Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Work!

I work at the East Peoria Kohl's, and to me it seems like they don't have enough people on the floor at night. They expect us to do everything when there isn't enough time to get it all done. I work in Ms. Jr. and Men's, there are five sections that needed to be folded at night. They expect three of us to do all five sections and then turn around and run our fitting rooms, and they want it done all in four hours. Really its less then four hours because then we have a fifteen minute break too. On days that we are slow i think that three people can handle it, but on days that we are busy they need to at least have four people on the floor and one on fitting rooms. Another thing about work that i don't like is that we have to push credits.  I feel bad asking people to sign up for a credit card when you know that they cant get one or don't have the ability to pay for it. Sometimes if i see a person and i don't think they can afford it i wont ask, even though we are suppose to ask everyone that comes through the line. I feel like they expect us to do way to much, for way to little. Which brings up the question of should they hire minimum wage or should they just keep it where its at. In my opinion i think they should. With everything like gas prices and the price of living going up there is no way a person in college working a part time job can afford to pay for a car gas and there phone without having to ask for help from someone.

3 comments:

  1. Great topic. Now I want you to think about what main claim are you making in this post? That the EP Kohl's has poor working conditions and here are the reasons why? Otherwise, your ideas feel kind of random. You need that main claim (thesis) to set them up.

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  2. I completely agree with what Paige is saying in her blog. Many businesses are like that today. I feel that the pizza place could use extra workers once in a while on busy nights, but the manager is too stubborn to schedule more people. If businesses want to be successful, they should be reasonable with employees.

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  3. haha i work at Hollister and i can relate. i hate being over worked and they dont pay us enough for that. but overall i think you had a good argument.

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