Dana El-Kurd

Yeah, and can you talk about how much money is it that you have to pay back if you either get fired or leave?

At least $21,000 in this case.

Jesus Christ.

Like, oh my God.

Yeah.

It's cartoonishly evil.

Yeah.

I should clarify as well that most of us who are hired are not coming into this job from a place of financial privilege.

Most of us had some manner of skepticism over this contract, but because the opportunity just seemed so great, and because we had not heard any history of, you know, any sort of bad faith actions from management...

I think we all just kind of decided, well, I get to work with a bunch of cool trans people on a bunch of cool trans people for decent pay and benefits, and they probably won't just fire me once I sign this loan.

Like, that wouldn't be cool.

And so where this really comes into play is that the union member, the co-worker who was fired, as I mentioned before, was on a leave of absence to be in school.

And basically, she was fired and immediately they demanded repayment in full of this loan.

So not only did she lose her job over extremely spurious circumstances, but

She now was on the hook for $21,000, like, immediately.

Like, I think the deadline they gave her is in, like, two days.

So... I want to add something to all of that.

Yeah.

They had her sign that loan knowing that she had two write-ups on the books and that her next write-up within those four years would lead to termination.

they knew that they have that on file they admitted that to our faces we had a group of witnesses who can attest to this because we did all confront them that's jumping a little bit further ahead in the story we'll get there yeah i i just i want to stay here for a second to just sort of