Rooster Teeth Responds to Ex-Employee’s Allegations of Harassment, Grueling Hours, Low Pay and Unpaid Work

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Rooster Teeth, Warner Bros. Discovery’s fandom, sci-fi and gaming entertainment division, came under fire from a former employee who said she was mistreated during her time at the company — including being verbally harassed and severely underpaid.

Kdin Jenzen, who worked at Rooster Teeth from 2013 until leaving earlier this year, published a 2,257-word blog post Saturday detailing her experience at the company.

Jenzen was a producer and director who mainly worked in RT’s Achievement Hunter games group. Within a few weeks of starting at Rooster Teeth, Jenzen wrote, “Every day I came into work I was called ‘Fggt’ — but they could not use that name in content so when anyone was recording I was called ‘Fugz’ instead.” Janzen said they reported the use of the nickname for years to HR, but “nothing was ever done about it.” “Any time I brought up mistreatment or that ‘making fun of people in content only encourages the community to hate us’ — I was waved away saying ‘IT’S JUST A JOKE!

Ignore the comments!’” she wrote. In 2016, after Janzen came out as trans, whereupon “things got worse” inside Rooster Teeth.