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    Archive for May 10th, 2007

    #links for 2007-05-11


    #catharsis

    catharsis

    There is something extremely cathartic about this rain, this first downpour of the spring.

    currently playing: Junior Boys “Birthday”


    #dream.20070510: refresh the Shaw’s

    I’m on the crew that is responsible for refreshing a Shaw’s every two-to-three quarters.  It happens at night, secretly.  So you’ll never notice.  Some of it you might notice.  The deep cleaning, fresh paint, floors mopped and waxed, the shelves reconfigured; sometimes it’s a little more obvious than not.  The part that always bugs me is the indentured labor crew change-over.  The pang of guilt with each crew change gets worse every time, the bait & switch of it.  Most of the day crew is regular labor but usually about a dozen or so of the folk that work the harder-to-staff hours are women we bring in.  Tonight we shuffle out a group of just under a dozen middle-aged Iranian women; scooting them onto the bus, they lament the shifts in their fates.  I’m glad I can’t understand what they’re saying.  In their place, we add a dozen hopeful Bosnian women.  We make our best effort to keep the two crews separate.