Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.::Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
I think those funds should be given to the employee harmed by the harassment. But somehow I think they'll just fill Bungie's coffers.
63The majority of the settlement is reimbursement.
Comer's harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, "executive protection" for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee "needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans."
as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages
27Crazy story. Sounds like that wasn't a punitive amount, that's how much the cost Bungie. They hired executive protection services for the employee, investigators, lawyers (obviously)...
19Did you read the article? Bungie claim 380K USD as investigation expenses, amd only 25K in statutory damages and then 80K or so in legal fees.
If they led an investigation themselves then this already is doing a lot in favor of the employee. And possibly means police did not do their job.
Hopefully this piece of shit won't retaliate.
11Exactly. At first I thought, great asshole being punished. After a moment of thought the president this sets scares the shit out of me. I've seen far too many court rulings justifying companies recovering "losses" from individuals.
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Not sure how I feel about this. Employees should not be harassed. But setting precedents for corporations to sue individuals based on their interactions with employees is a dangerous dance. I just told a mod in another sub they handled a user posting in the wrong space poorly. What if that could be seen as harassment? Altogether though definitely don't be a racist shitbag.
14I think it's fine. Calling this an "interaction" is a pretty significant understatement.
You're going to get sued over a handful of text or not liking somebody. If you decide to run a campaign to harass an employee into quitting/suicide/etc, and throw in death threats, along with packages delivered to their residence... You should 100% get what's coming to you.
28That should be part of criminal justice not a justice case. If the company I work would get half a mil for the pain I get put through they would drag me through even more shit. Without an extra penny.
I'll just retort to mercenary work
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The key difference is that what you did, at least as you described it, was actually not harassment.
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There's a lot of these sorts of "alignments", where a random but reasonable deep interest (online games, cars) gets a fairly specific kind of sociopathic behaviors (creeps like Comer; endemic conservatives in car culture).
Anger, lack of assimilation of social feedback, male) in common.
Gamer creeps are loners aren't they? Car creeps form clubs.
2What was on the "inedible" pizza I would like to know.
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