Thursday, April 23, 2009

My Role in The Global Economy at Work

I don't think I play a huge role in the global economy. At work (pizzaria) we use a lot of imported goods such as cheese, pasta, mushrooms and maybe the pepporoni. I never checked where the pepperoni came from. So I guess my role in the global economy would be me using the products to prepare food. Im pretty sure the pots and pans we use in the kitchen are made in another country also. I dont know if the cheese and pasta or mushrooms can relate to the movie because they come from Italy. Im not to awear of the job conditions in those factories. I would assume they are a lot better than the ones in the movie Mardi Gras Made in China. The pots and pans though last time i checked were made in another country (I cant remember which country). My boss just bought new ones recently and I havent checked them. But I can image that the working conditions of the factories where the pots and pans were made are very simular to the working conditions showed in the film. So my boss is the consumer of these products and I use these products on a regular basis. Thats my role in the global economy at work.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

the poem

Levine's poem "What Work Is" is an interesting piece. To be honest i can' t refer personally to everything he's saying but I can imagine. This poem relates to what were reading because it's all about the the people who work the eight hour shifts to get buy and are to tired to do anything else but try. The poem tells us the truth about work. You can wait endless hours/days waiting for a job and by the time you get a response it's a "no, we're not hiring today". Only cause there was something they did not like about you. Now you have no shot at a job, but wish you can have one. This is what I think of the poem, im not great at analyzing but i tried.

work gender

Growing up In my house hold my family stuck to tradition. My father was the worker and my mother was the one who stayed home. My father was the main provider for the family. He would work eight hours a day and lots of the times work over time. The men in my family worked very hard and never wanted their wives to work. The women usually stayed home raised the kids, cooked and cleaned. What ever work needed to be done around the house, my mother did. I grew up with this idea that man is suppose to support the financial needs and the woman is suppose to be the housewife. Now that I'm older though I look at both sides of the picture. If i eventually get married I wouldn't want her to work, but if she wanted to work, I would understand and let her. I would not mind being the stay at home dad.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

My Job Community

Where i work the community is very diverse. Every one has there little groups and create there own status. There are quite a few gangs by my job. So I guess the "bad ass" of each gang would be considered to have highest status. Me personally I think all the members have low status in society. They find pleasure out of terrorizing the neighborhood by graffiti or robbing someone and so on. There are customers everyday that come in to get food and they talk about how they just jumped someone or stole something from the store down the street. They think by doing what there doing they are going to become someone, someone with authority. I wont deny they gain respect from people around the neighborhood. Its only cause people in the neighborhood either grow fear from these guys and don't want any harm done or they are fellow gang members. These people don't contribute anything to the community where i work. They try to build reputations so they can have gang status and in the process they undermine the values of a community.