I asked you about the second sentence. Not the final sentence.
Just so there are no miscommunication issues this is the second sentence.
"We'd have an equal number of people complaining if this WAS a completely careful corporate response."
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Just so there are no miscommunication issues this is the second sentence.
"We'd have an equal number of people complaining if this WAS a completely careful corporate response."
That's the point you aren't supposed to be setting out to please people, you're supposed to at least be attempting to show some contrition for what you've done, and that's something you can't script.
you might as well get your lawyer to read out a pre-prepared statement.
No, i don't agree. You'll always have a section of "wanting to see the world burn" people. But to say it would be equal I seriously and highly doubt it.
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IMO, everything blown way out of proportion, I imagine stuff like this happens daily within companies but just doesn't get reported on because they aren't in the limelight/ Youtube celebreties
The apology video is (again IMO) a bit cringey and not entirely necessary.
absolute drama from a nothing burger really
The apology video is (again IMO) a bit cringey and not entirely necessary.
absolute drama from a nothing burger really
They can't do that because for the past 12-18 months, they having been bigging up the Labs plan to produce accurate testing data for everything they review while simultaneously the accuracy of the data in their reviews down to some super basic stuff like technical specs has been getting worse. You can't have it both ways on review videos. Linus then saying that he couldn't justify spending a few hundred USD in retesting the Billet Labs block with the context of the company spending 6 or 7 figures on building and hiring for Labs throws a pretty big shadow over it.
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LTT is in a position which could seriously influence consumer spending, incorrectly reporting on a product or making erroneous claims is a massive issue, its why we have the ASA.
Then we get onto the alleged workplace abuse, which again Linus is in a position of trust, so from a consumers perspective its a massive issue.
Companies get hauled over the coals over misleading advert claims all the time, CEOs get dragged through the mud publicly in the newspapers for workplace misconduct, the only difference with LTT is this is being done via social media and forums.
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Thinking about it, as disappointing as Madison's allegations are, they don't really come as a huge surprise to me. Putting aside his time at NCIX, when he split off and did his own thing under his own name, it was just a boys club. It was him and group of his male friends, all aged 20-something, doing everything from his own home, during the formative years him building what LMG is today. I wouldn't be surprised if they collectively built up the mindset of "stop being a little bitch, man up and be more dominant" and all the rest of it, which would just be amplified when Linus promotes them to powerful positions through pure length-of-service, rather than actual training in that area.
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in my opinion in this situation LTT are in a no win situation, if they released as a completely corporate and obviously so response then half the people following this will shout out that its just corporate BS and means nothing, adding in a bit of the old LTT "humour" and ppl are shouting they LTT hasn't learned the lesson. how sincere they are only time will tell but for now it's a full rollback on Linus' original statement
But couldn't they of added some humor without trying to make money off of the situation? Surely thats the perfect middle ground.
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for the moment I'm ignoring the allegations as they are unfounded/unproved.
as for the rest, I still stand by my opinion. companies don't get everything right all of the time.
I have a gripe with this "cancel culture" though to be honest, I don't agree with the recent move towards trial by social media.
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100% agree cancel culture and trial by social media is ridiculous, it just becomes a mob action digging up every bad allegation whether founded or not.
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That is ****** upThere is also this story that got covered up real quick a while back
It's all very tame these days, in the past it was pitchforks and burning torches. In many parts of the world it's still like that. The modern keyboard warriors, not convinced a lot of them are even real, wouldn't leave their basement to actually do anything. Seems to me as the demographic gets younger these issues get worse. Not too say there aren't that kind of people of all ages but I see a lot more of it when the audience is younger.
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There's a response post from linus on the version I saw, so something definitely happened...
I take anything on the internet with more than a grain of salt...trolls, bots, now AI who knows...
Personally I find the allegations of a toxic work culture far more serious than inaccurate reviews. I think it highly doubtful that the individual making these serious allegations has fabricated her entire experience. Which if untrue, would invite a swift libel case. Which I'm certain will not happen.
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