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b0rn2sk8 said:
Marquess is fine but he is not infallible and makes errors fairly regularly, particularly when they get out of their lane of smartphones, cameras, apple stuff and mainstream consumer tech.

I also wouldn’t describe him as humble, he just does a pretty good job of hiding his wealth from his content.

He recently reviewed his own $100,000 solar roof and it was littered with errors. They often discuss EVs on their podcast and that discussion is often ill informed.

In the $100,000 solar roof video he actually defended the use of 54,000 kWh of electricity a year. This was one of the errors, we think it was double counting energy use in the data. For context a typical U.K. household uses 3600kwh a year). The point is that he had no concept of how much energy that actually is, particularly when he said he used gas for heating and appliances, including the tumble drier (common in the US).

The sponsored 8k nvidia video (3090 launch) was partially bad and I’ve noticed they have stayed out of gaming and PC hardware content since.

The point is, all of them make mistakes, they are ultimately just enthusiasts like the rest of us and that we shouldn’t take their views as gospel.
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Ahh right ok i did not know that. Does he admit he makes mistakes if he gets called out? Does he also sell prototypes behind peoples back etc?
 
Curlyriff said:
Indeed I agree it only 4 days but that's 4 days of going hey we solid your thing and then nothing, no actual response, no back and forth. They had a brief email saying woops we sold it and then didn't say anything else.
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I agree but that is on the unnamed employee. I'm not saying they should be dog piled but you don't need a process guide to tell you how to communicate when you have messed something up.

Curlyriff said:
Yes lots of people have lots of things going on, however some things become a priority and this should have been for the CEO technically and the team to review. At no point should have taken 4 days for nothing.

I would have honestly expected a conference call setup with the team responsible to the CEO if not in person and then the CEO to have contacted Billet within 48hrs of the initial email and then to discuss terms of reimbursement or option to retrieve said item and oh return the 3090ti which has also not been returned to date or shipped even.
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Nonsense. You think there should be a director level meeting because an employee made a mistake that is going to cost 1-10k (or however much it would cost to reimburse the prototype. No that is not director level worthy. Ironically, it blowing up like this has made it director level worthy.
You think that this should have been resolved in 48 hours. You haven't provided a justification why you think that. I don't think that is reasonable. The issues with the lack of communication is indeed a problem though.

Curlyriff said:
It should never have got to the point that a video section was done for said item if any had done their job. Why does the video come out and suddenly they can respond to Bullet within 2hrs of said video but not prior to any of that.
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See above.

Curlyriff said:
It took a fire to actually get some traction.
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Well yes things get bumped up in priority when there is a *********.

Curlyriff said:
It is clear it has taken weeks at a time per reply to do anything
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We have not seen the full email break down from start to end as far as I am aware. So how can you claim this?

Curlyriff said:
The big issue bing how Linus has been and dealt with it in response after the fact. That is no real surprise that people are salty.
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I saw the posts in this thread before linus made a response. People were salty AF before he responded. I agree Linus pouring fuel on a raging fire isn't a smart move but let us not pretend that the anger felt now is mostly to do with his response. It ain't.

Curlyriff said:
Tbh I'm tired of it being half baked from them as a company and I think others are too and this just been boiling point after all this time.
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Most of the anger is coming from people who openly admit that they haven't watched an LTT video in years. How can they be tired about something they don't watch?
It is reflected in most of the posts I've seen. Most people aren't talking about the innaccuracies, they are yapping on about the billet lab thing and doing weird psychoanalysis on someone they have admitted, to not liking and not seeing any of their content in years.
 
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superleeds27 said:

Sort of related I guess. Quite a long read
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Sort of related is a bit of an understatement. This one Twitter posts blows the whole water block fiasco, GN video and its response combined.

