🐱 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.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

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

Deliberately calling a human being "it" is really shitty behavior and would get a middle schooler disciplined, let alone a corporate exec. That's not surrendering to wokeness, that's just a workplace doing the barest minimum to keep employees from getting abused by their bosses.

 

[queue-anon]

Maybe don't behave like the worst kind of autistic tranny when you're working on contract.

So Gregor can be called "he" without a problem, right? Unless it's deadname Bethany and everyone is annoyed with the obnoxious poorly passing Aiden they have to deal with daily. I'm thinking the latter.

So if a person is she/them or he/them do they expect you to use "them" on occasion to validate their identity? Any kiwis know a person like that? How excruciating does the pronoun thing become in their presence?

Glad to see Epic Games told this tranny to fuck off.

A lot of them want both used interchangeably. The articles I've seen that tried to pander to that demand were incomprehensible. Enbies somehow manage to be even more insufferable than a run-of-the-mill tranny. This, among many other reasons, is why they all should be cut out of normal society.

 

[Coldgrip]

Deliberately calling a human being "it" is really shitty behavior and would get a middle schooler disciplined, let alone a corporate exec. That's not surrendering to wokeness, that's just a workplace doing the barest minimum to keep employees from getting abused by their bosses.

Nah, it had it coming.

 

[Bonesjones]

Deliberately calling a human being "it" is really shitty behavior and would get a middle schooler disciplined, let alone a corporate exec. That's not surrendering to wokeness, that's just a workplace doing the barest minimum to keep employees from getting abused by their bosses.

What r ur pronouns