According to the responses I received in my previous post, in the work place there should be no discrimination between older and newer employees. An idea mentioned that I found most relevant to my work's situation is the concept that new employees must prove themselves in the first couple of weeks of their employment to gain some sort of respect from the other employees. Just because these new kids may do the "shit jobs," does not mean that myself and the other employees stand around and do absolutely nothing, but there is a slight difference from mopping up some kid's puke and helping work the counter with a line out the door. Which would you rather do?
This is where our little system of ranking comes in.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Mop.
Other than myself, there is only one other employee at the shop that has been there the whole year and a half that I have, so you could say that we are on the top of the food chain. As for the others, most of them have only been working there for about three months. Many of these kids were hired within days of each other, but you can bet that if you ask them the order in which they were hired they will recite with ease. Now to them this order is very important for whoever was hired last usually gets to do the "shit" jobs. These jobs include but not limited to: cleaning up spills, unclogging toilets, helping customers first, taking out the trash, and the worst case scenario, cleaning up a little kid's puke.
This method of seniority reminds me of high school when I played soccer and all the new girls (freshman) were responsible for picking up all the soccer balls after practice which all of us older girls would conveniently kick as far and scattered as possible when we were finished. Pretty much the same situation applies at work, we show no mercy.
I find a flaw in this system. Just because a person was hired after someone else should not automatically put them at the bottom of the totem pole. The employee food chain should be based off of performance. Sometimes its difficult to bite my tongue when I see a lazy person tell a not such a sloth employee to do something just because they are "newer."
Is this issue present in most work settings and does it impair the efficiency of the business?
If you're going to work at our store you better step your nose game up.
This method of seniority reminds me of high school when I played soccer and all the new girls (freshman) were responsible for picking up all the soccer balls after practice which all of us older girls would conveniently kick as far and scattered as possible when we were finished. Pretty much the same situation applies at work, we show no mercy.
I find a flaw in this system. Just because a person was hired after someone else should not automatically put them at the bottom of the totem pole. The employee food chain should be based off of performance. Sometimes its difficult to bite my tongue when I see a lazy person tell a not such a sloth employee to do something just because they are "newer."
Is this issue present in most work settings and does it impair the efficiency of the business?
If you're going to work at our store you better step your nose game up.
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