Bungie is racist and is currently being sued by a Black Employee

[Leasy]

Bungie is being sued by its former HR manager | VGC

Ingrid Alm claims she was wrongfully dismissed after speaking up for a Black employee…

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The Battle for Bungie's Soul: Inside the Studio's Struggle for a Better Work Culture - IGN

IGN has spoken to 26 current and former Bungie employees whose accounts of the studio's work culture span overt sexism, boys' club culture, crunch, and HR protection of abusers, as well as more complex stories of microaggressions, systemic inequalities, and more recent stories of a slow but...

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As reported by IGN, Ingrid Alm joined Bungie as HR manager in May 2022, and says she was asked a few months later to investigate the performance of an employee, named in the lawsuit as ‘James Smith’.

According to Alm, Smith told her that he was the only Black employee in a team of 50, and felt he was being singled out by his supervisor because of his race.

Alm reportedly told the employee’s supervisor this and recommended that they and some other employees should take diversity training, but this was rejected on the grounds that the employees “had been there for a long time” and were “highly regarded”.

Alm then claims that Bungie recommended Smith’s contract be terminated, to which Alm disagreed, saying this would be racial bias.

It’s then claimed that Alm sought advice from Dr Courtney Benjamin, Bungie’s director of equity and inclusion, who advised that Smith should get a written warning instead, because terminating him would be “too risky considering the evidence”.

Alm says her supervisor was “extremely angry” at her for talking to Benjamin, and gave her a written warning, before contacting Benjamin to apologise for Alm talking to her.

 

[Why-Fi]

just smile for the cameras baby, watch the birdy

 

[gurf]

And activision had a history of colleagues commiting sexual assault /harassment before M$ decided to buy them.

In either case hope this gets figured out

 

[Neuromancer]

Doesn't surprise me. Tech bros.

 

[ALonelyDad]

sued by a white woman* for standing up for a black employee

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Tech bros are nasty.

Lot of this going on in the industry

 

[Rekkapryde]

Tech bros are nasty.

Lot of this going on in the industry

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

nasty work all around

All these white liberal companies fugazi

 

[5n0man]

Tech bros are nasty.

Lot of this going on in the industry

This

I don't want to see any stan shyt defending this bullshyt.

 

[Fatboi1]

That’s y’all ex

 

[Pressure]

That’s y’all ex

 

[Inertia Creeps]

Bungie the most shamelessly performative fake-woke corporation potentially among ALL entertainment/media industries, not just gaming. Publicly shouting out their own employee resource groups like it's some high school honor roll... while they have ongoing lawsuits and expose scandals from those same employees speaking out about their industry topping toxic (and now most likely racist ) workplace culture every ~6 months. Pretending to champion any optically progressive "movement"/cause like BLM or "Latina/o/x Pride"( ) ... just to sell shytty t-shirts and other merchandise from their own storefront made in some 3rd world sweatshop. All the while their automated algorithims be banning black API developers from their platforms without warning. NASTY work all around.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

That’s y’all ex

EX

We dont claim ha

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

That’s y’all ex

He Wouldnt have posted it if they were still working for ms

 

[In The Zone '98]

One black outta 50 people.

Token hire indeed.