Andrew Sage

A.L.

Gritch...

She was my professor.

Yeah, I talked to her today.

Wait, she's just part of the management team now?

No, no, no.

Okay, so this is part of where... Or is this like a different thing?

Okay, sorry, sorry.

This is... Okay, no, no, no.

you know, before we unionized, albeit I had a very short tenure before we had unionized.

Adam Getachew is not one of our bosses, but there is just a lot of confusion that I feel about what the board is responsible for in bargaining and what management feels they're responsible for.

And I can clear up a little bit of that because what we were told when we first unionized and when the management team was kind of shifting and reorganizing itself around to the board was the board is there primarily to advise and supervise and hire the executive director for the stores.

And so there is a financial contribution.

They're all significant donors.

That's part of the way that they secure their seats is making a large donation to the stores.

But then, at least according to them, from that point forward, they have...

no managerial oversight over the operations of the store whatsoever it is not their responsibility they don't make any decisions about the budget they don't get involved they don't want to be involved and they were embarrassed by having this attitude when previous management went off the rails and nearly drove the store into the ground by buying stock on credit cards what

It's a whole thing that we do not have to get into.

That is to say that somehow that experience did not act as a wake-up call for this board of directors.

And they said, what we will do is hire the next white man we can find and take our hands back off the wheel.