From The Beat:
It gets downright messy. Marvel’s new offices have only one restroom for each gender. In a company of hundreds of people. The post-lunch hour piddle line is said to be especially long and people actually stagger their lunches so as not to wait in it. There’s a human resources staff of one for the whole company. Review copies? You’ve got to be kidding. Editors have to purchase copies of the books they worked on.
God, that’s depressing to read. It’s just sad to see a place called the “House of Ideas” to be such morale deflating misery factory. Makes one wonder how many great ideas are being stifled by penny pinching.
Warren Ellis had a great tweet about this last week given the success of “The Avengers” movie:
Hell, the AVENGERS movie has made so much money that Disney might even let Marvel Comics buy a second toilet for their offices.
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) May 6, 2012
via Marvel layoffs: The cheapskate is coming from inside the House of Ideas! | The Beat.
