The “selling” section of Enrenreich’s book was really the turning point of the book for me. The first two sections focused on jobs that I really could not relate to, as they were random businesses in areas of the United States I have never visited. When Barbara decided to take a job at Wal-‐Mart, America’s largest private employer, I was finally able to relate to her struggles because I am very familiar with the company. After reading about the struggles both Ehrenreich and her close co-‐workers faced, I am very supportive of her decision to leave Wal-‐Mart in hopes of securing a higher income job elsewhere. The company seems to really know and understand the situation their employees are in and they definitely use that to the advantage
In “Selling in Minnesota” by Barbara Ehrenreich, she explains the horrible experience she went through in her job training at Wal-Mart. The company Wal-Mart provides a welcoming environment to their customers, but an uneasy work environment for their employees through uncaring, unresponsive, and unrewarding treatment. Wal-Mart’s employee wages are low with no health benefits and unstable hours each week. The company is expanding and running the mom-and-pop stores out of business. It’s these mom-and-pop stores that actually provide good jobs and have employee and customer values.
So far, Ava has been very successful with running the store, but employees feel intimidated by her, as she is very critical, focuses only on correcting employees’ mistakes and never praises their work. Palazzo Shoe Store has seven other employees apart from Ava. Michael, who had been there the longest and was the top seller, Nikki, the assistant manager, Fernando, who had been there second longest and had Nikki’s position before her, Isabelle who came at the same time as Nikki, Jose, who had been there for about eight months and did not seem to take the job too seriously, Heather, the main employee we’re focusing on in this case and who had reached second place after Michael, and Maria, who was hired one week before Heather. Employees at Palazzo receive either an hourly wage or the 9.75 percent sales commission if it is higher than the wage. To make the work even for everyone, employees have an “Up Dog” list with the employees’ names; the name that is at the top of the list has to deal with the customer coming through the door.
This will also help the low income workers when they go out for lunch especially now that the economic is really low. We will have a special phone number were any customers can contact us with any questions about the product all around America. We will send information to the customers by email and via mail to let them know about our product and how healthy it can be but, they need to provide us with an email or home
However as good as all of that sounds, once again do not judge a book by its’ cover. A housekeeper working for UPMC and making $12.07 an hour claims some workers could not even afford college or to add money to the plans. The union’s campaign is to be seen as making incredible strides in helping their workers break the cycle of poverty and join the middle class. S.E.I.U. is backed by Pittsburgh’s mayor Bill Peduto, and the people of Pittsburgh.
Kevin Rodriguez ENC 1101 Profesor Lisenbee September 23, 2012 Homework Essay 1 Crosswalk by Deborah Tannen This essay is basically about cross-gender miscommunications that happen in everyday life. Tannen explains the types of communications that men and women have. In an example, Tannen says that a woman who owns a bookstore needed to speak to the store manager. The owner spoke to the manager about helping the bookkeeper with the billing. But after a few days the manager never did anything.
Elements of abuse are coming to work late, taking sick leave when not sick, and attending personal business during paid work hours. There is one major difference between fraud and abuse; fraud is intentional deception for personal gain whereas abuse is the improper use of something. For example, Sarah works at Target as a cashier. Everyday Sarah is late to work by two hours, but her supervisor clocks in for her so she is getting paid for two hours she isn’t actually working. After doing this every day for 3 months Sarah has accumulated $11,520 in hours she has not worked.
That she shares her bed and has only gruel to eat? That she is forced to work 90 hours each week, without overtime pay? That she lives not only in poverty, but also in filth and sickness, all in the name of Nike’s Profits?” (Rivoli, xii). These questions came from a student’s protest at Georgetown University. Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy,” was intrigued by this protest, which beckoned her to go on a journey to investigate how her t-shirt was made.
The unequal distribution of domestic responsibilities has held women back for generations; it still today continues to hinder women’s progression in the work-place. It seems like everyone thinks mum will stay at home and do the dishes, her little boy will grow up to become a big, strong man but not her daughter, of course, she is far too busy washing her own children’s dishes. But it is not just women who suffer sexism, men do also. For example: Shelia’s Wheels sell cheaper car insurance to women only, and they say it's because statistics show women to be safer drivers. Would it would be fair for a bank to offer men better rates on loans if stats showed that men were better at paying back loans than women were, utterly ludicrous.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Project Book The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Chapter 1-The Girl Who Lived The first chapter of this book was very informal in many different ways. It informed us that the working hours were brutal with little or no time for breaks. Rose Rosenfeld, the girl who the chapter is written about, was about to be 18 working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. She was “…making blouses called shirtwaists from 7am to 8pm, with only 30 minutes for lunch…Rose and the others would not get dinner or receive overtime money” (Nobleman 4). This chapter describes the events occurring on the day in a personal matter.