Andrew Sage

And they were like, hmm, how can we, you know, make one of our longstanding employees who is good at their job, you know, get fired?

So green pants was the reasoning.

And just like... The idea of your employer being able to control what color of pants you wear is...

Like, it's a thing that just on a fundamental level would not be accepted with any other kind of authority.

That's... Everybody immediately recognizes, wait, what the fuck?

That's completely unhinged.

Why should someone have the ability to tell you, like, no, you have to wear this color pants or you can't pay your rent and you can't eat?

Oh, yeah.

No.

And this is kind of the despotism of management that we were just talking about, isn't it?

Yeah.

And this is the thing that in bargaining sessions for a contract, their side is very interested in maintaining.

We've said multiple times that we want a better just code policy, or at the very least, we don't want to waive our right to be able to wear union memorabilia on the floor.

And because he doesn't have any better ideas, their lawyer can only think to shoot that down by talking about...

how he doesn't wear his sexuality on his shirt or... What?

Yeah, yeah.

Because he was like, why don't you want to be able to waive your right to wear union memorabilia on the floor?

And we said, we want to be able to show pride that we're unionized and we want to be able to have more freedom for expression.

uh-huh because it's despotic to be able to have that level of control over what somebody does yeah and then he said you know well i uh don't wear my sexuality on my shirt and then realized that it was maybe inappropriate to say that so then he talked about how he doesn't wear his daughters on his shirt um which is a more convoluted point yeah well because he's proud of his kids i guess

what are we doing here?