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Friday, 14 December 2018

Riot executive suspended for two months for inappropriate behaviour

Riot Games have punished chief operating officer Scot Gelb with two months’ unpaid suspension plus a little training, Kotaku report, for his highly visible role in the recent public revelations that Riot’s workplace culture is a trash fire. Gelb was the fella alleged to have slapped other men’s testicles, dry humped co-workers, and farted in faces. When the League Of Legends developers broadly acknowledged complaints about the workplace (without specifically addressing any charges of bro-ing out, discrimination, or sexual harassment), they vowed to remake their culture, saying “we’ve never backed down from a challenge before and we don’t plan to start now.” Their visible actions since then have suggested they still don’t really care.

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Source : rockpapershotgun.com