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...
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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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