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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the post above, it’s fair to say Justin and Jamey made a lot of mistakes. I would likely find them annoying and I don’t dispute they were clueless and should have changed course.

But I also don’t believe they deserve this lawsuit and the article based on the evidence I have seen and I am pretty convinced no matter what Blake and Ryan were going to seek to undermine them to gain the rights to the sequel. Justin had bought the rights from Colleen and yet Colleen texted her friend “when Blake and I do the sequel.” So I do think that was the plan.

I don’t like that she was calling him a dufus and a clown before ever setting foot on set or that she was scheming with Taylor so early on. I don’t like that she refused to sigh a contract and used that as leverage to constantly bail on the movie no less than 10 times.

I also think Sony made a lot of mistakes and look really bad. They had 2 female senior producers on set every day and yet there might be SH?

And then when the movie made them 350 million - the head of the Sony Pictures called Blake epic level stupid and callously said she’d never work again.

If it was found that there was SH, Sony was on set every day and watching every daily and yet they called Blake a terrorist and accused her of creating drama. 
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Real question: did you read the parts of Jamey Heath's depo where he talked about who was in charge on set, and how he thought HR issues should be handled during filming?[/quote]

Why don’t you calm down and stop acting like I have a real stake in this - I really don’t care. I was simply pointing out that Sony is looking bad in all this. They certainly did not expect those texts and  emails to come out, did they?

WF may have been in charge and the New York Times article made it seem like Sony was just a distributor and not really involved. We now know they were intimately involved. Having two senior producers onset every day. Being CCed on every piece of correspondence Blake’s lawyers were sending.

That’s the only point I was raising. Sony had a leak about 15 years ago that was humiliating for them. And here we are again reading the head of Sony pictures blunt emails about how he thinks Blake lively is stupid and she’ll never work again.

And how they disregarded any complaints of sexual harassment because they were obsessed with Blake‘s weight. I don’t know why she blamed Justin for that. It was the head of Sony pictures who said she looked bad and it was one of the senior producers saying don’t worry we will reshoot when she loses the baby weight.

Either Sony sucks and they’re really bad at their jobs to let it get this far and now have a huge headache of having their emails and texts out in public as well as having executives take up time to be deposed and things or they had no ideas this was coming, or probably both. No company wants that so they did open themselves up for that and I’m betting they might have some safeguards in place to avoid this kind of thing in the future, but who knows.

Conversely, they probably never thought it was going to get this far and they probably see this stuff every day on set and didn’t expect a times article and a lawsuit.

Either way they screwed themselves. I doubt, after seeing people magazine featuring head of Sony pictures calling Blake epic level stupid and having Ryan Reynolds called two of their executives “in effectual elderly people who have no idea what’s going on”….they are taking much comfort that you think it was Wayfares job or problem and not theirs - because it has became their problem.

They’re a huge company and they were caught flat footed.  I’m betting heads are rolling and they’re not saying well great job everybody this was WF fault. [/quote]

Whoa, what part of my single line post was not calm? I was just wondering if you had read those parts of Heath's depo. Did you?[/quote]

Yes. I understand that it was Wayfares role to handle HR concerns. That woefully misses the point of what happened.

When there is a crisis like this in corporate America, it does Sony little good to say well that was WF’s job. Were Sony executives deposed and may some of them have to come testify in court if this goes to trial? Yes. Did a lot of Sony’s texts and emails that they would not want the public to see get blasted out in People magazine and other media outlets? Yes. Were Sony executives humiliated by being insulted by Ryan Reynolds for all the world to see? Yes.

You can say it was Wayfares responsibility to contain the situation and that their HR people failed at their job, but the damage to Sony is still done.

Typically when a crisis like this happens in a company, it’s not good enough for people to say well, that was someone else’s job. Sony has had to spend money and resources cleaning up this mess, it’s been a huge distraction for their executives, and they’ve suffered reputational damage. It’s little comfort that it was wayfarers fault. And in the future, you can bet they’re putting safeguards in place so that they’re not letting some independent studio or any other business partner trash their reputation, cost them money, and create such a headache. [/quote]

Okay.

So the reason I asked if you'd read Heath's deposition is because I was really surprised and frustrated by Heath's responses to questions about how HR worked on the film and how he thought HR issues should be addressed. When asked who he thought cast and crew should go to with HR concerns, he said he felt Alex Sachs, or maybe the first AD, would be appropriate, but he honestly didn't know. When told that Alex Sachs had testified that Heath is who she would have gone to with HR issues, he was surprised to hear that. He also stated that he believed there was a hotline people could contact with HR concerns, but when asked if Wayfarer or the film LLC had paid for and set up a hotline, he said he was not aware of one.

From an employment law perspective, this is negligence at a minimum. It also undercuts the argument that Blake failed to report issues as they arose -- she absolutely made Sachs and Heath (and Baldoni and Ange Giannetti) aware of her concerns. But none of them felt they were in charge. Again, this is negligence. And IME, when employers are *this* negligent about basic HR, it makes it much easier for other employment law issues, including harassment, to arise. Because there are no adults in the room who will step in and address problems, so they metastasize. And I think that's what happened here.

When companies are this negligent in operations, they get sued. Well...[/quote]

Well according to Blake’s PGA letter she was tasked with handling all HR issues so there is that….

Also the protocol is to go SAG and her team knows that. They are an objective 3rd party. [/quote]

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