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LudicrousSpeed on 15 October 2017
Kerotan said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
Shitty PR considering the situation.

We don't even know the situation.  Shitty witch hunt without any evidence. 

Yeah, so you don't know what a witch hunt is LOL.



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think-man on 15 October 2017
Snoopy said:
Sony and Naughty dog are innocent until proven guilty.

Finally a post of yours that I agree with xD



 

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Jumpin on 15 October 2017
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.



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Jumpin on 15 October 2017
PhatChips said:
Of course they wouldn't say there is evidence. They were trying to bribe that guy after all.

A standard severance agreement is not a bribe. It’s typical corporate policy, and the law in many countries for severance to be offered.



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KLXVER on 15 October 2017

Well if a phone call is all he has to go on, then its going to be an uphill battle. Hope he has some kind of evidence if it really happened though.



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o_O.Q on 15 October 2017
PhatChips said:
Of course they wouldn't say there is evidence. They were trying to bribe that guy after all.

can you share the evidence that convinced you?



deskpro2k3 on 15 October 2017

any sexual harassment claims either true or false has detrimental effects. the damage is done



SuperNova on 15 October 2017
Madword said:
SuperNova said:
Well, according to him Sony tried to pay him off so that he would shut his mouth about this. It's not like a corperation with that mindset would just come out and admit to heinous misconduct now.

That being said this will be hard to prove or disprove unless Dave Ballard has hard evidence, wittnesses and names.
Whatever the case, it deserves being taken seriously.

Its common in the industry when you want to get rid of someone (mostly someone who you dont want to work for the company because they are a problem employee) you offer then salary x so many months (I've seen it happen in the UK at two different companies - not me but others, so I guess this could happen in the USA). Personally 20K is high, but apparently whats being said over at Neogaf this is quite a normal amount as it can take into account other factors such as time in Lieu etc.

Dont know why people assume that sony are paying him off, they could have just been trying to get him out of the company. The guy said himself he was having a breakdown, doesnt sound like an employee around if they are in that state. Not saying this is right or wrong, but there is so much in the air, too many people making assumptions one way or another.

Uh, he said he was having a breakdown because he was being sexually harrassed. There's as little evidence to suggest that he was a 'problem employee' as there is for anything else, so attemting to play down his own accord by twisting his own words isn't helping the situation any.

You, or 'people on neogaf' went through way bigger leaps of assumptions, to make Dave Ballard seem like an implicit liar, then I ever did when I basically said: If there's any truth to his story, they would not admit to that in an official PR statement.

And even if he was just having a regular old breakdown in an industry that is rife with bad working conditions, no security, exploitation of employees and the suitably mystified 'crunch' and their respose to a mental health issue is: 'take money and get lost', they are still scumbags.

Wich doesn't change that all of this is speculation.



ArchangelMadzz on 15 October 2017
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
ArchangelMadzz said:

Looks like none of those things will happen as there isn't any evidence of a report. So it can't really go any further unfortunately

"unfortunately"

So you're assuming there's something to go further with?  It's not unfortunate if this was a false accusation.  It should end here IF that's the case.

No, I use the words 'unforunately' because either ND's name will never be cleared or justice will never be had if a sexual harrassment had taken place. 



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DaveTheMinion13 on 15 October 2017

We in the world where people say don't believe everything on the internet..........than someone accuses someone of something I've the internet and an angry mob who's gotten no evidence comes out to attack the accused lol
Guess people didn't get the memo growing up



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