Perhaps, a valuable lesson of how NOT to lay off your staff.
Stand-up comedians in L.A., already living on the edge, fear for their livelihood as the Laugh Factory and other venues close amid coronavirus fears.
Lou Gonzalez, who until last week taught at UCB for four years, found out about the theater closing through friends. “People were told things one day and a different thing the nexthe said. “Someone was told they were assured a job and then got the email for a layoff. A lot of people have worked here a long time. It doesn’t pay a lot, but we work here because we want to pay it forward and the theater has given us opportunities.”Gonzalez has read the new letter but hasn’t yet received it himself.
In a phone interview, Conover added: “The UCB founders have said for 15 years that it’s not a corporation, it’s a community — a commune, they’ve said. And with performers performing for free and [volunteering] for shows that are no longer cheap … I felt it was a community, and we care about comedy and we care about each other. So in this circumstance, when there’s a pandemic ... I feel that falls below the standard of a community.
Adkins’ GoFundMe inspired Peter Byrnes to start a West Coast version. A UCB performer who was laid off from his barista job at UCB’s Inner Sanctum Cafe on Sunset Boulevard, Byrnes found out about his layoff from the mass email. In seeking to distribute the funds, Byrnes has tried and failed to obtain a complete list of those laid off.
Neither Byrnes nor Adkins could say whether the UCB 4 had contributed to the fundraisers, but their names did not show up on the donor pages. Chicago’sAmy Poehler, a founding UCB member, will fund one last month of health insurance for laid-off employees. No matter what their criticisms, no one interviewed for this story expressed a desire for UCB to fail.
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