Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-27121183-20160515191845

-- Snark first: Seems the Word of God isn't infallible after all. -- Sidebar: So, Monty envisioned Raven as a baddie? Makes you wonder where RT will be taking her and if it'll be different. Speaking of, I'm actually taken aback by the staggering level of naivety shown about IPs and what companies do with them. TL; DR: Shane should have been fired in the summer so he could get on with his life. He would have had an easier time letting go without being in the middle of all of these changes. He wasn't trying to be an ideal employee. He had his own agenda and it bit him in the ass. I'm not HR, but I've hired and fired a fair amount of people. I'm also approaching this who is neither a RT fan, nor a Monty fan. I like RWBY, whatever version it is, and that's it. The biggest takeaway for me is that Shane should have been fired -- or he should have quit -- before production even started on Season 3. At that point, he'd already had 4-5 months to sort through everything since Monty's death and get his shit together. But he didn't. And I would bet you anything that RT kept him on not because they needed him, but because they wanted to give him a break, given Monty's death and his wife leaving him. If he had stuck around just for the money, he probably would still be employed. But him going on this self-righteous kick to honor Monty is what did him in. Not RT. If you feel as though an entire office full of adults has turned on you, and that there's no one left to 'trust,' I have some sobering news -- it's YOU that's the problem, not them. Even if he chose to be there, and tried to do a good job, you can only imagine the level of paranoia, grief and vitriol he was putting out to anyone who would listen. So, he's not the happiest person around to begin with. But then he starts dropping Sheena's name, coming up with ideas to get her into the office even though he knows how they feel about her, rebelling against their workflows and not treating them as his employer so much as an annoyance hindering Monty's vision that he's worked so hard to protect. This is why he was fired. Shane isn't Monty. He's not the creator. He's not the quirky Creative Genius who gets to mostly do what he wants. He's just an employee who was close to him. I also hope he's got a good job lined up. Because dead men don't give references and the living tend to google when hiring.