Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
网飞（Netflix）员工因在团建信任练习中分享个人隐私被解雇
A Netflix executive was fired from his $1.1 million a year job after revealing during a “trust exercise” at a work retreat that he had taken medically prescribed ketamine, a lawsuit has claimed. Kevin Baillie, who was vice president and head of creative at Eyeline Studios, is suing the company after it launched an investigation into his comments that ultimately ended in his firing, the papers say. Baillie, who’s been on the visual effects team for “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the Harry Potter franchise, says he took the drug under medical supervision in October and November of 2022 at a Santa Barbara clinic.
据一份诉讼文件称，一名网飞（Netflix）高管在一次工作团建的“信任练习”中透露自己曾服用过医生开具的氯胺酮（ketamine），随后被解雇，而他原本年薪高达110万美元。凯文·贝利（Kevin Baillie）曾担任网飞旗下Eyeline Studios的副总裁兼创意总监，他在公司针对其言论展开调查并最终将其解雇后，提起了诉讼。贝利曾参与《加勒比海盗》和《哈利·波特》系列的视觉特效制作，他表示自己是在2022年10月和11月于圣巴巴拉的一家诊所接受医疗监督下服用该药物的。
He sought the treatment for clinical depression after the death of his mother, according to the suit. During what’s called a “Vulnerability-Trust exercise” at a January 2026 retreat at the exclusive Sendero Ranch, a Northern California property owned by Netflix, Baillie shared with his colleagues that he had undergone the treatment, the suit says. Baillie claims he explained the reason why he had taken the drug but was investigated by Netflix. On March 18, 2026 a company investigator brought the incident up, “in a manner suggesting suspicion of recreational drug use,” the suit reads.
诉讼称，他在母亲去世后因临床抑郁症寻求了这种治疗。2026年1月，在网飞位于北加州的专属物业Sendero Ranch举行的一次名为“脆弱性-信任练习”的团建活动中，贝利向同事分享了自己接受治疗的经历。贝利声称他解释了服药原因，但仍遭到了网飞的调查。诉讼文件显示，2026年3月18日，公司调查人员提到了这件事，其态度“暗示怀疑他存在娱乐性吸毒行为”。
The executive was fired in April with the company’s attorney confirming “the ketamine therapy issue has factored into the termination,” the papers say, and go on to suggest Baille was denied up to a year of severance pay. Baillie says in the lawsuit the “scope” of the investigation related to alleged profanity and drinking. He had been warned during his performance review that he should “drop one or two less f-bombs but don’t stop entirely.” It goes on to say that at the same retreat Baillie drank a Guinness standing on his head, after sharing that he had learned the trick from his former father in law during a conversation inspired by the trust session. “His colleague immediately asked for a demonstration, rather than withhold the openness that the session had encouraged, he performed the trick,” the papers say.
文件称，该高管于4月被解雇，公司律师证实“氯胺酮治疗问题是导致解雇的因素之一”，并指出贝利被拒绝支付长达一年的遣散费。贝利在诉讼中表示，调查的“范围”还涉及所谓的粗口和饮酒问题。他在绩效评估中曾被警告，应该“少说一两句脏话，但不要完全停止”。文件还提到，在同一次团建中，贝利在分享了从前岳父那里学到的技巧后，倒立喝了一杯健力士啤酒。文件中写道：“他的同事立即要求演示，为了不辜负团建所鼓励的开放氛围，他表演了这个技巧。”
Baille also paints a picture of an allegedly alcohol-fueled company environment encouraged by the Eyeline Studios CEO Jeff Shapiro. The lawsuit alleged “alcohol consumption was company-sponsored, leadership-modeled and condoned”, with multiple examples of how Shapiro “set the cultural tone concerning alcohol at the executive level”. The documents claimed Shapiro on one occasion purchased beer at a corner store and brought it to a company car ride to the Visual Effects Society Awards for staff to share. Baillie claims he also witnessed the CEO consume alcohol with Netflix and Eyeline employees at his own welcome dinner in September 2024, the Netflix Annual Business Review events in March 2025 and even a Lakers game attended by Netflix execs including Shapiro’s direct supervisor in February 2026. All up, Baillie’s attorneys provided over half a dozen examples of the CEO being present at a work event with a drink in his hand, according to court papers.
贝利还描述了一个据称由Eyeline Studios首席执行官杰夫·夏皮罗（Jeff Shapiro）助长的“酒精驱动”的公司环境。诉讼指控“饮酒是公司赞助、领导示范并默许的行为”，并列举了多个夏皮罗“在行政层面定下饮酒文化基调”的例子。文件称，夏皮罗曾有一次在街角商店买啤酒，带到前往视觉效果协会奖颁奖典礼的公司车上供员工分享。贝利声称，他还目睹了这位CEO在2024年9月的欢迎晚宴、2025年3月的网飞年度业务审查活动，甚至在2026年2月包括夏皮罗直属上司在内的网飞高管参加的湖人队比赛中，与网飞和Eyeline员工一起饮酒。据法庭文件显示，贝利的律师总共提供了六个多关于这位CEO在工作活动中手持酒杯的例子。
In addition to hosting multiple parties, Shapiro also had a personal bar in his office “from which he served alcohol (to Baille) including after a successful meeting with Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos,” according to the papers. Baillie is asking for a jury trial, compensatory damages, lost wages, damages for emotional distress, and punitive damages. Netflix and Eyeline were contacted for comment.
据文件显示，除了举办多场派对，夏皮罗还在办公室里设有一个私人酒吧，“他曾从那里（向贝利）提供酒精饮料，包括在与网飞CEO泰德·萨兰多斯（Ted Sarandos）成功会面之后”。贝利要求进行陪审团审判，并寻求补偿性赔偿、工资损失赔偿、精神损害赔偿和惩罚性赔偿。网飞和Eyeline公司已收到置评请求。