So happy that I couldn’t care less about LTT
Unless it’s legally risky for her (I’m unfamiliar with Canadian law), I really hope she starts dropping names.
Some people really gotta be placed on the chopping block.
If she name drops, shit is really going to fly. But she should only do that if she has proof of who said it. I hope she does. Because if all that’s true (and lets be honest, Linus has regularly been fine with showing how toxic of a boss he is on camera, so it’s very likely all true) LMG should burn to the ground.
Getting your employees to work on your house? Definitely paid them fairly, right guys?
That whole thing was so cringeworthy…
You guys need some worker protection laws, badly.
Canada does have decent worker protection laws, and this is all stuff that would likely be taken seriously. But you have to know you have those protections, and being gaslit into thinking you’re in the wrong certainly doesn’t help.
They should Unionize. Linus keeps talking about how he thinks he should run a company that doesn’t need a union; sounds like he hasn’t met that goal for a long long time.
I have no idea how unions work, but if that union has the same bad apples included wouldn’t it face the same rot, if not more?
There usually isn’t any money to be made by being a union leader, so there’s no incentive for pieces of shit of this ilk to vie for such a position.
union leadership have a different mandate- to advocate for workers and ensure issues like this get dealt with. if the fail to do that, the union will collapse. like I won’t pretend unions are perfect but they’re better than this.
It might have the same issues as far as misogyny and stuff goes, but a union should be able to remedy the issues with rushing content. Unions usually are just made up of the workers but the bigger ones have independent management that can step in to manage other issues too.
Biggest thing is that if it proper democratized voting then it should be able to address at least some of the rot if the work environment impacts so many people
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Would someone be kind enough to post as text? I find it difficult to follow the pictures.
This is some shit. I’m actually glad I didn’t apply to do engineering work there now. I am realizing if this kind of stuff had happened to me I’d likely be fired because I would nip that shit in the bud immediately, if it happened to me or if I had seen it happening to someone else. It’s not right.
Honestly, that’s a much larger issue to me than the beef with GN. Forcing the image of a super cool liberal easy company while being as shitty as every other bigger greedy firm. So sad.
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This is the mindset of the entrepreneur that worked this way for years and made it. The problem is that Linus got rich from this, but expect employees to have the same mindset. This is dogshit
But then makes his employees give a cut to LTT cause Linus made em famous. Pretty gross
Trial periods for new employees aren’t anything unusual, even in unionized jobs (my previous job the trial period was 1200h, current job it’s a year, that’s how long it took before the union would really start fighting for you if something happened).
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Wow, that’s incredibly terrible, much worse than I could have imagined. I feel so bad for her, and so mad at the working environment at LTT. I started getting red flags when Linus kept bringing up his classic line “I feel like if my company unionized then I’ve failed” every other week on the WAN show. Unsubbed then because I thought he was being myopic in his little capitalist startup bubble, but no, turns out he’s just completely insufferable, and a union would have eventually led to a complete overhaul at LTT, if not lawsuits, something he would rather give up the CEO role to avoid.
She has also confirmed that this Glassdoor review was written by her, with continuing updates on her twitter
Quote from the twitter thread:
I was asked about my sexual history, my boyfriends sexual history, “how I liked to fuck”.
I was told that certain issues were “sexual tension” and I should just “take the co-worker out on a coffee date to ease it out”
I was asked to twerk for a co-worker at one point.
I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid. I was called “retarded” I was called a “faggot”
😧
Man what the fuck kind of attitude is that??
They sound like a bunch of immature misogynistic little pricks.
Honestly? Considering how some members of the team act on camera I’m willing to believe they are immature misogynistic little pricks
Holy cow I thought the screenshots currently on this post were the whole thing and I was horrified??
No, the screenshots are like, half?? THE TAME HALF???
Same.
I was like, huh seems like she was overworked I guess I wonder why there’s so many comments… Oh fuck.
Someone share the glassdoor post here pretty please? They’ve got a login wall
Just an fyi, you can get past the wall using reader mode in Firefox and
glassdoor.com^*/gd-hardsellin ublock origin’s filters. Reader mode is necessary if you want to see full reviews, the ublock rule is to stop the “please login” popup
1.0 Jul 27, 2022
Disappointed with treatment would not recommend
Social Media Coordinator
Former Employee, more than 1 year
X Recommend
O CEO Approval
X Business Outlook
Pros
a lot of talented people
employee bonding activities
Cons
No proper/or explained HR system.
Sexist remarks, coded language, and harassment were common place.
Inappropriate actions, comments, and discussions frequently occurred.
Including discussion about employees bodies, appearance, clothes, and wealth.
Upper/middle management frequently misuse power.
No way to report most incidents without issue, since the HR team was ALSO upper management.
Feedback was consistently harsh and not constructive.
Inappropriate language was commonly used while giving feedback.
Meetings with unbalanced power dynamics were common place.
Gaslighting situations frequently occurred.
Unbiased 3rd parties were never present, or easily able to be requested in these meetings.
Lack of proper communication between management and employees.
Outside ventures frequently frowned upon, or limited by the company.
Advice to Management
Stop dismissing complaints because “everyone is friends here” it’s a workplace, not a group hangout session.
Get a proper HR team and take reports of harassment and inappropriate conduct seriously.
Don’t dismiss employees complaints.
Much thanks for this!
Thank youu!
Imgur blocking VPNs again. Ugh.
Holy fucking shit
fucking absolute disgusting.
What the actual fuck.
What the actual fuck. This is starting to sound like FTX
Holy shit wtf
I figured it was stressful there, and I always kind of dismissed the dickheads in the community as “the internet being the internet” but it seems it’s WAY worse.
12 Hours ago, Linus thought he just pissed off some GPU fanatics. This morning he wakes up to see how his apology video is doing, only to learn he’s pissed off all of SIMP Nation. Jeeeez.
I feel so much better now, using uBlock and SponsorBlock watching their videos. I knew something was off when Linus started with the Anti-Union talks. Fuck this little bastard.
Im very much ootl and not a techie, but I do remember hearing a long while back about linus getting cancelled, and then strangely that he was uncancelled a month or so later.
mfw he was 'uncanceled'
side note, being drunk and high as I am right now, and as ootl as I am, and not paying attention to where in the lemmyverse I was poooostin, I assumed LTT was some monolithic media corporation until I was like halfway through the screenshots 😬
Oof. I wasn’t too bothered about tech bros shanking each other in name of ethics in tech YouTubing. But this is absolutely unacceptable. I believe Madison. If there is no confirmation from Linus that whoever sexually assaulted and otherwise degraded her has been fired so fast their fucking eyes are spinning then I’m unsubscribing. I will not be watching videos every week where I’m trying to figure out who the creep is.
This is an awful treatment of an employee and I don’t know how many more cases like this are still existing at this moment. Fuck LTT, best I can do is step away from them and their content but if there is anything else I can do to get back at them let me know.
