Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

This is where Fair Trade LA’s committee meetings are held. It’s a really nice building, great space for what we need it for. The guard who let’s us in, each 3^rd monday evening is really friendly and cordial, he’s never pushy, angry or mean-​spirited.
The problem lies in the maintenance man, yes we have gone over our time limit a few times, and that’s because we have a lot to discuss, we only get to meet for 2 hours when we get together, we are ALL coming from different cities all over southern california. Some of us as far south as orange county, so traffic can be a pain, not to mention road closures and that often causes our meetings to start late and unfortunately end late. We do the best we can to move as quickly through all we have to discuss, but sometimes it’s hard when our meetings are democratic, so everyone get’s a chance to give their thoughts and opinions.
So, the times we have run over they’ve been a little lenient. With shuffling everyone out the door into the parking lot. But tonight, we were over 3 – 5 minutes and the maintenance man was having a hissy fit, kept repeating when the building closed. And saying «if you come at 5pm, then you can be here 2 hours longer, till 9pm» over and over and over, he repeated it. His attitude and tone became more and more agitated. I understand he wants to go home, it may have been a long day. But it was not very pleasant and he was really getting angry. I got out as fast as possible. He was really upset, and he was impacting our pleasant meeting and celebration, by being so angry towards us.