🐱 Epic Games Allegedly Terminated Contract Of Worker Who Called Out Misgendering In Meetings

https://www.thegamer.com/epic-games-lgbt-pronoun-policy-terminated-worker/amp/

The ex-Epic worker tells us that trans staff are repeatedly misgendered in meetings due to a lack of pronoun sharing.
Epic Games is accused of terminating the contract of a worker who raised concerns over its diversity practices, despite receiving positive performance reports. The allegation was made today by the worker in question, who says their concerns regarding Epic's pronoun practices were ignored.

Going by the pseudonym Gregor, they detail the termination in a thread. Gregor, who uses he/they pronouns, also tells TheGamer that queer people are not safe working for Epic, with trans staff "misgendered on the regular".

"Epic Games fired me for speaking out about their internal diversity practices for pronouns. They said it was about performance. This is easily proven wrong, as I have documentation from 3 days prior describing my performance as 'exceptional'," Gregor writes.

"My contract had been extended through April 1st.I had emails and 3 separate meetings about this the very previous week," they continue. "The outsourcing company said I was more than welcome to apply to other jobs they had, meaning they knew it was bullshit, and paid me for the remainder of Feb."

Speaking to TheGamer, they explained exactly what concerns were raised, which pertained to sharing pronouns during meetings.

"Both Slack and Zoom allow for optional pronoun display behind your name. They [Epic] REFUSE to enable this," they told TheGamer in a DM exchange. "You can opt in/opt out of displaying it, by default it's opt out. That's literally all we wanted, to be able to opt in.

"I had two trans friends leave early from dysphoria/depression on a few notable occasions when they were misgendered publicly in large meetings."

They further claim that two others lost their jobs on the same day, although they do not know if this was related to the pronoun concerns.

Publicly, Epic Games has always been eager to appear LGBTQ+ friendly. The company is yet to respond to the allegations put forward by Gregor, or to reply to TheGamer's request for comment.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

I knew I made the right decision getting Borderlands 3 early on Epic Games. Steam would never fire a troon for troonism.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Based Epicgames not taking shit from the gender special brigade.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I knew I made the right decision getting Borderlands 3 early on Epic Games. Steam would never fire a troon for troonism.

Actually one of Steam's higher ups called a troon "it" and forced him to quit.

 

[Troutsmacked]

It's almost like you were in the workplace for a business that's paying you to get shit done and not a Tumblr meetup.

 

[WonderWino]

"Epic Games fired me for speaking out about their internal diversity practices for pronouns. They said it was about performance. This is easily proven wrong, as I have documentation from 3 days prior describing my performance as 'exceptional'," Gregor writes.

Twist ending: this is indeed true, the employee did receive an exceptional performance rating 3 days earlier. The twist? The manager who gave said rating is a member of kiwifarms and meant exceptional by kf standards

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

The ex-Epic worker tells us that trans staff are repeatedly misgendered in meetings due to a lack of pronoun sharing.
Epic Games is accused of terminating the contract of a worker who raised concerns over its diversity practices, despite receiving positive performance reports. The allegation was made today by the worker in question, who says their concerns regarding Epic's pronoun practices were ignored.

Epic is horseshit but the gender retards need to get kicked in their asses until they 41% themselves.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Troons: This is such an unsafe work environment that we're all quitting

Also troons: How dare they not extend our contracts

 

[Screw Danlon]

"I had two trans friends leave early from dysphoria/depression on a few notable occasions when they were misgendered publicly in large meetings."

Dude, I spent the last 3 days being screamed at by customers because 2 of our delivery trucks had mechanical problems and so deliveries got delayed for the rest of the week.

If someone calling you the “wrong gender” is so traumatizing that you have to leave work early, you deserve to be fired.

 

[BelUwUga]

Twist ending: this is indeed true, the employee did receive an exceptional performance rating 3 days earlier. The twist? The manager who gave said rating is a member of kiwifarms and meant exceptional by kf standards

"Exceptional" has a very different corporate meaning that is much closer to KF's use than common use. Corporations run on policy to prevent liability. Policies can be researched and enacted for important issues. Exceptions are not good and are not supposed to happen. "Exceptional" is the kind of code-word you use to get an employee to sign an improvement plan to get with the fucking program. Most recognize it as a warning you're pushing the envelope. Good job reading the room unemployed troon.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

'Mentally ill contract QA worker unable to parley his fungible skills into being a political officer, film at 11.'

 

[Kheapathic]

"Epic Games fired me for speaking out about their internal diversity practices for pronouns. They said it was about performance. This is easily proven wrong, as I have documentation from 3 days prior describing my performance as 'exceptional'," Gregor writes.

It was probably both; if they have records of you being bad at your job and an obnoxious piece of shit, they'll go for the one that's more law suit averse. And as much as I hate meetings, I'd have for them to be extended because someone needs to correct everyone on your proper pronoun. You're a worker, shut the fuck up and code, or do whatever it is you do, slave.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Both Slack and Zoom allow for optional pronoun display behind your name. They [Epic] REFUSE to enable this,"

Dude, you can just edit your name in Zoom to include the pronouns. These people are retarded.

 

[Looney Troons]

Based? Is EGS a no troon zone?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Still not buying Kingdom Hearts off your store, Tim.

 

[DamnWolves!]

It really does go to show you how essential the media and tech are to controlling the world, at least in the West.

Here we have an issue that 99.999% of people do not give a shit about. I'm sure all the nerd programmers at Epic just want to do their jobs and make cool shit, but because they have an HR department that cares about "diversity", they hired a troon (because I guess trooning our gives you a valuable "perspective" that Epic would have never gotten otherwise--remember, that's the stated value proposition of "diversity"). That troon feels mistreated because they're being treated like everyone else, and runs to a corrupt media establishment also full of troons (because that's what journalism is now).

I don't know how many of you work for big corporations, but it doesn't matter what the new outlet reporting on something is--if it hits Google News, it's like a category 1 emergency. This is why some commie gaming rag or race baiting nonsense like The Root gets to be on the news feed, but Project Veritas or The Rebel are removed as "misinformation". So, someone high up at Epic is going to throw a shitfit, every meeting will start with a pronouncement or pronouns, everyone's lives will get a little worse, and the Overton window will march ever-forward toward progressive oblivion.

The best lesson everyone can take from this is: a) don't hire serious HR people b) whatever you do, don't hire a sexual minority because they're going to drag your company through the mud.

 

[Kheapathic]

I don't know how many of you work for big corporations, but it doesn't matter what the new outlet reporting on something is--if it hits Google News, it's like a category 1 emergency.

I worked for one of the largest IT/Consulting companies in the world; every week was an HR feel good about black/women/diversity history month or other shit, to include "Hey, our CEO is a woman at the top of her game." I literally had a "Company Shills" email folder where all that shit went to. I had at least one email in the folder every fucking day.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

The best lesson everyone can take from this is: a) don't hire serious HR people

Just don't have an HR department. What do they do other than bother everybody?

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

This has improved my opinion of EGS.

 

[kadoink]

Sounds like someone is allegedly a faggot.