Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-27121183-20160519193025

This is in response to Kyuubi, obvs.

Someone ^ pretty much nailed everything I was going to say about working in the U.S.

 For the most part, here in the U.S., employers will try to work with people as best they can to help them through tough times. But at some point, it's a losing battle. There's kind of an event horizon with employees, where once they cross that line into bitter/resentful, you can't save them because they've already accepted their fate as martyrs and are biding their time until they're fired.

-- Shane went back to work for RT in March. They didn't start production on S3 until July. So, that's four months for Shane to learn all sorts of new things ... (God knows, he had time to comfort Sheena and mope about the state of RT.)

-- It actually felt like they did what they could for Shane. It's not their fault he made himself obsolete by refusing to evolve. The pipeline and Maya and doing things the RT way seemed to work for everyone else.

-- Working off servers has been a thing at every place I've been at since 2000. It's a way for multiple places and people to access what you're working on at all times, not to mention having it all backed up, probably more than once. If the pipeline changed to have more of an assembly line, it makes sense to have everything on one server so person A can open up a prop, edit it, then close it back out so person B can add their bit.

Under the 'Technical Difficulties' section in the first sentence, he basically says due to the new system, he spent a lot of time making his work compliant ... but why didn't he do that in he first place? He then says 'All of this was a regular process for the animators.' And then things get even more screwed up because -- wait for it -- Poser's kind of a dick.

I have a feeling we're going to continue to disagree about things, simply because of where we are and where we stand on employment. You see Shane's passion as a good thing they should embrace. I see his passion as more obsession/fanaticism that became a liability.

Now, if he could have handled his passion better and made more logical choices ...