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Rooster Teeth is likely not legally allowed to issue a statement on Shane's letter as that would most likely violate the NDA they have in place which Shane has himself violated himself by writing this whole letter.

Also, I'm currious about what everyone is talking about when they say "unethical." I ask this because Shane talked about the heavy workload he had which honestly isn't a new concept for content creation companies. What surprises me more is that when Shane was appalled that that one of the producers allegedly said "Monty's behavior was unacceptable" even though it really was. It, to me at least, sounded like he expected the the crew to be able to do the kind of things Monty did. Monty would work 30 hours in a fraction of a week, not the whole week and would sleep at the office in random places which is unethical and unacceptable for any work place.

I've also gone into length as to why cutting Sheena off isn't unethical but I just re-read it and I want to say something else.

Sheena isn't guaranteed preferential treatment to get a position as an employee who knew about parts of RWBY that allegedly nobody else did over someone who actually could've made a contribution to the production just because she was married to Monty. Also the stuff about Winter is nonsense because if anyone were to have the choice to cast someone who might do a good job voice acting but would only get the role because she was close to someone on the production team, as opposed to casting a professional voice actress, any reasonable company would hire the professional actress. There was no real place for Sheena in there at all, she wasn't an employee they had to obligation to hiring her.

Unfair treatment is also a question. I don't know what is qualified as unfair or poor treatment honestly. I don't recall it being expanded upon, correct me if I'm wrong but everything Shane states as being unfiar seems like pretty normal stuff for being "promoted" in a sense. He says he had to sit through storyboard meetings which he hated because he wasn't making "cool" things which brings me back to what I said in my previous post. They weren't driven by story, they were driven by action aestethics with a story built around it, that's not a story that would last the test of time but Shane didn't realize that.

Having an increased workload to meet specific goals is not in any way unfair. It just seems like a very self-centered piece, he even says

" As far as I know, I was the only other person who fully valued and practiced Monty’s way of doing things."

"Let me make this clear: the people on the team are all really cool people. But they also had no clue what had been going on or what sort of things I was dealing with there."

He acts as though there was some major conspiracy against him and the way Monty did things. Let's get something clear. Monty's way was in no way efficient for production. In the podcast dedicated to Monty they even said he refused to upgrade to Windows 7 because it changed some things he was so used to having in Windows XP, a program that was too old and mostly outdated and they joke about it but I'm sure it was so frustrating to deal with. That also goes with the Poser and Maya issue he has, Maya has been stated to be way more efficient than Poser but Shane equates using a new software to competely forgetting Monty. "Keep moving forward" does not mean to progress with old morals and ideas, it means to adapt and that's not what Shane or anyone in Monty's small team that he wanted to assemble wanted to do.

Mind you, everyone who did retweet Shane's original tweet that people site, besides Kathleen, were people who Monty was either really close with or were planned to be on his small team that he wanted to exclusively create RWBY with if he were to take it into his own hands.

Not working the way Monty specifically did probably saved production in many ways but Shane was too focused on preserving every small aspect of what Monty invisioned that his judgement was clouded on everything. The way Monty and Shane worked, though impressive lead to them cutting it too close to deadlines, something any other company would not stand for.

His lack of desire to adjust to new times and work ethic clearly shows why RT needed to fire him. They can't have such a toxic attitude filling their production especially when they lost someone so crucial to it. Do I know the extent of "unfair" and "unethical" treatment? No, nobody does but there is a major doubt in my mind that it's as horrid as Shane is portraying it to be.

I apologize for my continued lack of "Enter" button pressing but I'm not good with spacing stuff out.