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Does anyone know more about the sexual harassment story Madison talked about? Where the female employee was yelled at for making it up?

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9 hours ago, SimonShipperd said:

Oh no, a high workload at a demanding job. This has never been seen in the history of capitalism.

Oh no, you cannot read and copmprehend text. What an incel:D

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Just now, Tumwum said:

Does anyone know more about the sexual harassment story Madison talked about? Where the female employee was yelled at for making it up?

we have only seen "her accusations", no proof, and definetly no LMG response since that would not be taken in public that would be taken in court if anything

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5 minutes ago, HesCalledTheStig said:

My thoughts as well.  I dont think LMG will make a statement.  I think it will be handled internally if and when it's needed to be.  But who knows.  They have a lot going on right now.

I hope that they are doing an investigation through a third party. Just them doing an investigation isn't going to be enough, Also I don't want to join a hate brigade and further ruin the lives of others. This is going to have a lot of collateral so 🫠

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4 minutes ago, djksm said:

@Linustech: RESPOND TO THIS TOPIC AND MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER PLEASE

Even if I'd really Like Linus to take on your offer, I doubt any good can come out of it. It would only feed the windmill of haters versus supporters.

Not counting that if there is legal action resulting of this, Linus should walk on eggs until it is resolved.

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2 hours ago, HesCalledTheStig said:

Came here just to tell us that?  Don’t let the door hit ya….

 

Maybe give this time to play out.  No one knows all the details but the people involved. Hell, we don’t know if this is true or not. I’m sure LMG has its reasons for not responding to this. Why would they?  It would only stir the pot more. If they admit to any wrong doings the community will lynch them.  If they don’t respond the community will lynch them. If it gets handled silently the community will lynch them. It’s a lose lose situation any way you look at it. There are too many questions and speculations at this point. 
 

Any way, back on point, peace out Girl Scout. Good luck with your protest!

'peace out Girl Scout'. On point response from an older bloke defending someone from these kind of accusations without them ever even being addressed.

 

And to think, all I said was that I'm out. Imagine if I'd have said she deserves to be listened to, not necessarily believed with no right of reply (a reply that hasn't yet come). I'm guessing I'd be a cuck or a simp.

 

What an embarrassing reply honestly, grow up lad.

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1 minute ago, cloneman said:

Sexual harassment between 2 employees probably occurred, but I would suspect that was _not_ due to LTT taking this lightly.

It was an interpersonal conflict left to marinate inappropriately, at which point people start to insult and resent each other.

 

Everytime there's a divorce or a inter workplace conflict, these kinds of comments of harassment surface. It's usually not because the workplace tolerates sexual harassment, it's because minor conflicts, and fears of job insecurity, were not addressed and were allowed to escalate into resentment and name-calling. 



 

Sure
You can name-call someone without make it clear is about their sex or sexuality.

It's still sexual harassment, being grabbed or called a bitch or to "calm your tities" is not only name calling 

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1 minute ago, HesCalledTheStig said:

They really arent obligated to tell us anything. They are going to be lynched no matter what they say so, its literally in their best interest to keep quiet and handle it internally.

Not necessarily. For example...making a coin-flip assumption here...they could investigate it, and find that she's telling the truth, and put out a statement saying they've fired the individuals responsible and taken steps to make it up to Madison.

 

That might even help stop Floatplane bleeding subscriptions quite so heavily.

 

You're right in that just about anything else will result in a stoning, though.

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1 minute ago, Godiwa said:

I'd rather see 99 guilty go free than see ONE innocent have their life ruined because of false accussations...

Innocent until proven otherwise...

Have proof... (wear a mic, have a cam around you, whatever) and bring those fuggers down... and don't WAIT coming forward, ruins your case and evidence might get lost (like surveilance in building is only around most places for like 30 days)

you clearly need to educate yourself on the topic properly. sexual assualt is a truly traumatizing and horrifying experience. if an empoyee shares multiple stories to management, there should action taken. clearly that didnt happen. 

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4 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

This the type of dude who ruins work for the rest of the workplace because he doesn't understand what's reasonable for your job and what's unacceptable especially including timetables and workloads.

Lmao.

It's not just "management expects you to do work" bud.

