The Maroon Vol. 2… No. 88 Thursday, November 10, 2022
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: The Big Layoff
Macky’s New York: The 1st Of November In Wagner Cove
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees Banquet
RHS Tired Teens: Later School Start Times
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
In Memory Of Our Classmates & Faculty: Photographs & Memories
Jeff Meyers: Music, Food, & Color
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Siobhan Crann Winograd: Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras: You’re Saying It Wrong
Observer
The Big Layoff
Being laid off from a place of employment or retaining your job during a huge layoff are both lousy situations. I know both of these feelings firsthand.
We are currently in the midst of a round of corporate layoff in the technology sector. This is really no surprise as there hasn’t been a must-have product in well over 10 years. Think of something you would stand on line for and you have my defintion of a must-have product.
The reasons for this phenomena are numerous, but it can be summed up easily: the Technology companies haven’t created anything. Sure, they give us new iterations of their old products but that’s not the same as a new product on par with the I-phone which changed lives and our society, mostly for the better.
So no new products for over a decade and massive hiring can only lead to one thing: Big Layoffs. To tell you the truth, as an insider, these layoffs could be much bigger as automation of jobs and the globalization of IT responsibilities is only beginning to be implemented.
I do have a suggestion for our current situation. It’s not as glamorous as inheriting money and starting a hedge fund, as many RHS Alumni do. Though it is more practical and would produce benefits to society.
My suggestion is based upon the observation that there are four groups of people who are chronically under-served by our Robber Baron economy. These are (1) Children requiring Day Care, (2) Senior Citizens requiring at home care & other services, (3) Disabled Citizens who might be young or old with individual needs, and (4) Pet Owners who occassionally need someone to look in on their animals when work or a family emergency calls them away from their usual care routine.
All these professions share one thing in common: the professionals doing them are under-paid, under-trained, and largely under-appreciated.
How about a company which coordinates all of these needs? Some households certainly might inquire about one than one at a time.
This proposed venture would be kept local. It would work in harmony with local charities, government organizations, and volunteers, both local & available via remote video & email. It’s perfectly suited to be a Ridgewood-based endeavor. Maybe some of the newly unemployed technology workers could give it a look.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
November 1, 2022 - Central Park.
The 1st Of November In Wagner Cove
I shot this looking north at the south end of Wagner Cove - perhaps my favorite spot in all Central Park - I could smell the fall air as it sat idly by my nose.
Time 12pm.
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
2022 Hall of Fame Inductees Banquet, November 5, 2022
Visit The RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Digital Printing for the RHS Hall of Fame provided by Tim Boucher, RHS 1988
RHS Tired Teens
Later School Start Times
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
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In Memory Of Our Classmates & Faculty
Photographs & Memories
In Memory Of Our RHS Classmates
Jeff Meyers
Music, Food, & Color
November 5th, 2022,
and
it's 71 degrees outside at 8:21
P. M.
In New Haven, Vermont.
The asphalt road to the river is
Patterned with dark blotches
Of flattened grasshoppers,
Ground wooly bears
Supererogatory crickets
Squashed by winter tires
Put on to guard against
The trends that used to rule
The road.
As if giving thanks,
Crickets continue to sing
"We gather together,"
And a band of this year's
Red-winged Blackbirds
Lingers in the leafless branches
Of box elders,
Watching the cattails sway,
Practicing their spring calls,
As if winter has been
Banished...
Cold and emptiness
Never more
to come,
As if all the days of the future
Will be full of sunlight
In which insects congregating,
Abundant,
Will be free to bound
And fly,
Anxious to give themselves
To whoever chooses
To eat them,
Whoever happens to gorge
In a convivial banquet of
Music,
Food, and
Color,
Unless,
Food gone,
All dissipates to grey...
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
Made this double pendant for Jenni out of a rock I brought back with me from my trip out to NY/NJ this last summer. Not sure what kind of rock it is, but my best guess is that it’s a piece of green rhodonite that I found on a Long Island beach. It had already been rounded by the ocean and the sand, and I cut it in half to get two thinner slabs, and then polished it in the tumbler.
My first thought was that, with the green and gold colors, it was a cool pendant for a Packer fan. But we don’t talk much about the Packers around here these days. Jenni likes it because she says it has Christmas colors.
One of these days I’m going to motivate and start an Etsy page and sell pendants on it for cheap. Clocks too. Gonna call it Jim’s Rocks and Clocks.
Siobhan Crann Winograd
Around The Village
Kathy & Ross Petras
You’re Saying It Wrong
principal / principle
“Let’s call it a big mistake, and it’s one that ilustrates the key principal of bad movie remakes: To really earn a place on the scroll of shame, a remake almost has to risk tarnishing the reputation of a movie we love.”—VARIETY
Yes, let’s call it a big mistake indeed. That “principal,”that is, which should be principle—unless, of course, the writer was referring to the key main person of bad movie remakes. (We suspect this isn’t the case.)
That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Ross & Kathy’s podcast: