It doesn't seem like you care about these video "Kids" too much. Your seemingly honorable pleas ring false to my ears, especially when you continually patronize them by referring to them as "Kids" in your post. I guess it shows the kind of stand-up people your organization employs. After reading your post, I can't say I wouldn't have jumped ship if I had to work with someone like you on a daily basis either (not to mention Alex Vieux).

Quick question: Does your credibility take a hit if you leave a burning ship, or if you are the lone fool holding the flag as the ship falls to the bottom of the ocean? (Call me crazy, but I assume you will be the latter).

Well BleedsRed, even if your post was mostly fluff-filled theatrics, at least your user name is right on the money. After all, Red Herring is indeed bleeding - an entire video team, journalists, staff members, funds, board members, subscribers, office space, credibility, and apparently respectable employees who speak out on its behalf.

luckyrocketship

How does all this look on the Kids Resumes? Do they Lie and pretend they did not participate in a walk out? They should not want their names associated with this.

Why was it important to publish the Kids names? Sean, are you purposely trying to hurt the Kids that brought RHTV to life? Can you appeal to ValleyWag and clean up the post to remove the Kids Names?

Please join me in asking VW to remove the Kids Names from this post. They don't deserve the negative press.

BleedsRed

That makes sense.

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There are others in this world, perhaps less jaded than you appear, who feel they have something special to offer the world, and like demonstrating their skills and talents for a good wage, versus taking a paycheck, and doing work that is beneath their talents and abilities.

I agree, if you're assigned to, say, counting nuts and bolts, versus auditing the company's books and saving them significant amounts of money, it's rather easy to say, oh well, my talents weren't allocated properly, and I cost the same per hour whether I'm picking my nose, or picking risk allocations.

To my mind, your perspective turns "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" rule on its head, and smacks of a healthy volume of passive-aggression, IOW, screw the man, as long as the paycheck comes through. And don't worry about the fates of the business, your colleagues, or your career.

I was a union-forklift driver last time I felt/thought that way.

Glad I recovered.

crashtestpilot

fishneversleep

One of the enablers of the destruction of the video profession are people like Julia Allison who simply point a camera at themselves (while lip-syncing). When this amateur ego-ography results in a lot of traffic, the titans of industry tend to conclude that nobody needs to be paid for video content. We can also thank YouTube, for creating a billion dollar company that never paid a red cent to content producers (prior to the sale to Google). All the signs say "step on your local videographer".

And yet some artists still want to experience the joy of editing; to see the impact of well done video. Though producing video can be an art, it has as much place in today's economy as Gepetto the cobbler would have. "I can get my shoes from Vietnam, man." It's sad because the shoes don't last.

WagCurious

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crashtestpilot

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crashtestpilot

There was an episode of "The Office" where the hire a stripper for a party. When the plans fell through, Dwight put her to work doing office work.

They were getting paid for their time, and in this case, probably overpaid. If their complaint was that they weren't developing skills useful for career advancement, they might have a point, but work isn't demeaning just because it's sub-underling, and a lot of people end up doing things they weren't originally hired to do.

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