Andrew Sage

Yeah, you know, I keep going back to the abusive relationship metaphor, but like that is one of the big things about abusive relationships is that because of the information control and because of the way that your world gets condensed down into a really, really tiny, narrow set of experiences where you're isolated and you're only interacting with like one person who was controlling everything about your life.

it becomes really difficult to see things that are very, very obviously wrong the moment you step out of it.

Yeah.

And, you know, I don't know, maybe it turns out having absolute hierarchical relationships with control is an extremely bad way to run literally anything, especially the thing that your livelihood depends on that you do most of your time.

Just a thought.

Well, and it also just like means that you are too busy to actually interface in any meaningful way with your workers.

Like, yeah, if I tell you that it took me two thirds of the day to schedule a 15 minute conversation with any of four managers who were on site to quit, I would not be lying.

They, at one point, tried to reschedule that conversation, which I was attempting to have on Friday, to Monday.

And I was like, I think you want to know this.

Yeah, it's like, managers, you two are getting screwed over by understaffing.

Yeah.

They are not feeling well.

Because here's the thing.

I think she only talks to us.

I feel like the other managers do not speak to her.

Am I crazy?

Yeah.

Before we get into what can people do to help, is there anything else that you want to make sure that you get to?

I think the big thing that we should emphasize, too, is as much as we are complaining and frustrated about the process, we know that this is not impasse and that we are so sure that there is still negotiating to be done.

There is still conversation to be had and that we have been emphasizing that at every opportunity to management.