Teyo Johnson, a Canadian soccer participant who performed for the Oakland Raiders between 2003 and 2004, has alleged that Everyrealm CEO Janin Yorio was a frontrunner in a problematic work atmosphere, making inappropriate feedback concerning the intercourse lives of workers members.
He additionally alleges within the lawsuit that Ms Yorio made racist feedback in direction of Black staff.
The lawsuit has been filed towards Ms Yorio and Everyrealm in Manhattan federal court docket. Celebrities who’ve endorsed the corporate embrace Paris Hilton, Will Smith and The Weeknd.
Mr Johnson states within the lawsuit that he was beneath stress to participate in “sexually harassing video games” by which workers and shoppers have been urged to have intercourse, in accordance with the New York Put up.
Mr Johnson alleged in March that Ms Yorio advised him a couple of “sex-related recreation that she inspired staff to play”. On the time, they have been on a enterprise journey to SXSW, [South By Southwest] – a music and tech pageant in Austin, Texas.
“KYP” – “know your personnel” and “KYC” – “know your shopper,” have been reportedly “euphemisms for having intercourse or hooking up with co-workers and enterprise companions,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit says that Ms Yorio advised Mr Johnson that “the way in which to [play] the sport” was to “get laid by a co-worker on a enterprise journey”.
The authorized submitting claims that she requested him if “he can be doing any KYP”.
Mr Johnson was reportedly “bowled over” by the concept and “politely knowledgeable her that he was ‘already actually shut with somebody’,” in accordance with the go well with.
The previous soccer participant alleged that Ms Yorio was testing the waters,” coming to his lodge room and “insinuated in no unsure phrases that she believed he would” cheat and “take part within the firm’s KYP recreation”.
The lawsuit additionally alleges that Ms Yorio known as him a “silly black particular person” and “the whitest black particular person”.
Different epithets allegedly contains “d**ok,” “massive swinging d**ok,” and “f***ing d**ok”.
Mr Johnson argues he was fired from his job after talking out a couple of “playing scheme” involving cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens. It “concerned a cryptocurrency model of fantasy sports activities by which customers would purchase packs of NFTs representing skilled soccer enjoying playing cards”.
“Customers would enter cryptocurrency right into a pool after which win prize cash if their NFT enjoying playing cards carried out higher than the opposite gamers’ NFTs,” the lawsuit states.
Mr Johnson “fairly believed” that the venture “would violate quite a few New York and federal legal guidelines” as a result of “randomizing the packs of playing cards” would make it “a recreation of likelihood and thus be unlawful”.
A spokesperson for Everyrealm advised the New York Put up that “as we have now acknowledged in our court docket filings, this worker labored on the firm for under three months and was terminated for poor efficiency, expense account abuse, and falling asleep on the job”.
In a court docket submitting, Everyrealm argues that Mr Johnson “brazenly and routinely disparaged the mom of his baby and demanded that Everyrealm pay a portion of his wages in money to keep away from garnishment for baby assist funds”.
The corporate states in a court docket submitting that “Johnson made varied inappropriate feedback within the office concerning different girls in his life, hazed a junior feminine worker by disparaging her as ‘rookie’ and refusing to satisfy together with her, and referred to [Everyrealm co-founder Julia] Schwartz as ‘that b***h’ and Mrs Yorio as ‘that loopy b***h’”.
Mr Johnson’s lawyer Shane Seppinni advised The Put up that “Janine Yorio and her enablers at Everyrealm’s feedback present simply how scared they’re of the reality”.
Everyrealm and Ms Yorio are additionally dealing with allegations of misconduct from two different individuals who have labored on the firm.
“Everyrealm works laborious to foster a supportive, inclusive office, and we’ll proceed to defend towards these lawsuits,” a spokesperson advised The Put up.
