They stopped shooting Control Center and Top 5 in our studio due to the pandemic so a lot of my work was eliminated. I was relegated to pretty much no AEW work, just videos that probably needed to be done so do them and we might put them out eventually.
The last thing I edited to completion were the Librarian sketches. Admittedly I was demoralized and my work suffered from it, sending out edits that I was embarrassed by.
I wanted to see if I could contribute in other ways so I tried to accompany a shooter on what I thought was a minor shoot (shooting footage of a debuting talent training) and was denied because they didn’t know if it was what the boss wanted. The boss accused me of ‘just wanting to be seen’.
For some reason, anytime I wanted to do anything they accused me of having some ulterior motive. When I put out my thank you tweet, they said I just wanted people to know that I work for AEW, which again, is laughable because the lead editor posted (and still posts) regularly about how they work for AEW or edited this or that, but one where I tried to show humility was seen as bragging. But I digress.
It started coming to a head for me around this time. My girlfriend and I had to move out of our apartment and into our new apartment on a specific date. It was bad timing.
We were working from home at the time, so I requested 3 days off in total to move. A day to pack our stuff, moving day, and a day to unpack. These were the first days I had asked off all year except for the day before Thanksgiving to drive home.
When the days off were approved, it was in an email that was done in a very shamey way, saying that my days off were mine to use as I please, but I should only need 1 day off to move and I was just being lazy by taking 3 days off and I should have chosen a weekend (I didn’t have this option).
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