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![“I repeatedly received essentially the same answer [from Activision]: that working in the office was considered an essential function of my position and that the company would not meaningfully consider remote work,” Kunze said. “I have watched coworkers struggle with similar issues involving accommodations, attendance, return-to-office expectations, AI uncertainty, outsourcing fears, and inconsistent treatment. Employees frequently tell each other they are exhausted. Many stay quiet because they fear retaliation. Some leave.”
Near his wit’s end in 2025, Kunze gathered documentation of his experience and filed complaints with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Then came multiple internal investigations of Kunze’s conduct from company brass in 2026, which to Kunze felt retaliatory.
"Employees frequently tell each other they are exhausted. Many stay quiet because they fear retaliation. Some leave."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreiac4wrgk5cyoajw7ajk3wpy7mfuqulx257he3icsg2itwqwide3i4)
![Encounter wrote that the use of AI in the community has sped things up to the point where it has become overwhelming to track human-led projects, and people using AI have taken existing, human-led AI projects and have created “hostile forks” of them, where open-source code written by humans is taken and “finished” by AI: “These kinds of hostile forks put little to no effort into meaningfully contributing to existing projects, tearing apart our community fabric.” Encounter added, “anyone with an AI subscription can manage to create a port or static recompilation that functions at a basic level […] While community members put in the effort to decompile a game, opportunists have frequently raced to release a half-baked, barely-functional port from it.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uypytbqy5palhmhbvvezgrww/bafkreife2edakbopwh7j77uxygurkeflnlnruu2xrvktyfixuyh2ndxg34)
