Evil Linus meme aside, it's big time damage control at LMG right now: https://youtu.be/0cTpTMl8kFY
As usually happens with stuff like this, once started, many others will come out of the woodwork and it's already started: https://lemm.ee/post/4433736. Of course we have to take some of these things with a grain of salt. However, if even a tiny bit of what Madison went through is true, this is unbelievably horrible.
I'm sure there will be plenty of LMG/LTT fans that will take this apology and happily move on. I for one will not.
It's about time he had some humble pie, he was already aware he wasn't really CEO material for a company of the size LMG has grown to. It's very good there's now someone above him whose job it is to tell him no. Until now, the no's have only come from below his position. Clearly that's not enough anymore.
What happened to Madison shows they should have had professional HR on staff far, far sooner than they did. Her employment there having gone the way it did, means LMG has some serious cracks in its company culture, policy, and the views of its leading staff, including Linus.
But looking at the way LMG operates, and the kinds of things Linus wants to do, and the way he says he wants things to go, shows hes not malicious. It shows he is not sufficiently competent.
This is a fuckup. One that might kill the company. And if it does, they will have done it to themselves. But it's a fuckup, not the evil masterplan of a villanous leader.
I am out of the loop on the Madison thing. Anyone care to fill me in? If its possible to do quickly that is.
Basically everything that can go wrong between employee and employer, did. Managerial overreach, ignored complaints, sexual misconduct, deterioration of mental health to the point of self-harm. All of it gas-lit away by her direct superior/s at LMG. She hasn't named names, but someone at the company made her job a living hell, and sabotaged all her attempts at improving her situation to cover their own ass. She had it rough.
Her posts
What weirds me out the most is the onlyfans account. Why force a young woman to manage an onlyfans account, that expressed she didn't want to do it from the start? It couldn't have been important for the brand to have that account, it's a tech channel FFS. This is one of the things that can't be explained away by misunderstandings or misread situations or "just Bois being Bois". This is a manager abusing power in one of the weirdest ways
Yep. That said, when she was there, she was the only employee who was hired specifically to handle the LMG social media accounts.
OnlyFans could be considered to just about fall under that umbrella, to be shoved onto her plate along with all the rest of the way too many tasks she was expected to handle. It was an april fools thing that LMG did a few years back.
She became the lead of a single-person team, given the workload and responsibilities of an entire department, with no-one to delegate to, with just her one voice to protest with. And then her concerns got muffled by someone atop all that.
I can totally imagine how even just one person in a managerial position could do that to her, by simply pulling the right strings to pressure her, and to prevent anyone who'd care from realizing it's happening.
Big yikes. Thank you.
TL;DR: She's a former employee that recently came out to detail her abusive time working for LMG filled with sexism, harassment, and working her to the point that she injured herself just to be able to take a day off work
Oh that's who the self harm references were about. Was wondering wtf. Cheers
Agreed. What I mean is, that someone better suited for management work, may have been able to avoid subjecting an employee to what Madison went through.
Something along the way in how he built LMG to work, or in how she specifically was hired and treated, allowed it to happen.