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"What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversies (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At least, some of the recent controversies.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At a similar pay scale, I’ve been required to go into homes where folks had COVID. Coworkers have been shot at. I’ve seen things I really would have preferred not to. No job is perfectly sane in that sense.

American? Because this is not normal up here in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

US yes, but in Canada I’m sure there are many jobs where you are required by that job to do or see things you’d really rather not.

Ultimately there is some ownership of the situation required- put your foot down and say “no, I’m absolutely not doing that”. If they reprimand you- well, time to look for a company that doesn’t penalize employees for that particular issue.

Idealizing the employer makes it significantly harder to do that. Hopefully the debacle gave Madison insight/life experience that many people never have the chance to obtain.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're in here a lot with a vaguely apologetic (on lmgs behalf) and victim blaming attitude. Do you work there or some shit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think calling LMG a pile of shit is very apologetic nor an indicator that I'm somebody who works there.

I also don't think "management needs to do/should have done better" and "I hope she is doing something that brings joy" and "I hope she was able to pull good insight out of a shitty situation" is very victim blamey.

It's hard to run a company, and maintain a positive working culture, but there's no excuse if they continue to allow those kind of working conditions. Make no mistake, LMG sucks for how Madison was allowed to be treated (and most certainly others, see also in other comments I've made that it's a systemic problem).