A number of former employees of tech giant Razer have come forward with allegations of abuse against the company’s CEO, Min-Liang Tan. The news comes from a new report by Kotaku, which claims employees have been suffering from a hostile work environment for over a decade.
The report states that 14 former employees of Razer have shared similar stories, claiming that Tan threatened staff, threw objects and showed other signs of hostility to many employees of the company.
According to Kotaku, several ex-employees said that Tan would often use expletives and derogatory language during staff disciplinaries, with some even saying that Tan would leave the office door open so as to “publicly shame” those in the meeting.
One former employee said they witnessed Tan threatening to punch another member of staff, and two other previous employees described the CEO as “verbally abusive.”
The CEO himself has denied most of these claims, saying that he didn’t throw items at people but had done so at “the wall or the floor” when angry.
In a statement to Kotaku, Tan said: “I have made statements to the effect of ‘don’t make me punch you in the face’ or ‘I’ll send my killer robots after you’ but those statements have all been figurative or in jest.”
Responding to a former employee’s accusation that Tan had branded himself as a “sociopath,” Razer issued the following statement: “Min has no recollection of describing himself as such in a townhall meeting but regularly makes fun of himself at townhall meetings,”
“He does remember reading an online article that describes CEOs as having sociopathic tendencies and may have shared that in jest with third parties but has no specific recollection of doing so.”
It’s not known whether any legal action will follow the claims.
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