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5 Responses to “Chicago Boyz Waiting Room Series: 5”
My ex worked for the welfare department (they have another, p.c. term for it now) right out of high school. Often I would drop by the waiting room to pick her up after work. In those days it was still marred, carved up wooden benches, the hapless receptionist seated in a box behind a plate glass window with a hole in the middle and a slot to slide paperwork through at the bottom.
The image of a recipient, screaming obscenities, with their hand thrusting through the hole up to the forearm endures. I guess nowadays everything is done online, but intake must still be relatively colorful.
July 12th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
The Spartan elegance is rather spoiled by a dismal paper on the wall by the hatch.
July 12th, 2016 at 5:49 pm
The earth tones and the informal seating arrangement detract from the clinical austerity and foreboding opaque receptionist window.
July 12th, 2016 at 5:55 pm
I refused to have an enclosed front desk in my office. Of course, that was before Obamacare when dinosaurs roamed the earth,
July 12th, 2016 at 6:24 pm
My ex worked for the welfare department (they have another, p.c. term for it now) right out of high school. Often I would drop by the waiting room to pick her up after work. In those days it was still marred, carved up wooden benches, the hapless receptionist seated in a box behind a plate glass window with a hole in the middle and a slot to slide paperwork through at the bottom.
The image of a recipient, screaming obscenities, with their hand thrusting through the hole up to the forearm endures. I guess nowadays everything is done online, but intake must still be relatively colorful.
July 12th, 2016 at 8:20 pm
It looks as though the close quarters ensures ample opportunity to fully get to know your fellow waitees.