In a damning example of what the state of California described as a "frat boy" workplace culture, a senior Blizzard manager joked in a meeting about having sex with female assistants, Waypoint has learned.
In late 2018, Derek Ingalls, at the time Blizzard's chief information officer, called a meeting for all IT employees following the departure of Ben Kilgore, who was until then Blizzard's chief technology officer.
According to a former Blizzard IT employee who was at the meeting, Ingalls jokingly said employees shouldn't sleep with their executive assistants, that if they did, they shouldn't stop, and that if they did stop, they better have "deep pockets."