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Mass Firing at Lab Zero Leaves Company with No Employees:
Studio head Mike Zaimont of Lab Zero Games laid off the remainder of his staff at the end of August after nearly a quarter of its employees resigned due to sexual harassment accusations lobbed against him. Zaimont now remains the sole employee at the studio.
[...] Following the accusations and resignations, Zaimont was asked by the company's board to step down, but when a deal on his resignation couldn't be reached, Zaimont simply dissolved the board, which was within his powers as temporary studio head.
According to an email from Zaimont featured in a report from Kotaku, the layoffs were due to Lab Zero being unable to meet payroll requirements for its employees, noting that the company had more debt than cash. Details on severance for the terminated workers are apparently still being worked out, and they are able to keep their health insurance through the month of September.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:03AM
Another nutherguy sub, defending asshole bosses and muderous teeny-boppers? Oh, my, what we have come to!
(Score: 4, Touché) by kazzie on Saturday September 05 2020, @09:02AM (1 child)
Is Lab Zero aiming for Employees Zero?
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Saturday September 05 2020, @05:57PM
"FINISH HIM!"
(Score: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Saturday September 05 2020, @12:18PM (2 children)
As is required by law, I believe. If things haven't changed since the last time I had a COBRA situation, they'll also have the option to continue coverage at 100% their own expense for something like a year after that. When I went COBRA in 2006 I think my young family insurance quote was $960 per month, which we actually paid to maintain continuity of coverage until the new company insurance kicked in.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Sunday September 06 2020, @11:54AM (1 child)
COBRA is a valuable asset. You pay your (ex-)employer the full amount of your health care and continue it non-stop.
The problem is that you pay your ex-employer and they in turn pay the premiums, or not. While it is rare there are instances where you pay your employer and they fail to pay your premiums. I have only heard about this in small companies but it does happen. You can sue your former employer for this, but if they are going bankrupt, it is just one more bill that will never be paid.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 06 2020, @01:29PM
What so many people don't process: you can sue, you can win a judgement - you can't spend a judgement, you can't even collect a judgement unless the losing party has exposed assets that the court can coerce into payment and there are tons of "responsible under law" entities in the world who have nothing to lose - effectively running around as irresponsible entities, or in many cases: legal shields for much larger entities that would be responsible if you could manage to get them into court, but you can't because they are slimy corporate bastards hiding behind their destitute human shields.
Example: Sears home services. Walk into a Sears retail outlet, buy a Sears branded shallow well pump, sign a contract provided by a Sears salesman on Sears branded papers for "professional" installation of the shallow well pump. Man shows up in a van with Sears printed big on the side, installs the pump, sign off on a Sears form indicating job completed. Latent defect in the installation, not performed in a workman like manner using inadequate safety provisions, causes severe personal injury the next morning at 4am. Guess who is liable for the damages in this situation? According to my injured father's lawyers: not Sears, but the broke-ass independent contractor they sent to do the job. Could we win judgement against the independent contractor? Probably, although juries of his peers might or might not approve a judgement that pays all medical expenses because that would clearly bankrupt the man. Could we ever collect enough from the proceedings to pay our own legal fees in the prosecution? Almost certainly not.
Yet another failing of "trickle down" theory: having a small number of rich people means you're surrounded by this kind of irresponsible poverty with nothing to lose, they know it, and they act like it - causing even more damage than they would otherwise.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @01:55PM (2 children)
Too bad that all employees were let go, but.....
It's very nice to see employees being punished for their vague and frivolous 'sexual harassment' fabrications instead of the company going full-simpy-cuck and having the accused losing his job over baseless & evidence-less & witness-less 'she-said' fabrications. Then making employees submit to hours of 'all men are all rapists','all women have been raped' HR brainwashing training.
"He asked me if I was raising the pitch of my voice to be like Japanese girls" is not sexual harassment unless you are retarded. Yes, retarded!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @02:33PM
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @05:24PM
Like the words racism, the word sexual assault is undergoing transition:
Yeah that "full conversation" is pretty freakin' mundane. Anyway, go woke, go broke. It needs to happen more. Shame that nest of vipers will get unemployment now.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:22PM (1 child)
Is Zaimont an incel? If he isn't, sounds like he deserves to be one. I would say power corrupted him, but I suspect he was a jerk and a misogynist long before success could have gone to his head.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by darkfeline on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:39PM
I suppose you're basing this entirely off of the verbal allegations made, since the article does not include any evidence of sexual harassment. The conversation that was posted seems well intentioned to someone who does not hate men as a principle, albeit awkward, but then Mike admits to being socially awkward in the very first message. If the other person felt uncomfortable, they should have said that they were uncomfortable and/or cut off the conversation rather than continuing with it. As it is, it looks more like a honeytrap against a socially awkward individual.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:41PM
I was reading the story expecting gunfire, not termination of employment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:01PM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Informative) by hemocyanin on Sunday September 06 2020, @07:56AM (1 child)
He is approached by someone who thanks him for some BDSM content. He responds in an almost completely vanilla manner. It is labeled sexual harassment. Welcome to the new world. Throw away your dictionary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:24PM
Crazy times, huh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:07PM (1 child)
Doesn’t the board have to vote on that? Seems to be bypassing corporate governance
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:13PM
Perhaps they did and they decided to all ragequit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:43PM (1 child)
private companies should be able to make sex part of the job as long as it's disclosed in advance.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:47PM
Sorry your cock is too small for porn and you will never be a porn star.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:34PM (2 children)
He was accused of sexual harassment against the "video game fighting community". Not his employees.
These accusations surfaced after he dared to challenge the violent mob, saying something suggesting Floyd
wasn't a gentle angelic man of every possible virtue. (Rather than convicted of armed robbery and pointing
a loaded gun at a pregnant female)
So this is get woke go broke stuff, basically.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:36PM (1 child)
If you're a confederate flag wearing redneck wearing body armor and waiving an automatic weapon at a _crowd_ of pregnant women, you get a fist bump and a bottle of water from the police.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2020, @01:57PM
[citation needed]
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday September 06 2020, @07:32AM
You're supposed to get a golden parachute and pull the rip-cord while the company still has revenue and isn't headed straight for Chapter 11 or 7.
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