...Rachel Seavey Assignment #4 Professor Suzanne Palmieri 4/25/2016 People Like Us Tammy's Story “Tammy's Story” is about Tammy, a poor middle-aged woman who lives in a trailer with her four teenage kids. She walks 10 miles everyday to work for cleaning the bathroom in a fast food shop. Her neighbor said she was “trash” while her son is ashamed of her. Tammy grew up in a poor family and had very poor EDUCATION. She is working in Burger King for cleaning up the bathrooms. From information on the Internet, the salary of a lower level worker in Burger King is about $7000-$12000 a year. As she is the only person earning money for her family, Tammy's family is lower class. I would like to discuss more about Tammy's family. For Tammy, she works as a bathroom cleaner in a fast food shop which is a cheap job. Also, she has a low reputation as her neighbor called her “trash” and her sons don't respect her. For her property, she earns too little and not enough for food every day. And, she is living in a trailer which is a POOR living environment, so she has low level in property too. Tammy doesn't have a car or a driving license, so she needs to walk 10 miles to work everyday. “Owning a car” is for normal middle-class-Americans, and some of her neighbors even said,“Hey trash! What are you doing?”. As Tammy is in lower class, this behavior affects her life drastically. She said she is unhappy as her neighbors TREATED her differently. Her son said he is not satisfied...
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...from a very large close-knit family in Illinois. Her fiancés job was transferring them to Sioux City, Iowa. So she did a little soul seeking and thought this would be a good time to try something new in her career. She had a bachelor’s degree in accounting but was tired of crunching numbers. She decided she wanted to interact with people face to face, instead of hanging in an office behind a desk. So the move was a great time to see what else might be out there. She saw an ad in the Sioux City newspaper for an assistant director position at Personal Reflection. Personal Reflections, was a national chain of personal care and household products. She applied, was offered the job within two hours, and accepted the position within the next two days. She attended a two-week training class within the next few weeks after accepting the position. The company seemed great, people were nice and benefits were great but she noticed after that training class Personal Reflection provided little information or assistance to their directors. When Tricia started Heather Munson was the store director, and at that time there was only two assistant directors, and 30 part-time employees. Personal Reflection ranked their stores based on sales. There were four levels, stores with the largest volume would be ranked a 1, the Sioux City store was ranked a 3. Ms. Munson resented that the district manager did not allow for her to have a decision on the hiring of Tricia. Tricia always felt like she was being...
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...named one of the Top 10 Ski Town Sandwich Shops by UnofficialNetworks.com an organization known for insider’s guide to skiing, snowboarding and biking. It was a surprise for the Zullo family who didn’t even know they were being considered. Not bad for a sandwich shop founded by a brother and sister. Today if one were to visit The Sandwich Shoppe early in the morning, one would see a long line of customers waiting for breakfast. Not bad for a business that has been around for over 35 years. The thriving deli/restaurant began next door at 50 Merchants...
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...into an unnatural, yet cosmetically pleasing, position. I mistakenly anticipated the day that I would be freed of the the chains that tightly shackled my teeth, for I could never have foreseen the calamity that was yet to come. My mother adamantly insisted on accompanying me on this...
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...Elena Grimes Professor Yoshikawa English 101 10/12/2015 " Proud to Be Me" When something bad happens you either have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. Tammy Bernier shows us how she found the courage and strength to finally confront her father after being molested by her family members for years. I believe she wrote this passage not only to share her abuse, but to encourage others who may have experienced the same situation that there is a time to stand up for yourself and realize how strong you are. Most girls grow up to be Daddy's little girl. Most fathers are the most powerful influences in their child's life and even considered to be their daughters first love. I cannot imagine having to constantly trying to gain the love and attention from my father. He has always and still to this day treats me nothing less that a princess. For Bernier, it was the complete opposite. She had to constantly prove herself worthy of her fathers love and time, yet he always treated her as if she was nothing constantly believing she was a liar. Tammy was her fathers child, but she wasn't the boy child that he wanted. Her fathers almost seems like he was punishing her for something that she had no control over. "I let out not one whimper, not one cry as I told my mother I loved her and hung up the phone. I was now dead inside" (Bernier 276) I could literally almost feel the hurt of her statement as she hung up the phone with her...
