What I don't understand is that 7SE is a small, passion-based outfit. It was founded in 2004 by a manga geek, still only had 10 employees in 2018, and only recently expanded up to 40 employees over the last few years. Everyone must know everyone, and surely they all share the same love for the hobby. In other words, this isn't a megacorp ran by faceless suits. How in God's name can you think, that at a 40-person hobby business, spending the budget on a union-busting firm is better than properly compensating your coworkers?
Not to mention that it seems completely futile. The solidarity of 30 employees who all know each other personally is going to be a lot harder to break than the more-difficult-to-organise thousands that these firms are normally brought in to disrupt by national corporations. And not only is it pointless, it's completely destroying their own PR with a sledgehammer. Who on Earth would want to buy manga from them knowing that their money is going not towards paying employees but instead this nonsense? Union-busting is always stupid, but this particular effort is truly unfathomable.
last edited at May 31, 2022 4:28PM
