Japanese Game Developer Apparently Harassed So Much, She Attempted Suicide

[DEMONKAI]

Wow..

News at Kotaku here

http://kotaku.com/5911353/japanese-game-developer-apparently-harassed-so-much-she-attempted-suicide

In 2009, a twenty-something female joined Osaka-based game developer Capcom. The new employee was assigned to a couple of different games before becoming a member of the team developing Dragon's Dogma, Capcom's upcoming big budget title.

At first things were good. But by that December, things got awful—really awful. According to a recently released lawsuit, the new employee apparently felt so bullied at Capcom that she tried to take her own life.

A senior female employee was assigned to the Dragon's Dogma team, and this senior employee apparently made the young woman's life miserable. Her new boss supposedly reprimanded only her at meetings and assigned the young woman impossible tasks with zero instructions on how to complete them.

In the court filing, the senior employee's behavior was described as "irrational" and "repeated". The young employee felt isolated on the Dragon's Dogma team.

The young employee thought the best way she could help Capcom was to create a database to help internal game development become more efficient. It was a huge project, and the young employee's superiors signed off on the project, realizing how important it could be. She thought by creating the database, she could show her worth to the Dragon's Dogma team. In addition to her regular work, the young employee slogged away on the database, working every day in July and August 2010 well into the night.

Then, suddenly, on October 6, 2010, the young woman was yanked from the Dragon's Dogma team. The database was reassigned to another department. Her boss apparently said, "Even if the database is a success, you are worthless to the team."

Between October 20 and November 4, two other superiors began attempting to get the young employee to quit, saying "she's problematic", "she abandons her work", "she skips meetings", and "her ideas stink". It got so bad that the young employee supposedly went to Capcom's HR claiming harassment. HR did nothing.

The harassment did not stop. It got worse and worse until November 11 of that year when the woman sought medical help and was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. And on December 10, the young employee took time off of work. She was depressed and dejected, and she took a large quantity of sleeping pills, antidepressants, and cold medicine in hopes of killing herself. The young woman slept for four days, but thankfully, she did not die.

Even after her mental and physical health improved and even after she finished rehabilitation, there were those at Capcom who apparently did everything possible to make sure she couldn't work, by insisting she had not recovered, suspending her, and ultimately dismissing the employee.

The young woman is currently taking Capcom to court over the incident.

[Space (DCL)]

...whoa...uh...

[Axel Foley]

 

[C.R.O.M. - Shadaloo Lives!]

...whoa...uh...

What they said.

[Dead Phoenix]

  crapcom

[Moon Girard]

Actually this is pretty common in Japan you just don't hear about it as much so i can see why it's so shocking to people, only reason your are now is because Kotaku went and found this old report and its related to video games.
But you guys are going to do the Crapcom thing any way so carry on.

[Dead Phoenix]

Actually this is pretty common in Japan you just don't hear about it as much so i can see why it's so shocking to people, only reason your are now is because Kotaku went and found this old report and its related to video games.
But you guys are going to do the Crapcom thing any way so carry on.

, true, true. But  Capcom has been dropping the ball non-stop, so this is just adding fuel to the fire. Or thats how I see it.
On it being common, isn't there rules in the business world to keep this thing from getting out of hand?

[Moon Girard]

I assume so but like Sexual harassment it still gets out of hand at times HR probably didn't expect her to sue them and well seeing that she tried to attempt suicide she probably didn't plan to but since she failed when she went back and than got fired she probably decide she should actually sue them, even then in the Japanese report she says she isn't after Capcom but her supervisor and the other two who joined her supervisor.

[Slivern]

crapcom

THIS. LITERALLY.

EDIT: Now don't get me wrong, it is cruel that she's being treated like this.

Don't bash me for this please...but they do have a point regarding her performance in the Dragon's Dogma team. It was within reason that Crapcom would punish her, but they just took it too far.

TOO FAR.

But man, news like this is what I would expect to see typically at Sankaku Complex (NSFW website for those of you that don't know, so view at your own risk! It's infested with uncensored news articles!)