Week 2 EOC: Sweet Charity What She Did Right and Wrong

In the movie Sweet Charity, Charity was going in for an interview. Here is what she did right, because you should always start with the positives, then we will go into the negatives of what she did wrong.
First, she went in there with great attitude, made herself look clean and even went as far to make sure her hair was on point. It was a way of Charity advertising herself. "Advertising also must compete for attention. The public is selective about what it will respond to or pay attention to since it is bombarded with advertising..." (130.) To add to her dress code, she didn't dress the some as all the other females in the office with shirts and blazers, but she knew she couldn't dress very skimpy-like as she did in her old job. For someone who never graduated from school, it's quite impressive to know that you should dress to impress, she just didn't know the how-to for dressing in that environment.
What Charity didn't do right was ask the questions. She could have asked questions on how to get the experience in filing papers, working a type writer, or maybe even start off being an intern for a company. She could have asked how to get started. I couldn't help but laugh at the interviewer who saw that she possessed absolutely no skills, it had to be a complete joke set up by other co-workers. Cruel, but hilarious. Which is one thing to laugh at if it was a complete joke saying you want to get into a high position with no experience whatsoever, but in this case, Charity truly had no experience. "The conflict can occur because of communication problems, how the team is organized, or personal differences, among other reasons." (336.)
If the man had taken this a different way, he could've helped her a little bit more by providing ways so she can get a job so she can get out of her current job being a taxi-girl. "Members of high-performance teams trust, respect, and support each other. Managers who trust respect, and support employees provide opportunities for staff to become motivated." (335.) The trust, respect and support are what would have really pushed Charity to find opportunity.

Week 1 EOC: My Best and Worst Jobs

My worst job is the job I currently work at. It is a ice cream shop, it’s easy work, get paid $8.25 per hour. What I can’t handle is the new boss. He is cutting our hours, adding stuff to the menu, won’t call maintenance for our machines, so they constantly break down, won’t order supplies when we need them, and we get low on ingredients. This makes our job all the more harder and I want to cry.

My best job, wasn’t a job. It was a volunteer opportunity in a warehouse where I was a runner for the appetizers, entrees, and desserts. I got to work with many chefs in the kitchen, plate extravagant looking dishes. Serving less than 100 people at the same time definitely became a challenge, especially with all the hot foods because we had to get it out in time before the entire dish became cold. It was a truly remarkable experience.

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

Cooking came easy to me as soon as I read my first recipe: Chili. Seeing all the other cohorts struggle, I looked at them and questioned “how and why is this so difficult.”  Seeing as how cooking came natural to me and how I breezed through the recipe, I knew at that moment that this is going to be my passion and something that I can make my profession. Over the years I have been cooking, I’ve truly escalated through the skills after starting from little to none. What I see coming into the culinary world is a lot of stress, screaming, anger, and many barriers to go over. This is something I can do and I look forward to it. As a culinarian of the future, and technology advances, there might be even more challenges, or make the job even easier to perform, but when it comes down to what will actually be used in the kitchen might be a different story. Sometimes technology can’t perform what humans can, or machines will take our duties, making finding a job that much more difficult. All of that, to me, just means I have to work that much harder to combat the unknown. We have to push ourselves beyond the limit, break down, and try harder next time. I wouldn’t have it any other way.