After half a year of reporting, it's finally out there: two dozen current and former Riot employees say the company's culture is steeped in sexism: kotaku.com/inside-the-cultur…

Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games - Kotaku

Throughout her three years at Riot Games, the company behind League of Legends, Lacy made it her mission to hire a woman into a leadership role. Lacy had

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I’m in this article. @cecianasta has done a wonderful job nailing down what it feels like to work at Riot as a woman. Since I’m seeing other women recount their experiences, I will do the same. THREAD
Cecilia D'Anastasio
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7 Aug 2018
After half a year of reporting, it's finally out there: two dozen current and former Riot employees say the company's culture is steeped in sexism: kotaku.com/inside-the-cultur…

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Ijoined in late 2015. I was thrilled. I had played LoL for years prior and was picked up specifically for my knowledge on building livestreams from nothing as well as podcasting. When I joined, our team was 3 people. That grew to 4, after another team’s reshuffling.
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But our region had a lot of issues early on. People left and so did half of our team. We were doing the League of Legends livestream on twitch out of a closet and scrambling to put together the podcast each episode. It was a labor of love and my manager was kind …
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Reading stories like this makes me want to scream the world into being a better place. The fact that this kind of abuse is rampant is the worst.
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thanks for sharing your story, sorry to hear that anyone has to go through this , i hope you're able to find a place where you can be happy and not deal with this kind of bs
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Holy shit :((((((
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This hurts so much to read. To hear things about a company I've adored for so long, where I've had dreams of working since I started playing LoL. This is purely disgusting. I'm literally at a loss of words because I'm so angry and can't think of anything.
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I've been reading this article in my free time at work since literally 20 minutes after it posted. I knew as soon as I saw the headline you would be part of it, and I'm so glad that you are, for sharing reality and for the relief and support you definitely deserve. Thank you.
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Just wanted to say thank you for speaking out. As someone who just plays League casually and watches the NALCS, I would've never known. I hope the road ahead of you is much brighter than your experience at Riot. No one should be subjected to this.
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yikes. IDK if I can even keep it on my laptop now...
Replying to @MiniWhiteRabbit @cecianasta
Omg!!! I can't believe it!! I hope you'll be better now. I'm so angry!!!! ><
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That's so insanely fucked up. I'm sorry people go through shit like this
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I'm so sorry that this has been your experience. It sounds hellish and nightmarish. I hope that you can find ways to recover.
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So glad you shared your story. Honestly I was reading it and the whole time I was thinking, "I wonder what Kristen would have to say about all this." <3
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I think @DreamHack dreashould hire you bucause they need people who know how to stream