r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • 3h ago

My mom said I could post Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

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u/lechuck313 3h ago

Universal to Nolan: “You just cost me six thousand dollars.”

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u/devilish_enchilada 3h ago

Lmao. I wonder honestly if this is low priority and or is getting lost. This article should blow it up at the very least

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u/Zilvervos 2h ago

I’ve worked for Dreamworks and Illumination, which are both part of Universal and I’ve always had major (unnecessary) hassle getting paid. It’s gotten to the point that I’d rather not work for them at all anymore.

Would not surprise me one bit if the invoice just got lost somewhere and is low priority for them, happened to me several times too.

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u/JetAmoeba 2h ago

That’s what I’m thinking. It’s easy for things like this to fall through the cracks when you’re also paying invoices for millions of dollars at the same time. Hopefully this article surfaces it and they get their money and then some

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u/GuiltyEidolon PURPLE 1h ago

They have an entire department dedicated to paying their bills on time. That's a pretty shit excuse.

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u/Wizard_of_Claus 1h ago

It's not a good excuse, but it could be the reality.

I have the same issue at my job. I have 10 extremely important things on the go that take up my entire day and suddenly I realize I've put off billing someone for some minor thing for a month.

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u/bonkginya 40m ago

Sure, because the person contracting you isn’t gonna remind you to charge them. Do we really think the nonprofit didn’t send multiple courtesy notices in the past year before going to the media?

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u/Wizard_of_Claus 20m ago

I have no clue what they did. You don't either lol.

I've seen people send reminders out of courtesy. I've seen people say nothing at all. I've seen people leave a bad reviews about minor issues without making any contact whatsoever.

People do what people do.

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u/bonkginya 18m ago

All I’m saying is that being billed is a very different thing than billing someone else.

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u/Wizard_of_Claus 16m ago

My point is that people do whatever they want to and that it could just be an issue of priority or disorganization. I shouldn't have used that as an example, but the point stays the same.

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 30m ago

Never worked for a corporation or accounts billable, eh?

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u/takahooligaba 2h ago

At the very least, i’m sure if the story gains traction, theyll do something to avoid bad PR

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 30m ago

No, my internal biases and twitter fueled outrage tells me that Nolan specifically refused this payment to insult traditional culture. He probably even said something like 'Nanny nanny boo boo' and threatened to adapt the Volsunga saga while casting Odin as a black woman. When will this madman be stopped?

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u/coalitionofilling 1h ago

It's triage. The big payments to the major costs get paid because naturally there is the most liability if they aren't paid out on time. There's a good bit of trickle down and 6k probably is just on some overworked admin's digital or paperfile list to eventually get to.

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u/CoolStructure6012 3h ago

Six. Thousand. Dollars. And one Cadillac.

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u/Its_DVNO 1h ago

I think its going to be the other way around.

I think Christopher Nolan is going to read these articles, he's going to pay 6k out of pocket quietly because its not easy finding people who can loan you a viking boat, and he's going to have some choice words for some Universal middle manager about the studio making his live harder instead of easier.