Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-25936766-20160519141805

Kyuubi10 wrote: - Shane was obviously good at his job if Monty chose him as a lead animator to work with him in RWBY. But it seems the "corporate" mindset didn't like him. And we are living in an age where there is a change, employees aren't simply assets anymore. Employees aren't tools you can just drop if they are not doing the job.

-They could have easily hired a temp worker in place of Shane while they gave him time to train and get accostumed in Maya, it's not unheard of. If an employee is good...he's good. But it seems they were seeing him as a liability, so they just decided to do away with him instead.

- And no, at least in the UK things are a bit different, and since late 90s there has been a push to provide support to employees, rather than just treat them as trained monkeys, who can be simply swapped out if they are not putting in impossible standard of workload required by the money hungry corporate douchebags who only look at numbers on a screen rather than looking at the people and seeing their potential and motivation. -Except they are. What companies want in their employees is their efficiency, skills, and attitude. If you don't do your job, you're kicked out, plain and simple. Otherwise you're just being useless. And leaving useless people in, is worse than firing them. And the attitude is important: Even if someone is great, if they got a bad attitude problem they can make things worse for the rest.

Shane had great skills, thanks to Monty, but his, and by extension Monty's methods of work, were not the most practical in general. And while that could be excused to an extent, Shane's attitude did not help him at all. He was making things more difficult for the rest like that, and losing sympathy.

-They could have, but it was most likely not done because of the latter part of that paragraph: He was a liability. Mostly because of his attitude.

-Employees are people, but they are still employees. The only thing that has changed from before, is that now being an orwellian bastard and treating your employees like shit directly is looked down upon, unless you're Japanese.

Companies need to take care of their employees, yes, but they still need to get the job done. And just like employees are people, the executives are people too; fight against them non-stop, complain about everything either justified or not, don't expect them to love you back. It's likely that RT treated Shane like that not because they were greedy assholes, but because Shane brought it upon himself.

Order is necesary when working. If your employees did whatever the fuck they wanted at their own pace, nothing would ever get done. If your employees reject everything you tell them to, nothing will ever get done. Which is why they are expected to do what they're told, on time. It's like that everywhere, not just in capitalistic nations.