Acquiring a job, whether it be in a doctor’s office or a fast-food restaurant, can transform a person. Jobs tend to educate employees, either indirectly or directly, both about themselves and life in general. In Climbing the Golden Arches, nineteen year-old Marissa Nuñez discusses how her employment at McDonald’s transformed her into a mature and skilled employee. Within her personal narrative, Nuñez mentioned how she faced both pleasant and unpleasant circumstances while working at McDonald’s, all which prepared her for her future career. At McDonald’s, Nuñez learned how to fulfill her role of being an employee by becoming an expert at all the placed stations, dealing with the various types of customers she encountered on a daily basis, and …show more content…
Motivation allows for an employee to work harder than he already is. Many employees tend to exhibit their ambition within careers which contain opportunities that grant the advancement to higher platforms. However, despite there being such a low amount of career advancement possibilities at McDonald’s, securing a job at the fast food restaurant did not prevent Marissa Nuñez from gaining and displaying motivation. Rather, obtaining this job sparked her desire to succeed from her first real day; she began her career with an idea to race her cousin, who was also a McDonald’s employee at the time; this race consisted of a goal which was to determine “who could get the most customers and who could fill the orders in fifty-nine seconds” (440). Although, this action was more trivial than not, it sparked Marissa Nuñez’ inspiration to strive without her even knowing. Constantly performing actions like these and continuously demonstrating motivation led for Nuñez to secure a raise; this circumstance occurred just six months after she began working for McDonald’s. Along with earning that raise, Nuñez also secured her status of becoming a crew member at McDonald’s, a role in which she was entitled to the responsibility of training new employees. Remember, Marissa Nuñez was able to establish herself at her McDonald’s, despite being a high school student, after only six months of working there; achieving a job at McDonald’s …show more content…
Despite being a teenager, Nuñez displayed a very high sense of maturity at work. She claimed that she enjoyed being employed at the fast food center, due to the fact that she was being exposed to new circumstances on a daily basis. The circumstances found within McDonald’s allowed for her to learn “how to be a responsible person”, for she was “meeting all kinds of people and learning a lot about them” (440). Although, she enjoyed working at McDonald’s due to these instances, there were some instances when Nuñez did not enjoy working at McDonald’s as much as she normally did. The main reason for this was due to the fact that she faced many problems with her customers while working her job. However, those are the situations in which McDonald’s taught Marissa Nuñez her biggest lesson; Nuñez realized that she needed to “have more patience than ever”, control her emotions, and “get along with all different kinds of people” (442). For example, one day a customer came into McDonald’s and began to mention derogatory terms, terms which were hinted towards Marissa Nuñez. Although, most teenagers of her age would have responded back to the comments either vocally or physically, Nuñez decided it would be best if she “walked away to get the manager” during that certain situation. By performing this action, Marissa Nuñez was able to
The Value of Shapeshifting James Paul Gee makes a persuasive argument to educate students, as a facet of literacy, the skill of tailoring their identities, as a valuable tool to prepare them to compete for employment in the “New Capitalism” marketplace (Gee, “New Literacy” 412). He describes this new work environment as a fast pace, short term, project orientated model, where successful employees tailor their professional personas, to make themselves attractive to new project opportunities. Further, he references a study to demonstrate how teenagers from Upper Middle class families seem to be assimilating these key skills from parents who are doctors, lawyers, and other highly paid professionals.
Jeremy Montoya, an IT architect supervisor at the City of Mesa, is college graduate from not one, not two, but three colleges. “I think I came a long way” said Mr. Montoya, especially considering how and where he was raised. He never had any role models but he did have motivation. Everyone was always telling Jeremy, “You can’t do it” or “You won’t be successful”, but what they didn’t know is that they were only driving him to do better….
It is common for people to assume younger people have poor grammar because of the rise in text messaging and social media. The simple language is appropriately directed towards younger employees and the language stays consistent throughout the article. The tone of the piece is very energetic and enthusiastic. Wein’s uses this tone to show passion and how strongly he believes in the subject to convince the readers of this
As a new and young manager at McDonald’s I had a lot of responsibility and stress on my plate. I worked for them for about a year and a half before I was promoted and I got to know the crew and got close to some before I moved up. One of the hardest things to do as a manager is run a shift when you are understaffed. The excuses you get from people will have you rethinking your life and the position you’re in.
