Activision Blizzard Faces Yet Another Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Alleging Rampant Sexism

gamespot.com:

Activision Blizzard is facing yet another lawsuit in relation to the company's alleged culture of sexual harassment and discrimination. This time, it involves a current Blizzard employee who says she was retaliated against for reporting various incidents of sexism and harassment.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court (via Bloomberg) on behalf of a woman referred to only as Jane Doe, in order to protect the woman's identity. She is represented by attorney Lisa Bloom, who held a press conference in front of Blizzard's Irvine, California offices in December in relation to the recently filed lawsuit, during which she shared details on Doe's experiences and called out Blizzard's alleged frat-boy culture that is already the subject of a state of California lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Doe started working in Blizzard's IT department back in 2017 as a senior administrative assistant. On her first day of work, she alleges she was pressured to take shots of tequila and share an embarrassing secret with her coworkers. The lawsuit alleges she was often pressured to drink alcohol, participate in «cube crawls» around the office," and stay after work to play the party-game Jackbox, which she alleges often devolved into questions and answers that were sexual in nature. She alleges she was also subject to unwanted advances, included being propositioned for sex and having a manager try to kiss her.

When Doe allegedly brought these concerns up to others in the company, her concerns were shrugged off, and she began to face retaliation for coming forward with her complaints. She sought to be transferred out of the IT department, but was rejected multiple times for other positions until she wrote a complaint to J.