Oh my God, that’s my grandfather, this is so weird. I mean, I always knew he worked there, and I he’s always been really rich, so I just started googling him to see how he actually got all of that money. It seemed really rude to just ask him why he’s so wealthy. Aaah, he still wears the sweaters.
I never believed in my wildest dreams that anyone would have written such an indepth detailed hitlist of “WTF” incidents over @ ILM. My reason for Immediate termination was much simpler and caused me much resentment over the years.
All I did was Shake Peter Gabriels hand and tell him what a great inspiration he was. I know for a fact that Peter had nothing to do with my termination.
I walked in the next day and received this entire garbage memo detailing my “Heinous, undisciplined act of interacting with the talent” and of course a copy of my signed employment contract and the section double underlined and highlighted with the IDIOTIC ILM PINK HIGHLIGHTER pen over the scetion about how we are never to discuss, engage in casual conversation blah blah blah with the clients of ILM etc etc.
Great job Scott!! You were, and always will be THE MAN!!!!
Aloha!
JZ
no… he wasn’t THAT smart!! But, IMHO, what he was doing was setting me up all along. Once I was running ILM and had turned that division around, he decided to hand me a bunch of divisions that were losing a bunch of money. His hope was that I wouldn’t be able to turn them around and then he could fire me. He offered me the new title and the new responsibilities but wouldn’t offer me any more $$$. I smelled a rat and turned him down. Then Norby came back to me and said that if I didn’t take the new gig, I’d have to resign. So, I took the job. One of the first things I tried to do was to get Editdroid in business with this new company called Avid. Avid’s technology leap frogged Editdroid… big time. But, I felt that with Lucas’s name behind Editdroid, we could offer Avid ( a new player in the market) a bunch of street cred… quickly. Norby axed that idea, so I tried to close Droidworks… twice… but Norby made me restart the groups…. twice. Norby wanted me gone. I was a threat to him. I knew the company well, was really well liked by the employees and had a decent business/creative mind. None of which Norby had. What he did have was direct access to GWL, and he made sure no one else did.
So, to answer your question… he had a letter that he had written accepting my resignation, with the terms of my resignation PRIOR to me resigning.
Thanks Scott, your blog is great reading. I started at ILM in 1990 but I was waaaay down on the totem pole during those days. I am still there. I do vividly remember the Norby/Company meeting you described which was in UJ bldg. It had a very mutinous tone to the meeting and I remember Diane being really emotional and speaking up for you. That was a pretty crazy moment in time. I find it really wonderful to hear your perspective on these events as I saw them from a different perspective. I do have one question though, when you say Norby had a copy of your resignation letter in his desk do you mean that he had been watching what you were doing and had somehow intercepted the file from your computer or maybe when you were printing it or something? Keep the stories coming, I am really enjoying this unexpected bit of nostalgia.
Thanks Erik… I sure hated leaving ILM but I had a really hard time following the directions of an incompetent and not having access to the man whose name was on the front door.
Hey Scott, Interesting blog. Thanks for filling in some missing details in my memories of those times. Having worked at ILM from 1981 through 2006 when the ILM practical FX division separated from Lucas Digital and became Kerner Optical, I’d say that I was witness to a good chunk of the company’s evolution. During your tenure I can say that I admired your vision for the future ILM and your enthusiasm for the work and the people who performed the work. Your loss was ILM’s loss and it took quite some time to recover after your departure. P.S. I do remember that ‘Virtual Valerie’ presentation.
Oh my God, that’s my grandfather, this is so weird. I mean, I always knew he worked there, and I he’s always been really rich, so I just started googling him to see how he actually got all of that money. It seemed really rude to just ask him why he’s so wealthy. Aaah, he still wears the sweaters.
I never believed in my wildest dreams that anyone would have written such an indepth detailed hitlist of “WTF” incidents over @ ILM. My reason for Immediate termination was much simpler and caused me much resentment over the years.
All I did was Shake Peter Gabriels hand and tell him what a great inspiration he was. I know for a fact that Peter had nothing to do with my termination.
I walked in the next day and received this entire garbage memo detailing my “Heinous, undisciplined act of interacting with the talent” and of course a copy of my signed employment contract and the section double underlined and highlighted with the IDIOTIC ILM PINK HIGHLIGHTER pen over the scetion about how we are never to discuss, engage in casual conversation blah blah blah with the clients of ILM etc etc.
Great job Scott!! You were, and always will be THE MAN!!!!
Aloha!
JZ
no… he wasn’t THAT smart!! But, IMHO, what he was doing was setting me up all along. Once I was running ILM and had turned that division around, he decided to hand me a bunch of divisions that were losing a bunch of money. His hope was that I wouldn’t be able to turn them around and then he could fire me. He offered me the new title and the new responsibilities but wouldn’t offer me any more $$$. I smelled a rat and turned him down. Then Norby came back to me and said that if I didn’t take the new gig, I’d have to resign. So, I took the job. One of the first things I tried to do was to get Editdroid in business with this new company called Avid. Avid’s technology leap frogged Editdroid… big time. But, I felt that with Lucas’s name behind Editdroid, we could offer Avid ( a new player in the market) a bunch of street cred… quickly. Norby axed that idea, so I tried to close Droidworks… twice… but Norby made me restart the groups…. twice. Norby wanted me gone. I was a threat to him. I knew the company well, was really well liked by the employees and had a decent business/creative mind. None of which Norby had. What he did have was direct access to GWL, and he made sure no one else did.
So, to answer your question… he had a letter that he had written accepting my resignation, with the terms of my resignation PRIOR to me resigning.
Thanks Scott, your blog is great reading. I started at ILM in 1990 but I was waaaay down on the totem pole during those days. I am still there. I do vividly remember the Norby/Company meeting you described which was in UJ bldg. It had a very mutinous tone to the meeting and I remember Diane being really emotional and speaking up for you. That was a pretty crazy moment in time. I find it really wonderful to hear your perspective on these events as I saw them from a different perspective. I do have one question though, when you say Norby had a copy of your resignation letter in his desk do you mean that he had been watching what you were doing and had somehow intercepted the file from your computer or maybe when you were printing it or something? Keep the stories coming, I am really enjoying this unexpected bit of nostalgia.
-Mike
Thanks Erik… I sure hated leaving ILM but I had a really hard time following the directions of an incompetent and not having access to the man whose name was on the front door.
Hey Scott, Interesting blog. Thanks for filling in some missing details in my memories of those times. Having worked at ILM from 1981 through 2006 when the ILM practical FX division separated from Lucas Digital and became Kerner Optical, I’d say that I was witness to a good chunk of the company’s evolution. During your tenure I can say that I admired your vision for the future ILM and your enthusiasm for the work and the people who performed the work. Your loss was ILM’s loss and it took quite some time to recover after your departure. P.S. I do remember that ‘Virtual Valerie’ presentation.