> you have two options: Speak out or leave.
While I think it's understandable when people don't speak out, I don't agree that those are the only two options. The small stuff Barry did is meaningful:
"My personal preference was to respond with clarifying language while addressing them by their first name, and convey 'can we just get through the conversation we need to have' non-verbally with my facial expressions and gestures..."
Not everyone has to be a leader like Barry, and not everyone feels the same degree of urgency about these issues. But to feel at peace with yourself, it's worth it to at least not actively participate and perhaps to push (however gently) in the right direction.
Re:The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
by DataJunkie on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:17AM
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Yes, but if you're not interested in continuing in gaming, you can speak out and then quit.
If you leave, you have literally none of those downsides, you've still got a good career and you can go off to one of the many other companies that are just as successful without those downsides.
So to speak up you need to be incredibly principled AND you have to have some very deep stake in making THIS particular multinational corporation better. I think it makes perfect sense not to speak out for the vast majority of people.