The interview titled “Kinko’s Co-Worker” by Natasha Werther is about married woman from Massachusetts who went from being a community college instructor to a Kinko’s worker. She goes into detail about why she loves her job at Kinko’s, despite having had jobs in the past that might be considered to most as more well regarded and esteemed. According to class notes, the interviewee would have greater job productivity at Kinko’s. Being that job performance is measured by each individual’s proficiency, it would make sense that those who enjoy doing their job would be more proficient and productive. Her performance is important because it relates to her satisfaction. We also discussed how there is more to work than task performance as most people
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My job is equivalent in difficulty as mentioned in the Kinko’s interview. It’s busy work and it’s not hard at all. I make a lot of copies for instructors, purchase supplies for classes, make sure the technology is working for the instructors before they teach, and so on. I feel like you don’t need to know much to perform well at this job, but my coworkers and my boss value what I do and that’s why I always go back. Not to mention, they pay me $21 an hour, which I feel is great pay for someone as a teenager, which I was when I started working there. Oftentimes, people ask me why I haven’t pursued an internship in the field of psychology yet being that it’s my major. I would love to have a career in psychology, however I am so accustomed to how my coworkers treat me at that college that I don’t really want to work anywhere else. What I value most is the sense of community between my coworkers, which was also discussed in the interview. There are free lunches for us every so often, coworkers bring in cake for each other for birthdays and there are benefits, such as pension. Many of the traits that I like about my job are similar to those that made the interviewee happy at her job at Kinko’s. Overall, employees will perform, will be productive and will be satisfied if the environment they are working in suits them well. In class we discussed organizational citizenship behavior and how voluntary, selfless
My job is equivalent in difficulty as mentioned in the Kinko’s interview. It’s busy work and it’s not hard at all. I make a lot of copies for instructors, purchase supplies for classes, make sure the technology is working for the instructors before they teach, and so on. I feel like you don’t need to know much to perform well at this job, but my coworkers and my boss value what I do and that’s why I always go back. Not to mention, they pay me $21 an hour, which I feel is great pay for someone as a teenager, which I was when I started working there. Oftentimes, people ask me why I haven’t pursued an internship in the field of psychology yet being that it’s my major. I would love to have a career in psychology, however I am so accustomed to how my coworkers treat me at that college that I don’t really want to work anywhere else. What I value most is the sense of community between my coworkers, which was also discussed in the interview. There are free lunches for us every so often, coworkers bring in cake for each other for birthdays and there are benefits, such as pension. Many of the traits that I like about my job are similar to those that made the interviewee happy at her job at Kinko’s. Overall, employees will perform, will be productive and will be satisfied if the environment they are working in suits them well. In class we discussed organizational citizenship behavior and how voluntary, selfless