Shift work

entailed making sure that everything looked presentable to the public--no crooked labels or material. At times, I would have to re-mat materials, because they were not taped properly. With my team of two on Mondays and Wednesdays, we then moved on to work on the Deborah Voigt exhibition. This was an…

concern for all physicians because of the type of job we take on. We want to be able to take on the tough cases, work the long hours required, and still have a personal life, too, but sometimes we go about it in the wrong way. Plus, there may be environmental stresses that contribute to being overwhelmed professionally, which often can leach these…

sufficiently severe or pervasive, we look to the totality of the circumstances, including the frequency of the discriminatory conduct; its severity; whether it is physically threatening or humiliating; whether it unreasonably interferes with an employee 's work performance, and whether it causes psychological harm." The first point to discuss is the frequency of the incidents. There were no specific dates given as to when this behavior begun. Following the ruff timeline laid out by rs. Berkeley…

Without a doubt Maury Jones’ body knew it was dawn. He wakes up to get ready for school, and wakes up his two younger brothers. Jones quietly walks into his mother's room to grab his britches and bag filled with his work uniform. His mother, half woke, asked him to fix the boys something to eat. “I ain’t gon’ let em’ go hungry mama,” he said, heating up the stove top. No man could take care of their family as this young man could. “Those were the good ol’ days,” Jones said to himself while…

the person to perform the job. The employees are the customers of the organization, and to elicit work from them, it needs to be made easy for them and clear. There should be a two-way gain: both for the organization as well as the employee and so job descriptions are extremely important. Job Title: The title of the job explains the work or the grade. The nearer the title is to the actual work, dissonance would be lower. It would explain the lateral, reporting, vertical…

I mostly made the decision to do this because of the women like in Bananeras, women that have to work 7 days a week and 24 hours. Maybe not quite that much, but it’s in a sense how I felt when I read their stories. They have to work almost every day and we spend our day shopping for deals. It’s like a war on Black Friday, people fight and push and will do anything to get what they went out there for. We’re spending…

But first, a manager has to take the time to identify the toxic behavior. The behavior is often identified as toxic or poisonous because once it is in; it does take a great amount of work to filter it out. A manager can attempt to communicate with their personnel in reference to their issues and see if they can adequately reduce their damaging approach to convert into a helpful and positive colleague of the group. If that misses the…

Lucy McCormick, of ‘GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN’ (GITBOTV), influenced my practice through her solo workshop and subsequent conversations because I found her style and attitude towards creative work particularly stimulating and we share an enthusiasm for pushing theatrical boundaries. Her approach demonstrates that, “the question of boundaries and extremes is always in the room” (McCormick, 2014). In our workshop on ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’ Lucy got one of my classmates, Laura, to chew…

In life people have to deal with all sorts of situations big and small. Social psychology has broken down how we deal with those situations into six dyads that are meant to show how we deal with the situations that we confront (Kenrick, D., Neuberg, S., Cialdini R. 2007). The first dyad is that different persons respond differently to the same situation (Kenrick, D., Neuberg, S., Cialdini R. 2007). For an example, let us say that an experiment in which a social scientist is trying to find out…

How important is work in today’s society? Imagine a world without work, a world in which nothing would get accomplished, now imagine a world in which everyone enjoyed work, and accomplished countless tasks every day. There has to be a happy medium. In order for the world to be successful work is a necessity, everyone has their own attitude toward work and the exertion level they are willing to put in. My first observation leads me into my backyard where I observe my father meticulously picking…