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GameStop allegedly fired a gay employee after he reported a coworker’s threats (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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When Blade later texted Watson to ask why he was being fired when she knew Espinoza’s allegations were false, she allegedly responded, “you people are always so problematic and dramatic. Move on and live with your sin. You are no longer part of GameStop, so I don’t care. Just go away and get right with God.”

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[–] 129 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It was so kind of her to provide evidence for the wrongful dismissal case like that.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Discrimination by sexual orientation is not illegal in many states.

    Retaliation for reporting illegal sexual harassment is illegal federally.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago

    Discrimination by sexual orientation is not illegal in many states.

    Literally Sentence 1 of the article you came to discuss without reading:

    Alec Blade, a gay man, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the video game store GameStop, alleging that his coworker at a Brooklyn store made threats and comments against him, creating a hostile workplace that violated a New York human rights law and Title VII, a federal law prohibiting anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination at work.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Not true. If they're covered by title VII of the civil rights act, then the Supreme Court said in 2020 that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a violation. If they have 15 or more employees (which a Gamestop may not have that many, not sure how franchising works there), then it is illegal as far as my non-lawyer read goes.

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    • [–] 49 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I can’t believe that a GameStop employee believes in god.

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    [–] 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    He allegedly mentioned getting people to “jump” Blade in the future, accused Blade of mishandling a customer’s account, and claimed that Blade had bad-mouthed him on the gay hookup app Grindr.

    Why would this chud give a shit if he was bad-mouthed to other gay people on a gay hookup app if he's so clearly straight?

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    • [–] 44 points 3 weeks ago

    Christian values at their best here. Judgement, intolerence, self-rigtheousness.

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    [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Sounds like this is only a GameStop issue if they don't hold that psychotic manager accountable. Title is pretty disingenuous. I'll be watching to see what kind of action GameStop takes against the manager and how they make the fired employee whole though.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Title is pretty disingenuous.

    Eh, management represents the company, even more so than standard employees do. What management does, they do in GameStop's name.

    Now, that doesn't mean corporate can't step in and try to correct this. They can redeem themselves pretty easily by firing the shit manager and trying to appease and bring back the fired employee. But as it stands, the action was taken in their name, and they have not yet course corrected.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah you're not wrong. I just want to hold my judgement and not trash GS as a whole until I see the response. I like their business but will stop patronizing if they don't handle this.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    In my opinion, it's not a good look that the manager felt comfortable doing this, not just that they did it. It's suggestive of culture or climate in management. Maybe just regionally instead of corporate wide, but they apparently weren't worried about it getting back to their boss.

    That said, no hiring process is perfect, and sometimes, people do genuinely wild stuff and are shocked when the obvious consequences happen. GameStop as a whole still has every opportunity to redeem themselves, and I wouldn't be very surprised if they do, but this does kind of put them on the back foot.

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    • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    That's going to be a fun payday

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    [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    "You people?" "Get right with God"

    There is no God!

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    [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Another reason to never go to gamestop if you for some reason needed it.

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago*

    A reminder that being LGB is not a protected class in many states (funnily enough, T is though). So if this happened in a different state, there could be literally no consequences.

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    And with our "administration" absolutely nothing will fucking happen to them

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