Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing
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Re: Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing
#2The link goes to a specific comment, should strip that if possible.
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#3I often wondered why the salaries were relatively low for such a group of people. Now I know.
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#4I often wondered why the salaries were relatively low for such a group of people. Now I know.
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#5Totally not surprised:
Back from ~2001-2004 when I was working on designing the Lucas Arts Letterman Digital Arts center in the Presidio, there was a certain CIO who wanted us to plan to build a studio in Asia. The reason was that "Asain animators are very cheap, and they aren't primadonna's like the overpaid ones here in the states."
They saw animators as commodity COGs.
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#6whatever the damage is done he's probably sitting around on a beach with a dong up his butt not caring, just like that google exec with the whore and heroin.... scumbags
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#7This is really sad, I greatly respect Ed Catmull for his work in graphics (z-buffer, catmull rom spline) and as a leader of extraordinarily consistently creative company.
It just goes to show that even the best of us can succumb to greed.
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#8I think the referenced bit on PandoDaily [1] has a bit more meat and seeing exactly what was said really drives home the point.
From Ed Catmull's email to Steve Jobs:
"...one of our department managers told me that she was offered a position as producer for Sony’s first CG film and is likely to accept.
"The director of the movie is REDACTED [Jill Culton, ex-Lucasfilm and on Pixar-produced Monsters Inc—M.A.] who started off as head of story on Monsters but burnt out. She is good but fragile."
REDACTED will talk with her [the Pixar manager that Sony was poaching]. She isn’t so great that we have to keep her, and she isn’t so bad that she would hurt Sony.
Where wage-fixing is very general and hard to quantify this is quite personal and tangible. He's directly looking to derail someone's career by preventing them from seizing an opportunity he's not willing to give them. At the same time he craps on someone who even he can't deny was a founding part of what was at that point their biggest hit.
It's a grown man treating people and careers the way a toddler does toys.
1: http://pando.com/2014/07/10/revealed-emails-court-docs-show-...
Re: Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing
#9Makes you wonder how bad wage-fixing is in the Valley don't it?
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#10Ed Catmull is a devout Morman. Has anyone ever seen any research into unethical business practices and Mormans? It seems rampant from my observations.