• Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    Hide under a cardboard box and slowly inch your way across the broadcast frame and out of the studio

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    Is there a printer in the room? Print off a photo of one of your least favorite coworkers, use it as a paper mask, leave.

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      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.

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    Talk us through it… how have you come to this predicament? What stopped you from eating breakfast? What do you mean stuck? Do you even work there?

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      I just grabbed Retroarch from the Appstore…

      I do however need a controller for my iPhone…

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        You can use touch controls usually, especially with RPGs. GB games like Final Fantasy Legend (aka SaGa) got my though similar boredom.

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      If I didn’t work here, I would, but I do and I don’t want to be fired.

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        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.

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          I’d find it very hard to believe no on has told the employees if they’re in the room when it starts they’re stuck, or that this was a “surprise” broadcast.

          OP missed the boat and it sucks.

          And corps are almost always assholes.

          But this seems like the OP just didn’t get out in time

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    Claim low blood sugar and go acquire sustenance? Download and read your favorite trashy feel good book?

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    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.