So if I get this right .. the workers originally worked in the office. Due to Covid, most of them ended up working from home. Covid restrictions ended, Blizzard eventually decided to get people back into the office .. and people didn't like it. They'd gotten too used to being at home, so kicked up a fuss, shouted the odds, got called into a meeting and got fired because (a) they no longer wanted to work in the situation they were originally employed, and (b) they used inappropriate language in relation to this.I used to work in an office .. if I had done EITHER of these things I'd be up for potentially being fired. They had the right to change my contract with virtually no warning, move to to a different office with little warning, ask me to work at home or the office with very little warning. Why would these workers be any different? (and yes .. I could object to any of these things, but the only recourse I had was to either do it, or leave).I don't live in the US .. but here in the UK, being dismissed for either of things wouldn't be a surprise. I had a friend recently who was dismissed because she took some time off work (less than a week) when her son-in-law died suddenly and unexpectedly. She had no recourse. The former employer even refused to give references to future potential employers. I worked with a lady once who was heavily pregnant, had a slipped disc in her back and struggled to work .. and because she'd worked there (just) less than 2 years, the company could fire her for being off ill too much.
"It is in the best interest of ABK that you are no longer employed here." And that's probably close to the truth anyways if the employees hate working there so much. You can file charges all you want but if you say that they won't amount to anything.
This is a satire that builds on the move of Activision away from California to avoid being under constant attack from California's progressive woke regulators. Companies that operate in California, especially those like Oracle or Tesla who criticize the progressive woke environment, and god forbid, relocate outside of California become targets of California's progressive woke regulators.
Protesting is one thing, but directing foul and abusive language at others is not on. You can imagine the uproar if a senior manager or executive used such language against a lower level employee, these things have to go both ways.
I wish people would think more critically about this:1. Working at the office was standard practice since the days of offices existing2. The only reason this ended for a short period of 2 years, was because an extremely unusual circumstance - a pandemic3. The pandemic is now over in the US, so working from home is no longer a mandatory or even logical safety requirement4. The workers didn't like this and had a public, explicative ridden outrage at their employerThe above is all fact and is easily worthy of being pulled into an office by management. You've got an unhappy worker, a worker who seems to be unhappy working, a worker that is making the workplace look like a den of brats, and lastly a worker that has publicly disparaged their workplace.All of the above means you're at bare minimum getting a warning - in any work place - anywhere in the world - from the dawn of time until now.BUT, did it warrant being fired? That's a personal opinion, but that's assuming that is all that happened. Do I think the type of person that does the above, is the type of person that would sit in an office, with a manager, be warned about their behaviour, and not escalate further? No, I don't. I think it is extremely likely that the workers escalated further within the meeting and the employer realised the worker was a lost cause.If you don't want to work in an office, thats perfectly fine - I will never work at a hospital, its just not my thing. But the world doesn't revolve around me - hospitals don't change because I don't want to work there, I simply don't get a job there. But then again, I moved past my teenager phase where everyone, everywhere, even billion dollar companies, revolve exclusively around my needs and comfort.
I love it. These idiots talk &*!@ in a public settings and expect there to be no repercussions. I guarantee you there is a clause in their contract about about professionalism, and they just broke it. These charges will go no where. Spoiled ass people that want to whine because they actually have to go back into an office to work.. Were they hired to work from home? No they were office employees who caught a break and had the luxury to work from home for a period of time.. That period is over.. Suck it up and do the job you were paid to do, in the location you were hired for...
In my company, abhorrent behavior gets you instant fired, as it is in the employee handbook and a condition of your employment. Anybody can make the claim, and if upheld in the HR meeting, you are gone. We have a union too, and the IBEW can't stop someone for being fired from an abhorrent behavior claim. Cursing at someone in any regard falls in that category.
I have a feeling good part of people in comments clearly do not work. I mean this is a gaming site, so that's kinda expected, but still, people, you seem to be a tad detached from reality if you think it's in your rights to be rude to bosses (in general, not just in context of this case, if it's true).