[image description: a tweet by @/JortsTheCat. it reads, “Ah good, looks like Jer got to the ‘finding out’ part thanks to Shelly.” attached are two photos.
the first is a letter posted on a workplace:
“ATTENTION ALL SUBORDINATES:
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, CONVERSING ABOUT WAGES (BOTH ON DUTY AND OFF DUTY) IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
This is considered proprietary information and as such, it is protected legally. If you are overheard speaking (OR LISTENING TO!) a conversation in which wages are discussed, you will receive disciplinary action up to and including termination.
As a reminder, Kentucky is an at-will state, meaning your employment can be terminated for any reason without legal percussion. Or NO REASON.
Have any questions, ask Jer.”
the second photo is the response letter. it has a frame of links to the NLRB around the edges, along with clipart of the hammer and sickle. the printed text reads as follows:
“Yo Jer-Bear:
Seeing as you’re a manager in the great illustrious word of Planet Fitness gym franchises, it may behoove you to become familiar with the laws pertaining to it. Sprinkling legalese and word-salad across an 8.5x11 paper you printed does not a legal doc make.
Since research ain’t your forte, I’ve included a link to the pertinent documents on the left, right, top, and bottom of this paper. Kinda hard to miss.
Needless to say, you can’t legally tell us not to discuss wages in the good ol’ U.S. of A. We will continue to do so.
Futhermore, for the sake of making this a little more streamlined, shall we?
[a list of names and pay rates follows, some printed and some handwritten. the last names are blacked out on the image.]
Eric - $12.50/hr base, $200 monthly bonus paid out contingent on metrics being met.
McKenzie - $12.50/hr base, $100 monthly bonus paid out contingent on metrics being met. (tiered format.)
Ashleigh - $11/hr.
Johannen - $11/hr.
Dan - $11/hr.
Tiana - $10.50/hr.
Deepa - $10.50/hr.
Annaliese - $10.50/hr.
Carlo - $10.50/hr.
Bruce - $10.50/hr.
Ryne - $10.50/hr.
Andrew 11.00
Tamarha 10.50
Michelle 10.50/hr
Tara 10.50
Darlene - 11.00
James - 11.00/hour
The rest of your “subordinates” could not be reached, but they’re welcome to post their wage above.
Love,
$10.50 an hour Shelly”
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@sturionic I know it’s just in my fucked up country, but I thought you’d appreciate seeing it
hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit
Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids’ movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn’t get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.
He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned “hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality” summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk (“so he seems nice? He’s what, in his late twenties?”) and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.
Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha’s fake wife and dressing up in ladies’ clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress’ “bless you for coming out in public” remark when Pacha says they’re on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don’t see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.
In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.
So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.
In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.
Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:
holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit
