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Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions: “no one gets a break” - Dexerto::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Linus is absolute tech cancer, this just adds on.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

When I read her post I immediately thought that the working conditions she described were driven by social media/influence based/algorithm dependent careers’ shitty work-for-incentives model.

It’s YouTuber burnout, but spread around inside a small company to more people.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm just gonna say that, after around 25 people or so, you're no longer a small company. You've entered a solid intermediate realm. At 100+ employees. LMG is not a small company. Just average, most large companies have around 200 give or take 50 people. Very few international conglomerates surpass the thousands and several thousands of employees, and they're typically broken up hierarchically into 100 to 200 people units. So calling LMG a small company diminishes the extend of the potential harm they could incur. This is not a four people startup suffering from the woes of the YT algorithm. This is systematic and management enabled abuse.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

He kind of sounds like societal cancer too.

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