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Don’t really give a shit about the water block thing, sounds like drama for the sake of drama. The toxic environment and sexual harassment allegations are pretty serious though.
The water block is just a product that wasn’t handled as per the vendor agreement, a sign of weaknesses in internal processes, but not consequential for anyone not involved directly. Like they’ve had thousands of products through the org and maintained these positive relationships with large vendors. The idea that one time a miscommunication or agreement wasn’t handled properly isn’t that spectacular or even unusual.
Employees being treated shitty is a labor issue that has ramifications in how anti-discrimination laws are interpreted and applied. There’s potential financial consequences for workers and exploitation.
It’s also not out of the question the employee who screwed up the vendor agreement in the water block issue, is one of the people trying to bring these workplace discrimination issues to light. I don’t think we know that level of detail but the fact that they would basically be forgiven for that, if it was known they were being treated poorly when that happened, shows how the discrimination issue is more significant.
They tend to handle things in a pretty terrible way. It reminds me of how certain computer nerds and sysadmin guys talk like they’re the smartest people in the world who know everything. Like they just give no credit to the other point of view, that maaaybe you didn’t handle that properly.
Don’t really give a shit about the water block thing, sounds like drama for the sake of drama. The toxic environment and sexual harassment allegations are pretty serious though.
You think selling something that isn’t yours, after you told the owner you would return it, is drama for the sake of drama?
The water block is just a product that wasn’t handled as per the vendor agreement, a sign of weaknesses in internal processes, but not consequential for anyone not involved directly. Like they’ve had thousands of products through the org and maintained these positive relationships with large vendors. The idea that one time a miscommunication or agreement wasn’t handled properly isn’t that spectacular or even unusual.
Employees being treated shitty is a labor issue that has ramifications in how anti-discrimination laws are interpreted and applied. There’s potential financial consequences for workers and exploitation.
It’s also not out of the question the employee who screwed up the vendor agreement in the water block issue, is one of the people trying to bring these workplace discrimination issues to light. I don’t think we know that level of detail but the fact that they would basically be forgiven for that, if it was known they were being treated poorly when that happened, shows how the discrimination issue is more significant.
The waterblock issue is less about the fact that it happened and way more about how linus/lmg responded (not at all until called out about it)
They tend to handle things in a pretty terrible way. It reminds me of how certain computer nerds and sysadmin guys talk like they’re the smartest people in the world who know everything. Like they just give no credit to the other point of view, that maaaybe you didn’t handle that properly.