Former SCUF employee releases sexual harassment allegations against company

TW: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

A former worker of the favored gaming peripheral firm Scuf Gaming, who goes by vivisquid on-line, got here ahead on Monday with allegations of sexual harassment towards quite a few Scuf Gaming workers.

In accordance with vivisquid, not solely did a number of SCUF workers harass them whereas on the firm, but additionally the corporate did nothing to handle this harassment once they reported it to their superiors.

“I’m nonetheless beneath an NDA obligation with the corporate, so I can not/is not going to converse on how the precise firm operates,” they defined. “However I’m beneath no contractual obligation to maintain my private experiences with different workers a secret.”

In accordance with their Twitlonger, at the least 5 Scuf workers engaged in harassing conduct throughout their time with the corporate:

1. An worker labeled Dee allegedly snapped and threw a controller at vivisquid, in addition to allegedly resented them and ignored them for “intruding on a office that was protected for males.”
2. An worker labeled Avery allegedly gossiped with Vivisquid’s boss about who was going to have intercourse along with her first, was “continuously getting sensitive”, repeatedly made undesirable advances towards them, and allegedly said ” nobody would need to rape [them]” once they rejected these advances.
3. Workers labeled Robert and Christian allegedly gossiped with coworkers about vivisquid, demanded they report points to them as a substitute of reporting them to HR, and once they did go to HR concerning the worker labeled Avery, she was allegedly chastized for “making issues tough of their division.”
4. An worker labeled Jakob was allegedly “mega flirty with each woman at work.” Vivisquid alleges that Jakob groped her breasts whereas drunk at an organization social gathering, in addition to engaged in different types of sexual harassment.
5. An worker labeled Jay allegedly sexually harassed a number of ladies, despatched Vivisquid articles about losing a few pounds with no context, would anticipate them within the parking zone after work, and would repeatedly listen in on her conversations.

Vivisquid defined that they reported “all this shit to my lead and supervisor instantly, nothing occurred.”

Vivisquid additionally detailed that she was fired over a Tweet she made venting about one other worker being “a creep” that was reported to HR, after that worker allegedly searched her telephone with out her permission to find her Twitter account.

In follow-up tweets, vivi additional alleged that their boss known as them after they have been fired and apologized for not reporting the harassment. Additionally they defined that their keycard could not entry the entrance workplace space, which is the place HR was situated, that means they must ask for permission to talk to HR. 

“I used to be so excited to have a job for a preferred gaming firm, but when I may take again these two years of expertise, I’d,” they said. “The pay was actually good, however I used to be extremely suicidal my complete time there. If it weren’t for my associate unknowingly at all times being there once I wanted somebody to speak to, I’d completely have ended my life because of the misery that I needed to endure. I want I by no means skilled any of this.”

They concluded their Twitlonger saying, “it is not simply Activision-Blizzard, it occurs in every single place.”

Scuf Gaming responds to the allegations of abuse

Scuf Gaming responded to the allegations of abuse in a Twitter statement on Monday, saying, “we’re very involved by a current publish from a former SCUF worker concerning an allegation of sexual harassment. That is one thing we take extraordinarily critically and we’re urgently investigating this matter to take additional further actions internally.”