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As an employee of 18 years at Tyneside Cinema, I've have been down for the past couple of weeks knowing the company will bury me in a redundancy process they aren't capable of managing.
I was almost put in a different consultancy group from my own department, in order to avoid being in a meeting with my abuser I had just gone through a 4 month police investigation with where he was accused by me of attempted rape.
After the cinema severely botched up a sexual assault case involving 6 other women. About an abuser who I specifically told the CEO about a few years before in an email over a contract issue wfich never got resolved.
I am a disabled, neurodivergent Access Coordinator, running screenings there for disabled, neurodivergent audiences. Programmes which are always used to get donations and funding but are consistently undermined by management.
By the way the management of the cinema probably do not know I am disabled and autistic myself, as they know nothing about me and my career aspirations after 18 years of working there. They do not know, anything about what I struggle with in the workplace and have had to hide.
The management know nothing about the social model of disability. I know I will get dismissed by them in telling them I self identify as neurodivergent, because like so many people, I have been at a disadvantage in my life getting my difficulties diagnosed.
I have heard the CEO dismiss dyslexia as a disability in a conversation about diversity.
I have had my Relaxed Screenings cut, and with it, work cut without notice and was told we would be putting on more Captioned Subtitled screenings on instead (something they should have been doing for years before anyway?!)
The Relaxed Screenings were cut in Autism Awareness Month. When an article had just came out in the Chronicle praising Tyneside Cinema for programming autism friendly screenings.
An article they didn't acknowledge at all when I emailed management and marketing about it.
A few months before, there was a Crowdfunder to raise money for new, audio description headsets for the cinema. My job role was used in it without telling me why, and the cinema never bought headphones to use with the new tech, expecting customers to bring their own instead.
Another crowdfunder, a very patronising "pay it forward" campaign they got endorsed by @KenLoachSixteen, capitalising on the film Sorry We Missed You, a film addressing zero hour contracts. I am on a zero hour contact at Tyneside Cinema.
