August 29, 2011
3. Newblog2011: 08/29/11 Trying to find work
On August 17, 2011 I wrote on my WordPress blog about some of what my experience staying at the shelter in Lynn, MA had been like. Here's more of that now.
I don't know how long the "V.I.P. Bridgewell" work-finding program in Lynn has had its name. It was where the people at the resource center above the shelter told me to go, so that's where I went. I have tried to be reasonable about things like that; if the name was there before any of the situation of the past almost 2 years had started, then it wasn't created to be part of the harassment. Also, sometimes I don't have a choice about where I go.
Work Resource Center in Lynn, MA:
I was supposed to have an appointment on the morning of August 17, 2011 at a work resource center in Lynn to set up voicemail. I had gone there the day before to make that appointment and to work on my resume. Before I had walked there, I had found a job that I wanted to apply for and gotten the application for it. I did absolutely nothing the entire time I was at the "V.I.P. Bridgewell" program in Lynn except sit quietly at the computer and get things ready to apply for the job, even though the guy working there had led me over to a computer that had a picture of a lighthouse as its background display. I spent my first, few minutes on the computer trying to change the background, and then he said from a few feet behind me "Everything ok?" I said "Yes," and moved on to my next set of tasks.
When I was done with the computer, I changed the background to a blank screen. He wasn't around when I did that, although I would have tried to do it anyway even if he had been. I went to sit at the table behind the computers to keep working on my application. When he was back out into the room, he saw the computer and asked me "What did you do to the computer?" I said "I changed the background." He said "Please don't do that." He changed it back to the lighthouse picture. Then he went to the other end of the row of computers and started changing each computer's background display to the same lighthouse picture.
He hesitated at the screen that had a red flower on it, and then another client asked him for help and they left the room. I left a few minutes later. I had intended to spend more time there, looking at job listings, but it again seemed to me that the message was ''Agree to be degraded or get out."
Copyright L. Kochman August 29, 2011 @ 9:45 p.m.
3. Newblog2011: 08/29/11 Trying to find work
On August 17, 2011 I wrote on my WordPress blog about some of what my experience staying at the shelter in Lynn, MA had been like. Here's more of that now.
I don't know how long the "V.I.P. Bridgewell" work-finding program in Lynn has had its name. It was where the people at the resource center above the shelter told me to go, so that's where I went. I have tried to be reasonable about things like that; if the name was there before any of the situation of the past almost 2 years had started, then it wasn't created to be part of the harassment. Also, sometimes I don't have a choice about where I go.
Work Resource Center in Lynn, MA:
I was supposed to have an appointment on the morning of August 17, 2011 at a work resource center in Lynn to set up voicemail. I had gone there the day before to make that appointment and to work on my resume. Before I had walked there, I had found a job that I wanted to apply for and gotten the application for it. I did absolutely nothing the entire time I was at the "V.I.P. Bridgewell" program in Lynn except sit quietly at the computer and get things ready to apply for the job, even though the guy working there had led me over to a computer that had a picture of a lighthouse as its background display. I spent my first, few minutes on the computer trying to change the background, and then he said from a few feet behind me "Everything ok?" I said "Yes," and moved on to my next set of tasks.
When I was done with the computer, I changed the background to a blank screen. He wasn't around when I did that, although I would have tried to do it anyway even if he had been. I went to sit at the table behind the computers to keep working on my application. When he was back out into the room, he saw the computer and asked me "What did you do to the computer?" I said "I changed the background." He said "Please don't do that." He changed it back to the lighthouse picture. Then he went to the other end of the row of computers and started changing each computer's background display to the same lighthouse picture.
He hesitated at the screen that had a red flower on it, and then another client asked him for help and they left the room. I left a few minutes later. I had intended to spend more time there, looking at job listings, but it again seemed to me that the message was ''Agree to be degraded or get out."
Copyright L. Kochman August 29, 2011 @ 9:45 p.m.