Rooster Teeth, A Gaming And Fan Community Owned By Warner Bros Discovery, Apologizes For “Hate And Mistreatment” After Former Staffer Complains About Slurs And Unfair Pay
deadline.comRooster Teeth, a gaming-oriented digital content creator and fan community owned by Warner Bros Discovery, has apologized for “hate and mistreatment” after complaints were lodged by a former staffer.
Kdin Jenzen, who worked for the Austin, TX-based company as a content creator and editor from 2013 to July 2022, went public with her experiences in a post shared on social media last weekend.
She alleged the company, which was founded in 2003, fostered a culture in which she was overworked, underpaid and repeatedly called a homophobic slur in the workplace. “Within a few weeks of working at Rooster Teeth I was given a nickname, that nickname was a slur.
Every day I came into work I was called” that common slur, Jenzen wrote, “but they could not use that name in content so when anyone was recording I was called ‘Fugz’ instead.
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