Naughty Dog Respond To Sexual Harassment Allegations.

[DivinePaladin]

Jumpin said:

DivinePaladin said:
I think there's a lot left to this story that's going to come out over time, if it is in fact a story. The moment PlayStation's HR got involved is the moment I started speculating. It's a shame to say, but in many US companies the HR acts to protect the company, not the workers. I can absolutely see things playing out as it did, with both sides technically telling the truth - if the HR rep blew a whistle, then he/she wouldn't have kept a record; ND would have no record because PlayStation was involved already; all the while this man may have been sexually harassed, and presumably by a lead high enough up that the PlayStation HR rep felt it more important to protect Uncharted 4's upcoming launch, ND, and by extension Sony by escalating this quickly.

This all sounds like conspiracy obviously, and I'm not fond of speculating this much, but it's food for thought on an issue where people are already drawing battle lines for some reason

HR stands for Human Resources; they’re common across all corporations. It is their job to handle sevrance packages. It’s not at all weird that they’re involved with this, it’s standard procedure - not a conspiracy.

You seem to have missed the point of what I said entirely. I know what HR stands for (fun fact, technically I work HR, so yeah) but especially in the US, in larger corporations, the focus tends to be on protecting the company at the end of the day, not necessarily the individual employee.  Coincidentally just today on Reddit near the top of /r/all is a thread full of (anecdotal) stories reminding people that HR is nothing close to your friend in many companies. 

 

It's a shame to say, but things don't work the way they're designed to. It's naive to think something like this can't happen the way it's described. The burden of proof will obviously fall on the employee here, though. That's why I'm leaving my mind open until the story fully develops.