when an HR rep riffs open mic style about the emotional toll of telling people they’re laid off “…but it’s not about their job performance…” just a bad turn of finances not any one person’s decisions,no; like that great hand o’ the market and the reinvention of the wheel the executives hope desperately (foolishly) will save us
This one’s from a couple of years ago, when I worked parking at Churchill Downs. It’s an odd world to be on the edge of; on the edge because when your primary function is to be both seen and unseen. When you’re dealing with a subculture that has its own hierarchy, its deeply rooted sense of self-importance, a complex delusion that it operates with art and dance and beauty, and an ocean of money in its black heart that is the true rhythm it runs to… you either know your place, learn your place, or you don’t stay in the place.
I worked with people, some who were so in love with the “tradition” of horse racing that they were completely blind to the fact that a junkie in an expensive suit is still a junkie. The rest of us kept our heads down.
the clouds tempestuous the sun teasing bob-n-weaving like one more past prime boxer // autumnal clouds paint the light divine fractured one o' them oil paintings it just breaks the heart to try catch a sorry photo