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Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media Group employees.

“I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health,” her statement begins. “My work was called ‘dogshit’ I was called ‘incompetent’. When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to ‘put on my big girl pants’ and be ‘more assertive’.”

Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”

Madisons' thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
(Content warning: self harm)

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago*

I agree, thank you for putting into words what most people keep silent

I appreciate their narrative, and I'm glad they've detailed everything as experienced. But given the totality of their recollection, and the reactions, and the responses, they're clearly somebody who takes too extremes.

A full investigation must be done, and the report probably won't be fully published but whatever is available should be published.

In these public discourses, where one side legally cannot respond at all, we will get a skewed view of things. So we have to take those secondary indicators into account when interpreting. What was the intent behind the messaging, what was the effect of the messaging, what was the timing of the messaging, what are the incentives of the parties at play.

Bad things happen to good people. Bad things can happen to dramatic people. Bad things can happen to good dramatic people.

Honestly, I don't care if people love or hate LTT. It's just a tech entertainment channel. I would love more people to have the critical thinking tools available to them, to interpret future events, more reasonably, without leaping to conclusions

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