The story, Bartleby, The Scrivener, has many themes that can be seen in everyone’s work environment. The story deals with compassion, conformity, isolation, duty, chain of command, walls of many forms, etc. It can be difficult to limit the number of themes in one paper. Some of the themes can seem to overlap.
Compassion takes on many forms. As the narrator tied to take care of Bartleby, I had an employer who tried to take care of employees who required special attention. In the 1980’s I worked for a local muffler company in the office. It was a small operation. The company was owned by two men and had five or six locations. The office staff had only five people. At the main location there was a man, Woody, who had problems taking his …show more content…
My manager, Sandy has been put into an exile within the department. She has been excluded from many meetings and not invited to eat lunch with others from the area. No one has gone into her office just to chat. There could have been at least two of the reasons she has been ostracized. The first reason could be that she has a habit of talking too much. Her tendency to provide background information when it was not necessary might have put some people off. They may want to avoid her droning on about concepts that are not necessary to rehash. She does not assume that if someone needs to know the history of a problem that they would ask. The second reason why she has put people off could be that she has the ability to turn any topic of conversation to be about her or say thing that should not be mentioned to people she does not know well. An example would be when I was in a car with her and another manager. I mentioned that there was a hawk on one of the telephone lines and how amazing it was to see. I thought it was statement that was harmless. But Sandy made it to be about her. She proceeded to tell both of us how she has to keep an eye on her dogs when she lets them out. They are Chihuahuas which are vulnerable to birds of prey. Sandy kept rambling about this topic until we got to our …show more content…
It was coming in well. In other words, it was not scraggly or patchy in appearance. There was nothing unusual about having a beard. Many men in the company had facial hair. In fact one man had a very long ponytail. The dress code did not have any requirements on hair or facial appearance. The company polices had been posted on line so they would be available to all employees when needed. To this day there still is no wording about facial hair.
He was told by a higher level manager that having a beard was not acceptable and to get rid of it. Apparently, the executive did not like beards so he had them abolished from his domain. The manager got rid of the beard and did not fight it. I understood that he did not want to make waves and go to Human Resources. Fighting for his rights might hurt his chances of advancement if it was known that he was labeled a trouble maker. Once the other manager left the department, the beard came back. Not another word was ever said about the incident.
My company has been purchasing several companies over the last five years or so in an effort to stay relevant and to get into new industries. As a result we have tried to integrate the various companies into our culture and our procedures. There are times when we have met
Compassion takes on many forms. As the narrator tied to take care of Bartleby, I had an employer who tried to take care of employees who required special attention. In the 1980’s I worked for a local muffler company in the office. It was a small operation. The company was owned by two men and had five or six locations. The office staff had only five people. At the main location there was a man, Woody, who had problems taking his …show more content…
My manager, Sandy has been put into an exile within the department. She has been excluded from many meetings and not invited to eat lunch with others from the area. No one has gone into her office just to chat. There could have been at least two of the reasons she has been ostracized. The first reason could be that she has a habit of talking too much. Her tendency to provide background information when it was not necessary might have put some people off. They may want to avoid her droning on about concepts that are not necessary to rehash. She does not assume that if someone needs to know the history of a problem that they would ask. The second reason why she has put people off could be that she has the ability to turn any topic of conversation to be about her or say thing that should not be mentioned to people she does not know well. An example would be when I was in a car with her and another manager. I mentioned that there was a hawk on one of the telephone lines and how amazing it was to see. I thought it was statement that was harmless. But Sandy made it to be about her. She proceeded to tell both of us how she has to keep an eye on her dogs when she lets them out. They are Chihuahuas which are vulnerable to birds of prey. Sandy kept rambling about this topic until we got to our …show more content…
It was coming in well. In other words, it was not scraggly or patchy in appearance. There was nothing unusual about having a beard. Many men in the company had facial hair. In fact one man had a very long ponytail. The dress code did not have any requirements on hair or facial appearance. The company polices had been posted on line so they would be available to all employees when needed. To this day there still is no wording about facial hair.
He was told by a higher level manager that having a beard was not acceptable and to get rid of it. Apparently, the executive did not like beards so he had them abolished from his domain. The manager got rid of the beard and did not fight it. I understood that he did not want to make waves and go to Human Resources. Fighting for his rights might hurt his chances of advancement if it was known that he was labeled a trouble maker. Once the other manager left the department, the beard came back. Not another word was ever said about the incident.
My company has been purchasing several companies over the last five years or so in an effort to stay relevant and to get into new industries. As a result we have tried to integrate the various companies into our culture and our procedures. There are times when we have met