Many people were injured and after the fight one of the guys who had been fighting came back and stabbed a guy he had fought with. We spent 45 minutes dragging people out of there. Eventually the police arrived but wouldn’t come inside they stood outside and essentially instructed us to kick everyone out and they would keep them out. We did what we could but it was beyond our control. When we went in there was around 60 people brawling on the dance floor. One night a bartender came out to the door and told me there was a fight inside, there was no security inside just 2 of us on the door. They also wouldn’t pay to get CCTV installed which upset the local police. I found a set of second hand radios for under £200 but they refused to buy them I ended up buying whistles for the team to at least give us something to use to get each others attention.

There just wasn’t enough of us to actually watch the whole club and even when we did see something we couldn’t call for back up. We had so many incidents there that it was just insane. The club was taking around 45k per week but they wouldn’t pay for radios for us to least be able to communicate. So did the fire brigade, they said there wasn’t enough of us to evacuate the venue if we had to, they were right too. I kept telling them that we were dangerously understaffed. I used to be the head of security for a club that had the most tight-fisted owners I’ve ever heard of. This is a fancy way of saying people thought the company's potential value was a cool $20 billion smaller than it was before these decisions. Regardless of the reasoning, investors were wary and the company lost around$20 billion in market cap. Discovery recoup some money in the form of tax-write-offs. This was all done, reportedly, to help Warner Bros. The precise savings are unknown, but the uncertainty affected investors since, let's face it, a movie studio deciding to scrap a finished movie is not a move of confidence. They also removed over 200 episodes of Sesame Street from HBO Max and shut down CNN+. Most famously, they took an already completed film, Batgirl, and canned the whole thing, among other projects. So they decided to find a few ways to cut costs. Discovery decided it needed to try and save $3 billion last year, a pretty tall order even for the most financially responsible of us. A tiny little media company called Warner Bros. Even massive household names with billions at stake still find ways to endanger themselves with poor decision-making skills.

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