Emails, court docs show how Sony stood up to Steve Jobs’ and Pixar’s wage-fixing
I think the referenced bit on PandoDaily [1] has a bit more meat and seeing exactly what was said really drives home the point.<p>From Ed Catmull's email to Steve Jobs:<p><i>"...one of our department managers told me that she was offered a position as producer for Sony’s first CG film and is likely to accept.</i><p><i>"The director of the movie is REDACTED [Jill Culton, ex-Lucasfilm and on Pixar-produced Monsters Inc—M.A.] who started off as head of story on Monsters but burnt out. She is good but fragile."</i><p><i>REDACTED will talk with her [the Pixar manager that Sony was poaching]. She isn’t so great that we have to keep her, and she isn’t so bad that she would hurt Sony.</i><p>Where wage-fixing is very general and hard to quantify this is quite personal and tangible. He's directly looking to derail someone's career by preventing them from seizing an opportunity he's not willing to give them. At the same time he craps on someone who even he can't deny was a founding part of what was at that point their biggest hit.<p>It's a grown man treating people and careers the way a toddler does toys.<p>1: <a href="http://pando.com/2014/07/10/revealed-emails-court-docs-show-how-sony-stood-up-to-steve-jobs-and-pixars-wage-fixing-cartel/" rel="nofollow">http://pando.com/2014/07/10/revealed-emails-court-docs-show-...</a>