anthony What happened to Anthony

[Chandu gogineni]

Is Anthony ok

He didn't appear in any video since atleast a month or two 

He would be the person to cover recent launch of products but he didn't 

He didn't post anything after backpack fiasco 

Did he by any chance leave the team cause he is still on lmg website 

Did I miss anything 

[BiotechBen]

14 minutes ago, Chandu gogineni said:

Is Anthony ok

He didn't appear in any video since atleast a month or two 

He would be the person to cover recent launch of products but he didn't 

He didn't post anything after backpack fiasco 

Did he by any chance leave the team cause he is still on lmg website 

Did I miss anything 

https://linusmediagroup.com/

He's still on the staff directory. Anthony has been doing a lot more behind the scenes stuff recently, with him and Jake and a few others managing the infrastructure side of LMG. As writers get higher and higher up, they have more responsibility for others and have less time for video hosting. 

[minibois]

According to the credits, he co-wrote (together with Jake) the Macbook M2 review from 9 days ago

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Maybe he was on vacation. LMG staff can have vacation time too. Otherwise they're all just slaves for your entertainment. 

[Arika]

Doing other, more important stuff. 

[Erioch]

He's playing on a farm chasing rabbits and very happy.

[LogicalDrm]

13 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Maybe he was on vacation. LMG staff can have vacation time too. Otherwise they're all just slaves for your entertainment. 

This would have been my first guess. Without knowing how many weeks they get, two weeks on vacation would easily show as 2 months hiatus when making single video can take up to two weeks.

[Rusty Proto]

I'm wanting to say he said something about dissapearing to go to some sort of Apple con or something around a month or two ago. I forgot what it actually was though.

[cmndr]

23 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Maybe he was on vacation. LMG staff can have vacation time too. Otherwise they're all just slaves for your entertainment. 

I think you might be on to something.

We increase their productivity further! No more vacations.

[Pickles von Brine]

Anthony does a lot of the testing and benchmarking you see on the channel along with a few others. There have been quite a few things coming out over the past couple of months so he has been busy. 

[yolosnail]

On 10/8/2022 at 8:43 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Maybe he was on vacation. LMG staff can have vacation time too. Otherwise they're all just slaves for your entertainment. 

 

Maybe they're just American and don't realise in real first world countries people are entitled to time off

[SansVarnic]

18 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

 

Maybe they're just American and don't realise in real first world countries people are entitled to time off

This is a very offensive and narrow-minded thing to say.  

Normally when I make a statement about another country or its people I make sure to do my due diligence to ensure my opinion isn't clouding facts. Does not appear to be the case with your comment.

[Roswell]

10 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

 

Maybe they're just American and don't realise in real first world countries people are entitled to time off

Paid time off is the standard in the US, even for the lowest paying jobs... Not sure what you're forming this opinion from. 

[Synaptic Cipher]

Ok so I'm not crazy. I was wondering the same thing. 

[Pickles von Brine]

On 10/9/2022 at 9:24 PM, Roswell said:

Paid time off is the standard in the US, even for the lowest paying jobs... Not sure what you're forming this opinion from. 

Not always standard. Many hourly jobs do not have paid time off. 

[igormp]

Well, this might be worth a shot:

@GabenJr, how are you? Are you enjoying some cool vacations?

[Roswell]

3 hours ago, Pickles von Brine said:

Not always standard. Many hourly jobs do not have paid time off. 

“The standard” =! all

 

Majority of medium to large businesses offer PTO. 

[Jerakl]

On 10/9/2022 at 7:24 PM, Roswell said:

Paid time off is the standard in the US, even for the lowest paying jobs... Not sure what you're forming this opinion from. 

It's fairly common in other countries to just go "haha America bad". 

 

The particular comment in question is a very common view espoused by Europeans because if I remember right they are entitled to far more pto/vacation time than the average American. 

[Middcore]

Anthony in is in the 4090 video today so you can all chill.

[Needfuldoer]

13 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Anthony in is in the 4090 video today so you can all chill.

Yeah but who knows when that was filmed!

 

We need a video of him holding up today's newspaper to know for sure! (Anthony blink twice if the door is locked from the outside.)

 

/s

[cmndr]

On 10/11/2022 at 2:37 AM, Jerakl said:

It's fairly common in other countries to just go "haha America bad". 

 

The particular comment in question is a very common view espoused by Europeans because if I remember right they are entitled to far more pto/vacation time than the average American. 

US pay for the same job is like 1.5-2x European pay for all but the lowest of jobs.

But yeah, Europeans get an extra week or two off each year...

 

[Omni-Owl]

11 minutes ago, cmndr said:

US pay for the same job is like 1.5-2x European pay for all but the lowest of jobs.

But yeah, Europeans get an extra week or two off each year...

 

This is a weird argument to make (hi, European here )

What does PPP have to do with PTO? It's a non sequitar.

 

Here are some recent numbers on PTO in Europe vs America: https://getyournewview.com/vacation-guilt-america-vs-europe-pto/

Even if an American earned more on average than a European you still have bills to pay that the average European has already paid through taxes. (Doctor's visits, School, Nursery, etc.)

I've never quite understood, as a European, why there is always focus on how much Americans earn whenever they are facing socialistic policies like more vacation time, more sickleave and workers rights. It's so strange to me.

[cmndr]

4 hours ago, Omni-Owl said:

This is a weird argument to make (hi, European here )

What does PPP have to do with PTO? It's a non sequitar.

 

Here are some recent numbers on PTO in Europe vs America: https://getyournewview.com/vacation-guilt-america-vs-europe-pto/

Even if an American earned more on average than a European you still have bills to pay that the average European has already paid through taxes. (Doctor's visits, School, Nursery, etc.)

I've never quite understood, as a European, why there is always focus on how much Americans earn whenever they are facing socialistic policies like more vacation time, more sickleave and workers rights. It's so strange to me.

Income adjusted for PPP is basically how much $$$ a country makes divided among the population.

A joke when I was at Google was that someone could choose to work 60% time (so 3 days a week instead of 5) and still make more than a European working 5 days a week.

It's admittedly true that most companies don't support that kind of working paradigm. I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually becomes more common though.

At some point I'll probably semi-retire (think university professor with a light load) or do consulting (think work 3-8ish months a year). Semi retirement would still have a greater income than much of the EU. Basically anywhere that isn't Zurich.
 

And yeah, a few extra weeks of vacation is nice. It's just... not THAT much. Americans can still (it's frowned upon) take unpaid leave if they feel like it.

[SansVarnic]

I enjoy jobs that do the forty hour work week in 4days and having a 3 day weekend; you accomplish more and have a more relaxing weekend.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

49 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

I enjoy jobs that do the forty hour work week in 4days and having a 3 day weekend; you accomplish more and have a more relaxing weekend.

I also know some places allow people to have every other Friday off if they extend their workday by like 45 minutes. A bit of an in-between if 10 hour workdays are a bit overwhelming for some.