Quit

I just got off the phone with the director of the Advanced Production shoot (which I attended last weekend). I had to let her know that I quit and that she would have to find a replacement. I gotta say, I don't feel terribly good, but it had to be done. Last weekend, the shoot was an organizational hell. She didn't know what she was doing and she over-worked the entire crew. To top things off, she didn't provide the crew with very much food or downtime. We were there for 11 hours and we worked all 11 hours.
The final nail came when she failed to recognize the efforts of everyone who was involved in the shoot. She posted special thanks on the film's webpage to the cast of the film and the location providers, but she failed to highlight the efforts of key members of the crew. For example, she failed to recognize Brandon Steed, the nagra operator who basically put his cushy job at the Mac store in danger just so he could help her with sound. She failed to recognize the efforts of her DP, Jayme Schere and she failed to recognize the efforts of her script supervisor, who basically walked away from a very organized and promising shoot just to help out on this one. And then, just yesterday, the director shoots out an e-mail to everyone informing them that a 5th day will be added to the shoot. And here's the kicker...the burden of the camera crew falls on Brock and I. Yep, her AC's, DP and gaffer quit...so she was planning on having me fill in just about every roll on the camera crew. That wasn't gonna fly. So I quit.
This shoot has provided me with two valuable lessons: (1) Don't use the school equipment for your projects and (2)don't alienate your crew.