In September 2019, almost a year after Taylor first called Clarissa about unionizing, they were each brought into a conference room—the same windowless room in which Justine had been offered a termination agreement the year before—and unceremoniously fired with vague explanations. The previous two quarters had been Taylor’s most productive quarters at Kickstarter, far exceeding every metric laid out for him in his performance improvement plan. Clarissa and Taylor decided to forgo their severance pay, which would have required them to sign nondisparagement agreements, and both filed unfair
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