Since I’m seeing other women recount their experiences, I will do the same.
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When I joined, our team was 3 people. That grew to 4, after another team’s reshuffling.
It was a labor of love and my manager was kind …
We had tech issues (that damn audio buzz) but no $$$ to fix it. I lost sleep. I had panic attacks.
We toured other equipment setups that would solve the problem.
Then his manager told him he was being put on a personal …
Days later, I sat outside on Riot grounds when I heard a convo between his two fellow team members, one of which insisted he was his friend. His “friend” said, Well can you IMAGINE if we didn’t take him off of that? Like what WAS that.
I held so many hands…
At first it was shocking. Then it became standard.
I loved it. I believed in it. I fought for it. The podcast, too, though I had to give it up because I was only one person.
But I got told over and over again that we needed more time to prove our the value of it. I had coworkers tell me that Rioters approached them who wanted to stream. He referred them to me but they
I offered to help him write the community plan that hadn’t been written.
I walked out embarrassed, humiliated. In tears.
I quit that Monday.
I know of one or two events at Riot where a rape occurred that went unreported out of fear. It wasn’t like a regular thing where you round up women and rape them or something.
I’m really sorry for causing confusion there.