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- GOP NDIDATE STEVE GAYNOR ENDS BID FOR ARIZONA ERNOR
- STEVE GAYNOR
- PIECG TOGETHER STEVE GAYNOR
- CONSERVATIVE BSMAN STEVE GAYNOR ANNOUNC N FOR ERNOR
- REPUBLIN STEVE GAYNOR ANNOUNC 2022 ARIZONA ERNOR N
GOP NDIDATE STEVE GAYNOR ENDS BID FOR ARIZONA ERNOR
Fullbright -founr Steve Gaynor, known for his work on Gone Home and Taa, has stepped down om his role as creative lead on Open Roads followg multiple allegatns of mistreatg employe, particularly women, at the die stud. * steve gaynor twitter *
Fullbright -founr Steve Gaynor, known for his work on Gone Home and Taa, has stepped down om his role as creative lead on Open Roads followg multiple allegatns of mistreatg Fullbright employe, particularly women. Speakg wh Polygon, 12 former employe said their parture was at least part due to Gaynor’s behavr toward workers, specifilly women on the team. Multiple former employe, who spoke wh Polygon anonymoly out of fear of retaliatn, scribed the Fullbright work environment as “ntrollg, ” a place which staffers felt unrmed and meaned by Gaynor.
Bee of Gaynor’s stat as the -founr of a beloved die darlg, some former employe said they were worried about beg blacklisted om the dtry — though some end up leavg the dtry entirely, anyway. A Fullbright reprentative nfirmed to Polygon that Gaynor stepped down March due to the “pattern of women leavg” the pany. Followg the publitn of this story, Gaynor issued a statement to Polygon:.
But at the same time, former employe said they also felt stifled by Gaynor’s “ntrollg” and “meang prence” — someone who allegedly saw Open Roads not as the team’s game, but as his game.
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Steve Gaynor, the -creator of Gone Home, is workg wh the Open Roads team through a mediator after fosterg a toxic work environment. * steve gaynor twitter *
That Gaynor, himself, was Fullbright. On Twter, at least, Gaynor “was” Fullbright for que some time: He held the @Fullbright Twter acunt as his personal handle for more than a . When he stepped down om his posn as creative lead, sourc said he was required to change his Twter acunt to @SteveGaynorPDX.
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"Employe said their parture was at least part due to Gaynor’s behavr toward workers, specifilly women on the team" * steve gaynor twitter *
Women learship posns at Fullbright told Polygon that they experienced nstant micromanagement that ma difficult for them to do their jobs, havg to get even the smallt tails approved by Gaynor.
This was pound, they said, by Gaynor’s tenncy to disparage and discred the ntributns of female staffers particular, often directly to learship. Some of the former female staffers said they often worried about how Gaynor characterized them to other employe.
Employe told Polygon that they had wanted to report Gaynor’s behavr but had no actual procs to do so. Several former employe said they nonted Gaynor directly while they were still employed at Fullbright, tellg him their ncerns about how they believed his behavr negatively impacted the staff.
CONSERVATIVE BSMAN STEVE GAYNOR ANNOUNC N FOR ERNOR
One former employee said she approached Gaynor after readg a report regardg Season veloper Svengers Stud.
She told Polygon she saw siari between Svengers Stud creative director Simon Darve and Gaynor. (While the allegatns regardg Darve clu sexual harassment and gropg, no claims of physil misnduct have been ma agast Gaynor.
REPUBLIN STEVE GAYNOR ANNOUNC 2022 ARIZONA ERNOR N
) The former employee said she warned Gaynor that a siar report uld eventually surface about him. She said she told Gaynor that she was stgglg to m to Open Roads bee she was worried the game would be nceled if an article me out about him. Gaynor told her that publisher Annapurna had e to him to ask about Fullbright’s attrn problem — particularly, that women were leavg the pany on what seemed like a monthly basis.