Animation industry is bad actually?
>I was offered an internship to work at Titmouse, the studio animating
Randy Cunningham. Elated, I moved to LA from Alabama. When I got there, I worked for 5 months for no pay. I drove into Los Angeles at 4 AM to open the office, and would close the office as late as 8PM. But I was thankful for the opportunity to work in animation at all, so I accepted this situation.
>I later landed a job at Nickelodeon working on Spongebob… A dream come true for a kid that grew up on Nick. Instead of the dream job I hoped for, I found a toxic environment where I was cursed out behind closed doors. I was told I could never enter a director’s office, and instructed to send my white coworker to speak to him on my behalf. I was told to my face by this person "I don't want to look at you. I don't want to see you. Do not pass my doorframe." I was warned that if I spoke to anyone about the abuse I was going through, my name would be blacklisted from the industry. Finally, exhausted from the mistreatment, I asked for a meeting with a third party to address the harassment. In response, the team stopped speaking to me entirely and iced me out, making it impossible for me to continue my job. I was told to “go home and think about” whether I wanted to continue. I was forced to quit.
>I felt very lucky to work at Disney Television Animation afterward and finally found better teams, and kinder people, working on shows like Ducktales, Hailey’s On It and Big City Greens. However, I also faced other moments of mistreatment. I was verbally abused by Disney executives, and the people who wanted to help me couldn’t because of office politics. I was offered condolences for the verbal abuse, but nobody was able to alleviate that suffering.