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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This dropped a few hours ago, so let's wait a bit and see. Often times rot gets exposed in waves. One skeleton falls out of the closet and then a bunch of other skeletons follow.

Even if Madison is the only employee that ever experienced this (doubtful) that is already horrific. She isn't claiming that it was a single small incident that might have been a bad joke or a misinterpretation of some comment. It's a bunch of incidents, so not like one thing got blown way out of proportion.

Why has nobody else said anything before? There's tons of reasons why that might be the case. First, maybe people have and it has remained internal/supressed. Maybe other instances were more "mild" and the victims didn't feel the need to quit. Maybe the other victims were too frightened, felt they had too much to lose, were pressured more harshly.

I'm standing with Madison until proven otherwise. There have been plenty of hints of this sort of thing for a while, and like I said, scandals tend to come in waves. Nobody says anything for a long time until something bad enough happens that triggers the cascade of testimonies.

Best case scenario, LTT is a toxic workplace that overworks its employees, places profit and marketability over quality data/reviews, and is more and more in bed with corporate powers vs consumers.

Sad, I grew up with LTT through my tech journey, now bye-bye to yet another company/project that fell to the effects of capitalism and enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CEO said the external investigation's results will be made public, so I'll wait to make my opinions then. However, if it turns out they're true, then they'll lose a large part of their fanbase, including me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I dunno, Linus recognized the fact he is not a good CEO and hired a replacement to fix that problem. If the investigation comes back that there were issues and the perpetrators are purged from the company (or at least severely sanctioned) then I'm willing to give Terran a chance to right the ship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shoulda recognized that 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

10 years ago they were like 5 guys in a rental house. Completely different situation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I should clarify: if the allegations are true, then they will need to handle it well to convince me to stay. If they just do a mediocre job then I'll probably just dip