The person you're replying to was one of the most vociferous and irrational "Linus defense force" attack dogs in the thread about the GN video, it's not worth the time to engage. The demonstration that even these types of allegations aren't enough to sway his rabid loyalty for LTT proves it. 

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Just now, Toriyan said:

I hope that they are doing an investigation through a third party. Just them doing an investigation isn't going to be enough, Also I don't want to join a hate brigade and further ruin the lives of others. This is going to have a lot of collateral so 🫠

Yep.  And people dont seem to understand that LMG is a large and well known company.  They arent going to make a public statement before approaching it from a legal standpoint.  This is something that could ruin them.  They have to tread lightly and do things right.  

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Has there been any official response to this yet?

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3 minutes ago, Godiwa said:

I'd rather see 99 guilty go free than see ONE innocent have their life ruined because of false accussations...

Innocent until proven otherwise...

Have proof... (wear a mic, have a cam around you, whatever) and bring those fuggers down... and don't WAIT coming forward, ruins your case and evidence might get lost (like surveilance in building is only around most places for like 30 days)

Dude... what? 

I'm not even gonna comment on the absurdity of your first statement.
Also employee's should go around recording everything in their life because of a fear of being mistreated, harassed etc...?
Makes no sense buddy

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1 minute ago, Middcore said:

The person you're replying to was one of the most vociferous and irrational "Linus defense force" attack dogs in the thread about the GN video, it's not worth the time to engage. The demonstration that even these types of allegations aren't enough to sway his rabid loyalty for LTT proves it. 

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Just now, iHateCoilWhine said:

you clearly need to educate yourself on the topic properly. sexual assualt is a truly traumatizing and horrifying experience. if an empoyee shares multiple stories to management, there should action taken. clearly that didnt happen. 

did she just go to them and say "bla bla bob is evil and touching me" or did she have a recording proving bob was talking nasty to her? or video of him groping her? or did she just make an accusation? I could go in and make several accusations too and demand they do something... how would they know it is true without proof?

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6 minutes ago, Astetine said:

I believe Madison.

SA, gaslighting, harassment, blackmail, micro-aggression. As a woman who has been working in IT for many years I seen it all, it's happening all the time. You have no idea what stories we share between each other. Man are either ignorant or choose to not see these situations.  Luckily my workplace has been fairly good at dealing with this nowadays, but very few of us are so lucky.

You can even see it in this thread - suggestions of being delusional, seeking attention or misremembering. They always pop up - here is a bingo for you guys.

 

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These are some serious accusations and needs to be addressed. Addressed without any shootouts for store or jokes about sponsors - it's time to grow up.

Yes, some parts are very true. I work with a lot of female workers because I'm in marketing and we have a great team.
But some are more loose than others, and that's my biggest issue.

Claiming you're one of the guys, making the same jokes and maybe even going to the limit yourself can happen, and I have seen it happen.
I'm not taking sides, or disagreeing with you. I'm just sharing a side that also exists. 

Let's refresh our memory, ROG Reboot video in which Linus even corrected Maddison because she was going too far: 12:30...
What if she said that when working there and a male said "Yes you are", then shit hits the fan. But it could also be just plain fun.

There is no way of knowing if people don't communicate... 

My issue is that Madison has a history of saying weird stuff and that's fine. And if she did not like that maybe she should have stopped saying things like "I'm sexy ..." Those are very mixed signals to say on the one hand you don't want to be treated like that but saying stuff like this.

To be honest, I liked Madison and if this never came out I would have still liked her, but to make these jokes yourself and now point the finger exactly at the same moment this shit show I find very distasteful. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, digitalscream said:

Not necessarily. For example...making a coin-flip assumption here...they could investigate it, and find that she's telling the truth, and put out a statement saying they've fired the individuals responsible and taken steps to make it up to Madison.

 

That might even help stop Floatplane bleeding subscriptions quite so heavily.

 

You're right in that just about anything else will result in a stoning, though.

Them making a statement would be a bad move given the accusations.  They need to approach it correctly or it could destroy them.

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Just now, HesCalledTheStig said:

Yep.  And people dont seem to understand that LMG is a large and well known company.  They arent going to make a public statement before approaching it from a legal standpoint.  This is something that could ruin them.  They have to tread lightly and do things right.  