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...was extremely helpful for her, being that she had no experience in a managerial role. Tricia began her role in her new position on August 1. It started off rocky, almost immediately, and in a matter of months things took a drastic turn with her new job. The store that Tricia worked for was apart of a National Chain. Each location was ranked on a level 1-4 based on its sale revenue with one being the highest. The Sioux City location was a level 3 store under the direction of Heather Munson. Before Tricia even began her position, Munson had already felt disgruntle at the fact that she was never included in the selection process for hiring the three assistant directors for her store. Munson and Tricia’s work relationship started off on a bad note. Every encounter that Tricia had with Heather made her feel as though she was being questioned. Tricia made an effort to bring some structure to the disorderly, messy store and was reprimanded by Heather for doing something that Heather had not instructed her to do. Matters between Tricia and Heather worsened after the other assistant director resigned, leaving two vacant positions for assistant directors. It was only one month into her employment and Tricia was contemplating resignation. Due to Heather’s unexpected medical leave she ended up filling in as store director....
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...included not allowing the store manager to have any involvement in the hiring decision. (Note: not good hiring practice could lead to animosity between workers) Sioux City store was set up to have one store manager and three assistant managers. When Tricia reported to work she was confronted by a disorganized store, a confrontational store manager (Heather Munson), and only one other assistant manager (one short). Within a month the other assistant manager quit and the store manager had gone on disability leave. Tricia was left to run the store by herself for over a month by herself and approximately 30 part-time employees. (Note: regional manager should have come to help) After 45 days of running the store by herself, management hired three assistant managers (Amy, Lori, and Tammy). During the next several weeks Tricia learned the background and capabilities of each assistant manager and tailored their work toward their strengths. “She set challenging goals for Lori, laughed with Amy, and held Tammy’s hand.” (Note: no formal counseling on employee weaknesses or plan to address or fix them) Tricia’s management style consisted of creating an atmosphere where...
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...Goodwill Goodwill is an intangible asset and is the difference between a company’s total value and current market value of their tangible assets (Buying a Business). For example, a company purchases another firm for ten million and the tangible assets of that firm are worth one million; nine million would be the company’s goodwill. There are many things that make up the value of a company’s goodwill; such as customer loyalty, reputation, copyrights, patents etc. Most of the value of a company does not come from the hard assets, but in the intangible asset. Because reputation has an affect on a company’s goodwill, a publicly traded company’s goodwill can be affected more than a private company’s; therefore publicly traded companies have to be more careful about their decisions and ethics. One way goodwill could go down is if a company’s reputation were to be damaged. When a company’s reputation goes down it can cause their stock prices to go down; therefore, reducing their market value. When the market value of a company goes down, their goodwill goes down as well, and this is called impairment. Impairment is when the carrying amount of goodwill is greater than its implied fair value (ASC 350-20-35-2). According to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Impairment must be tested annually anytime during the fiscal year as long as it is done the same time every year by using the two-step process and if impairment exists, the impairment losses are put in the income statement...
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...might think it's crazy & laugh at someone who has this phobia but it is a real thing to deal with to someone who suffers with it. Somethings I already knew about this phobis was people were often freaked out by the feel of cotton balls. Some often cannot bear to touch cotton balls. It is not only the texture that gives them this uneasy, unusual anxious feeling, it is also the sound that cotton balls make when they are rubbed together or pulled apart. As for me I can't stand to touch or think about cotton balls. I would cringe and have chills at just the thought of them. Just a few days ago in an elevator with Tammy, she was talking about cotton balls, and I had tears coming from my eyes. There comes times when I want to get my nails done, and when I finally get to go they would have to saturate the entire cotton ball, in order for it to be used on me. I learned that some people suffer so bad that they cannot open their own mail, medicine bottles or even use Q-tips, even refuse to wear certain types of cotton clothes. Some think this fear mostly develops during childhood or some traumatic experience had to have happened. But that's not always the case, as in my situation I didn't have a traumatic situation or horrible encounter, it's something that just happened to me & has stuck with me every since I can remember. Hypnotism is the known treatment for the fear of cotton balls. Gradual exposure or desentitization therapy is also proven to help treat some individuals. But...
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...my week was so bad, I realize, the only reason it was shitty was because of me. That took a lot to admit. So without further ado, my week. Monday I had to take a “mini” exam in biology. I wasn’t particularly scared for this but I did know that I wasn’t really prepared either. I didn’t read the book, which isn’t a big deal with the way this class is set up, but I...
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...Learning Team Reflection Week 3 Ronnie Creech, Patrick Benton, Tammy Coleman, & Sarah Ridley COM/537 Organizational Communication February 8, 2013 Chuck Millhollan Learning Team Reflection Week 3 Team C provides reflections of the learning objectives for week two of the course curriculums. The objectives include identification of stakeholders, differentiation between types of audiences, and analysis of audience perception and needs. The discussion centers on comprehension of the learning objectives, challenges or struggles understanding the concepts, and applicability of topics to current career fields (University of Phoenix eCampus, 2013). Comfortable Topics Objectives of week identify stakeholders as two groups, external and internal. A Stakeholder Analysis helps the project team in many ways. The team identifies key individuals and work groups that are affected both positively or negatively, by the project. They also identify key individuals or entities that can have a major influence on the process improvement project. By discussing the project and its potential advantages, the team is able to understand the current position of these individuals with regard to the project (Stuart, Sarow, & Stuart, 2007). In this way, the team creates a strategy to persuade the stakeholders to act in ways that do not undermine the project, but that favor organizational change and successful project completion. External and Internal stakeholders sometimes share a common...
