There was a lot of fallout from the expensive digital upgrade. The 7 projectionists were forced into redundancies & I was also included on the list. I argued my case & managed to stay for a little while longer, but then I was pretty much forced to resign from the cinema due to upper management’s new approach to my role. The writing was on the wall as they looked at ways to save money to help pay for the $400,000+ digital cinema upgrade. I did the film programming & the graphic design/advertising for the cinema, but they wanted to relegate those duties to the other 3 managers & had already made strides in working towards that direction. My position was doomed as they wanted to cut costs. The last straw for me was when they moved my workspace downstairs to the candy bar & left the lone accountant upstairs with 8 desks in the office. 7 of them now empty. My protestations against this decision was met with indifference & a forced relocation overnight of my computer, phone & belongings by one of the Japanese managers. Nice!
I won’t go into details, but I could no longer stay in that environment.
But in all honesty, the difficulties encountered on a daily basis in regards to the running of the place was ineptly systemic & increasingly baffling beyond belief.
The Australian staff on the premises are great & I know they feel my pain.
