I understand that, ultimately nothing will change unless it affects their money, which it won't. I'll just do what I can do.
Trash company.
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"I'm so sorry": Yves Guillemot apologies for the first time after scandals [Numerama]
- Thread starter CliveLH
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Trash company.
Measures announced:
- Independent investigation by Accenture (report expected by September)
- New Head of Workplace Culture position
- Internal alert system
- External Support centre where employees can go to for support and to report transgressions
- Training course for all employees
- Overhauled HR department with the ability to bypass superiors
- Three new VPs for the Editorial department (prev. Hascoëts playground) coming from a minority background
- Independent investigation by Accenture (report expected by September)
- New Head of Workplace Culture position
- Internal alert system
- External Support centre where employees can go to for support and to report transgressions
- Training course for all employees
- Overhauled HR department with the ability to bypass superiors
- Three new VPs for the Editorial department (prev. Hascoëts playground) coming from a minority background
Fuck this guy, he obviously knew what was going on all these years.
Blacklist Ubisoft game threads on this forum for now.
Blacklist Ubisoft game threads on this forum for now.
This. He was part of that inner circle. Victims even wrote him mails that he ignored. Instead he held weekly meetings on a yacht?
He. Needs. To. Step. Down.
Would be nice to know what companies introduce practices like this without there being a major controversy
And what would that do other than to shame Era members who are playing those games? I'm in the camp of blacklisting Ubisoft altogether from Era. if an Era member wants to discuss a Ubisoft game they should do it elsewhere be it Twitter or another forum or whatever. Ubisoft's magnitude of abuse deserves setting up a precedent of a zero-tolerance policy for this kind of behavior.
Sorry isn't good enough since Yves has been protecting all these predatory people.
Abolish the Ubi.
Abolish the Ubi.
That's on them? The point of having a big disclaimer in every OP about their games is to continue to bring awareness to the issue. If we ban all discussion about Ubisoft's games, then we just stop being a possible source of awareness. It's sweeping the issue under the rug rather than addressing it, because people will just read about their games elsewhere.
Era is not the bulk of exposure of Ubisoft's games. Nothing will change if we completely blacklist them.
He let the abusers resign instead of being fired, after covering them for years.
Fuck him and fuck his corrupt company
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Fuck him and fuck his corrupt company
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Even if by some kind of magic he didn't know about the fuckery his right-hand man was involved in, he'd still be considered negligent for allowing him to do whatever he pleases.
Yeah all this happened under his watch - he was actively involved in brushing this under the rug - Yves doesn't get to get away with an apology he really needs to resign if they truly want to work on improving this
He's sorry he got outed. He should resign and Ubisoft should be boycotted until there's complete and total leadership turnover.
I have reached the point now where I want nothing to do with any one who gives Ubisoft money.
You are directly paying into the pockets of abusers and abuse enablers.
You are directly paying into the pockets of abusers and abuse enablers.
What would happen if Yves resigned? Ubisoft is a family business so I assumed Yves and several other family members take up the bulk of the company board of directors. Like, it's a very big conglomerate so many he's replaceable but if he and his family has the majority of stock I could see his resignation also being the end of "Ubisoft".
I'm also sorry this happened to the >100 people at Ubisoft. But unlike me, Yves is the founder and CEO of Ubisoft. He has a special responsibility towards his employees. And he either really didn't know what was happening in his company, which makes him incompetent, and under his leadership these things will continue to happen, or he knew about it all and didn't do anything to get rid of the perpetrators, which makes him complicit. In either case he needs to step down.
I always thought Ubisoft was a video game developer first and foremost, but now I have to acknowledge that it is primarily a front for a group of sex offenders to act out their fucked up fantasies.
I always thought Ubisoft was a video game developer first and foremost, but now I have to acknowledge that it is primarily a front for a group of sex offenders to act out their fucked up fantasies.
Where are all the Ubisoft defenders now? Everytime someone calls out this garbage company and their garbage games, people show up and vehemently defend them.
As if I needed more reasons to hate AC Origins/Odyssey.
Shitty company that makes shitty games. Fuck them.
As if I needed more reasons to hate AC Origins/Odyssey.
Shitty company that makes shitty games. Fuck them.
I can't ever see Yves resigning. It's their life's work and fought tooth and nail a few years back to stave off a hostile takeover (somewhat ironically by another billionaire French family). The Guillemots are majority shareholder by a fair margin and hold the highest percentage voting rights. Yves and his brothers hold five of the twelve positions on the Board of Directors.
