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- technews@radiation.party
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- technews@radiation.party
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls | What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company t…::The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has halted production after controversies over ethics and accuracy in reporting, spurred further this morning by accusations of sexual harassment experienced at the company.
As much as this is Linus fault as the leaders, if LTT goes down for this. More than 100 of the employees will be out of job at the end of this.
Either way the outcome won’t be pretty for LTT staffs.
Most of those staff are going to have no trouble finding new jobs. It’s a highly technical and specialised crew, many would already be in demand elsewhere, and a void left by LTT would be quickly filled by other groups producing similar content, who suddenly find themselves in need of more staff. Hell, a lot of former LTT staff would be gobbled up by LTT’s own sponsors.
This is a terrible argument whenever there’s any public controversies within the private sector. It’s not worth thinking about ‘the jobs’ because that’s not how the economy works. If there’s fire behind this smoke, and LTT did fold, those left long-term unemployed are probably fewer in number than those who are currently being exploited and mistreated. It’s almost always a zero-sum game.
While I agree with everything you’ve said, it’s also fair to acknowledge that losing one’s job unexpectedly is a disruptive life change that not everyone is adequately prepared for financially or emotionally and we can empathize with them.
Edit, seriously what have I said here that’s downvote worthy?
You’re asking people to spare pity for a corporation abusing people.
Sure, it’s not necessarily the fault of employees.
But many of us have only limited pity to spare, and we’re saving it for the more direct victims. Not the employees.
Besides; many of them would probably do well to get away from there.
The mob is angry and you mentioned empathy.
People just aren’t ready to have empathy, yet.
I get the concern. And I’ve been part of enough layoffs to know how much it sucks. But a company being held to its responsibility and a standard and held to the light like this to show it’s failings, would be an acceptable condition. That said though, I really don’t see anyone losing their jobs over this. This is a failing on the higher end of LMG, not the rank and file.
They’re not going anywhere. He’ll take a hit from it. Now that the heat is actually on and he can’t just say whatever he’ll apologize he’ll outline what they’re going to do to make it better and then it’ll all be back to where it was in another couple months, maybe with a little extra effort on the data.