They were employees before this, and most studio employees of some description. It has nothing to do with Pixar, which is profitable, but rather than Disney operates under shareholder capitalism, and as such, when something is successful and profitable, it’s even more profitable to cut jobs and maximise “shareholder value”. This is part of an industry wide issue of job cuts and contractions and attacks on workers rights, security and conditions.
If your company makes a good profit, it should be illegal to subsequently make people redundant.
Yep! I work in the tech industry, and our company was originally going to be bought out but pulled out in the final weeks of the deal closing.
Then laid off 10% of our workforce not because we were losing money but because they promised the shareholders a specific amount of profit and they had to lay off that many people to get them there. Regardless of the fact it increased everyone workload as a result.
Everyone knows the best way to run a business is to sacrifice everything for short term profits duh
Maybe this is why there haven’t been super good movies recently?
“Shareholder Capitalism” is literally just the natural progression of capitalism. As our society becomes more and more consolidated within the hands of a few individuals (because when two things compete someone loses), they have less incentive to act in an ethical manner
One of them was the woman who saved Toy Story 2 after they accidentally deleted the whole movie
That was in a previous lay off. The reality is that the Disney + strategy didn’t work and most Pixar films haven’t been profitable. Look at the flop that was Lightyear. Also Luca, Red and Soul probably lost money since they did not have theatrical releases, not counting re-releases.
There was also a new tv division that worked on a Monsters Inc series and a baseball show that still hasn’t been released to my knowledge.
So it’s more likely that the animators on those projects are the ones that are getting layed off. Mostly because they’re probably reducing the number of projects the studio is working on.
Well the difference is Lightyear wasn’t very good, at least imo
But how much of the workforce was employed in the studio? I’d bet that before the layoff, the studio was about 28% of the workforce.
the fact of the matter is that the guy at the top flat out lied,and the community notes corrected him
I don’t take out a ruler and start measuring a candy bar when someone asks for a half… to say they ‘flat out lied’ or deliberately lied (as in, they knew the correct percentage) is not the case
Edit: Bad example, i mean to say OOP isn’t a liar, just misinformed.
I feel like if somebody cut 14% of my snickers bar it would be pretty obvious it’s no longer close to 50%
Yeah I agree, im not refuting that 14% is no where near 50% just pointing out that its unlikely OOP was saying that with the deliberate intention to misinform. They aren’t guilt of lying, they are guilty of being misinformed
more like you have a candy bar and someone ask for half of it and you say okay and give them 1/5 of it,and having a ruler right next to you but deciding not to use it
Were they employees before? Or were they contracted near the end
Hasn't Disney fire 14% of Pixar staff multiple times since 2020? I think this is what the retweeter was getting at?
The note is in reply to the tweet at the top, which says they fired half of their work force. The correction is 14% vs 50%
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