Particularly the allegations of sexual harassment, that could spell some real trouble and should be investigated as it’s actually a criminal offence.

jonneymendoza said:
Ahh right ok i did not know that. Does he admit he makes mistakes if he gets called out? Does he also sell prototypes behind peoples back etc?
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I don’t know, I’m not engaged in the community in that sense. I just watched the videos, listened to the podcasts, happened to be informed on the topic and spotted the errors.

I don’t know if anyone called him out, his audience tends to drink the cool aid and isn’t that well informed as the content is very mainstream (not dissimilar to LTT really).

I’m pretty sure he did an acknowledge the train wreck of the Nvidia video and I’ve noticed they have stopped talking about electric cars on the podcast so there is that.
 
jonneymendoza said:
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we get it mate, we dont need every single youtubers view in here, especially ones just trying to get views out of the drama.
jonneymendoza said:
Ahh right ok i did not know that. Does he admit he makes mistakes if he gets called out? Does he also sell prototypes behind peoples back etc?
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If he had to run a company of over 100 people that a majority had joined in the past 3 years, I would expect things to go wrong here and there.
This is the difference between understanding how a business works and the risks with expansion.
Against people just outraged for a video's sake and think they know how to run a company with that many employees.
 
superleeds27 said:

Sort of related I guess. Quite a long read
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Holy crap that is bad, Like really bad. I had a hunch LTT/LMG wasn't a good place to work by how much content they are required to pump out every week but going by what she says about being grabbed, Insulted and belittled all the time it's much worse than I thought it was.

I have an inkling that 100 Million value is going to start coming down soon'ish.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
Sort of related is a bit of an understatement. This one Twitter posts blows the whole water block fiasco, GN video and its response combined.
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Does it really?
Seems like an employee who had some problems with some staff, mental health problems whilst not identifying the work they were employed to do, they could not manage.
A lot of screams they just want to bad mouth and get some social media clout, "I have held on to this multiple X post for 2 years, ready waiting to go when the time was right, I saw this bombshell taking off and decided now is the time to get my maximum exposure".
In regards to the grabbing thing, if it was that big of a deal, you should have called the police about the assault and let them start the investigation if your employer did not.
 
ChrisD. said:
I'm genuinely shocked that stuff like that is happening at any company anywhere, maybe except for Saudi etc.
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A number of people in here would be shocked what happens in their own town but are too oblivious to recognise it as anything bad.
But if you present something as bad on the internet, oh they will lose their tiny little minds.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I also wouldn’t describe him as humble, he just does a pretty good job of hiding his wealth from his content.

He recently reviewed his own $100,000 solar roof and it was littered with errors. They often discuss EVs on their podcast and that discussion is often ill informed.

In the $100,000 solar roof video he actually defended the use of 54,000 kWh of electricity a year. This was one of the errors, we think it was double counting energy use in the data. For context a typical U.K. household uses 3600kwh a year). The point is that he had no concept of how much energy that actually is, particularly when he said he used gas for heating and appliances, including the tumble drier (common in the US).
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Hiding your wealth and being humble are not the same thing. The dude talks about driving a Model S Plaid. Uses Red Cameras and has a robot to take some of the shots for him. I wouldn't say he hides his wealth but that doesn't mean he is flexing it.

Regarding your bolded comment you cannot use the UK household consumption as a comparison for someone in america. The typical usage for an american home is 10,632 KWH per year. With one state going as high as 14,302kwh.

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ChrisD. said:
I'm genuinely shocked that stuff like that is happening at any company anywhere, maybe except for Saudi etc.
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Not even surprised though when you see who the higher ups are - they're mostly immature children who have grown up in the LTT space, which is reflected in their content (wasn't always like this).

