2nd: 12/12/11: The supervisor at Intake

December 14, 2011

I made this recording on 12/12/11 at 9:07 p.m., the recorder says.

I went back to the 2^nd floor after I had talked to the police officer and the staffperson.  That night, there was a church group in the cafeteria, some people who had shown up to talk to guests who wanted to hear what they had to say.  Although I’m not Christian, I thought that sitting there listening to what they had to say was probably going to be better than going back into the dorm, where the coughing had started the second I’d walked in that night.

Near the end of the church group’s meeting, the supervisor that I’d wanted to talk to walked into the cafeteria to get something from the kitchen.  When I saw him, I got up and went over to him to ask him if he would try to put a stop to the coughing.  I said “It’s deliberate,” and I was so sure that he wouldn’t listen to me that, even though he started to say “OK” and nod, I went on to say “If you don’t want to deal with the fact that it’s deliberate, will you at least tell people to try to keep it down?”

He said, “OK” and he went into the dorm.

After he’d been in the dorm for a few minutes, I heard one of the female guests in the dorm give loud, repetitive, harassing coughs.

He walked out soon after that and went back to the 1st floor.

When I went into the dorm after the church group was over, the harassment started right away, with the staffperson behind the desk in the dorm joining in.

I went back to the 1^st floor, found the supervisor, and spoke to him as you can hear on the recording.  You can also hear that he said he’d be upstairs to try to do something about it.

He never showed up.  If he called the staffperson at the desk in the dorm, which I doubt he did, it didn’t have any effect.

Copyright L. Kochman, December 14, 2011 @ 1:15 p.m.