Why I quit before the Gala Night of Men's Fashion Week

After few weeks of working relentlessly on the projects, getting all the design logic sorted out, ironing out the area of irrelevant and then helping the designer with technical draft for Professional certification, for workshop planning and construction and to make preparation for  credible visual layouts and diagrams to allow for better presentation of the design concept and budgeting to the Chairman and members of the team from Marina Bay Sands and Men's Fashion Week. The technical planning and draft are important work and basis for many things, while many people may not see this as important or essential but I alway insist on a healthy way of working. 

Any structural planning and weightload calculation need to be clearly presented to the PE for certification. Other areas of concern are fire safety and security for the events.

Reason for quitting, all the organiser cared about was reducing overheads and compromising safety issues. Had big times problem balancing what is needed, with three parties having different promises and expectation. MBS needed a certain number of SO, security service company gave advice on the best allocation base on size of the event space as well as the number of audiences, organiser simply wants to meet basic MDA requirement and cared more about how much it will cost and not how the number of SO will compromise on safety.

I had asked organiser on their budget for this and was told 10 SO per day is the most they could afford, so I worked on that figure and adjusted the distribution according to needs, but even that turn out to be fruitless. Back and forth, at the end, organiser accused me of making it difficult for them. And that I was screwed up. The worst was,the person I worked with was not someone who would listen in patience, to him no one has better logic then himself. He could not see the logic of my action in distributing the number of SO base on the budget of 10 SO per day. He had spoke to my friend and bad mouthed me because of his displeasure on my logic. He have the right to disagree but he do not have the right to bad mouth  me to my friend, making me look like a problematic case to my friend. That was something I could not tolerate.

The Men's Fashion Week opens 30th March. It was the Gala dinner night. I decided to quit the same night my friend told me how he had spoke badly of me. At this point in time, most of the set up and logistic etc are all settled, my departure has no effect on the event.

I feel happier now. It is definitely a challenge to work with an organiser who has no experience in producing such big event.