A split-screen view of the tech industry's underbelly-and the unifying campaign of two distant women seeking to expose their employer-by Lisa Ko, award-winning author of The Leavers.
In this eye-opening short story, a tech reporter's mistake unites two women eight thousand miles apart. One in New Jersey, one in the Philippines. Same name: Sandra Guzman. Same job: content moderators for a mega social media website. What transpires between them is a friendship that changes their perceptions of each other's privilege and challenges the power of the very industry they work for.
Lisa Ko's The Contractors is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women's empowerment and escape. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.***
The reporter is researching an article on tech workers in the Philippines and wants to interview Sandra.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 1 September 2020, 39 pages, ebook, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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This is my first time reading the author. I really enjoyed this story and will definitely seek out more of her work. I liked the premise of the story, two women with the same name, working in the same industry on opposite sides of the world, meet through chance. I was curious to see where the author would take the story. This is a fun read which gradually gets darker as the women realise their similarities and differences. I enjoyed myself reading this.
