Wow: Chief of the Personnel Department of Blizzard is

The Gaming Publisher Activision Blizzard (WOW) continues to deal with the consequences of a sexism action: Focus on the lawsuit and later reports was always the staff department of the company. Now the head of this department leaves, Jesse Meschuk, the company, while further incidents come to the light, reported by serious difficulties in his department.

That's what you know to finish Meschuck: You know very little, it is only known that Meschuck has left the company already this week. This shared Activision Blizzard associated with the resignation of Blizzard boss J. Allen Brack.

Meschuck was the chief of the staff department and held the rank of a "Senior Vice President of Hr", was so far in the hierarchy.

As it looks, Meschuck has also publicly withdrawn: His Twitter account and its linkedin page have been deleted.

Personal Department of Blizzard in the focus of the lawsuit

What were the allegations against the staff department in the lawsuit? In the action of a state authority of California, the staff department was repeatedly mentioned negatively. The lawsuit went a two-year investigation with the knowledge of Blizzard.

So it was said:

• At the Human Resources Department, numerous complaints have been submitted for discrimination, sexual harassment or retaliatory measures, but these complaints were remained without a consequence.
• An internal examination has aroused, the employees would have felt against the staff department "a great lack of trust", the staff department was "not very highly appreciated".
• The staff department had responded to complaints "repellent" and she kept "not confidential"

"Broken Personal Department"

The stranded the situation: After the application came in tweets and report further allegations, which are not dirty against Meschuck, but against the entirety of the personnel department. She was repeatedly referred to as "broken".

For example, employees with the US side have spoken Axios and raised further allegations there. It says:

• The staff department have people who have abusive behavior are even protected against consequences
• People who complained were said, "That's not a fight you want to fight".

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"They behave like a gow"

These are exemplary fame: The Axios page quotes the former Blizzard Employees Nicki Broderick. Brockerick tells you with a manager joined each other, which was considered untouchable:

• The manager once built up over her desk and did not leave her away nor grasping her phone.
• When she complained, it said, "That's no harassment. He did not touch her. "
• After the incident, the career of Broderick, as she says, was significantly limited: she did not receive new projects and was not provided for a transport for three years.

In other cases, you said the personnel department, she "behaved like a Göre" or Broderick should "reverse it" and return to her desk again.

Another employee says she had been physically attacked by a colleague, but that was doubted by the Human Resources Department. There you have told her, one was surprised that she is not wines or hysterical.

Blizzard did not protect her, but she advised her to work from home or to change the department. As she complained again at the staff department, it said, "It's really sorry and he really wants you to work with Blizzard. And he says she were really friendly to him. "

"As if you just talk to nothing"

In addition, the Personnel Department of Mies should have been in writing and have not shown any transparency. An employee says it felt like you just talk to anything. In addition, each report had been a double-edged sword to the personnel department. An employee says:

"You told everyone what you have reported to them. Nothing what the staff department has said was confidential. "

Why was the personnel department so bad? According to the sources of Axios, it should have been a problem that the staff department was apparently understaffed at Activision Blizzard and the staff changed there constantly. There was little Konstanz there, so confidence was also missing in individual contact persons.

At Blizzard, the signs are upstream. The sexism action has already changed the personnel orientation of the WOW developer significantly: These are the two new bosses from Blizzard - what they have done so far