💼 Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library

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LordofCringe7206 said:
It's nice that he's capable of meeting deadlines (a trait that a lot of cows don't have in them), but quality is better than quantity. I'd rather have a chef who could cook me one fantastic steak over a chef who can cook me dozens of horrible tasting ones.
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You learn to write by writing. Unless you huff your own farts like Wendig here, you'll get better over time. Having a large body of prior work doesn't guarantee that you'll actually be good, but it does make it slightly more likely. Of course, having a bunch of work for hire completed also suggests good things about your abilities to meet deadlines and such as well, so it helps you there too.
 
If you're trying to make money from the output of creative people, you soon learn the hard way that untalented but hard-working and reliable people are the way to stay in business. Having your business rely on genius prima donnas is a really good way to go broke and have a nervous breakdown. Michael Bay will make you more money than Lars von Trier. Taylor Swift will make you more money than Tool.

Which is why, of course, that when Chuck ceased to be a trouble-free worker droid for Disney and started making waves, he was fired. There's a thousand hacks lining up to replace him who won't drag the company's name through the mud, and he's not talented enough for them to put up with his bullshit.
 
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AnOminous said:
Whatever else you can say about Chuck, he generated fucktons, literally millions of words, and apparently met deadlines. As writers go, that makes him a huge success, even if most of those words were shit.
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That's not what I find hard to understand. I believe it. He's cheap, desperate (but won't admit it) and writes faster than he can think, which results in works of chicken scratch. What I find odd is why they picked him considering his online behavior. Even before Disney, he was a pretentious sack of shit who spent every waking moment letting everyone know when he made a fart or when someone at a line at Starbucks looked at him funny. Plus, he's never been one to take criticism well. So why pick someone clearly as troublesome and prone to badmouthing as him that does nothing but fuck up public relations? Is it because he had a "strong" and trendy online presence that was the real reason for his popularity rather than popularity for his books? There were probably dozens of other equally (or less) talented, and equally cheap (if not cheaper) and far more desperate amateurs than him fresh out of school who may manage to have an online presence without coming off as total nuts and they wouldn't even have to be fans of SW, but they would at least not act like total spergs and negatively affect PR. Did those in charge at Disney not realize the kind of influence Twitter tends to have or didn't they even know it existed until the whole Gunn controversy?
 
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GeneralFriendliness said:
That's not what I find hard to understand. I believe it. He's cheap, desperate (but won't admit it) and writes faster than he can think, which results in works of chicken scratch. What I find odd is why they picked him considering his online behavior. Even before Disney, he was a pretentious sack of shit who spent every waking moment letting everyone know when he made a fart or when someone at a line at Starbucks looked at him funny. Plus, he's never been one to take criticism well. So why pick someone clearly as troublesome and prone to badmouthing as him that does nothing but fuck up public relations? Is it because he had a "strong" and trendy online presence that was the real reason for his popularity rather than popularity for his books? There were probably dozens of other equally (or less) talented, and equally cheap (if not cheaper) and far more desperate amateurs than him fresh out of school who may manage to have an online presence without coming off as total nuts and they wouldn't even have to be fans of SW, but they would at least not act like total spergs and negatively affect PR. Did those in charge at Disney not realize the kind of influence Twitter tends to have or did they even know it existed until the whole Gunn controversy?
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They probably just didn't give a fuck. Most companies don't. Despite what people claim it's quite rare for employers--especially giant ones--to actually look into their worker drones' social media history. Chuck wasn't important enough to warrant a second look until he started actively antagonizing customers.
 
LordofCringe7206 said:
It's nice that he's capable of meeting deadlines (a trait that a lot of cows don't have in them), but quality is better than quantity. I'd rather have a chef who could cook me one fantastic steak over a chef who can cook me dozens of horrible tasting ones.
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Yeah but you're not Disney. Disney wants someone who can squeeze out a loaf exactly on time every time and doesn't care whether it's a particularly good piece of shit, so long as it's there.

GeneralFriendliness said:
Did those in charge at Disney not realize the kind of influence Twitter tends to have or did they even know it existed until the whole Gunn controversy?
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Look at the shit they're allowing to go on at Marvel. They literally just aren't even paying any attention. This shit is insignificant to them. They'll smack down some retard like Chuck if he gets their attention but he really had to go out of his way to do that.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
I'd think that goes without saying but the world of IP tie-in novels is one where publishers don't have to worry about quality.
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Any book with Star Wars on the front will sell. Disney knows that. Which is why they aren’t as worried about tie in material.

Sadly, I happened to buy Aftermath for that exact reason. I couldn’t get past the first chapter. Overall, it was a let down compared to most EU and even Disney Universe novels.

Replicant Sasquatch said:
They probably just didn't give a fuck. Most companies don't. Despite what people claim it's quite rare for employers--especially giant ones--to actually look into their worker drones' social media history. Chuck wasn't important enough to warrant a second look until he started actively antagonizing customers.
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Agreed. Companies really only care when people make a stink online. In the end, they don’t care about prog points just PR. That’s why they like to appease the call out crowd. They don’t realize that the woke crew is a tiny unforgiving but vocal minority with limited buying power. If we had social media in the 80s and 90s they’d do the same thing but with fundie soccer moms.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
They probably just didn't give a fuck. Most companies don't. Despite what people claim it's quite rare for employers--especially giant ones--to actually look into their worker drones' social media history. Chuck wasn't important enough to warrant a second look until he started actively antagonizing customers.
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Plus it's kind of hard to check someone's tweets when there are literally hundreds of thousands of them. That in and of itself should have been a warning sign, of course.
 
