Comment on My open letter to the tech industry on sexism, HR, and Linus Tech Tips

cloaker@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You realize those were tweets from a disgruntled ex employee, right?

  They may be 100% accurate. But she decided to take advantage of the furor around LTT to have her position amplified. That’s pretty clever(she was the social media person afterall).

  A couple things to keep in mind:no one else has corroborated these. why hasn’t anyone else come forward? There are other women at LTT and plenty of former employees–some who have been let go. But we haven’t heard anything else even remotely like this. Aside from the “we are moving too fast/this is a hustle” critiques.

  She also alleges that LTT made her cut herself to get out of work. That’s absurd. Plenty of people work stressful jobs and don’t cut themselves. This indicates, to me, that she has quite a bit more going on emotionally/mentally than just basic work stress.

  I don’t want to disparage or minimize her allegations, but this is exactly why an outside investigator is a good move. I just wish people wouldn’t automatically assume the worst of Linus and LTT because of some tweets.

  From the things we do know from current employees is, it’s a fantastic place to work–aside from the pace which they have acknowledged and are addressing. Linus and Luke seem to be fairly reasonable and pro worker.

  The channel super fun stuff also shows some insights into the environment and it doesn’t look like a toxic hellscape and I truly believe Linus and Yvonne are good people. … My guess is that there are nuggets of truth to some of the claims but that the serious ones are overstated or have been perceived by someone dealing with some issues.

  I hope I’m not wrong, but I want get my pitchfork out until there’s hard evidence.

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