Ava was moving out, "due to some serious complaints!" she shouted, "from a person who shares this room!"
"I guess," she sauced,"they thought I was too loud."
Packing her boxes, emptying her cubicle, she found a book she had a question about.
"Hey, Marshall...here's a book on how to work in a multi-cultural workspace.... Shall I leave it for you?"
"Well, I,..hmmm, you can leave them and then Robin can take alook and see if they're materials we could use here."
"I'm leaving," says Ava, "so I can be closer to Jeff."
Jeff is the assistant who produces videos for the County, though he wants to make feature films. He's a sweet kid, works hard, stammers, a bit in a slightly overseas Asian accent, and speaks in a manner that makes me feel the resentment behind the filial piety overtones like a bludgeon.
Jeff only works about a cubicle away from Ava, now, and frequently, her demands that Jeff "come over" ring through the small room on the 4th floor of the 4 story building on 6th and Vermont in Korea Town, Los Angeles. So moving her closer, would be essentially, moving them both together into the same cubicle.
Yesterday, our visionary offered his vision for the staff. I wrote down each significant item, and it was magnificent: human rights, sustainability, leadership develpoment, community engagement, dealing with social tensions as they build in the social fabric, bringing the bottom to the top, levelling the playing field, equal rights issues, intersectionality...
There were 37 items in the list, total. Maybe we will stick it up on the internet so everyone can see it. But most likely not, because of the many eyes who might wonder at our mandate. Mor later.
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