Labor's Day Lost

Labor's Day Lost

Doordash, Favor, Uber Eats...delivery men all stop at the front desk.  They walk through the double glass doors into the lobby.

I work in a resort style, high-rise residential building in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas as a concierge.  

Deliveries and Guests of residents stop by the marble, halfmoon, curved desk all wanting one thing.

Entry.

Fob pads are in every elevator, re-entry doors and all amenity access points.  I wonder how many times I stand up from the ergonomically incorrect white patent leather chrome chair. Walk around the half circle desk across the lobby, through the foyer into the elevator to swipe people up with the my all access fob.

This is Labor Day week 2016.

I work through the holiday but think enough of my job to call it enjoyable.  I work Monday through Friday 4pm until midnight.  This also happens to be my one year anniversary working as a concierge.  Packages, guests lists, deliveries, camera footage, security guards, comings and goings are sporadic and unpredictable.

I just cleaned up dog poop from the fourth floor landing with clorox bleach towelettes.  The canine residents are exotic, high caste and pampered.  Baby talk to our four legged residents is common and I willingly catch myself do it.

If I look back at my journals over the years, I can find myself writing an entry about my work environment every 3-4 years.  It is strange to think currently I have sat in the same chair for a year in the same 40 foot high ceiling lobby with glass walls.

When I first started my job here there were three residents living in the building.  It seemed like the floors to be occupied first were the top and lowest floors.  The occupancy has reached 90 percent with many new Dallasites coming from New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Why?

Why are coastal dwellers flooding into this city?  Climate change and rising sea levels?  Fracking /Earthquakes?  Globalization / cost of living?  Terrorism / Meditation?
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