I’ll be honest — I have no idea how to start this letter.
I have cried my way through several failed starts before finally accepting that the only way I’ll get through writing this is to just talk through it as directly and as honestly as I can, because the guise of professionalism and corporate speak only hides the fact that there are real humans behind every single one of these keyboards.
And on Monday, all of those humans who write for a California-based SB Nation site, or who reside in California, received news that their contracts would end before 2020 thanks to California’s AB5 law.