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Originally posted by revel8
If you were working at Google in a role of significance, you would have contractual non-compete clause in your employment contract, such that you could not work for a competitor for a specified period of time after leaving.
The reality is that while dancers are pretty plentiful, it is very difficult to replace dancers mid-tour, because you are travelling and it takes time to learn the choreography and routines. The issue is not that the dancers left, but that they left mid-tour which left Taylor without time to easily find replacements. The dancers knew the duration of the tour and they signed on for the duration of the tour, before reneging on this agreement. If they wanted to do Katy's Tour, they should have been honest about this at the beginning and so Taylor could have recruited other dancers who were committed for the duration of the Red Tour.
If Katy was an actual friend of Taylor, she would not have recruited these dancers the way that she did. She would have asked Taylor if they were available first and maybe something could have been worked out.
It's like if you are an actor in the middle of a film and you leave halfway through to do something else, you are going to piss off the people in the initial project.
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Did I specify that it would be a role of significance? Do we have to get into business-world complexities just because I brought in relatable and non-shady examples? No. You get my point, no need to nitpick.
Anyway, they had no way of knowing beforehand that when Katy was going on tour or that they would be offered a position on that tour. They probably did notify Taylor and any relevant people when they were offered the position and accepted; all we know is that they were terminated earlier than necessary. You can't make the assumption that Taylor wouldn't have had ample time to hire replacements and train them, because the hard details simply aren't there.
There's nothing to work out, especially if there are overlapping dates. There's no need for that kind of complex mess. As far as them being "friends," I don't think that there's really much evidence of them being more than acquaintances - it's not as if this was Taylor's BFF deciding to offer her dancers a position.
Being in a film isn't really that comparable, to be honest, and people do leave films all the time. The major issue here is being ignored - the director of a film that you leave has no room or right to get angry at another director who offered you better. They can get mad at you and make it a question of your personal work ethic, but situations like Taylor getting mad at Katy - instead of the dancers who willingly and knowingly left - are pointless and expend unnecessary energy.
Maybe I'm just not ethically sound, but I really think that there was nothing wrong with Katy's management - not even the woman herself mind you - offering them a better deal. Competition is competition.
I don't care for neither of these girls very much but Taylor > Katy
And lol at you calling Taylor's fans delusional, with a post like this.
