Put simply, it is when you walk into a store and evaluate how good or bad the employee treated you, but have you ever thought about how the employee feels. Let us look at how retail employees become bitter and cynical through working at retail stores. For the sake of confusion, and the attempt to alleviate it, we are going to call our employee Dan, and the wonderful establishment he works at Walgreens. Dan, within his first few days of working for Walgreens has learned about the policies, his responsibilities, and given a few lessons on how to give good customer service. Dan is now facing his first customer and asks, “How can I help you?” the customer responds yes and asks where she can find the hair coloring.
In the short story “A&P” by John Updike, check out boy Sammy stands up for the “mistreatment” of girls dressed in bikinis who came into the grocery store that he worked at. While practically drooling at the girls as they walked through the aisles, his mind had essentially put them on a silver platter. When his boss told the girls to not come back without some proper clothes on, Sammy quits his job saying to his manager, “You didn’t have to embarrass them.” Sammy’s abrupt decision to quit showed how much he was caught up with the girls, of whom he didn’t even know. After handing back his apron, he ran outside expecting to see the girls waiting for him in order to thank him for standing up for them. Obviously when he got outside, they were long gone.
Suzanne Stone 10/15/2012 In the grocery checkout line in front of you, kids are hitting, screaming, throwing things, and being disobedient to their parents. At the movie theater, kids are whining and crying for more candy and popcorn, or even texting right in front of you. This can wear your nerves thin, especially when they are not your children. On the other hand, there are news flashes of bad parenting, “Mom gives 8-year-old Botox,” “Michael Jackson Dangles His Baby over a Hotel Balcony.” We all know cases of kids’ bad behavior and bad parenting, there are scads of stories and images on the internet. Let’s face it!
The reader takes it as metaphor, but Chief who is a paranoid schizophrenic, sees it as reality. We get his first machine image as he tells of Big Nurse coming on duty, going after her underlings, the black boys. He sees her as "she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor so I can smell the machinery inside" (Kesey 11). Later, we hear Chief say, "There’s Page 2 a whine of fear over the silence. I hear the machinery in the walls catch and go on" (Kesey 55).
“Of Mice And Men” (Alternative Ending) Lennie collapsed on the damp earth, it’s cool moisture combining with his sweat soaked body emitting a thick mist of steam from his huge frame. Lennie had tried to remember where to meet George, but his blind panic had sent him zig-zagging through the woods like the chickens used to do when the old lady broke their necks to prepare them for the dinner table. He remembered how soft the feathers felt and he would spend ages just running his hands through them, still soft and warm, tinged with blood…. so pretty. ‘George gonna be so mad at me’, he said to himself.
Matthew Gullet Debbie Amburgey English II 9/10/12 Point of View Sammy is an immature 19 year old kid who hates his job as the A&P cashier. Sammy’s life is coming to a crossroad, little does he know, on the day that three half naked young girls walk in the grocery store. Sammy judges the customers, as well as his boss, and due to this his life would never be the same. The point of view in A&P is incredibly important because everything that happens in the story is told by Sammy the narrator. We get to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly about everyone, from Sammy’s perspective.
“I love you Davie, so please stop crying.” My first boyfriend cried uncontrollably as he sat in time-out in the corner of the playroom. All of the other kindergardeners joyfully hung up hand-made Christmas decorations with the teachers in the hallway. Davie was the troublemaker out of all the kindergardeners. He was constantly getting in trouble for one thing or another, and he had a dirty mouth that seemed to get washed out by one of the teachers every other week. I guess you could say I liked bad boys back in the day.
With Sammy watching them he ends up miscounting money for a customer and because of that the woman gives him a rude looks a seems to be a tad bit upset. Sammy lets that go though and continues to watch after the girls. Lengel the manager finds the girls in the store and it seems that it is offended by what they are wearing inside his grocery store. “Girls, this isn’t the beach”( Page 134) he says to them. Queenie responds with explain to Langel that her and her friends are there just picking up a few small things that her mother asked for.
Instead of the sales lady treating them the way she treated us and walking back over to the cash register, she just took a couple of steps back and stood close by. She appeared to be watching them to make sure they did not steal anything from the store. Then I noticed that all of the people that were working there were spread out all over the store watching the group of black girls like a hawk! Being the age I was, I couldn’t understand why they were being treated that way and we had not. Now that I am older, I see that they were treating them that way due to their skin color.
IX. The House of Death Floats By (pg 47) Young birds “flying a yard or two at a time and lighting” is a sign of rain later on, according to Jim’s conversation with Huck (45). The three or four foot deep flood sends houses afloat so Huck and Jim dig through them for supplies and one night, they found a dead man in the house and takes everything worthy from the house, paying no attention to the corpse. X. What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal.