I am stuck in a studio when a live broadcast started, I am not in frame, snd can't leave without ruining the broadcast, I have not eaten breakfast and the time is 13:14, help me keep my sanity!
I am an IT guy with an interest in AV technology, so I was asked and accepted to handle the technology as I had some knowledge and understanding of it.
My employer is not a media company, it is a company in a completely different sector that has a media production department and produce videos as part of our brand/company values.
My task is to keep the equipment setup when we are running live broadcasts.
I am an IT guy with an interest inphorography and av technology, I helped set up the camera and then they started the broadcast without me having time to get out.
Would you prefer to work for a company that doesn't seem to care if you've met your basic needs for existence?
Time to look for a new job, imo. I know its easy to say from the outside, but I hope you're able to find a solution that doesn't ask you to compromize your living standards for money.
Do you have something to provide or configure for them, like adjusting mic, camera, light, whatever? The idea is - you do something better for them, you wink at each other and then you go in the opposite direction. When you work like that, you are perceived as a different kind of a person, like a photographer, with all rights to smoothly break rules to produce the best result without a punishment. I worked like that some time ago and the ability to confidently walk on the stage and fix critical fuck ups while chameleoning with the background is one of the things I'm grateful to learn. Except for chromokey, you pop like a bloody wound on the chromokey bg and that's hard to edit out.
And as I see you've already escaped. That's great.