Armed with a red tray and a handful of straws and ketchup, I fly across the concrete battleground of the Gardendale Sonic Drive-In. Despite the myriad of colorful sugar and ice cream adorning my uniform, I smile and thank every customer for choosing Sonic. My coworkers man the grill and take orders over the speaker while I catch the receipts soaring through the air and run 90 miles an hour to each of the 25 stalls. To get every order out quickly and accurately, I have to work with Megan and Destiny and Eric and Tanya every second of every day that I am clocked in at Sonic. We all work together to create one quick and accurate machine, even though sometimes Eric forgets the tater tots or I slip on a slick spot or Destiny makes the wrong slushie. We work through the slips and spills and make sure we still make the customer happy regardless. …show more content…
Sonic, I am realizing, is nothing like my AP classes at school.
There is nothing to bubble in. There are no essays. But, more than anything, there is a real mixture of people from all different races and backgrounds working with me. There is Eric, an African American man who is only one year older than me who only works to pay for the gas and insurance on that Mustang his parents gave him. There is also Tanya, who worked harder than most on a daily basis to support her two children, even if she did not make the best first impressions. I have never worked with such a broad mixture of people, and I never would have imagined how well we could work together. Working at Sonic forces me to work harder, better and more cooperatively every day. The experiences and relationships I forged have made a bigger impact on my life than any AP class ever could. I am a Sonic Drive-In carhop, and I wear my hat and name-tag with
pride.
The next restaurant the customer went to was Steak & Shake, a burger restaurant. Here there was only one employee for the customer to talk to: the cashier. The cashier greeted the customer with “How are you doing?” the custome...
Perman, Stacy. In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-counter Look at the Fast-food Chain That Breaks All the Rules. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2010. Print.
Coming into work one day, I knew something was wrong. When I saw long lines forming down each Isle, people complaining that the wait was too long, and register lights flashing for help. There were no head cashiers available or supervisors who knew anything about the front end. At that time I was the only cashier who had been there the longest, so I was asked to try and be head cashier for the day. I did, and I knew what I was getting myself into.
Over the course of my academic career, I have grown accustomed to viewing stories that follow a specific plot structure. Gao Xing Jian’s The Other Shore and Toshiki Okada’s The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise have shown me that I should look at theatre from different angles, instead of the one I have grown used to. Even though I found these two plays challenging to read, they offered me a unique perspective that I do not usually see in theatre.
Prior to writing this essay, I really had not noticed the effect that race had on my life. That is, not until I was forced to look race straight in the eye. This was a very difficult thing to do because it brought back some unpleasant memories I thought I had locked away in permanent storage. I had to be brutally honest with myself and examine my inner most feelings on how race affected my life. Only then did I truly realize how race impacted my attitude, behavior, education, employment, and privileges
Fox's Diner is a world away from the bland, impersonal McDonald's just a few miles north. It sits on the right side of a two-lane highway leading into town. The Diner serves both as a truck stop and as the restaurant for a small motel next door. The parking lot looks vacant until about five in the morning because it is large enough to accommodate a dozen tractor trailers. Years of use have left potholes and a patchwork of asphalt that resembles a moth-eaten quilt.
Per usual, Lisa took orders and got everything organized and planned out perfectly. Mercy, always displaying a gorgeous smile, made beautiful fruit trays that were devoured. Deb had delicious donuts prepared and ready to go, always making sure everything is exactly how we need it. Deb, your customers know you take care of them. Josh and Logan helped me load out lots of water and cases of chips, all while having smiles on their faces.
In week one I examined a right versus right scenario that involved the company’s diversity recruitment
The first thing I did as I sat down to write this essay was I trying to imagine the audience for my writing. Every time I would think about it, the more anxious I became because I realized that there are so many other essays on diversity, so what makes mine special? The usual essay on diversity is just about race, gender, or lifestyle, out of 10 essays, how many would portray the Author as an outcast or somebody who was different? How can I present myself as someone who is not just another face in the crowd without making it seem like I seek pity?
Research shows that there’s a great disadvantage in the workplace for minorities, thus these differences lead to ra...
Seeing so many different attitudes, cultures and ways of thinking come together, initially it caused a bit of an internal conflict for me. Views that differed with my own beliefs originally caused me discomfort. But as the year progressed I not only learned how to deal with many types of people but also how to understand and respects their ideas. I realized that the differences in people should not cause tension instead make the world better. Organizations that bring people help show that it does not matter where you are from , diversity in people leads to diversity in thought, and diversity in the way YOU think about the world. From being in OAS my scope of how i view the world and how I view people changed drastically. Now I am willing to listen to all ideas because it not only benefits the groups but it benefits me. Allowing a positive, safe, and judgment free space to share ideas can make a good discussion into a great
Diversity is a highly important issue in today’s business, especially in a globalized company. Workplace diversity helps to get better solutions to business problems (Schawbel, 2012). When you have a group of individ...
Human beings seek to create comfortable indoor environments and spaces. Architects usually consider visual aspects such as light, materials, and colors as the main elements to create comfortable spaces. Although sound is invisible, but it has the power to change the space characteristics we occupy (SCHULZ-DORNBURG, Julia, 2000). Space perception includes the sense of hearing as well when experiencing a space, and plays a determinative role in how individuals interact with their spatial environment. According to Pallasmaa, “Sight isolates whereas sound incorporates; vision is directional, whereas sound is omnidirectional. The sense of sight implies exteriority, but sound creates an experience of interiority. I regard an object, but sound approaches
The store is famous for selling fresh burgers, fries, chilies, and above all, frostys. Hierarchy is presented in the store, due to the general manager being the “top dog”, the shift managers being under, and then the crew members. The managers consist of 4 females and one male. Gender role is prominent in this fast food environment as well. Each male and female is assigned to a specific task in the store, simply because of their gender. The male and female differences clearly involve both physical and emotional factors. Certain influences may arise from psychological factors, such as the upbringing, or physical factors, such as a crew member’s ability to perform a certain task. More commonly, males perform task such as mopping the floors, taking out the trash, picking up heavy items and operating the grill. On the other hand, females are more prone to interact with the customers, such as cashier, drive thru order take, and remembering to keep a smile on their face. All roles completed by both male and females contribute to the success of the
Now that we have explored my past, present, and future experiences with diversity, it is time to see how they are present within and effect each other. Firstly, let’s look into how my future is present in my past. The most obvious portion of my future that is in my past is my willingness and efforts to love and include everyone and to spread this world view. It took a fellow classmate of mine to demonstrate to my third grade self that we are all human beings and we all deserve to be treated as such. In my future, I aspire to demonstrate this world view to my students and inspire them to treat each other accordingly. This aspiration directly reflects my world view struggles I went through in third grade, for I want to help my students come to