Rod Martin resigned as Entertainments Manager of the Union on Friday. This follows a year where targets for club nights have been missed by a considerable amount. On Saturday Shine was forced to move to the Stiff Kitten as only three hundred tickets were sold. This was not enough to fill the Mandela Hall even if parts had been cordoned off. Union Director Andrew Dodge said that this was because of the recession and stated that attendance at events this year had been “atrocious” due to a “lack of cash”.
BY BEN FINCH
Rod Martin’s post will be covered by current members of staff until the vacancy is filled. Dodge claimed that this is an “opportune time” for a rethink in what the Union offers and is a chance for students to “be given what they want, rather than being told”. The Union will be looking to diversify the entertainment already in place and defend Monday and Thursday Nights from competitors in the area. Rod Martin wasn’t available for comment.
to say the su staff are thick is an absolute joke. quite a few spent the year trying to stand up to dodge and made it pretty apparent that certain areas needed reconsidered as they were not working. calling the staff stupid is just one person’s attempt to blame when they have no idea what part time staff put up with. just like sabbaticals they can try to have their say but it counts for nothing because management just do not want to listen. rod martin was the only one who did.
When I say union staff are thick I was actually referring to some of the sabbs. Sorry for making a very general statement when actually what I meant was quite specific.
All hail the Union bar staff and indeed other part timers in there. Not a bad word to say about yis at all. It’s the “management” and the management that are the problem.
Rob Martin will be trully missed at the SU. Legend
Nevermind Rob Martin, what about Rod Martin??
Rob B Dick;
“This was, if you’d done any research, in the week that the guys at Shine had to start giving away tickets for a gig in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday.”
If you’d done any research you’d know that the Leftfield gig that Wednesday was promoted and booked by POD and not Shine.
@b
O RLY?
Are you sure Shine didn’t take over the promotion?
yup. They just looked after the bars and babysat the night for POD. It wasn’t their gig.
who is this Dodge guy? Everything on this site is negative. How many people have left the union cos of him? Rod Martin was a great guy – something stinks here!
I was friendly with a Sabb from a couple of years ago when Dodge started working in the union. He was reputed to have tried to divide long standing colleagues against each other as soon as he arrived and when that didn’t work, tried other ways to turn people against each other.
If i worked in the union i’d be looking to try another more generous employer like Robert Mugabe or Pol Pot. God love poor Mr Martin – what was he put through before he’d finally had enough.
Robbo, how can you know who Rod Martin is and not know who Dodge is?
News is, by its nature, a negative affair.
@ Robbo
You say everything on thios site is negative…not EVERYTHING ia negative. But as Jammy Dodger says…news is by its nature a negative affair…at least most of the time.
I would advise you to check out Queen’s Now, Su Mag, The Graduate….or QOL/QUBSU websites for poitive Queen’s and Queen’s Union news.
Rod Martin has been lining his own and Shine’s pockets for years!! If he’d been concentrating on his job rather than kissing Shine’s ass maybe the Union wouldn’t be losing money. Good riddance to him and those tossers who own Shit Kitten, Mr Dodge should f**k them out next. Well done Mr Dodge, these bloody students have no respect for authority and no grasp of the real world.