Thursday, July 24, 2014

I feel like there was a "best" and "worst" sense of element to the first job that I ever had.  When I was a sophomore in high school I was a lifeguard at the Aladdin Hotel (which was bought and turned into Planet Hollywood).  I honestly loved my job for the common reason's and one of them was the fact that I was 15 and made $12.00 an hour.  I think that this was an element in which made it the worst job in a sense too and that was mainly because due to the fact that I was 15, I feel that making such a large amount of money (in my personal opinion) per hour skewed my expectations regarding pay in future jobs.  I think that aside from that, the actual worst job I had was also when I was in high school and that was being an expeditor in a restaurant in which my step dad was a partner in.  Contrary to what one may think, the fact that my step dad was in deed a partner it actually made the experience a thousand times worse for me personally.  I was treated completely different and the main problem was always in regard to the schedule I was given.
 “Felix, things are going to have to change at the resort, aren't they? You've mentioned that business is getting slower. Maybe it's because employees aren't treated well and they, in turn, are less concerned about the guests. We both know that we'll soon have another hotel in town, and the human resources people there will be aggressively searching for new staff members."
I feel that this in someway could apply to the fact that it is less and less of a concern for certain employers exactly what things can be done in order to make an employee happy.  Sometimes certain things as simple as allowing them a little say (in a scheduling situation for example) can allow for a much happier employee.  It doesn’t always have to be an extreme problem in order to make an employee unhappy.