Prompt #1
I work with this girl named Nicole; she is pretty, has really nice clothes, and is great at her job. When she first started working at my job, Elizabeth’s Pizza, I thought of her as the stereotypical rich white girl. She seemed kind of rude and like she could not care less about much besides partying, which she briefly spoke with me about after I tried to talk to her about personal aspects of her life to get to know her better. She would talk to me about one of our co-workers, who I was somewhat friends with, and would brag on and on about how they were great friends and hung out all the time. This did not make me jealous, but did bother because I knew that was her purpose. For months, I thought of her as a stuck up person and did not care to communicate with her past an impersonal manner. …show more content…
We needed more workers. Nicole told me that she wanted her friend to work with us and that she put in an application. I knew that she would most likely get the job because there is not a lot of people who apply and do not, especially with us being short on staff. As I predicted, Tayla came in one day and it was up to me and Nicole to train her. This is when I saw a whole other side of Nicole. She was around someone she knew particularly well. In addition, Talya is African American. This, along with other characteristics, also shocked me because at one point, thinking too far into the situation, I thought maybe one reason that I could not connect with Nicole was because I am half African American. A later found out, in one of our conversations, that we were surprisingly having more often, that this was baseless. Somehow Nicole and I started talking about stereotypes and racism and she was literally getting mad regarding these subjects. She could not stand the thought of people who had this mindset (this is something we agreed on more than
I work with this girl named Nicole; she is pretty, has really nice clothes, and is great at her job. When she first started working at my job, Elizabeth’s Pizza, I thought of her as the stereotypical rich white girl. She seemed kind of rude and like she could not care less about much besides partying, which she briefly spoke with me about after I tried to talk to her about personal aspects of her life to get to know her better. She would talk to me about one of our co-workers, who I was somewhat friends with, and would brag on and on about how they were great friends and hung out all the time. This did not make me jealous, but did bother because I knew that was her purpose. For months, I thought of her as a stuck up person and did not care to communicate with her past an impersonal manner. …show more content…
We needed more workers. Nicole told me that she wanted her friend to work with us and that she put in an application. I knew that she would most likely get the job because there is not a lot of people who apply and do not, especially with us being short on staff. As I predicted, Tayla came in one day and it was up to me and Nicole to train her. This is when I saw a whole other side of Nicole. She was around someone she knew particularly well. In addition, Talya is African American. This, along with other characteristics, also shocked me because at one point, thinking too far into the situation, I thought maybe one reason that I could not connect with Nicole was because I am half African American. A later found out, in one of our conversations, that we were surprisingly having more often, that this was baseless. Somehow Nicole and I started talking about stereotypes and racism and she was literally getting mad regarding these subjects. She could not stand the thought of people who had this mindset (this is something we agreed on more than