dragonhero94

Well people in their right mind would pay for a much higher quality product and keep it for decades instead of buying a new backpack every year or two. People used to aim to purchase the highest quality they could with the money they had because they knew it would improve the longevity of the product in most cases. That's why clothes from 80 years ago were made at a higher quality and people largely bought no where near the number of clothing items most people do today. Just because you don't see the value in it, doesn't mean others can't.

What sexism? (I'm not asking to be rude, just want to understand if I've missed something.) Can you provide an example?

My biggest thought now is about the 3rd party HR company. The details wouldn't be directly put into the handbook for reporting if they were used as a full service HR group. This means handling background checks, onboarding, offboarding, insurance, 401k, and payroll. If she was required to put in her details into a system similar to ADP, Workday, or Paylocity, those could have the direct HR contacts for reporting in their system(chat, email, phone number). Or it could be in the standard suite of onboard and harassment videos that most companies in Canada and the USA have to do after passing a certain number of employees. I believe they are having the whole situation reviewed by a 3rd party investigator and not their current HR provider. If it's found that reports of sexual harassment were brought to the 3rd party HR and ignored or not properly investigated, LMG and the Canadian government would sue and fine them out of business. I do expect this to take time. They have to be reviewing every email she sent, group chats, and PMs between colleagues, and any available text messages or recordings. Then using the dates and times to check for any security camera footage to valid events and timelines. The process is not a fast one. It's important that Linus opened the door for people to be let go to the public. If there is a person doing this, then being protected and supported by a supervisor or manager, it would required both of them to be fired.

For GN, I'm a bit mixed. I do appreciate them reporting things to the community. But when I heard that they didn't even try to reach out to LMG for an official comment, that felt off. Even school newspapers reach out to parties and sides for a comment. Even if it's an hour or two before posting. It wouldn't have shown special treatment. In the first video, the comment of "We've been talking about making this video for a few months" really hit me. I understand that there were issues, but if there were concerns, as a professional you contact the company to express them first. This allows them to correct course. White hats do this for companies all of the time. If they don't respond reasonably, they go public. They fact that they were working on a video even before that Labs tour video came out just feels off. I can be frustrated with LTT and LMG, but GN handled it like it was a "Gatcha!!" instead of them actually looking out for the community. It's indicative of the tone Steve had while shooting it.

For anyone that is frustrated about the CenturyLink ISP story, as a Network Engineer for an ISP, you need to understand. These companies want as little restrictions as possible despite life saving communications and services ride their infrastructure. Transparency for the big companies is almost unheard of, and they want to keep it that way while raising your rates. What needs to change is major ISPs and internet services need to be considered a utility. They would be held to stricter standards and be forced to be transparent about rates, comply to government audits and regulations for network redundancy, and reduce costs for most Americans. That is the one thing the lobby to prevent happening. Except during the pandemic, they had to admit that they were an essential service provider. Contact your local politicians and bring them your ISP complains and concerns. Ask them to push for home internet services to be classified as a utility.

I can understand that feeling. Especially with people who call themselves part of the community harassing current employees at random and attempting to dox them. Just insane... I'll wait for their investigation. But the amount of people eager to rip and tear into anyone, even people who didn't work with Madison, is insane.