damaged book worker

"I was terrorized out of my job by Small Press Distribution." Article & links below. IG: same @. DMs open. Anonymity preserved.

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

Small Press Distribution exploited & abused me for two years. I was underpaid by over $4,000. I was paid less than minimum wage. I was retaliated against until I was forced from my job and pressured to stay silent.

Instead, I submit the truth.

https://t.co/p4MfqPpYcb

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

When a literary organization manipulatively characterizes public demands for action & accountability as a threat to the marginalized writers the org claims to support—it’s time to throw the whole organization in the trash.

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🧵"Can an organization that sees itself as above politics, that sees itself straightforwardly as a support system for an open society, be allowed to exist anymore?" asks @galbeckerman in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/6uGE1aKpKu

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

This SPD manager is also trying to ingratiate himself into Bay Area poetry—performing at readings and posing as someone who cares about work by local marginalized artists, as if he did not directly harm marginalized people working in this industry. Please be mindful!

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

That a guilty actor from Small Press Distribution’s management has the audacity to keep tweeting about his “work” being in the news shows that extreme ineptitude, ego, and denial were truly the dominant traits of SPD leadership. It’s mind-blowing to witness. 🧵⬇️

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

Anyway, congrats on having your picture in so many Small Press Distribution articles, Liam Curley—it’s more fitting than you know!

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

That a guilty actor from Small Press Distribution’s management has the audacity to keep tweeting about his “work” being in the news shows that extreme ineptitude, ego, and denial were truly the dominant traits of SPD leadership. It’s mind-blowing to witness. 🧵⬇️

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

the last woman worker for speaking out. You helped SPD clean house. You covered up crimes from this organization, betraying workers and the public. You have blood on your hands.

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

8/ Some presses left SPD. Larger ones had been tagged nonstop and were emailed all of this as it unfolded from supporters of the open letter. They were deeply aware of SPD’s financial coverups since late 2020—but because it was only about workers, it was worth ignoring.

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

1/ “We were completely blindsided by this behavior from Small Press Distribution!”

“This goes against SPD’s mission and history!”

SPD:

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

7/ —according to the board president (last sentence): https://t.co/SAWhtrW9MZ

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

Hi @adamm0rgan—I DM’d this, but it may have gone to your request folder.

Your article states my Medium piece is “no longer online,” but this is untrue. It is still online and linked in my bio & in the KQED article you link to. Can you issue a correction?

[Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan]

"A lot of people are really angry."

For @lithub, I spoke with independent presses about the sudden collapse of SPD, how much money they're owed, and where they go from here. https://t.co/A7TPo4wrbb

[damaged book worker @damagedbookwrkr]

I’m talking about this on IG where I have the space to do so (same username), but here I will say as I always have: fuck SPD.

And: we. tried. to. fucking. warn. you.

[Massive Bookshop @BookshopMassive]

Evidently wage theft doesn't rank among their red flags
https://t.co/fmPCJWVCr9

[Massive Bookshop @BookshopMassive]

All the small presses shocked and complaining about the sudden closure of SPD seem not to recall the multiple reports of workplace harassment and poor management from a few years ago, when workers literally asked them to switch distributors