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There's seemingly a third reply/variation from Tong now on Kotaku - https://kotaku.com/linus-tech-tips-gamers-break-nexus-youtube-pc-gaming-1850743611
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FlapYoJacks posted:What the gently caress is with small businesses not being able to somehow treat people, especially women, as human beings? How hard is it to have a strict policy of “If you sexually harass anyone, you are immediately fired after an immediate investigation if the allegations are substantiated.” Since anyone can do a small business and since there’s a *lot* of uneducated owners out there, I figured this stuff is genuinely novel and “woke” to them.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:04
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FlapYoJacks posted:What the gently caress is with small businesses not being able to somehow treat people, especially women, as human beings? How hard is it to have a strict policy of “If you sexually harass anyone, you are immediately fired after an immediate investigation if the allegations are substantiated.” Because a lot of people are poo poo, and in a small business assholes often don't have someone over them who will fire their asses for that crap. It's frequently awful in large businesses too, but at least there you get enough layers of corporate bullshit and shareholders that you get policies written because people understand that blowing up in the media about a sexual harassment scandal is bad business. It's not altruistic, it's purely because the whole system is a machine designed to make money, and some dipshit making the company look bad by telling women to "calm your tits" gets in the way of making money.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:05
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Titor posted:Speaking of, many folks have brought up the $100 million valuation for the company. The only source for this I can find primarily comes from Linus himself, stating that an undisclosed company expressed interest in a $100 million acquisition of LMG. As of now there's been no external validation available, leaving us with only Linus's word to go by. Given the recent instances of misinformation from Linus I wonder if this claim now merits some scepticism. totally could have been real during the peak funny-money period we were just in probably wasn't a real $100 million cash or like-cash payment straight up. if it was he'd have been incredibly stupid not to have taken it. if it was at all real I'd guess the $100 million was just the headline / acquisition value and Linus would only have gotten that payout if LMG turned into Disney or some poo poo.
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TheGreySpectre posted:I mean if Blizzard and any number of other companies are any indication it's not just small companies that have an issue treating women with respect. Yeah, the tremendously rich part about this is there are extended WAN show rants with Linus going off about Blizzard and other game company scandals with Luke nodding along, and it's clearly peak "throwing stones in glass houses"/"emperor has no clothes". Even if he meant it and it wasn't kayfabe on the podcast, he wasn't capable of doing any better with his own company.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:09
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Klyith posted:totally could have been real during the peak funny-money period we were just in In his video about it he claimed it was 60% cash and 40% stock.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:09
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beep by grandpa posted:how fired is this dude? A dude who looks exactly like this will somehow show up in every IT interview pool. Only difference is that next week this very dude will be representing the archetype.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:10
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FlapYoJacks posted:What the gently caress is with small businesses not being able to somehow treat people, especially women, as human beings? How hard is it to have a strict policy of “If you sexually harass anyone, you are immediately fired after an immediate investigation if the allegations are substantiated.” github famously bragged about their "flat" management structure which eventually became libertarian lord of the flies it's all a good reminder of how the distinction between ignorance and malice doesn't matter much, because the end result is the same. (on top of how revenue and profits are spent and shared amongst employees) people in tech/stem are ... something else in overestimating their own intelligence when it comes to social skills and managing people
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Aug 17, 2023 00:12
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Is there a Jason Schreier of Youtube journalists?
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Hellequin posted:https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1691944990631707102?t=HF4L-zqc3RNv6xpWoLEd3A&s=19 yeah can't wait for the results of the investigation they paid for to give them the answers they want to hear
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mA posted:Is there a Jason Schreier of Youtube journalists?
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Aug 17, 2023 00:19
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Cool clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXDdYtCSSlCnijyCXu7Ho2LJcenQxYYK0
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Aug 17, 2023 00:23
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so during the "do not discuss wages" dispute in february an employee made a throwaway account and dropped more allegations while including a full copy of the employee handbook: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/115ucm3/ltt_isnt_a_great_employer_has_a_lot_of_antilabour/
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edit: dumb post
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Charles Leclerc posted:It's GN Steve in a 1920s investigative journalist get up 
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lol
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Aug 17, 2023 00:38
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the ROG Typewriter is what got me. 
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Lmao
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That is a standard process development technique, just please don't ever use it for HR poo poo lmao.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:42
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This is the issue with nerds, everything is a problem with a technical solution. "Let it fail, collect data" is unacceptable if that means you're burning out staff and causing serious distress.
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I'd argue HR doesn't even exist to protect the company, but rather to enable the senior executives to operate how they want. HR may offer guidance to the senior execs on how to better protective the company from liability, but if the leadership team wants to continue being sex pest freaks, the most HR will do is draft paper policies to give the appearance of regulatory compliance. For companies with strongmen leadership types like Linus, HR may as well be a maid following a bull in a China shop with a broom and dustpan. Sure, HR will try to fix the broken plates as best they can, but they're never stepping in front of the bull to tell them "no"
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Aug 17, 2023 00:49
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well why not posted:This is the issue with nerds, everything is a problem with a technical solution. "Let it fail, collect data" is unacceptable if that means you're burning out staff and causing serious distress. Yeah that's Luke's response to Linus saying our company's processes are poo poo because the viewer require 7 videos a week otherwise we'll fall to obscurity
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Aug 17, 2023 00:49
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HR, like other bureaucracies, do have the potential to grow out of control and do things they shouldn't be involved in. But having enough HR can also be good for employees - I've worked for places which had a too sparse HR department, and that is a hassle for both employees and leaders.
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lol lmao even
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Excellent. Sturke even sounds like an old-timey detective/journalist name. “Sturke’s on the case, they won’t get far.”
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Ultraklystron posted:the ROG Typewriter is what got me.
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Lmfao
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i hope madison is taking some time to think about what she'll want to do with her new lab next year
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Conspiratiorist posted:For everyone's viewing pleasure. This makes me laugh so hard everytime I see it. The dude on the right is seeing his job pass before his eyes for a second there
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Aug 17, 2023 01:23
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I do think that saying HR is there to protect the company and not the employees is a little more nuanced, sometimes protecting the company is in the form of making sure it is complying with laws designed to protect employees from abuse by their employer and also remaining in compliance with their own policies. Like, lots of companies have official policies that are trans inclusive because it sounds good on DEI reports but in practice employees have a difficult time transitioning in the workplace, at least in theory, I think in practice in a lot of cases has a place in making sure people like middle managers maintain compliance with policies on transition. I work for a company in the same size-ish as LMG and our handbook has a whole section on policies and protections for workplace transition.
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Aug 17, 2023 01:30
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the buildup makes it so good, you can see Luke's already very surprised that it was in American Dad
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Aug 17, 2023 01:37
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HR protects the company, and sometimes the company's best interests align with the employees'. Not always, but in this instance, a proper HR department - literally even one person - could've steered around this.
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Aug 17, 2023 01:37
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pzy posted:Anyone have the LTT forum post where Linus describes his first experiences with women? Something like "smokey but pleasant" Lol, Linus went to bible camp. Really, it fits.
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Aug 17, 2023 01:39
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VostokProgram posted:the buildup makes it so good, you can see Luke's already very surprised that it was in American Dad the "left-to-right thrash" in confusion is an all timer. visual befuddlement.
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well why not posted:the "left-to-right thrash" in confusion is an all timer. visual befuddlement. Christ, poor Luke
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