TLDR:

Over work

Mentally draining/abusive workplace

harassment

(maybe intentionally) bad management practices

lack of any signs of improvement

  • average650@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Pushing too hard does not explain name calling, sexual harassment, and other ways of taking advantage of power imbalances.

    To me, the heavy workload is the least damning thing about it.

    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I agree. When it was just “LTT pushes out content at a breakneck pace and screws up a lot” like happened with Billet, I was willing to give them a pass with the understanding that this scandal would lead them to make improvements in quality-control.

      But these new allegations show a level of unprofessionalism that’s staggering. Either the company leadership is not competent to deal with sexual harassment in their business, or they’re complicit with it. A certain amount of unprofessionalism is the life-blood of the small grindset start-up where work-life balance goes out the window and everybody lives and breathes the mission, but LTT has been big-enough to grow the hell up for quite a long time, and I can’t help but think Linus’ own personality is a big reason that it developed this toxic culture.