Andrew Sage
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Podcast Appearances
They said right now we make 18 an hour, but they said they'll keep it the same and they want to retain the rate to change it whenever they want.
they're making a floor they're committing to a floor I then tried to ask if they've ever in their history decreased wages and they're like no I don't see why we would ever do that and I'm like oh so then this floor is bullshit actually
Their baseline for negotiations as our starting position is nothing?
And this is a year after negotiating with them so far.
It's like, okay, like, I mean, at that point, it's like, yeah, I don't know, like, fuck it.
Our starting position is we should have your house.
Like, this is, like, this is, like, equally, like, come on.
Like, you having their house is a more reasonable demand than our basic negotiating position is nothing?
Like, what are we doing here?
Yeah, I mean, insert obligatory line here about how after you win an election, the most common way for you to fail is bargaining the first contract and companies know this, so they will just do bullshit for several years to attempt to not have you get a contract.
and her manager do the same oh absolutely why look you can't expect managers to know how to do things that's not their job my manager let me tell you i used to have to open with her like three times a week and she has this very beautiful habit of as she's dialing espresso and also she does this while she's counting cash she will have her phone open on tiktok and then scroll through
I have this one horrific memory.
and she was going through an entire TikTok story time series for 45 minutes.