Not to be a hater but don't you think using your employees to renovate your house is pretty gross?

[Salterino]

I mean at least pay them  what hiring someone else to do it would cost on top of their  normal pay

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, Salterino said:

I mean at least pay them  what hiring someone else to do it would cost on top of their  normal pay

Counter point.. how do you know hes not paying them extra for there knowledge and expertise in areas... like Collin with his Electrical as an example?

[char3327]

@Salterino How do you know he's not paying them extra?

[Middcore]

OP do you know what happens when you ASSUME?

[Zusafek]

Assuming things you know nothing about is a dangerous practice.  

[harryk]

I recall Linus mentioned in one of the videos that the bulk of the work is being done by outside contractors. LTT employees are only appearing for the videos and doing the background research which I think is fair considering smart home tech definitely falls under the purview of LTT’s content.

[Mooshi]

If an employee wouldn't want to do things for Linus, they wouldn't be working for him. This seems less a case of not be rude and more a case of mind your own business.

[Spotty]

The construction and renovations are being done by professional contractors.

LTT is planning on doing videos on the house and tech upgrades he is making. They'll make videos on things like installing smart switches and smart HVAC control, running ethernet to the rooms, setting up his home server, setting up his new office computer, setting up his home theatre, etc... If you see LTT staff there they are there in their capacity as LMG employees producing content for the LTT channel.

[Quackers101]

if forcing them, that would be another thing. if they dont mind and some goes over similar stuff they have done?

[SansVarnic]

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[nbrowser]

I dunno...asking your employees that specialize in tech for advice and the odd bit of help in helping select products and or giving you a hand on site for compensation isn't a bad thing. I mean we are dealing with a tech focused company here.

[adarw]

i mean they linus also helps doing stuff in the intel $5000 upgrade -well at least kinda.

 

but their getting paid and if linus(the employer) wants them to do something that isnt unacceptable so be it lol. it aint hard.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

If they get injured and can write it off as workplace injury, I guess why not? I'm an IT Tech and I'm literally picking hairs out of returned laptops using tweezers. This definitely was not part of my job description but you wouldn't really call it gross right (apart from the obvious gross part of such tasks)? 

[Guest]

On 9/11/2021 at 11:05 AM, Salterino said:

I mean at least pay them  what hiring someone else to do it would cost on top of their  normal pay

You could say that about anything.

"Isn't using your employees to build computers for you pretty gross?"

[XWAUForceflow]

On 9/11/2021 at 8:05 PM, Salterino said:

I mean at least pay them  what hiring someone else to do it would cost on top of their  normal pay

Why? As long as they still more or less do what they are being paid for I see no reason for paying them more. If their contract states that they have to work 40h per week doing stuff for videos, then them doing stuff for videos in Linus' house for 40h per weeks seems fine. Now if they somehow work more (longer commute, longer hours, work that they are not expected to do at the office like hard labor) then a special compensation would be a good idea, but from the videos I've seen so far I doubt that this is the case.

Now I don't know about the ethics of using company funds to work on his private home, but since LMG is not publicly funded and is most likely under the sole ownership of Linus and Yvonne even that shouldn't be too much of an issue. (Might be a tax issue, but I am sure that they have that all figured out...)

 

So no, from the outside looking in I don't see an issue. And as others mentioned since a lot of the employees get goodies (like the $5,000 upgrade) I don't think there's much to complain about. (Although it would be interesting to know how those upgrades are handled tax wise, I know in Germany there would be an additional tax for that, but no idea how that works in Canada...)

[CerealExperimentsLain]

LMG tech employees are being used to do tech stuff in a home installation, assuming they are getting paid for this, and there is no indication that they are not being paid, I see no problem.  It's interesting tech content for a tech channel.  There's nothing to suggest that anyone has been asked to do this in their unpaid free time, so I see no issue.

[tikker]

3 hours ago, XWAUForceflow said:

Now I don't know about the ethics of using company funds to work on his private home, but since LMG is not publicly funded and is most likely under the sole ownership of Linus and Yvonne even that shouldn't be too much of an issue. (Might be a tax issue, but I am sure that they have that all figured out...)

Probably a bit of a gray area as while he is using it for private stuff, the tech and tech upgrade aspects do fit their company and jobs. You can easily turn this thread around and complain about the Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade by saying it's pretty gross of LMG's employers to use their boss' resources and company sponsors to upgrade their home setups.

[Quackers101]

3 hours ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

LMG tech employees are being used to do tech stuff in a home installation, assuming they are getting paid for this, and there is no indication that they are not being paid, I see no problem.  It's interesting tech content for a tech channel.  There's nothing to suggest that anyone has been asked to do this in their unpaid free time, so I see no issue.

maybe more legal aspects and if someone got hurt.

From dealing with the more dangerous power lines and if there would be an accident to what that would entail?

Also when they start messing with other jobs and with other peoples houses (not just his own), if there is a rule in the market for this.

About licences or whatever else that could be brought forth, not being alone or just his company on his home project (as some of this was mentioned in his videos very briefly).

[CerealExperimentsLain]

1 minute ago, Quackers101 said:

maybe more legal aspects and if someone got hurt.

From dealing with the more dangerous power lines and if there would be an accident to what that would entail?

Also when they start messing with other jobs and with other peoples houses (not just his own), if there is a rule in the market for this.

About licences or whatever else that could be brought forth, not being alone or just his company on his home project (as some of this was mentioned in his videos very briefly).

This is all irrelevant.  They're doing networking.  No one is doing electrical work.

[Quackers101]

Just now, CerealExperimentsLain said:

This is all irrelevant.  They're doing networking.  No one is doing electrical work.

Not sure, but thought they did other work too in other projects. Although I guess it has not been much of that, so sure.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

Just now, Quackers101 said:

Not sure, but thought they did other work too in other projects. Although I guess it has not been much of that, so sure.

In the video Linus comments on using proper contractors for electrical work.  There's also no evidence in the videos of any LMG staff doing such work.  You're just supposing.

[Middcore]

The only home electrical work I can ever remember in LTT videos, like when he put the charger for the Chevy Volt in the garage, he had a professional electrician in the video, not random LTT staff. 

[Quackers101]

5 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

In the video Linus comments on using proper contractors for electrical work.  There's also no evidence in the videos of any LMG staff doing such work.  You're just supposing.

what? linus have videos of himself doing such work or with brian. (since he is the boss, I guess, this is unrelated?)

While I might have thought of something else, I'm haven't said they aren't using or have done so.

Just that it could happen and etc etc.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

8 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

what? linus have videos of himself doing such work or with brian. (since he is the boss, I guess, this is unrelated?)

While I might have thought of something else, I'm haven't said they aren't using or have done so.

Just that it could happen and etc etc.

You understand that Brian is a licensed electrician, right?

[Quackers101]

2 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

You understand that Brian is a licensed electrician, right?

didn't say he wasn't?