Andrew Sage

Have you considered you can simply eliminate this entire expense by turning this into an actual co-op?

You could do it in like one day and you suddenly would not have the administration expenses because those people wouldn't be there.

You could do this really easily.

Well, and as the movement in and out of that position over the past year demonstrates, it has no effect on the operations of the bookstore.

The thing that has any effect on the operations of the bookstore is the fact that seven people have left, not been replaced, and all of their work has been redistributed across increasingly siloed positions to the people who are left so that you have no help on your particular assigned task.

that is now yours and yours alone and you just feel terrible in your little hole by yourself yeah which which this is something like i know for a fact that like multiple people on that board know what a speed up is like that's that's a speed up i i know for a fact that you know what this is like and most of them who know what it is have written against them oh

So it's like, you're really, this is the person that you're working with.

This is the tool that you're using, you know?

This is who you would rather pay.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and it's also, it's like, that's the thing where this whole metaphor of, like, the boss acting as an abusive partner is suddenly getting very literal in terms of who the people that they are employing do for their other shit, which is defending those people.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's almost like there's a structural connection between management and patriarchy.

Wow, who could possibly, who could possibly have done this?

Between systems of abuse.

Yeah, like, who could possibly have written about this?

Checks notes, looks at the books that were written by the members of the board.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm so mad about this.

Like, Will Nicky after Empire is really good.