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“Mr. Sebastien, in your video from August 26, 2023 marked as exhibit 23B you referred to “the Madison situation”. Can you explain what you meant by ‘situation’?”
You may not like it but when there’s credible accusations of harassment, constructive dismissal, and possibly up to battery you do not make public statements of any kind beyond, “We are investigating and taking the accusations seriously”, which in case you missed it the CEO of LMG already did a week ago.
LMG can legally make any statement they want. There’s exceedingly few that they could make that wouldn’t be used against them in a lawsuit though. Whether you believe Madison or not, when accusations are made like these you shut the fuck up. No one will be helped if you make statements, not even the accuser.
I would have personally greatly appreciated that he would re-iterate the statements made in writing a week ago, if only that.
I know that “we the public” will always find something wrong about anything that is released, once it is, but given how the community at large was mostly outraged by the “Billet Labs incident” and the “Madison incident” (as opposed, to, say, the lack of employee benefits or egregious errors in data); I believe it would have been a bit more tactful not to dismiss yet again the former point with “procurement/logistics did nothing wrong” (or something of that effect) and entirely failing to mention the latter.
A verbatim quote of
“Regarding the allegations Madison Reeves posted on Twitter, as already announced a week ago, we are taking the allegations very seriously. Our HR team has begun conducting a thorough assessment of the allegations. We’ve also already begun combing our personnel files and past notes and correspondences to see if we can corroborate any of what’s being said. Furthermore, we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publishing the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this. When we are ready, we will release a statement. For now, we would ask that we allow our team the time they need be as thorough as possible.”
(or a shortened version) in video form, would have been absolutely plenty.
This paragraph I quoted is already legally “potentially problematic” (since I’m sure the reddit LTT moderation team kept the emails featuring this content, coming from an address belonging to LMG), and would have really contributed to making a statement about their seriousness.
Too many times I have witnessed accused parties make written commitments, only to retract/redact them and swipe the whole thing under the rug as soon as the storm had passed. Adding it to such an important video would certainly have been a testament to their commitment. I want to believe that Linus, and the LMG management carefully weighted whether or not to include such a statement in the video; I just wonder what was the rationale for not repeating an already public, already legally “potentially problematic” statement.
I don’t know, I kind of think that what most of us really want was for this to be the first video and not that store shilling piece of trash he tried to release first as an ‘apology’
The whole we didn’t do anything wrong but we’re going to put these steps in to make sure that none of that could possibly happen ever comes off frankly tone deaf. Even if that’s what’s going on even if they absolutely believe that’s what’s going on that’s not the time or the way to say that.
I hate that we’re commenting without understanding the nuances you’ve highlighted above, and building a flawed emotional worldview based on things that are legally inadvisable for LMG to say.
A simple “we can’t talk about the Madison situation right now, but we will later.” would have made this video 10x better.
“Mr. Sebastien, in your video from August 26, 2023 marked as exhibit 23B you referred to “the Madison situation”. Can you explain what you meant by ‘situation’?”
You may not like it but when there’s credible accusations of harassment, constructive dismissal, and possibly up to battery you do not make public statements of any kind beyond, “We are investigating and taking the accusations seriously”, which in case you missed it the CEO of LMG already did a week ago.
Seems like people really want more from him than he can legally give
LMG can legally make any statement they want. There’s exceedingly few that they could make that wouldn’t be used against them in a lawsuit though. Whether you believe Madison or not, when accusations are made like these you shut the fuck up. No one will be helped if you make statements, not even the accuser.
I would have personally greatly appreciated that he would re-iterate the statements made in writing a week ago, if only that.
I know that “we the public” will always find something wrong about anything that is released, once it is, but given how the community at large was mostly outraged by the “Billet Labs incident” and the “Madison incident” (as opposed, to, say, the lack of employee benefits or egregious errors in data); I believe it would have been a bit more tactful not to dismiss yet again the former point with “procurement/logistics did nothing wrong” (or something of that effect) and entirely failing to mention the latter.
A verbatim quote of
(or a shortened version) in video form, would have been absolutely plenty.
This paragraph I quoted is already legally “potentially problematic” (since I’m sure the reddit LTT moderation team kept the emails featuring this content, coming from an address belonging to LMG), and would have really contributed to making a statement about their seriousness.
Too many times I have witnessed accused parties make written commitments, only to retract/redact them and swipe the whole thing under the rug as soon as the storm had passed. Adding it to such an important video would certainly have been a testament to their commitment. I want to believe that Linus, and the LMG management carefully weighted whether or not to include such a statement in the video; I just wonder what was the rationale for not repeating an already public, already legally “potentially problematic” statement.
I don’t know, I kind of think that what most of us really want was for this to be the first video and not that store shilling piece of trash he tried to release first as an ‘apology’
The whole we didn’t do anything wrong but we’re going to put these steps in to make sure that none of that could possibly happen ever comes off frankly tone deaf. Even if that’s what’s going on even if they absolutely believe that’s what’s going on that’s not the time or the way to say that.
Linus is the real victim here.
Oof, not even slightly
/s
Text supplies limited inference
Linus supplies limited ethics
I hate that we’re commenting without understanding the nuances you’ve highlighted above, and building a flawed emotional worldview based on things that are legally inadvisable for LMG to say.
Ever thought that maybe Madison doesn’t want her drama forever a part of a video update? Or do you guys just think about yourself and what you want?
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