Jake's Piercing said:
Star Wars fans miffed as Marvel decides to shitcan the entire Darth Vader miniseries after Cuck Wendig gets fired: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/201...ounced-for-star-wars-celebration-chicago.html



You know you cucked up when you've finished 60% of the job and people say "fuck it"
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I am trying to imagine how this went in corporate HQ, or at least on conference call. Because there was some project manager who proposed it. Art director who made some scetches. Some guy from finance and accounting who made those xls table with Table A - how much will it cost and Table B - how much will it bring. Then some PR gal doing presentation about how they will market it. All that stuff took multiple meetings, writes and rewrites until final draft was filed to one of Disney top bosses who has autonomy over the section of budget.

And than after what? Year? Year and a half the same guy gets into position where he reads Wendig tweets and figures out that explaining to Igler or someone simply higher than him that those money trashed are still prefferable solution over keeping him in employement for one more day.

How much do you have to suck to get there? How many warnings? How many times did someone call him on one-on-one and told him "dude, shut the fuck up, Im serious, bosses are pissed." At least once, at very least, he had to have personal meeting with top-guy from Lucasarts who told him to quit that behaviour until he finishes the product.

It must have been glorious. But I wouldnt be surprised if Wendig is one of those assholes who work for giant corporation but think they are indies and that massive budget just felt on their ass from heavens as gift from Cuthulu. Sucking D in board room, but trash it out the moment he leaves because "Imma against the system." Those types either become super-successfull because they are talented geniuses (perhaps some 0.01 percent) or from vast majority keep to their pride until they cant pay rent because no one wants to hire them and than start sucking D of any recruitment agent that is in vicinity, only to play good boy at corpo. For a time.
 
AnOminous said:
Look at the shit they're allowing to go on at Marvel. They literally just aren't even paying any attention. This shit is insignificant to them. They'll smack down some exceptional individual like Chuck if he gets their attention but he really had to go out of his way to do that.
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I've said this before, but I wonder if Mark Waid's antics this year sort of rattled Disney a little bit in what they allow for their workers to post on social media. Where it once seemed like they fully didn't give a shit about what was posted on social media, we now have multiple occurrences that seem to indicate that they might be monitoring it just a tiny bit more carefully.
 
LordofCringe7206 said:
I've said this before, but I wonder if Mark Waid's antics this year sort of rattled Disney a little bit in what they allow for their workers to post on social media. Where it once seemed like they fully didn't give a shit about what was posted on social media, we now have multiple occurrences that seem to indicate that they might be monitoring it just a tiny bit more carefully.
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I think they police the Star Wars properties more aggressively. Cuck picked the wrong property to be a public sperg at.
 
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LordofCringe7206 said:
I've said this before, but I wonder if Mark Waid's antics this year sort of rattled Disney a little bit in what they allow for their workers to post on social media. Where it once seemed like they fully didn't give a shit about what was posted on social media, we now have multiple occurrences that seem to indicate that they might be monitoring it just a tiny bit more carefully.
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Even if that's so, it took Windbag calling half their audience prolapsed assholes to spur Disney into action. I would have thought a juggernaut as Bad-PR-averse as Disney would scrutinize their employees a bit more closely. Nintendo, for example, curates their public image rather carefully as we saw when they fired Rapp.
 
Leibowitz said:
Even if that's so, it took Windbag calling half their audience prolapsed assholes to spur Disney into action. I would have thought a juggernaut as Bad-PR-averse as Disney would scrutinize their employees a bit more closely. Nintendo, for example, curates their public image rather carefully as we saw when they fired Rapp.
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On the other hand, when Robbi Rodriguez sent literal pictures of his prolapsed asshole to harass some guy, nothing happened, and in fact DC gave him that shitty Zoe Quinn comic.
 
AnOminous said:
On the other hand, when Robbi Rodriguez sent literal pictures of his prolapsed asshole to harass some guy, nothing happened, and in fact DC gave him that shitty Zoe Quinn comic.
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On the one hand I notice you're fixated on this, and on the other ... I can't blame you. It's astonishing that an alleged industry professional (from any industry) did something like this and faced absolutely no repercussions.
 
Leibowitz said:
Even if that's so, it took Windbag calling half their audience prolapsed assholes to spur Disney into action. I would have thought a juggernaut as Bad-PR-averse as Disney would scrutinize their employees a bit more closely. Nintendo, for example, curates their public image rather carefully as we saw when they fired Rapp.
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Not that carefully, though. Remember that they were fine with her defending pedophilia, but being a prostitute was a bridge too far.
 
Mola Ram said:
On the one hand I notice you're fixated on this, and on the other ... I can't blame you. It's astonishing that an alleged industry professional (from any industry) did something like this and faced absolutely no repercussions.
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I find it flabbergasting because it's so clearly and obviously completely unacceptable behavior by any person that it's hard to imagine an industry that wants to be associated with such a disgusting creep.
 
GeneralFriendliness said:
He updated his website with his 25 rules on "making stuff".
https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1067771856613253120
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/11/28/first-the-why-now-the-how-25-ways-to-keep-making-stuff/

Thankfully not many seem that interested, but that even a few are taking his "advice" to heart (and more liked his first few rules) is a bit disconcerting, but expected.
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"25 WAYS TO KEEP MAKING STUFF in this era of fucking fuckery."

I really hate the way these dumbasses talk. It's all over Reddit too, people think that the more they curse the more interesting they sound. Imagine being a grown man but talking like a nerdier version of a woman's inspirational Instagram image. "Live life. Make things. Drink wine like a badass. Be all about stuff. For real." Suck my dick until we both die.
 
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