with your sin. You are no longer part of GameStop, so I don’t care. Just go away and get right with God.”
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It was so kind of her to provide evidence for the wrongful dismissal case like that.
Discrimination by sexual orientation is not illegal in many states.
Retaliation for reporting illegal sexual harassment is illegal federally.
This happened in Brooklyn, it was illegal there
Literally Sentence 1 of the article you came to discuss without reading:
Not true. If they're covered by title VII of the civil rights act, then the Supreme Court said in 2020 that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a violation. If they have 15 or more employees (which a Gamestop may not have that many, not sure how franchising works there), then it is illegal as far as my non-lawyer read goes.
Current MAGA SCOTUS will strike it down I bet now if it gets to them
Gorsuch and Roberts were in the majority for that one. Even odds. Now if the case on if it covers trans people gets to them no bet.
I can’t believe that a GameStop employee believes in god.
Yea, their business is based on physical game sales, so there's really no excuse for them to believe in games on demand.
It is? I remember GameStop being a thing back in like 2006-2007, but after that not so much until the nonsense stuff on Reddit. Then they did Crypto for a while? I thought they died with Crypto. Are there still GameStop stores around that sell physical games?
Personally I only buy my video game paraphernalia from other godless heathens.
I can't believe anyone over 12 believes in God.
And the ones under 12 only believe in God because they were groomed into it.
Christian values at their best here. Judgement, intolerence, self-rigtheousness.
Why would this chud give a shit if he was bad-mouthed to other gay people on a gay hookup app if he's so clearly straight?
Dude outted himself.
How tf else would he know?
Imaging talking smack to your boss like, "Yaaah I told a rando with no pfp that you suck but not in a good way".
Not an LGBTQ issue, but an HR issue. I see it regularly that the reporting person gets kicked out. HR is a scum department with the only goal to save the company from troubles. They have no intention to care for the employees.
Sounds like this is only a GameStop issue if they don't hold that psychotic manager accountable. Title is pretty disingenuous. I'll be watching to see what kind of action GameStop takes against the manager and how they make the fired employee whole though.
Eh, management represents the company, even more so than standard employees do. What management does, they do in GameStop's name.
Now, that doesn't mean corporate can't step in and try to correct this. They can redeem themselves pretty easily by firing the shit manager and trying to appease and bring back the fired employee. But as it stands, the action was taken in their name, and they have not yet course corrected.
Yeah you're not wrong. I just want to hold my judgement and not trash GS as a whole until I see the response. I like their business but will stop patronizing if they don't handle this.
In my opinion, it's not a good look that the manager felt comfortable doing this, not just that they did it. It's suggestive of culture or climate in management. Maybe just regionally instead of corporate wide, but they apparently weren't worried about it getting back to their boss.
That said, no hiring process is perfect, and sometimes, people do genuinely wild stuff and are shocked when the obvious consequences happen. GameStop as a whole still has every opportunity to redeem themselves, and I wouldn't be very surprised if they do, but this does kind of put them on the back foot.
Agreed!
That's going to be a fun payday
"You people?" "Get right with God"
There is no God!
Another reason to never go to gamestop if you for some reason needed it.
A reminder that being LGB is not a protected class in many states (funnily enough, T is though). So if this happened in a different state, there could be literally no consequences.
And with our "administration" absolutely nothing will fucking happen to them