Response to Levine's story and poem!

I think that Levine's story and poem is based on anger that he didn't get the job and that his bother had a job. I think that it related to the story in Terkel just because it a personal experience, but beside that i don't see it. It doesn't talk about doing a job or having to do two job just to getting by on the necessity. The poem is saying that work is a bad thing that it makes people mad. I t make you envy those who have a job because you don't know how to keep your mouth shut and wait for your turn to be interviewed.

Gender

Growing up I didn't notice a difference in gender roles. Men and women were working in the same places. They're women who worked in factory just like men. The only difference I seen between women and men was that men only had one job, but women had more then one job. Women had to be mother, cook , house cleaner, and so on. I didn't grow up with an idea that men or women should only do one type of job. Gender doesn't have anything to do with my goals in terms of work or in any other way. You can be whatever you want to be no matter if your male or female.

Status

The status in the family is based on what the person does and how they treat the other family members. in family it is not really based on education or job but on how they are when you around them. The status between friends is based on how good the friendship is. The respect that you give them and the respect they give in return. A person status changes depending of the environment.

Working

Where I was working I would have to do many things. I would have to return items to the shelves and charge people for the items they purchase. The place looked like any other supermarket you go into..there are people working in diffrent lines, a meat department, deli. The atmosphere was the worse you can't even imagine all the thing that would happen. There was always something happpening between co-worker...customer being rude and disrespecful. The manager...well lets leave it at that he was the worse one i ever seen in the company. I made a change by leaving the place, but for somelese who still working there just report the manager so that the store can go back to normal.