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tomwambsmilk · 1 year

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BTW the question of how Logan leveraged and exerted power is also very much connected to the question of Roman firing Joy. I've seen that take floating around that Gerri didn't give two shits about the firing and she was just using it to get back at Roman for firing her at the wedding. Number one Gerri is supremely successful because she avoids mess, and yelling at your new co-CEO over something that's not actually a big deal to you because you're mad he almost-fired you and then didn't is the literal definition of messy. She would NEVER. She's too smart for that and she knows enough to let sleeping dogs lie.

But number two. The comparison has been made to how the girls on the cruise lines were treated. But the problem is that comparison ignores the massive gap in power and wealth between a dancer on a cruise line and a studio executive. Logan didn't give two shits about the cruise line dancers because they couldn't hurt him. Even if they could afford a lawyer short-term, Logan has the resources to drag a legal battle out until those girls are broke, so any lawyer worth their salt would advise them to settle and settle soon, and Waystar likely had a pot set aside explicitly for this purpose. A studio executive is a different story. She has the money to get excellent lawyers and to drag a legal battle out for months and months until she inevitably wins, and, even more importantly, she has connections to a whole host of very important people that she can leverage against Waystar in devastating ways. And when you're firing someone like that you actually DO need to file the proper paperwork, and you DO need valid cause and proper severance, and you DO need someone else present. You don't with a minimum wage worker if you're a big corporation because employment law only benefits those people who can afford to make you enforce it.

Logan might have been able to get away with it if only because his own connections and influence are substantial enough that he could make it difficult for Joy, but even he would have hesitated, because he would have understood that he needs her, and for all his evil and amoral behaviour, Logan knew how to tamp down all his anger and play nice if the person on the other end might be able to hurt him. He visits Dodds' parents, and he cooperates with the FBI (eventually), and he makes nice with the shareholders and Nan Pierce up until it becomes clear he simply won't get what he wants from them. Roman doesn't understand this, because he thinks his father was an invincible god, and he thinks that Logan firing people is what scared them into submission when in actual fact he was only able to fire them because they were already scared into submission, and he also thinks that he's inherited all of his father's power like the divine right of kings because he and his siblings spent their whole lives in a golden cage where Logan's word was law and where they were little princes and they don't understand what's fundamentally changed. Roman believes he is heir to Logan's legacy but he only sees that legacy through the eyes of an adoring and terrified dog who loved the boot and so he's strutting around being the kind of man he perceived Logan to be and not understanding why people don't respond to him the way they did to Logan

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