I don't see how this surprises anyone. As soon as the handbook was leaked I just knew it was a shit place. Why? Cause I work at a shit place and they do the same shit. Shitty people rip shitty policies and implement them shittily. Linus doesn't care, he wants profit.
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So much truth. Look at the guy. How is front facing persona is. You know it’s some egomaniac that’s just like fuck you I need more.
It’s funny because publicly, he’s been disapproving of her in photos, chat. Like the look he’s giving her here, urgh.
It honestly sounds like my last job. Unprofessionalism in all its finest with nothing but favouritism, big egos and zero agency or responsibility given. All with endless work in tow. Yup. Good times 🙂🔫
I'm there right now, lemmer, and let me tell 'ya; Fucken shoot me. I am a hamster on a wheel.
What handbook?
No vacation days in the first 12 months. Then 2 weeks of vacation per year, three weeks after 5 years of consecutive employment.
Damn, I'm happy to live and work in Europe right now, assuming that these are comparable numbers across the North American job landscape.
"Linus Media Group believes that vacation is a necessary opportunity for people to relax, refresh and recharge." LMAO
The rules on sick leave look quite awful as well.
Jesus, I get 5 weeks instantly every year and I can buy more with salary
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Oh, it's worse here in the US. Much worse.
Some people have pointed out, that this seems to be a normal vacation policy within Canada. Still a shitty policy, but I wouldn't put the majority blame on LMG for this specific issue.
They’re entirely to blame for it at LMG.
I highly doubt Canada has a law against doing more than the bare legal minimum.
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You're literally required to report bullying to management, but apparently the response is someone telling you to stop being such a bitch.
Some of this is very boilerplate handbook wording but I gotta say some of these benefits are very average at best, especially the time off situation. This is from the perspective of a US government worker, where I regularly see my friends get hired in the private sector and receive much better time off.
And at least in southern New England, there's some straight up illegal rules in here, notably discussion of wages. Around here you cannot be ordered by anyone not to disclose what you make.
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Linus is absolute tech cancer, this just adds on.
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.
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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He kind of sounds like societal cancer too.
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