Statement from Linus Tech Tips about Madison's accusations

that fucking comment 💀

Holy shit

This is Billet labs all over again, they'll literally only do something if they're publicly called out

I'm starting a new conspiracy that Linus knew all this was coming and that's why he hired the new CEO. I have no facts but I said it on the internet so people will believe me.

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Afaik this (third party) investigation was started by Terren Tong, the CEO, who was not in this position as of this year and Madison left a couple years ago. I think on this part we can at least give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Linus position might be a very different matter though.

The end result will likely be something like: "We have investigated ourselves and found that we are blameless of any wrongdoing". Which is usually how these things end up.

Also, weird to not see them saying they'll reach out to Madison to get the story from her, but I guess that might be one of those obvious things so not mentioned. I hope.

Yeah yeah yeah, standard response. It won't work. People won't come forward and nothing can/will be done if anyone does come forward. It'll just be awkward for them for a while. Maybe someone will get blamed, fired or resigning ... and then... it'll happen again.

The damage is already done. There's no way to undo it.

They can't handle this by just asking people to snitch. Allowing or encouraging individuals to snitch on other individuals is not the way to stop this.

The proper way for a company to handle harassment cases is to prevent them from happening in the first place.

The proper damage control is to admit that they didn't do enough to prevent it from happening and then tell everyone about how they're going to follow proper OSHA guidance from here on. Let's hear about how they let their employees elect a representative and how they plan to implement preventive actions, and what the procedure is to handle any potential situations before they escalate into a shit show like this.

I guess their union representative could have told them this a long time ago, but hey, they don't have one, because they also thought they could handle everything without any. Look at where that got them.

"Damage control, its there when you need to cover your ass. Speaking of covers this is the perfect segue to our sponsor, Dbrand..."

Finally a normal safe corporate response rather than further digging a hole for themselves.

Speaking of sponsors, wonder who’s gonna want to work with LTT now

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"Now that people are watching and are angry, we care too, people"

What a corporate answer that says, now that the public knows we suck I guess we need to address it.

It sounds like they are taking her harassment allegations seriously, but not the allegations of excessive levels of work expected, which IMO sounded far more serious. Like having someone grope you is no joke, but having to cut yourself just so you can request a day off is insane

I always thought his channel was really dummed down. I watched a video or two and then noped out of it. Wasn't many if at all any tips from the so called tech tips site.

Oh and stating the obvious but he's 'sorry' because he got caught.

Wonder how many international and domestic workers they've contract rugpulled, since this will probably be the one that flies under the radar due to all the other issues.

I had literally never heard of this company before now and all the threads on Reddit have thousands upon thousands of posts. Why is this such a BFD? Not saying it isn't, I just live under a rock.

They're getting close to bedrock

It's like watching a trainwreck in real time.

"fuck Linus" when Eli the computer guy made that video a few years ago I stopped watching his videos fuck Linus

Am I a complete dumbfuck idiot or Linus is trying to diverge/twist this whole shit flinging into a "We got bullied bois!" situation?

What a classic response. Classic and soulless. Ugh.

lol

Linus just needs to miss the Denslow cup and play ball, and he'll be just fine.

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We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong. The Home Depot is the same way and allows rapes and retaliation. HR is a scam. All they deserve is violence.

That proactivly reached out internally today hits a lot different when you hear the meeting yourself.

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