Dana El-Kurd
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Just walk through how unbelievably unhinged this is.
Which is that, yeah, so the condition of working here is that you have to sign, like, what is effectively an indentured servitude contract.
Like, it's like, okay, you have to work here for, like, four years.
And if we ever decide to fire you, you can't leave.
And if we ever decide to fire you, you just owe $21,000.
Which, just on the face of it, is such an unbelievably exploitative situation.
Because, yeah, this is a bunch of queer and trans people.
Like, no fucking trans person has $21,000.
Like, that's just not a thing.
Well, she's like, I don't have $21,000.
Like, what are we doing here?
Taking advantage of the trans community.
And then you have that just as the baseline condition of just everyone has just the doom of Damocles hanging over their head.
And then also, you know, like what you were describing where, okay, you get someone to sign the contract knowing that you can get rid of them after one more infraction.
That's such an incredible incentive to...
like mistreat and fire people because if you fire someone you can just collect like try to collect like $21,000 from them financially ruin somebody financially destroy somebody render them homeless even
It's what we call a perverse incentive.