Work has never been anybody’s favorite place to be. Think about it, when has anyone said, “Golly, can’t wait to go to work!” Answer is probably never, also because its 2016 and no one uses the word golly anymore. Back to the topic of work, it is connected to fatigue and dealing with impossible co-workers. However, in some place it is much worst like dealing with discouraging statement being yelled at and no air conditioning. It has got to a point where one must ask themselves, how is treating employees like this legal? While many believe that workplaces should focus on their production than their employees – that is not the case, employees should not have to suffer at work and should made priority. One of the biggest issues with factory work
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A business may require workers to come in when they are not 100%. Mac McClelland tells his experience working at a factory in “I was a Warehouse Wage Salve”. After McClelland’s fourth day at work he suffered pain along the back of his shoulders. One of his co-worker advised him to take 800 milligrams of Advil a day (McClelland 403). McClelland was working five days a week, ten and a half hour shifts. McClelland was recommended 800 milligrams (four doses), that means, roughly, McClelland was taking twenty doses or 4,000 milligrams of Advil a week. It does not take a doctor or a scholar to realize that is too much for anyone. Having employees need something to help them get through the shift is not safe, especially a drug. Every drug comes with a list of risk of consuming the product and how it can damage one’s body. Medicine should be given as a relief from time to time, not something one becomes dependent on. Companies need to start helping their employees then harming them because in the end they make the company. With that employees, should not be penalized for taking care of themselves like one co-worker McClelland met. The employee missed work a couple of times due to doctors’ appointments and, although he had notes excusing his absent, he was fired (McClelland 404). It is ridulious that he got fired for taking care of himself and the company for not caring of his well-being. Illness cannot be …show more content…
Looking at a small-scale work can affect how one feels. Also in “I was a Warehouse Wage Slave” said that before they started to work at the warehouse many people gave him some words of advice. They told him not to listen to what the supervisor is yelling, “You’re not good enough” (McClelland 394). The people that give McClelland this advice told him they are only saying it to motivate employees to work harder. How does degrading messages motivate someone? It’s like telling a child not to listen to what the bully says but the kid still does and the bully’s word seep through their brain and effect their self-esteem; because we are talking about adults does not mean it’s any different. Work can also take a toll in someone’s thought and can affect them enormously. In “The Consequences – Undoing Sanity” by Louis Uchitelle tells the experience of family that deals with the husband, Erin, losing his job and how it affected him and his family. In the article, it mentions a study that whenever the unemployed rate rose so did the national suicide rate, and when unemployment went down so did the suicide rate (Uchitelle 343). This shows that work and mental stability go hand in
A business may require workers to come in when they are not 100%. Mac McClelland tells his experience working at a factory in “I was a Warehouse Wage Salve”. After McClelland’s fourth day at work he suffered pain along the back of his shoulders. One of his co-worker advised him to take 800 milligrams of Advil a day (McClelland 403). McClelland was working five days a week, ten and a half hour shifts. McClelland was recommended 800 milligrams (four doses), that means, roughly, McClelland was taking twenty doses or 4,000 milligrams of Advil a week. It does not take a doctor or a scholar to realize that is too much for anyone. Having employees need something to help them get through the shift is not safe, especially a drug. Every drug comes with a list of risk of consuming the product and how it can damage one’s body. Medicine should be given as a relief from time to time, not something one becomes dependent on. Companies need to start helping their employees then harming them because in the end they make the company. With that employees, should not be penalized for taking care of themselves like one co-worker McClelland met. The employee missed work a couple of times due to doctors’ appointments and, although he had notes excusing his absent, he was fired (McClelland 404). It is ridulious that he got fired for taking care of himself and the company for not caring of his well-being. Illness cannot be …show more content…
Looking at a small-scale work can affect how one feels. Also in “I was a Warehouse Wage Slave” said that before they started to work at the warehouse many people gave him some words of advice. They told him not to listen to what the supervisor is yelling, “You’re not good enough” (McClelland 394). The people that give McClelland this advice told him they are only saying it to motivate employees to work harder. How does degrading messages motivate someone? It’s like telling a child not to listen to what the bully says but the kid still does and the bully’s word seep through their brain and effect their self-esteem; because we are talking about adults does not mean it’s any different. Work can also take a toll in someone’s thought and can affect them enormously. In “The Consequences – Undoing Sanity” by Louis Uchitelle tells the experience of family that deals with the husband, Erin, losing his job and how it affected him and his family. In the article, it mentions a study that whenever the unemployed rate rose so did the national suicide rate, and when unemployment went down so did the suicide rate (Uchitelle 343). This shows that work and mental stability go hand in