Slacker

My First Job I always wanted a job while I was attending high school, but because of my age every place that I applied to didn’t want to hire me. The places I applied were looking for people that were at least eighteen years old with experience. So instead I ended up doing seasonal jobs because the companies were just looking for people during holiday seasons. Once I graduated, I started applying to different places again and finally got a call back for an interview. I was excited to work at…

One of the five core value’s I chose is autonomy, which means to act independent with a few constraints, and self-reliance. I would consider myself autonomous in the sense that I have full control of what I choose to do. Since starting college I have taken a substantial leap to adulthood and greater accountability and control over myself and what I chose to do has become my own responsibility bear. I can choose whether to do my assignments or not, whether to attend class or not, or whether I…

All throughout my life I have been a slacker. I was someone who would do the homework the class before it was due, or sometimes not even do it. My grades were free falling due to my lack of effort. The stress was to much for me and it was my fault to. So I actually began to do homework. This…

19th Amendment August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment was finally added to the constitution. It wasn’t that easy, there were years of protests, campaigns, petitions, parades and other tactics used to help push this amendment through (History.com). These tactics created attention to help dramatize the issue. Since the time of the American Revolution, women fought to gain the same social, political and economic rights as men. Women had been fighting for the right to vote long before the 1900s.…

referred to social loafing. However it is imperative to understand that there are internal and external factors as to why a particular group member may seem apathetic while working. This makes it crucial to hold all judgments regarding a so-called slacker until all the information is gathered and analyzed. It is vital to have an understanding of the person who seems to be partaking in social loafing within a group, as there may be some unknown internal factors that are causing the…

Christopher McCandless was born on February 12, 1968 in California. He ended up studying at Emory University, and after graduating gave the $24,000 in his bank account to charity before disappearing from his family. McCandless then travelled around the country by means such as hitchhiking, and identified himself as Alex Supertramp. Alex arrived in Fairbanks Alaska in 1992, with the intent of living off the land, and his dead body was found a few months later about 19 days after McCandless’…

You work at a small company that is growing fast and you are on the fast track to getting promoted as the company hires more and more employees. You have been jockeying for this promotion for some time. When you started at the company, you generally got along with everyone. As time went on, though, your working relationships changed. As you started your ambitious climb to the top, you slowly alienated your coworkers with somewhat less than amicable behavior. You sometimes felt lonely or…

We did work independently and then came together when we performed. We used google drive to discuss the presentation and to help each other with our own position in the company. Everyone in our group put equal effort in the work and there were no slackers in our group. At times I just hoped all my group member did their part and I was always nervous for them. Zachary had good eye contact and his tone was informative but his hand gestures were a little…

It is found that the larger the size of the group, the higher the level of anonymity in individuals. The increase in anonymity raises the difficulty in assessing individual performance (Liden, Wayne, Jaworski & Bennett, 2004). The second factor is the valence, or the meaningfulness of the group to the individual. It is observed that if the individual perceives the team goals to be less meaningful, he or she demonstrates a lower level of valence and the likeliness of them loafing increase (Dick,…

TITLE Peru’s Colca Canyon : The Make or Break Survival Guide LEAD PARAGRAPH A crack in Peru’s southern Andes, Colca Canyon emerges as one of the country's emphatic geological features. Travelers of all kind—wayfarers to those who own the sunglasses—make their way down the dusty trail to see colorful panoramas, and sprawling wildlife. It’s the third most visited sight in Peru, so chances are, you will want to see what it’s all about. Deciding how many days you want to spend, how fast you want…