Madison on why she quit
Madison on why she quit
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I'm more inclined to trust this account than I am with others because there's a lot of things she mentioned which are quite synonymous with the 'tech bro' industry:
My work was called "dogshit" I was called "incompetent". When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to "put on my big girl pants" and be "more assertive".
However, I will withhold my judgement until I hear both sides of the story like always. I also don't know why she didn't press criminal charges, I'm sure sexual assault is a crime in Canada and you won't have to pay legal fees like she mentioned towards the end. And one more thing, she should have mentioned these "managers", "certain members", and alleged sex offenders by name.
Given she was self-harming to get out of work she probably didn't have the frame of mind to pursue criminal charges, and just wanted to put it all behind her.
The unfortunate reality is that we will probably never hear the full story. I hope these are the actions of some other manager, who was dealt with, but we just won't ever know or find out.
This is why companies of all sizes need a seperate HR department, so these problems don't ever escalate as described. I hope LMG gets a HR department with teeth and they can grow and move past this, but it looks pretty grim. Maybe this can be the change that the new CEO can institute.
Why do you say it looks grim? LMG just responded to the quality complaints. This situation is a different beast to tame however.
They did a proper corporate response after GN pointed out how dogshit their first one was which was basically deflection and excuses.
And this is a very different beast indeed especially if higher ups like Linus are involved. That comes with a whole host of legal issues.
I don't really care about the quality issues, it's not why I watch LTT vids anyway. They are entertainment first, factual second. When labs is live I'll worry about the quality.
But issues such as the ones described can really spoil their image, and I don't want to watch content associated with those kind of problems.
I’ve been in the workforce for 30 years. I’ve never seen anything even close to this happen anywhere I have worked, I haven’t heard stories about it from my friends either.
But we aren’t tech bros.
The circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the tech industry has a big problem with this kind of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why? I have no idea.
But that industry needs to take account of this and hold themselves to a higher standard. Getting support for this is probably hard for lemmy users because many of them are probably tech bros themselves and possibly blind to this sort of thing happening in their workplaces too.
Def seems like the rumblings around tech culture and sexism has some teeth though
I have seen this kind of shit happen. The shock factor is another reason why it is so hard to talk about. All around people kept saying "I've worked in this field for N years and never saw shit like this". It happens, and it is fucking everywhere. Some of us don't encounter it, but it is there. There is a real law of silence around these systems.
Or you aren't someone that woman deem as safe to talk to about this.
Sexual harassment and sexual violence happen all over the world and in every industry. Just think about how many people react when they hear something like this and that will make it clear why the victims often don't talk to anyone (or only a few people they see as safe) about this.
Or I’m responsible for the women on my team and don’t tolerate a culture of anything less than professional
If you never saw something anywhere close to this and you've NEVER been told something like this by a friend the chances are pretty high that they just never told you.
Sure that depends on what exactly you mean by "anything close to this", but when you look up sexual harrasment statistics it's pretty much impossible.
Also there is the possibility that you read those situations very differently, as you said some people are blind to it so you should consider the possibility that you are blind to it yourself.
Chances are much better that I just don’t work in tech
The circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the tech industry has a big problem with this kind of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Why? I have no idea.
Nerds with problematic ideas about women who suddenly get power over women. That’s it.