If it weren't a sexual harassment and hostile workplace allegation then I wouldn't be so sure (given Linus rushing in to reply about GN) but yes, this is a whole different level and unless someone is severely compromised in judgment, any response to what Madison said is going to go through many hands, not the least of which will be legal counsel.

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19 minutes ago, wanderingfool2 said:

This ^^^ and in this case, it should be a public report at the end.

 

I'm not sure LMG could really do anything.  If I'm not mistaken, they would have to prove that the words she says are actual lies.  So if she's telling the truth, there is no threat at all.  Even if she's telling a lie, LMG would likely still have an uphill battle in defamation as they would have to prove it didn't happen (which is pretty hard to prove)

Witness testimony would probably be enough to meet burden of proof in a Civil case, barring any rebuttals. It would be easy enough to defend, but requires some small shred that she acted in good faith. 
 

Hence why Madison should at least prepare to defend against the possibility of a suit. 

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Some of the posts here are disturbingly sick; it shows that it is not only an internal toxic problem but a significant vocal part of a community that approves and dismisses this kind of behavior. 

 

GN showed all the receipts and proofs about some bad practices at LMG (that are way less severe than this allegation), and for many people, the problem was that Steve did not call Linus. Overnight we had people becoming “experts” in journalistic practices to dismiss any of GN's points.

 

Now they want proof and are spilling a lot of right-wing incel ideas. 

 

The same with GN’s video. It doesn't matter the “proofs” are never enough…

 

 

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8 minutes ago, coopa said:

 

@DakotaCx Looks like she said she didn't want to look at sexual organs for work and was told a little longer, that should be good enough to count as sexual harassment and hostile work environment.

Linus made an employee look at dicks and vaginas

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1 minute ago, Remy van den Nouweland said:

Yes, some parts are very true. I work with a lot of female workers because I'm in marketing and we have a great team.
But some are more loose than others, and that's my biggest issue.

Claiming you're one of the guys, making the same jokes and maybe even going to the limit yourself can happen, and I have seen it happen.
I'm not taking sides, or disagreeing with you. I'm just sharing a side that also exists. 

Let's refresh our memory, ROG Reboot video in which Linus even corrected Maddison because she was going too far: 12:30...
What if she said that when working there and a male said "Yes you are", then shit hits the fan. But it could also be just plain fun.

There is no way of knowing if people don't communicate... 

My issue is that Madison has a history of saying weird stuff and that's fine. And if she did not like that maybe she should have stopped saying things like "I'm sexy ..." Those are very mixed signals to say on the one hand you don't want to be treated like that but saying stuff like this.

To be honest, I liked Madison and if this never came out I would have still liked her, but to make these jokes yourself and now point the finger exactly at the same moment this shit show I find very distasteful. 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Nighters said:

Oh no, you cannot read and copmprehend text. What an incel:D

If you could use your eyes and brain at the same time, you would have seen that I only replied to this tweet that was posted:

 

To stop the speculation and DM's I am receiving. I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health. The number of daily items the Social media role at the time was expected to fill was incredibly high.

 

My response was solely pointed towards the high workload.

The entire thread was not yet posted and I'm not going to waste my time to register on twitter/x to read a gigantic thread.

 

Be hey, nice reply. Boy oh boy, you sure showed me.

My apologies for any spelling / grammar mistakes. English isn't my native language.

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5 minutes ago, CantHelpMyself said:

I doubt it.

 

This is the one he won't hastily respond to, and probably try to bury even harder than his previous..... Influencer moments.


He doesnt give a damn about all of this. He has 0 remorses. I have feelings that Madison's heart-breaking story will bring LGM down for good. 

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1 minute ago, will0hlep said:

Has there been any official response to this yet?

The thread on Twitter went up during the night in British Columbia (Canada) last night and I doubt LTT has had adequate time to review what was said and make an action plan.

We do not need pitchforks and we sure as hell don't need Linus rushing in to make posts before the proper conclusions are reached. This is something that may take a day or two - and that's OK. It's better to have a thoughtful reply with a concrete, meaningful action plan on properly investigating what Madison said rather than just "rushing to answer first", which will ultimately do no good.

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