I can only see him leaving on his own accord with either age or disastrous financial performances, both of which are ways off.
Actions count more than words. Empty too late irrelevant words. You failed your employees. Take your ill-gotten bonuses and get out.
Jason specifically mentioned that Yves was in the inner circle and one employee even emailed him about the stuff and he ignored lt
The fact that your reaction to a company facing hundreds of sexual harassements complaints is to basically feeling vindicated because you didn't like their games says a lot about you and how much you care about this issue.
Is it at all possible that HR hid all this from him and he actually just found out? Especially if HR was protecting higher ups rather than employees? Or is he lying?
I am trying to see if there was anyway he could actually claim ignorance or if he is saying he didnt know just so he wont be attacked and forced to resign.
One of the CEO's jobs is to look at HR reports right?
I am trying to see if there was anyway he could actually claim ignorance or if he is saying he didnt know just so he wont be attacked and forced to resign.
One of the CEO's jobs is to look at HR reports right?
I mean, how do you know?
Why is it so hard for people to just say "I don't know". Why do all of you have to have an opinion about any subjects. I know that I hate sexism, harassement and all this shit, I know it happened in Ubisoft, I know many people resigned and it's good.
It's just sick and unhealthy to behave like you do. That's how horrible things happens like someone saying "this person did this horrible thing", with no proof, they everybody harrassing this person, that same person kills him/herself, and then the same persons who harrassed will be like "see, how it's bad, because all of you he killed himself, this poor innocent Angel, what a loss".
If he knew, if he covered horrible people doing horrible things, then yes he does need to resign. But do you know he did? Are you sure? Any proof? No, I dunno, you dunno.
Tired to read all those kinds of shit everyday, be humble people, accept that you don't know everything.
Not surprising, really. I gave the only 2 possible options that come into play here. But yes, it's extremely unlikely that he wasn't aware of what was going on. All in all, the whole affair is just disgusting.
He spent ten minutes detailing measures (check post no. 53) but I expect the bulk of it will wait until Accenture finishes their investigation in September.
Nah he must have known because his right-hand man has been implicated in a lot of shit.
Yves isn't going anywhere and he shouldn't imo.
It's his mess and he should be the one to make up for it. Going away in a gigantic golden parachute isn't going to change one bit inside of ubisoft.
He needs to make this as open and observable as legally possible. The public needs to see these new measures making a difference.
Then, after it goes well for a few years, he can fuck off.
It's his mess and he should be the one to make up for it. Going away in a gigantic golden parachute isn't going to change one bit inside of ubisoft.
He needs to make this as open and observable as legally possible. The public needs to see these new measures making a difference.
Then, after it goes well for a few years, he can fuck off.
SWEEPING CHANGES needed.
Hope this hurts Ubi some financially so that leadership / board makes change including firing peeps that enabled this behavior.
Hope this hurts Ubi some financially so that leadership / board makes change including firing peeps that enabled this behavior.
TBH email isnt the way to reach a CEO. Most CEO's get SO MUCH FUCKING MAIL that its hard to go through them all. It is entirely possible it got lost in the shuffle.
Though he would be getting HR reports right?
Yeah I don't know one could interpret his apology as anything but "I'm sorry this turned into a PR shitstorm."
He's been protecting abusers for years, but he's only sorry now that that has been revealed.
And now I guess he's trying to protect himself.
He's been protecting abusers for years, but he's only sorry now that that has been revealed.
And now I guess he's trying to protect himself.
i'm all for second chances, but this guy is clearly not sorry, he protected this shit for years, he knew very well what was happening
The very minimum would be to fire and replace the whole HR department.
They've been shown to be completely incompetent at best and downright corrupt, corrupting and complicit otherwise.
Like HR is so bad at its job that the whole thing managed to implicate the CEO himself.
As for what ERA should do about this.
The bare minimum would be a blanket ban on Community, review and other hype threads, disclaimer of the kind of shit that goes on in Ubisoft in any thread about their products.
They've been shown to be completely incompetent at best and downright corrupt, corrupting and complicit otherwise.
Like HR is so bad at its job that the whole thing managed to implicate the CEO himself.
As for what ERA should do about this.
The bare minimum would be a blanket ban on Community, review and other hype threads, disclaimer of the kind of shit that goes on in Ubisoft in any thread about their products.