Essay On Working In The Workplace - 1385 Words

The case I am going to use was at the beginning of my working career. I had just started a new job at a wine bar, let’s call it Italiano’s. At this wine bar I was given the job of busser and bar back, about as low as you could get at the restaurant besides dishwasher. When I started this job I was a senior high school, which compared to my co-workers, was very young. Most of my co-workers were in their late twenties and thirties. Due to this age gap, I felt very immature and underpowered in the workplace. I felt like I had to follow everybody’s command because it was my first job and felt like I needed to be the perfect worker. There are two issues in this case that put pressure on me to act unethically or not speak up. First, at the†¦show more content†¦It got so bad that one employee had to be fired because they physically harmed another employee by shaking them with anger when they messed up. Due to the lack of supervision, many employees would take advantage of smoke breaks. Throughout the night employees would leave from time to time to go take smoke breaks. This is fine and common in the service industry as a way to relieve the stress of working on your feet for many hours of the day. Some employees would take 20-30 minute smoke breaks, which is way longer than any break should take. This affected me and the other servers that did not smoke because we had to make up for their missed work on top of the work we already had to do ourselves. The laziness and lack of care for the work they are doing led to a toxic work environment for everyone as well. When confronting one of the individuals, they told me to just pick up smoking so that I could also take long breaks throughout the night. That would temporarily fix my problem of unequal work but would not fix the restaurants problem of idle employees. 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