In the restaurant context, a restaurant is like a stage for service staffs to perform their service to the customers (Schechner, 1988). Therefore, this is important to service staffs to know as emotional labor how to service customers with the right knowledge of display appropriate facial and bodily movement. The service staffs are expected to create a good impression to the customers by control their bodies, personalities and emotions purposely which means the things that they are doing may not be what they feel or a genuine (Hochschild, 1983). According to Karla Erickson in “Bodies at work: Performing service in American restaurants”, she has discussed how workers use their bodies in their work to serve customers and create positive experience
After his first year and a half of college, Mike Jackson decided to drop out and work for the Michigan truck plant for the Ford car dealership. Although he enjoys the good pay and additional benefits from the job, he aspires to escape the mundane factory work. He often compares the repetitivity and physical effects of his current job to a life of confinement. As a devoted boyfriend and father of a young child his main concern is to provide financial stability for his family as well as be able to spend time with them. Money has no value to him if he does not find pleasure in his work.
Greek philosopher Plato once described a cave where prisoners aimlessly stare at a wall for the entirety of their existence, and anything they “witness” is merely a blind perception. Lorrie Moore’s coming-of-age novel A Gate at the Stairs provides a modern day reference to this allegory of the cave, as main character, Tassie Keltjin, attempts to find a place and purpose in her life as a quirky college student. While it is a drastic shift from the initial setting described by Plato, the modern day cave can be referenced as the gate that is featured in the novel’s title. Tassie finds a variety of circumstances where she stands at a gate looking onward to a life decision.
Although some people may argue that because blue-collar work requires less intelligence based on the requirement of less schooling, however, if the real depth of blue-collar work is analyzed, one may realize that blue-collar work involves more understanding than recognized. In Mike Rose's short story, Blue-Collar Brilliance, published in The American Scholar, Rose discusses the skills that blue collar workers obtain merely by performing the tasks at work. The story begins with Rose's memories as a child, of his mother working at a restaurant. He immediately recognized the physical, social, and cognitive skills she learned from working her job as a waitress at a restaurant. Later in the story, he describes his experience of shadowing his uncle
I notice there was a dissatisfied and angry customer waiting on their meals. The waiter remained positive, listen actively to reduce the customer frustration, she also reassured the customer her wait time for her order would not take longer than 2 to 3 minutes. Listening to the waiter and the customer, the customer were satisified with the service she had received from the young waiter, before she left
Since people are starting to favor a pancake systems more, the pyramid companies must figure out if they are doing good work or not. Howard Gardner describes his definition of good work in, “Good Work, Well Done: A Psychological Study.” Throughout Gardners essay he talks about how to achieve good work, along with giving an example of a journalist urging his boss that he does not want to write an article because of the facts not correlating with how the story has to be. However, the journalist boss denies his request of not writing the story because of the contract he had signed, but luckily found a new job. Good work is something every company strives for, and because a pyramid style has been used for centuries, in today’s world it is
For my interview, I spoke with an employee of the Carmike Cinema in Vestavia. He asked that I use a pseudonym when referring to him in this assignment, so I will refer to him as Jared. He began working at the theater in June and had recently completed the training program over the last two weeks. A typical shift for Jared involves working at one of three stations: concessions, box office, and floor. In concessions he is responsible for taking and filling customer orders, making popcorn, and stocking supplies.
Pink’s arguments and points are made very concise and powerful. This is due to the fact of the sheer amount and the quality of the sources he refers to throughout his book. Pink uses stories, scientific research, statistics and his own experiences to strengthen his overall points of the new and outdated motivation systems used in today 's businesses. Pink (2011) uses a story telling narrative a few times throughout the book to give insight on an important individual who agrees with his view on motivation, “One summer morning in 1944, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, age ten, stood on a train platform in Budapest,”(p. 107). The introduction to Csikszentmihalyi is used to give context to his harsh upbringings and how he is someone to look up to.
The documentary wants the workers to “[obtain] their tickets to the good life as consumers” (Marchand) instead of as managers. There can be potential workers that have their goals of managers changed by watching this
One of the positive of Shelby working in the local pet store is that she will gain experience to run her pet store when she opens one. Experience of working in a successful business increases the likelihood of a person becoming an entrepreneur and running a successful business (Kapoor, Dlabay, and Hughes, 2014). In her current job, Shelby will gain life skills on how pet store operates, and she can apply those skills when she sets up her store. Shelby is interested, and she enjoys her job. When a person is passionate about what they do, they devote all their resources to ensuring business success and customer satisfaction.
Daily challenges move us in the direction of huge success that may currently seem distant. When we are enthusiastic about finishing our goals every single day, we are slowly taking steps that are taking us to our larger idea of success. “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.’’ -Nadia