So some background story:
A year and a half ago, I get hired to do in-house video production for this non-profit. B hires me as he is the "media consultant." Immediately after I start, the current production intern quits and I get saddled with months of backwork. I freaked out, but a coworker gave me some tips on what to do, and I managed to get caught up.
I found out a couple of months later that B had started his own production company, and had basically run the old intern out and hired me to fill in and fail so that the VP would put up his hands and agree to outsource all the video work - right to B's new company.
Well, that didn't happen. Instead, I took care of business, built up my relationship with the VP and they discovered that I could put together promotional videos for them on top of the normal video production I do. Not a problem.
Now, however, the VP is quitting. His position is up for grabs and all the other managers are making a move for it. At the same time, B has just put out an offer to the Council that his production company will cover ALL video production for the non-profit - for free (his site is sort of like youtube, advertisement based revenue while he puts up political videos for viewing and discussion). I'm safe until the VP leaves because he hates B and B's company has refused to do any of the things they've asked for (create a portal that looks like our company's website, watermark our company's video with our watermark or put our intro on the video - any programs they get get put up on their website immediately before ours, with their watermarks and intro all over it), but my worry is that whoever takes over his position will decide my position is redundant and off me to hand over all the work to B's company.
What do I do? i obviously can't compete against a company offering to do all this work for FREE - they have more manpower and can cover every program, but the demands of the VP (watermark, portal, intro) come from the CEO. So far she's not very fond of them, but I'm not sure if that is worth my salary to her (I don't get paid a lot, but it's enough to survive). If nothing else, I'd at least like to stay until November, when I'll have 2 years experience and should be able to move into doing my own thing, but I'm not prepared to get tossed out now.
What would you guys do? Is there a way to outmaneuver these people? The quality of my work is better as their camera guy just turns on the camera, sits for the rest of the program and stops the tape at the end (I tilt, track, pan, etc) and I take direction better, including all of the necessary things that the CEO wants, but I don't like the position that I'm in - I'm sort of employed at a whim now, not many chips to play with, and I can see the political maneuvering that's been done around me. I'm willing to work with these guys as we split up filming now, but they want me out of the picture so they can take the whole thing. How do I stay afloat?
A year and a half ago, I get hired to do in-house video production for this non-profit. B hires me as he is the "media consultant." Immediately after I start, the current production intern quits and I get saddled with months of backwork. I freaked out, but a coworker gave me some tips on what to do, and I managed to get caught up.
I found out a couple of months later that B had started his own production company, and had basically run the old intern out and hired me to fill in and fail so that the VP would put up his hands and agree to outsource all the video work - right to B's new company.
Well, that didn't happen. Instead, I took care of business, built up my relationship with the VP and they discovered that I could put together promotional videos for them on top of the normal video production I do. Not a problem.
Now, however, the VP is quitting. His position is up for grabs and all the other managers are making a move for it. At the same time, B has just put out an offer to the Council that his production company will cover ALL video production for the non-profit - for free (his site is sort of like youtube, advertisement based revenue while he puts up political videos for viewing and discussion). I'm safe until the VP leaves because he hates B and B's company has refused to do any of the things they've asked for (create a portal that looks like our company's website, watermark our company's video with our watermark or put our intro on the video - any programs they get get put up on their website immediately before ours, with their watermarks and intro all over it), but my worry is that whoever takes over his position will decide my position is redundant and off me to hand over all the work to B's company.
What do I do? i obviously can't compete against a company offering to do all this work for FREE - they have more manpower and can cover every program, but the demands of the VP (watermark, portal, intro) come from the CEO. So far she's not very fond of them, but I'm not sure if that is worth my salary to her (I don't get paid a lot, but it's enough to survive). If nothing else, I'd at least like to stay until November, when I'll have 2 years experience and should be able to move into doing my own thing, but I'm not prepared to get tossed out now.
What would you guys do? Is there a way to outmaneuver these people? The quality of my work is better as their camera guy just turns on the camera, sits for the rest of the program and stops the tape at the end (I tilt, track, pan, etc) and I take direction better, including all of the necessary things that the CEO wants, but I don't like the position that I'm in - I'm sort of employed at a whim now, not many chips to play with, and I can see the political maneuvering that's been done around me. I'm willing to work with these guys as we split up filming now, but they want me out of the picture so they can take the whole thing. How do I stay afloat?
