New Kids on the Block

New people keep showing up at our door and announcing that they are part of the team. None of us, including the boss, gets any advanced notice. We do not know who the new employees are or where they came from until they explain themselves. The boss never even gets to see their resumes. For all we know they could be crazy people, like the guy in New York City that always claims to be a subway employee because he is obsessed with trains. But, they have badges that say FEMA so we just give them a chair and a desk and tell them to get to get to work.

Well today a well spoken young man appeared and said he was a Community Change Agent sent from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Good god, we need Community Put Back Together Agents, not Community Change agents. But who am I to be so picky.

The other guy that showed up today, Mark, is a Senior Planner. He is here to replace Sarah, our current Senior Planner, who is going home after completing her three month deployment. The only problem is that Mark has been retired for a dozen years and the last job he had was doing urban renewal. If there was a more flawed program than urban renewal, I am not sure what it was. I guess they could have sent us the guy that was responsible for Japanese Interment camps in World War II. (Incidentally, Mark met the professor who has not worked on a project in 15 years and they bonded about the jobs they used to do in the 60s).

My only concern is that we are running out of places to put all the new employees. The next person to show up goes in the lobby (or entranceway). Then it is the supply room. Then, the bathroom I guess.