I came on here to say that I was going to stop following this because I didn’t think it was good for my progress. I took a break from tattle a few months back and it pulled me out of the headspace, but coming back and catching up and seeing the transcript, I don’t think I can stop now.
I get this was 2008 and times were different, I know at some point I’ve probably said something that wouldn’t fly now that was normal back in the day. When I was a kid ‘queer’ was pretty offensive and now the word is the standard for a whole community - not sure where that happened, if there was a gay vote on that I missed it.
That said, my husband Razek completed his immigration from Venezuela in 2018 and Pete bought him a gift, which was a shirt that said ‘I only look illegal’ - which my husband found really funny and wasn’t offended at all but he really rolled the dice on that one. But my husbands brother came to town to visit and he redid some wiring at Pete’s house to set him up for fiber (I assume was what happened, I’m not tech savvy) but he finished and Pete was like ‘oh I love how you latins know how to do that stuff - if you’re able to move over here permanently I can use a new house cleaner’ and his brother was like ‘I know how to do that because I have a masters degree in electronic engineering’
I was like damn Pete, why’re you offering him a cleaning job of all things?
Then at some point (maybe 2020-2021?) Pete wanted a new assistant and contacted my now husband for the job. I told him not to take it but he had just left his job at a school in celebration and decided to give it a shot, it lasted 2 days. On the second day he was supposed to be done with work and Pete asked him to drive him to the barber shop for a haircut, so he said he would and Pete had him hold his purse throughout and kept calling him ‘the help’ and ‘bag boy’ and my husband started snapping back at him, so Pete fired him. Which was for the best.
Pete doesn’t treat women or POC people very well at all and it’s consistent. Even our agent Danielle with MTO, he called her an unwashed pig and made her cry and then because she has a mental illness that she has medication for (and is fine on the medication) but she casually mentioned that she thought she was getting to a point where she could come off the medication and be ok but would be consulting with her doctor (just casually mentioned at lunch) Pete told me ‘you know if she goes off her meds, we have to let her go’ and I said ‘well she doesn’t work for us, she works for the broker, so we can’t make her stop being a realtor but also she’s been on the medication since she was a teenager - if her doctor says she’s mentally well enough to stop her meds we can’t force her to stay on them. She’s already said the medication makes her brain foggy so she wants to come off it if she’s ok’ and Pete was really against it and said she was ‘under your direct care and if anything happens, it’s on you’ - I explained to him that she’s under her doctors care and that it’s not like she’s a danger or anything, she just has a mental issue that she’s needed medication for.
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Apparently Craig gave another update on Patreon a couple of days ago saying Pete only stepped down but still has ownership in the company. Anyone have access and can share more info?
Until Pete’s ownership is sold, he is still the owner. You can step down from a position and stop receiving a ‘salary’ for your work, such as hosting the show. But you are still entitled to an equal share of profit because you are still the/an owner.
