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What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator.
That is very fair then, thanks for the information but I don’t think its as applicable as you want it to be. There is clearly some cross over but again. Many of the problems besides rushing out videos are HR problems, which may lead to people being thrown under the proverbial bus, which isn’t a great look especially with the audience calling him a narcissistic (which is likely to be true) since it would look like an employer just providing a scapegoat to the problems. Its clear there are fundamental organizational problems and which is likely due to their very small start up and rapid expansion since many hats/departments/protocols/procedures weren’t developed along the way. The Dan Harmon thing seems to be Dan Harmon taking responsibility for what he did personally. We do have to keep in mind the context of when this video was made when most of the issues were around test data/ethical questions/and the treatment of Billet Labs. The Madison stuff didn’t caught on till slightly before the video came out but it does take time to edit/shoot the video, which was likely released on a scheduled time since I think it came out pretty early since they are on the west coast. Like I just don’t think Linus could do a 180 on his criticisms of the Billet labs things since it would look so insincere. I think this will likely just lead to a more gagged Linus during the Wan show but then again this man doesn’t know when to stop putting his feet into his mouth.
I feel like you think I think that the person who put the block on the table at LTX should be the one being called out. I’m talking about Linus taking responsibility for the toxic management culture at the company, for the management and executives to acknowledge that their treatment of their employees is problematic, and accepting that they are doing things wrong and it needs to change. I’m not talking about a scapegoat and I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that I am.
I might not be articulating my point clearly I think we need to remember the context this video was produced before the Madison reveal blew up. Before that reveal the toxic management problem was primarily rushing videos. That is why I keep talking about a scapegoat since beyond the lab results and rushing videos the biggest controversy of the drama was about Billet Labs. I am saying the mistakes with Billet Labs were egregious but Linus wasn’t the major contributor to the prototype not being sent back and being auctioned off, he is 100% responsible for not doing a reshoot and being quite abrasive (he really should just shut his mouth on WAN) but that is why I keep bringing up the scapegoat since it clearly was a problem with an employee in the organization making a big fuck up.
OK. I think I see more where you’re coming from now. I would say, though, that if the management weren’t rushing production and were better, well, managers, problems like that would be less likely to happen. It’s not that it would never happen, but from what we’ve seen of LTT over the years, this isn’t an isolated incident. While I like the on-screen personalities of people in their logistics department, the truth is that it’s been a mess and has been allowed to continue being a mess. As CEO and owner, ultimately that blame falls on Linus, but it also falls on the head of logistics and other management positions. You could chalk it up to one innocent mistake made by one employee, but it’s at least three mistakes compounding on top of each other which are part of a larger system of mismanagement.