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BagCheckTheLineWoman2019

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BagCheckTheLineWoman2019

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Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Snow day after holiday

and an unusually long line at the

food pantry warehouse,

staff woman randomly bag checks/

runs the line,

and leaves (into warm office

with bathrooms, heat, etc),

arguments ensue,

at least two people

got mob ruled out of line,

so fire the bag check woman

who's ego was part of the problem,

not the solution,

imnsho...

 

Body

 

Original Text

 

High volumes of people in the

new fashioned bread line(s),

of a 30 year old food distribution

system, with paid staff,

rumored to have say a 3 million

dollar budget, and pays about

$1 million for food,

(check non profit tax records,

likely older years, but normally

how non profits are rated

percentage of overhead

i.e. staff paid to do charity

work, this one with some

court ordered, newer building

remodeling, and other staff

perks/ benefits, while poor

old, disabled, mostly minorities

are out in the cold, waiting for

hours, and random stand by your bags

for the ego of a jacketed paid staff member,

people won't listen to anymore,

security cameras,

maybe monitoring

what happens in the line,

(possibly with audio microphone,

but not heard a speaker,

wonder what you say,

griping about the system,

people, food, governor's political problems,

etc gets recorded?)

 

 

So I arrived around 8 am,

already many there, lines of bags,

but not  a lot of people,

some wait in warm? cars,

two lines, one with a medical waiver/

list of people get to go in early,

this time, maybe 40 people

supposedly greatest need first

(Some places volunteer get food first,

seniors, disabled, how the host site

runs it depends, other places

start by getting a raffle like ticket

when the building opens at 7am,

maybe one of the first 10,

then come back 11 am,

called 10-20 at a time,

while waiting indoors,

with benches,

some chairs in the actual room,

used to be yelled at

had to stay in the noisy gym

until called, that county staff person

luckily is gone,

(a morbidly obese black man,

he used to taunt and threaten me,

but a county employee and got away

with it for over years...),

sometimes going over the

room's rated capacity

(a fire marshall (sp?) problem?)

people can't walk by with food

in bags, kid carriages,

food carts, etc,

(reusable bags,

some, especially new,

don't have and end up

using egg and other boxes,

that the food was delivered in,

mostly bring your own

( now wider than going in with

...)

Moving tables and chairs helped

some, but some didn't want to get up,

or have to go early, and

I'm not staff,

try to make it easier,

some rooms/ building/ systems

have seating charts staff would have

to set up the room for events,

diagrams, for setup, and how

it's left (say renting the room

for a newish church /ToastMasters,

and other things like

LIAF2017

Health and Housing Fairs

aka HateFairs...)

all in a jurisdiction that has

a slave mansion as a county symbol,

during Black History Month,

and other problems of

basic human rights and freedoms...

 

 

 

Modified Text

 

What's Missing?

 

dignity

respect

accountability

transparency

reasonableness

 

What Can Be Found?

 

overzealous paid staff

enjoying hurting poor people

 

What Can Not Be Found?

 

How To Analyze?

 

Lenses

 

what would J do?

J= Jesus?

Jewish?

JustAnotherPoorFood?

 

 

Assumptions

 

People, when stressed and poorly

managed turn into an angry mob

quickly and easily...

 

Staff was nowhere around

to cleanup the mess they made

by her little ego,

you won't listen to me,

so now we have bag checks,

 

(no sign on the new upgraded building,

used to be one, maybe in two languages?)

don't leave bags,

but forcing people to stand in line

in the cold, no chairs/ seats,

the park bench type thing mostly

had smokers sitting there,

getting away from that was a problem,

until hour(s) later, and people get sick,

of waiting, of staff, of the system,

arguing amongst (sp?) themselves,

and then pick people off for

bad behavior if they go elsewhere,

to get their physical, emotional

and/or spiritual needs met,

instead of waiting for

degrading performances

by low level paid people

to run their egos over

your basic needs and likely

human rights,

food is a necessity,

and i was taunted to argue

with her, didn't care if i said

you need written rules, posted,

they show up after the hours,

they don't read (ever think

they don't speak English,

don't read, are dyslexic,

don't agree with being talked

down to, They language probably

means you need another job,

elsewhere, NOW...

don't want to kaw (sp?) tow

to your egos, and be publicly

humiliated by what wetting

their pants while in line,

because you want to do a

snap inspection of the bags people

leave to mark their spaces,

while they go elsewhere

to maybe a clean restroom,

buy a bus pass, go to the library,

help a friend, call your priest,

a lawyer, one of many things poor

need to do to survive,

maybe learn to read,

buy from the friends of the library

booksale, see the program at Busboys

and Poets, for Black History month?

or whatever?

Our time doesn't matter, only paid staff

time matters, you are nothing type

attitude, which gets wearing, quickly

in an impending storm /

state of emergency type environment...

 

Time Limits

 

Storm approaching

one or two days stuck in,

do you have food?

Enough?

Do you have money to go buy stuff?

 

Late storm of the season

 

Hypothermia is ending

bills for high utilities

come due,

holiday gift giving, people

typically get credit card bills,

other demands, schools,

grades, starting fasting for Lent?

