Former Naughty Dog Employee Says He Was Sexually Harassed

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Madword said:

The hours thing is totally unacceptable in a company. Even when I have to pick up a few extra hours because of issues outside my control it knackers me out and also drains the excitement of life. I've done worse crunch 2+ years ago and its horrid, Sony definitely need to sort that out as its just not helpful to a teams success.

As for this case, like anything, there are two sides to a story. Perhaps an incident did happen which is shocking and taken into account with the stupid crunch is unacceptable, or perhaps the employee is one of those employees that has the everything is against them mentality (I've met a few people like that who will always see a weird side to anything).

As for the payoff. I've worked in companies where an employee is doing a poor job and they've been there a long time and sometimes to get rid of them they pay them a specific salary amount to just get them out of the building because they are so negative its bringing down the rest of the team. Though 20k is a lot.

So I guess what I am saying is, who knows what happen, but its going to be interesting to see where this goes from here. If they are lying and it gains news coverage, I wouldn't be surprised if Sony sue.

20k is not a lot in terms of sexual harassment cases.