Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 7 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Giving Is Taking
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.21.2013
Cary advises Alicia, in a voice like warm delicious honey, that most similar contracts get at least a month family leave and OT for 60+ hours and performance bonuses, and Alicia asks an admin to make copies, and this admin Lorna immediately runs to where the admins lunch and starts telling them about how Cary and Alicia believe that these things are fair, and yet so why do we not get these things?
A ghostly hammer and sickle appear in the air, glowing with a firey red, Ron Paul turns over in his grave, but it is too late: The specter of fair labor practices has descended on Lockhart/Gardner, and the only thing left now is to say goodbye to the entire concept of small family-owned businesses, shutter your home, and await the looting.
CROZIER
Well, that was especially futile/ironic because Nancy Crozier is already well-prepared with some bullshit you gotta hear to believe. Charlene comes in and Alicia tells her to take her grief-stricken buzzkill ass home, but a vibe passes between her and Nancy and she decides to stay. Nancy's first point is that these contracts aren't actually comparable, because...
"Fran Kranz? Charlene? Do you consider yourselves equivalent to shop workers, pipe layers, and, let's see, janitorial service personnel? Aren't you more like artists? Entrepreneurs? These lawyers want to talk in dollars and cents. But that's not what your work is about. It's about... Magic. It's about genius."
Alicia and Cary valiantly resist the power of her words, and when Nancy's able to confirm that all 20 have joined up behind Fran Kranz, she awesomely produces 20 sealed letters of dismissal, one for each, and starts packing up her stuff. It's so stylish, how she does her shit: "Good luck with everything, we already messengered your stuff to your houses, and thanks for being pathetic, but really we want artists, not employees." Fran Kranz flips out and starts begging to sign it, but Nancy just blows him off with a "we don't want you all getting your contagious 'employee' germs all over the real artists." And I gotta say, I love it, because anybody who would fall for that is a bigger asshole than she, or their boss, could ever hope to be.
CAMPAIGN BUS
Peter: "Are you having a bad day? Me too."
Alicia: "Then by all means, tell me what is wrong."
Peter: "Well, I am down by two points."
Alicia: "Actually you are up by five."
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