Birthdays?  College application deadlines,

summer camp signup times,

etc...

 

Seasonal shelters will start closing down,

March Madness approaching,

day labour opportunities

may or may not be happening,

shovel snow?  tend to lawns,

other types of stuff, typically

what day labour and others

may get, and may need to go

arrange, only that day,

or buses not running,

don't know, add an hour+

by going to the end of the line,

or get kicked out,

rule breaking when rules are not

written, stated, posted,

but egos and posturing abound,

and affinity groups and actions

seemed to be breaking around

ethinicities...

 

I try finding one of the guys

i normally talk to,

saw in employment,

using bathroom, break

area, TV running Spanish language

and people eating sticky looking  donuts

upstairs, sign in downstairs,

which was the temporary home during

remodeling, outside day labour

waiting area, moved indoors,

public outcry over people

waiting, typical of 7-11,

UHaul, etc...

 

Links

 

Will Write For Food: Writer's Group

 

ThePracticalitiesOfFoodDistribution2012

 

FoodAttacks2016

 

BeggarsCantBeChoosers2017

 

and more...

 

FoodForOthers

has distribution sites,

in other parts of the region,

not just Fairfax county,

I went once, a few crates

from a van, white volunteers,

we buy food, we used to need

food, but a different system,

wait in line, get stuff,

if they still have stuff,

go to the back of the line

and go again, get more stuff,

(used to say lather, rinse and repeat)

they recently got in the news,

Channel 9, iirc, on their website,

many are fundraising these days,

times are hard,

winter almost over,

but light at the end of the tunnel,

for some is an oncoming

catastrophe, feel better for

warmer, 60 degrees, then

storm again...

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

So happening in line a couple

people in front of me,

and i have to duck, and stay

quiet, lest i get kicked out,

for arguing with a woman

who's ego is out of control, imnsho.

some are sadistic,

and a recent survey, conducted by

mostly affluent white women,

one man, standing over people

and i got attacked, on government

property, i rated them badly,

sometimes OK, basically a C

grade, I may scan the survey form,

i took a photo of it,

what information do we want?

volunteers/ students others to help

you?

 

Picky Eaters

usually refers to children,

 

food safety training,

maybe, how about some

peace and quiet,

somehow we are unwitting

subjects in sick system

that school children go and pick

on the poor, for school credit,

and ridicule, but staff doesn't care,

they are relatives, (read nepotism)

or get free labour (sp?),

who protects the vulnerable

people who need food?

anyone?

 

Now a pissed off writer

taunted and ridden in line,

waiting to the last minute

tempted to tell her off,

then No Food For You

type sadism after hours of

waiting on the cold, a crowded

and angry situation

made worse by basically a

black cracker, (cracking the whip,

we made her wait, a paid staff

person 10 minutes for people

to get to their bags,

so we can get dated, sometimes

spoiled already food,

people can stand over us

for basically a frat sorority type

line of paddling,

what do you want from behind

the glass refrigerator case,

a volunteer at each glass case,

talks to you (i generally don't

like talking, their attitude

wears on me, especially

after the previous hours

of waiting, taunting, waiting,...)

 OR NO SOUP FOR YOU...

Volunteers may want the personal

touch of interacting with the poor,

get their emotional needs of helping

people person to person met,

i something think a trick or treat

approach may work best,

just drop what i might get,

can't read about in, can't

see that far away,

turns out venison is on the

menu, she was scared to tell me/ us...

DearDeer2016

RainDeerAndBambiForBreakfast2015

and an old StreetSense article

of hunters donating to food bank/ pantry,

happy looking kid photograph,

you old pet type feelings of nnow on the\

menu, farmers/ other rural folks

might understand, i've been a c ity

kid much longer than starting in

more rural areas, my parent hunted,

my grandfather hunted, but with the

move to the bit city,

carpet bagging, or whatever,

Ph.D.s typically have to find work

where they can, and rural areas

generally aren't it... The Manhattan

project and some exceptions, exist...)

 

So get as you got, right?

Let her go to the unemployment

line, see how she is treated there?

Fair is fair, right?

Treat people badly, try to be god

to other people deciding if they

get food, a basic human right,

some think, and the marketing

sales, is we need it,

but so many paid staff,

going in past the poor crowds

waiting for hours,

to their nice warm office,

while the poor have to wait

outside, get sick, arguments,

cameras on us, but better not

take pictures, (some tried of me,

i try entertaining people with

the robot, but non rechargeable

battery went bad, anger later too,

we (older black woman)

do don't like that,

kids not allowed to have fun,

he won't give it to us,

it doesn't do what we want,

and other problems,

refusing to be recorded

also another problem,

not listening to keep me

off of it, third level of line,

sometimes 100 people /

families served, this likely

a record, near as i can tell,

and staff make it worse

by kicking people out of line,

run the line, pretend to be

in control, in charge,

while really hurting people

to justify your paid existence?

Your little ego? I had to wait

10 minutes fo you to get to your

bags?

We waited hour(s) to just get

taunted and talked down to?

Who died and left you God?

