Reflection Paper On Subway

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Intro
We always see the exchange of cultural, communication, ritual and family bonds with one another all the time. But we never come to realize that its everywhere you go no matter where in society you are you will always see some aspect of this. Last week at work I analysed my workplace. I work at Subway, and I am the youngest employee there I am a subway artist their and yet I see all these aspects of cultural, family bonds, gender, exchange, communication, race/ethnicity, ritual, and labor. After analysing this I wondered why are things the way they are here at subway why don’t we don’t we do things differently. And after observing for 1 shift they’re something things became obvious and others are still not clear they are still a blur.
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Lastly, at subway we have shared culture otherwise there would be no success we have shared beliefs, shared purpose, shared leadership, shared plans and shared outcomes.
Family
At subway all employees feel like one big family, there are some people that are tied through a consanguineal kin tied which is related through blood like at this subway the owners daughters work with us. Some are tied through afiinal kinship which is tied through marriage like one of the daughters of the owner is married to an employee that works there.
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Also my owner owns 3 franchises of subway and he is the only owner too. Also when coming to this fact we are in both a hierarchical and an egalitarian system we have one owner and employees there is no manager or supervisor system. At my location only 2 people work at a time no matter how busy it is. But staff consists of over 20 people. And when it comes to uniforms, the owner is not super strict, generally unless its inspection time. But generally everyone one has different subway shirts (old style and new), black pants, subway hat, and closed toed shoes. An one thing different about our subway that I observed is we take orders left to right, we take order first then make it then customer pays for

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