Andrew Sage

Yeah.

But really, it's not tough for people that we work with to realize that they're getting a bad deal and that the reason that the job sucks is because they don't get paid enough to live in the city.

Like, I think most baristas at Blue Bottle see something like 60% of their income as

going towards rent, because... Jesus!

Yeah, we did a survey on this.

Let me double-check to make sure that I have the facts right.

But, yeah, this is from, you know, March, so it's a little bit old data.

We'll do another survey soon, but...

Most blue bottle baristas are rent burdened, spending more than 30% of their income on rent.

The median rent paid by blue bottle employees being $1,045, which is the equivalent of 150 New Orleans style iced coffees.

It's one of the best selling drinks they have.

Christ.

Yeah, no, I know.

For 150 Nolas, you too can pay the median rent paid by a barista.

Oh my God.

And then on average, it's, sorry, 46% of their income going towards rent with roughly a third of baristas paying over 60%.

oh my god when we we told all these facts to their lawyer at a bargaining session and he just said that maybe the reason that we were all struggling to make ends meet was because we were paying for too many streaming services yeah i know like it's an entirely he knows it's bullshit did they just get

like a right-wing shit poster to be their lawyer like is this just like is this like fucking like is this just like the fail son clone of Rudy Giuliani like is this base gonna start melting off what are we doing here like come on

I wish I could tell you.

I don't know what their strategy with saying obviously false things is, but they love to do it.