A low paying job where you

get to hurt people, intentionally,

leaving the mess for others

in line, forms an angry mob

left to clean up the mess,

while you went back inside?

Not to be found while arguments

happen, an elderly black woman

(think Tyler Perry playing

Madea without the drag?)

then argues with a Latino man who got his

bag moved, she claims he pushed her,

I was looking the other way at the time,

heard stuff, he gets a translation

from people in front of him,

(no reason to lie, nothing gained

if in front of him...)

an older white man i went looking for,

but later she claims

they (stereotypically all Latinos?)

know English/

how to speak , when they want to,

the African American staff woman,

people don't read the signs,

but no posted rules means her

rule, only, and verbal, no records,

though maybe the written rules changed,

since the renovation,

the sign went away, nice new glass

window, don't want to mess that up,

too difficult to type and print another

sign?  Not pay a staff person to be

mean to customers,

get rid of customers,

cause fights,

and then not be there to be blamed

for the ensuing mess,

angry, hungry people

made worse, by forced to be in line

and degraded by a paid staff woman

who's little ego is about telling

people what to do,

she had to wait 10 minutes

she had be lenient

no more  they don't listen to her,

wonder why? talking in the back

of the 40 or so people medically

listed to go in front of others line

(you aren't the one on the list,

think concert tickets,

exclusive club, you wait,

might get in if the bouncer likes you, etc

scenes, i'm not a club bar person,

but TV shows exist, with stuff like that)

 

Why be degraded by a woman

likely of less highbrow morals

than yourself? All because she

has a corporate jacket on,

name on her jacket,

and you don't,

and need food?

How about he gets her job?

How about that solution?

Vacancy, cleanup on isle bread line,

job sharing? Nope

Reasonable?

Fired for being sadistic?

Egocentric?

Mean?

Cruel?

 

Or does he come back with

a weapon and elderly woman

says she will call the po po...

(police)

Angry people waiting too long

yell no, publicly humiliate

a likely proud Latino man,

stereotypical machismo?

another woman trying to get

in line, her bag moved,

she ends up inside,

coming back out later,

no food, so more than one,

rejected, turned away,

No Food For You

No Room At The Inn,

any you're a Christian/

interfaith based /originated

organization?

 

 

Warm and happy with yourself

for getting rid of people,

those people are the ones who

need the help /food/ kindnesses/

services, the reason you are being paid,

afaict...

 

In an organization started by

many churches decades before

and happy with yourself

for turning people away?

All because they don't think

you are God?

Seriously?

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

What systems don't make sense to you?

 

What degrading systems are there that

are set up to make problems?

Instead of helping the people that need it

Pay a bouncer type nasty person

pretending to be nice

and people aren't buying it,

don't listen, and then

wonder why there is a problem,

created by staff, others have to deal

with...

 

Is the round robin approach of

Food For Others better?

No paper work,

no referrals,

only question is for how many?

in an outside parking lot

public feeding,

soon to be in plain view of high rises,

new buildings, etc,

Why is there a bread line

outside my new condo?

Did i pay hundreds of thousands

of dollars to have those people out there?

Sure they got rid of the recycling

dumpsters, there are occasionally

FoodTruck events there,

but now this?  That's my entertainment

on certain evenings,

watching the poor who need food,

from a new building(s?)...

How cute/ quaint/

Arlington...

 

Or Gentrification kills?

GentrificationKills

 

Watch the police blotters

see why the angry minority

man tries to feed himself/

his family, and groups of people

split on the commonalities,

and elderly black woman

has to enforce the younger

black woman's rules,

moralistic arguments,

it isn't right,

for the audience,

cries of support,

are you all right?

what about the guy?

what of his pride?

or prejudice?

Oh, i went to do something,

i'll just go to the back of the line

wait for hour(s) more,

because random bag checks

happen early when it's busy,

get rid of people is the MO

of the organization, not we

care, wait a bit, over hear,

have some of ours,

you poor thing,

there there, no crying,

have a cookie while you wait,

or whatever caring services

are actually necessary...

 

Oh, you write about these,

you are required reading

for our volunteers,

you talk to the board,

non profit, or county?

What of the governor,

is he racist? Should he

step out of line, elected,

and now publicly shamed

for  black face?

Race training, theatre,

or another KKK in charge

of the state?

How can an MD actually,

ethically allow the death penalty?

Wouldn't have have to save people,

to be in bounds of Do No Harm?

Lethal Injections, up there with

Texas for number of people killed?

tax rate and services don't exist,

wonder where the money goes??

Criminal justice when problems

like this happen?

Create the tension,

make the rule breakers,

taunt the customers,

pretend to be the jail

guard/ prison warden,

stand and deliver,

or in your face, dare me to

react to violence,

verbal, emotional,

make the poor stand and

wait, in the cold,

just step out of line,

talk when i don't want you to,

and see if you get food?

What's this a concentration

camp? Torture?

 

All for your little staff's ego...

 

 

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20190220 Jerry

  • Jerry created this page to
  • write down stuff that happened
  • hours earlier, when relatively safe
  • at home away from the taunter
  • Using TempleArsesAreHaters to
  • make situations uniform across cases...

 

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