Summer Jobs

banana
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:16:31 +0000

Although I agree mostly with what CNP said, this one thing bothered me.

Quote from CNP: “You are (probably) temporary help. Take what you can get in hours. Please don’t ask to work your hours around your boyfriend’s schedule. As long as I am signing the front of the checks and you are signing the back, we will work your hours around what’s convenient for ME! I would really like to have a Friday afternoon off once in a while.”

I’ve had about 8 jobs so far (I am 19), all of which have been temporary. For the first time this summer, I have a job in a Casino, where the employer really works with me to make me happy. Instead of insisting that THEY are the boss and I must do what THEY say, they work with employees so that they are happy with their hours, jobs, etc. This makes work so much more pleasant than my previous jobs! Employees want to work and they are really happy with what they do. I have about 20 co-workers in my department and I have NEVER seen a more hard working group of people. Because they like their work and the employer, they work harder to make customers happy, and EVERYONE gains. I also love my supervisor, who continually checks on me to make sure I am happy. I think happy employees can go a long way in a business.

Also, I know the job market is different in different parts of the country, but where I live, people my age complain about there being “no jobs” when there are actually plenty. Many of my friends just think, as college students, they are “above” min. wage jobs. I think this is ********. I work my ass off for 6. 75 an hour (CA) and I think I have learned more, sociologically at my job than I did last semester at a prestigious LAC. Ya, many students on this thread are priviledged and work for much more than minimum wage, but I think college jobs are as much about personal growth as they are about money and you can learn a hell of a lot about yourself, and the majority of working class american by working a no skills job.