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...Ropes of Hatred Tammy L. Boyd-Polk SOC/315 Mr. Hassan El-Amin Week 5, Individual Assignment 9/31/2007 Ropes of Hatred Hatred is not a behavior that humans are born with, it is a behavior that is taught and bred into people. In most cases this act of instilling hate is incepted during child hood, by a parent or a close relative. In some cases people who breathe hatred may have been introduced to this way of thinking out of their household by close friends or acquaintances. In either case this way of thinking has caused a strain on intercultural relationships in past years and it stills haunts our current society. The Deep South still wreaks the singe of racial discrimination, it seems the further south you travel the more you can experience or hear about how prevalent racism still is in these areas. It is always bad when the common citizens have this mentality; however when your judicial system is comprised of individuals who still embrace this thought pattern, then you really have to ask yourself who can you trust ?or who can you even turn to? when the officers that are suppose to up hold the laws are tainted along with the laws that are suppose to govern the land. It is apparent that the governing body of the United States places racial issues on the back burner; it seems to me that the government will only address certain issues if media attention warrants it. There is no excuse why all laws are not equivalent...
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...Integrity and Corrections Tammy Sullivan Instructor Singh CRJ 100 March 7, 2011 Integrity and Corrections Integrity means an act or notion to be honest and truthful in your actions and beliefs. In the Department of Corrections the oath that an officer takes holds this as a guide to uphold some polices of corrections. The respect that an officer gets is earned both on and off the job. We as correctional officers cannot engage in bribery, corruption, or allow another officer to do such. A correctional officer cannot accept gifts, favors, or gratuities from inmates or their families. They cannot accept or give to any inmate. Each morning before beginning tour of duty, an officer is reminded of how much integrity means in his or her lines of duty. They are reminded that they must refrain from personal dealings, sexual harassment and DUI. All of these acts if committed hurts your integrity and brings a frown upon the department. Anytime there is a corrupt officer from corrections on the news it not only hurts their institution but the department as a whole. Anytime an officer is in a situation where they feel they are lying, misleading or not within policy they should refrain from doing it. Correctional officers must present themselves both publicly and privately as trustworthy citizens and officers. Doing the right thing al all times will never go wrong. Inmates try to manipulate staff on a daily basis. They work hard to try to become a threat to an officer...
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...Day three of the popular VooDoo Music and Art Festival in New Orleans was rained out Sunday, leaving fans and performers disappointed. Rain water flooded the festival grounds as organizers cited "dangerous weather conditions, including forecasted persistent rain and flash flood warnings for Orleans Parish for Sunday" as the reason for the cancellation. After a rainy Saturday night with performances by artists such as Ozzy Ozborne, day three was expected to be the pinnacle of the weekend featuring Deadmau5, Post Malone and many more. Festival participant Cynthea Corfah described the cancellation as devastating news when she saw the announcement on Twitter. “It was supposed to be a rain or shine event,” Corfah said. “People had mentally prepared themselves that it was going to be wet, muddy and rainy, but it still wouldn’t matter. We just wanted to go.” Corfah said she felt the rain added to experience and explained that seeing everyone in a Halloween costume made it more exciting. She also recalled there was only mud and no lightning that Saturday. While refunds will be issued for the day, fans and performers took to twitter to find venues for artists to perform. Corfah said, day three performer Chance the Rapper was in the French Quarter watching a magic show. “It looked like he didn’t know what he was going to do with himself,” Corfah said. The festival cancellation isn’t the first problem with Louisiana weather this year. On Sept. 5 lightning strikes...
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...After the death, people were starting to wonder why she would wash the infant’s clothing, packed them away long with the other items she had for the baby. This is something she would do any time after the child had passed away, this lead people to think she was guilty of something. About two weeks after her baby dying, her son Joseph was taken to the hospital. Once they had taken him to the hospital, he started to go into cardiac arrest and then later he died. Soon after saying goodbye to her son, a month later her daughter Barbara Ann went to the hospital next. As soon as she was taken to the hospital, her mother wanted and did take her daughter home, the next day she passed away. Her daughter would have been the third child to past away within the two month marks. This time instead of doing her ritual after the funeral of her child, she did before the...
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