I've never seen Linus apologies without a "but, you should really be blaming x and I'm actually not at fault and will take no responsibility".
 
sidimmu said:
Does it really?
Seems like an employee who had some problems with some staff, mental health problems whilst not identifying the work they were employed to do, they could not manage.
A lot of screams they just want to bad mouth and get some social media clout, "I have held on to this multiple X post for 2 years, ready waiting to go when the time was right, I saw this bombshell taking off and decided now is the time to get my maximum exposure".
In regards to the grabbing thing, if it was that big of a deal, you should have called the police about the assault and let them start the investigation if your employer did not.
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Yes it’s bad, allocations of sexual assault are really bad (to note there is not an allocation against Linus himself but someone at the company).

I don’t know how to respond other than to say ‘well you should have called the police’ is an utterly stupid response to someone who has allegedly been the victim of sexual assault, particularly in the workplace where they say they felt marginalised by management, particularly where you have moved to a new city to do that job away from your usual support network.

Chuk_Chuk said:
Hiding your wealth and being humble are not the same thing. The dude talks about driving a Model S Plaid. Uses Red Cameras and has a robot to take some of the shots for him. I wouldn't say he hides his wealth but that doesn't mean he is flexing it.

Regarding your bolded comment you cannot use the UK household consumption as a comparison for someone in america. The typical usage for an american home is 10,632 KWH per year. With one state going as high as 14,302kwh.

Average Energy Consumption per Household [2023 U.S Study] - EnergyBot

Wondering how your energy consumption compares to others? This blog post dives into the data around average energy use in U.S. households.
www.energybot.com www.energybot.com
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I’m well aware Americans use more energy on average, air con and terrible insulation standards and all that. His consumption was multiple times typical and he had no concept of why it’s high or a problem. Even driving an electric car doesn’t account for it. 10,0000 kWh in a model S would take you nearly 30,000 miles. His consumption was 40,000 kWh over typical and he is just one guy, no kids etc.
 
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superleeds27 said:

Sort of related I guess. Quite a long read
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If that is all true, and I would question the validity of a ex-employee accounts without corroboration from others.
Then my opinion on the matter of Linus has changed spectacularly.

I could forgive and defend the whole heat exchanger issue as I have worked / employeed logistics that are a world unto there own (I fired a guy for destroying £30k of bolts and nuts because he thought they were scrap without asking...)

I could forgive the inaccurate information as I've never seen Linus as a mainly tech channel, more a entertain-tech channel, bit like the history channel is to history.... And therefore they have to keep the YouTube algorithm happy which pushes constant output rather than quality to keep your channel in the top section of the search engine.

But reading Madison's thread, it comes across as poor inter personal management and lack of adequate HR skills. Which might be why he's brought in a CEO??

Seems Madison was unable to get the assistance that was necessary and was completely out of her depth for the job. Something a good manager would pick up and deal with.

The idea that she was put on a warning for reporting inappropriate touching/ grabbing is ****** up. I work in one of the most male sexist industries and anyone that made a female employee that uncomfortable would be out faster than he could think.

I have disciplined multiple people in other jobs for sexual harrasement after complaint from a female apprentice. I don't put up with that **** with my employees or people sub contracting for me.

Heads need to roll at ltt, the CEO needs to come to the front and show he has the company under his control and **** like this won't slide.


Not sure I'll be watching anymore ltt, despite it being good for casual tech viewers. I can't stand the traditional YouTube tech channels as it feels like a meeting with death by power point.


Tldr: defended Linus yesterday as I've dealt with logistics teams not communicating and can understand deadlines pressure. Now after Madisons tweets I think **** needs to change
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Yes it’s bad, allocations of sexual assault are really bad (to note there is not an allocation against Linus himself but someone at the company).

I don’t know how to respond other than to say ‘well you should have called the police’ is an utterly stupid response to someone who has allegedly been the victim of sexual assault, particularly in the workplace where they say felt marginalised.
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If you feel your employer is not following procedure correctly, wont start an investigation and you have been assaulted, its completely reasonable to speak to the police regarding the assault.
I dont get what your point is outside of "if you have been sexually assaulted, dont go to the police its stupid, go nuts on social media instead"....
 
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