It’s just a simple video about a videogame, like any other videogame video. Totally not about Zenimax and Bethesda being horrible to an employee. Not at all.
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I missed the Bethesda dance so much and I didn’t even realize it until it was back!
I’m interested in Starfield as a game, but I will do everything I can so that me and many other users can pirate the crap out of the game.
Thanks for this important vid. Keep up the great work, Steph!
There’s a twinge of melancholy in seeing a “pre-Steph” clip. Not for any gender issues but because that iconic cane was (if I recall correctly) damaged and lost to time. One of the few memorable props never to be replaced.
I heard the same lack of empathy in that recorded call that I have heard in numerous lay-off situations. The choice has already been made. There are no appeals. They know that this is going to devastate you. Your feelings do not matter. The only thing that matters is keeping the company out of legal trouble. Every word out of their mouth is hollow, devoid of empathy, calculated and ripe with corporate double-speak. It does not matter which stage of the seven stages of grief you go through. Their goal is to end the call free of legal liability and able to tick off a checkbox on their list. Then after your life is ruined, they can go get a coffee and get back to the next thing on their list.
Just for the record … I am a CIS person and I find this ABSOLUTELY despicable! I DO care about stuff like that even though I like the videogames 🙂
So then … add one more company to my “never buy again” shit-list right next to UBI, Konami, EA and Acti/Blizz. Getting quite crowded …
I don’t have to understand what anybody goes through with their life, but I’ve learned to accept it and just be positive wherever possible.
As for Starfield, I was intending on getting the PS5 version because that’s my main console, but now I don’t plan on getting it at all as I simply don’t want to boot up my Xbox… I hate how MS thinks buying big publishers up and slapping their logo on it is how to make their brand better.
Short cutting their way to the top like this makes me want to distance myself from them more and more.
Fucking outrageous that I only follow trans people on twitter and yet somehow I’ve seen them all arguing about how it’s fine the game runs at 30fps, and not a mention of this fucking nightmare, not one single fucking mention.
Thank God for James Stephanie Sterling! And may the shitheels at Bethesda rot in hell.
Holy fuck, its time to shit on bethesda. What a blast from the past.
Truly though what a piece of shit company for doing this to her.
Hair’s looking fantastic Steph ❤
If the management truly didn’t believe they weren’t being discriminatory, they wouldn’t have tried to get her to sign an agreement that she wouldn’t take them to court over discrimination.
No one tries to preempt a legal case unless they know there’s a case there.
They knew EXACTLY what they fucking did.
The signs are absolutely noticeable. How people’s attitudes change when they assume you’re just another cishet white person, to when they find out you’re queer, trans, or of a certain minority. The subtle discomfort and snide commentary, the sudden influx of questions and challenges to everything you are and do. A former place of comfort becoming yet another place where you need to keep your guard up. It’s insidious and exhausting.
I’m a cis heterosexual and probably won’t truly understand what others go through, but on that last tidbit that it’s little things that form a pattern;
Honestly, all of those little things are just straight up bad..
Performance review going from average to straight 1s on all points? That’s called lying. You know we used to have yearly performance reviews, then one year there’s a full page article in the papers on how these say more about the reviewer than the reviewed, so we cut it out and hung it in the office. Now I can’t know for sure it’s because of us or a long slow process that had been going for years, but the next year there were no more performance reviews. Didn’t fit the ‘company profile’.
If an employee has had a surgery that, if they don’t take another will jeopardize their health, and then going “We’ll pay for it if you quit quietly.” in a 3rd world country where insurance is often dependent on employment is just straight up extortion.
Throwing a hissyfit when someone takes some sick leave days, that’s just pathetic.
Telling someone their focus isn’t on the job when they’re calling you to say they’ll be working sooner after surgery is just taking the piss.
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Suffice to say I had to pause this video a lot of times because I couldn’t stand nearly every single word from that HR person’s mouth.
Personally, I don’t come to you for “fun”. I come to you to be informed about news covering a hobby I enjoy, so I can educate myself to become a more responsible consumer within that hobby. That being said, you always present this news in a very entertaining way.
Your videos have had a major impact on which developers I’m willing to support with my money, and you’ve also pulled me specifically out of the hell that is the “free”-to-play genre. Thank God for you.
Christ you look so much better now, literally night and day. Stay fabulous darling!
When I came out as trans in college, I suddenly found myself going from a straight-A student with fantastic relationships with all my professors and my whole future laid out in front of me to getting Ds in most of my classes for things outside of my control, for attendance and classroom performance. Some of my professors went from my friends to people who were openly insulting me and harassing me in a classroom setting, forcing me out of the room at times, and then giving me poor grades when i was either too afraid to attend class or sat in the back with my mouth shut.
I went to the university to ask for accomodations, for a plan to make sure my grades were not affected by my inability to co-exist with those who were showing nothing but disdain for me, but the failing grades persisted and I was forced to either add another entire year onto my college career to make up those classes, classes I knew I couldnt magically pass without the consent of my bigoted professors, or to drop out of college entirely and set my future on fire anyway. I wasn’t getting a degree no matter what I chose, so I chose the option that built up less student debt.
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I fully understand this. I have a bunch of mental health issues, but I’m very high functioning nonetheless. I don’t tend to tell people who aren’t close friends about this because the moment I do people’s attitudes to me tend to change. There’s a tention there that wasn’t there before.
It’s funny you mention allergies because now that I think about it, yeah some people really do hate to deal with allergies. I’m also deathly allergic to nuts and I’ve been told I was being whiney because my own family didn’t think of nut-free options. My own family, who have known for all the 19 years of my life I have a nut allergy, can’t simply think of nut-free alternatives to stuff like chocolate cake. Mkay.
Oh and lets not get started about asking to be little less homophobic when an openly out bisexual is in the neighbor hood or asking to try to use more gender neutral language because it might make groups feel more inclusive.