>Victoria Alonso joined Marvel Studios during the production of IRON MAN, becoming the #3 executive in the company, responsible for VFX and post-production. In 2019, when Feige became head of Marvel Entertainment, he immediately promoted Alonso, but a rift began developing.
>Feige was incensed after Alonso criticized Disney CEO Bob Chapek for not denouncing Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" bill, breaking one of Feige’s cardinal rules: "Don’t speak out publicly against the company." Feige speculated if she had "outgrown" her role and cautioned her to “keep her head down” and “do the work.”
>One of the only times Alonso refused a request from the higher-ups was removing LGBTQ references in ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA for release in certain countries. Feige's #2 Louis D’Esposito hired a VFX team behind her back, which she considered a profound betrayal. When Disney fired Alonso this year, nobody from Marvel Studios intervened.
https://thedirect.com/article/kevin-feige-marvel-victoria-alonso-disagreements
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Who was in the wrong, Cinemaphile?
She was definitely in the wrong for calling out Chapek
Even if she was in the right to do so, calling out your boss publicly means either the boss eventually has to deal with you, or other bosses get rid of you before you start a rebellion against them. The latter ended up happening even though Iger's politics would be closer to Alonso's.
Shit like this just let's bosses get away with frick shit. Using your position as an employer to control your employees because you sign their checks is exploitative as shit.
I own a business with 40+ employees and I would never pull shit like this.
What she and other employees were doing was basically open rebellion with their names attached to it. One employee in particular was gunning for Chapek's job and openly indicating such in the Hollywood news media, and that was why he got fired first. Not only would whoever in charge would have to act against it, they'd also have more reason to do so in Hollywood where image/power is sometimes valued more than money.
It would be one thing if Chapek was openly supporting the "Don't Say Gay" bill, but he was ignoring it in hopes it would go away, and their actions effectively dragged Disney into a lenghty and costly legal battle against Ron DeSantis.
this
feige understands that marvel studios is still just one cog in the disney machine
calling out the CEO of your company is sheer hubris. especially since it turned into a political quagmire with desantis. nothing but lawsuits now
as a side effect, it showed that chapek was weak, because nobody would've done that to iger, which ironically paved the way for his return
It definitely made people aware how much of a hypocritical fascist moron DumbSantis is and have it contribute to his floundering political polls, so there’s that positive I suppose
Or Disney could've stayed out of it and let DeSantis frick himself over, instead of jumping in and losing money in the process
desantis was always playing for 2nd place at best, it's still turmp's party
turns out being a 1 issue culture warrior with ZERO charisma means he can't even be taken seriously nationally. just a florida man dialed up to 11. it's his ceiling, he'll never get anywhere else
>I own a business with 40+ employees
Whew lad! You're SO big you need to contend with national headlines talking shit about YOU personally! My, what a humble-brag! I'm sure, however, you believe in your mind that your employees feel free to publicly talk shit about you to the media (you'd be wrong, of course). But, yeah, compare yourself to Disney. Totally the same ballpark, right?
You're telling me if you wanted your company to have a neutral stance on a hot political topic and a bunch of your employees banded together behind your back and demanded your company take their stand on the issue you would have zero problems with it?
Yeah, no, not buying it. You're probably a poorgay that can't into business.
>She was definitely in the wrong for calling out Chapek
No, she wasn't. Sometimes, you have to have the balls to stand for what you believe.
it's one thing to support something you believe, but its another to demand that someone else should believe it. balls would be if she stated her personal support and stood for it, instead she cried because a smarter guy decided to remain neutral to keep the company he runs from losing billions of dollars, so she dragged him into it and ended up costing the company billions of dollars
And this wasn't one of those cases. This was a situation where they should've fought against the bill stealthy, not out in the open and tied to Disney.
>poor corpo can't handle word of mouth backlash bros
Did you think you had some kind of Gotcha there
Because their grandstanding did frick up Disney
>just drag your boss and company into a costly legal battle with the government and have the shareholders turn on him
Chapek should've just weathered the storm and canned them there and then for that display of pure fricking arrogance.
You have to feel a bit for Chapek, he was caught between a rock and a hard place. If he continued to just ignore it or called them out he'd be crucified in the media as a homophobe and the fact that he did get forced into acting meant that his career as Disney was basically dead.
If I was told this was all just manufactured to force a regime change I'd believe it.
>Sometimes, you have to have the balls to stand for what you believe.
But she didn't have the balls, though. She publicly called out her boss and expected to get away with it consequence free.
If she didn't want the heat, she should have stayed out of the kitchen.
Kys homosexual, you will never be a real woman
you don't like what your employer is doing, quit. That's actually standing up for what you believe in. criticizing your boss but still accepting a paycheck says your values matter less than your paycheck
>Even if she was in the right to do so
The "Don't Say Gay" bill never existed in the way people believed it did.
True, but how many of these public figures knew that but still took advantage of the opportunity?
Absolutely her and Latondra Newton.
>Before Disney, Newton was Group Vice President, Social Innovation and Chief Diversity Officer. Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and Chief Program Officer, Toyota Mobility Foundation, Toyota Motor Corporation.
Why the frick does a car manufacturer need a "diversity officer"?
>go against company
>get fired
If she wanted to make a statement she could have resigned. She wanted to start a coup so she got fired. She was at fault for being stupid. You want to make a difference at fricking disney? You work the long game from the inside, work your way up and then change shit when they can't stop you. And clearly they could easily stop you if you got fricking fired.
Serves Feige right for giving any kind of authority to a fricking Argent*nian.
>local fat dyke ruins everything
Many such cases. Stop hiring these trash.
Feige. He's believing his own hype.
>ruin your extremely prestigious professional relationships and career over rainbow propaganda
Woman moment