Hollywood Executives are Finally Losing Their Jobs

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Hollywood Contraction Hits Entertainment Executive Jobs: "This Is A Full-Scale Depression" https://t.co/QoKWpALr1h
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 18, 2024

• The dire situation A seasoned TV executive said, was made by strikes and “poor management decisions coming home to roost”.
• They're on LinkedIn talking about how their applications don't get

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[duchello]

They're on LinkedIn talking about how their applications don't get responses - they've had to take on *gasp* SIDE GIGS and CONSULTING to get work.

This is why I don't trust individual consultants period. Everyone in my professional network that went on to independently consult look like they have "20+ years in the industry" but I know that they can't get a job in said industry because they are a) horrific to work with and b) have been driven out of multiple leadership positions.

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How do you get driven out of a leadership position I wonder. A lot of the worst people get stuck there because they make money for the company.

Also lol I consult bc I don't want to deal with corporate bureaucracy especially knowing IT isn't considered a business expense until there's a breach. I'll tell you what to do, you do it or not, as long as you pay me and I can leave.

[duchello]

Well sadly those cases I'm thinking about are specifically people that are both shitty and ineffective. I left my last job after 7 years because they hired 2 "girl boss" archetype leaders who are super toxic and insecure about their performance so they make every woman's lives around them miserable (but not the men tho - wonder why?!!) but they were effective as fuck so they're not going anywhere. Well one of them left after a high profile promotion to a different place. The other one is still there even after all 5 of her direct reports who manage revenue generating teams and were respected as effective and strong leaders left because of her direct management skills.

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oh jeeze, those kind of women. I don't subscribe to the whole "Women should use their EMOTIONAL and NURTURING socialization to make change in the workplace" ~primitive magic (thanks Le Guin for putting a name to it), but I don't believe in being one of the guys when the guys have been constantly socialized to be ... terrible.

[duchello]

I don't subscribe to the whole "Women should use their EMOTIONAL and NURTURING socialization to make change in the workplace" ~primitive magic (thanks Le Guin for putting a name to it),

100 percent agree and thanks for putting that in better words than I did lol -- especially since I don't consider myself as traditionally warm of a boss but I think ultimately there are ways to show and encourage mutual respect without being everyone's best friend.