You filmed your staff meeting and put it on the internet?

That's a really weird thing to do! Do you guys even understand how weird?

(Perez is not sure what happened to the video, but it seems to be back up here.)

However, it's just about the best metaphor Perez has ever seen for The International, where no one seems to understand the difference between a rally of united workers and a damn staff meeting, and one can substitute for the other just fine.

Here's how to make your own at home: Hold an all-day staff meeting where staff want to keep their jobs and make themselves and each other feel better. Add plenty of International managers doing the good cop/bad cop routine and setting "EXPECTATIONS". Then add in a couple of workers so the managers can close their eyes and nod their heads. Film the whole thing from multiple angles (hey, it's just dues money).

Now, here's the important part! Edit seven hours down to seven minutes!

It's a good beginner video editing project, so in the interests of developing the skills of the SEIU members and staff who read Perez, we'd like to invite SEIU to release the entire day's footage (please send the video from the Oakland meeting too) so talented Perez readers can use it to tell their own stories about what's going on at UHW.

Oh, and Mary Kay, you're a manager, not a motivational speaker. No amount of editing is going to change that!