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Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns. (arstechnica.com)

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Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.::Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think those funds should be given to the employee harmed by the harassment. But somehow I think they'll just fill Bungie's coffers.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

The majority of the settlement is reimbursement.

Comer's harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, "executive protection" for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee "needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans."

as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Crazy story. Sounds like that wasn't a punitive amount, that's how much the cost Bungie. They hired executive protection services for the employee, investigators, lawyers (obviously)...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Did you read the article? Bungie claim 380K USD as investigation expenses, amd only 25K in statutory damages and then 80K or so in legal fees.

If they led an investigation themselves then this already is doing a lot in favor of the employee. And possibly means police did not do their job.

Hopefully this piece of shit won't retaliate.

[+] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's fine. Calling this an "interaction" is a pretty significant understatement.

You're going to get sued over a handful of text or not liking somebody. If you decide to run a campaign to harass an employee into quitting/suicide/etc, and throw in death threats, along with packages delivered to their residence... You should 100% get what's coming to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

That should be part of criminal justice not a justice case. If the company I work would get half a mil for the pain I get put through they would drag me through even more shit. Without an extra penny.

I'll just retort to mercenary work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The key difference is that what you did, at least as you described it, was actually not harassment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The legal definition of harassment hasn’t changed. You’ll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What was on the "inedible" pizza I would like to know.