The Boss of Me In Jamie Pritscher’s is “Director of Logistics” at Tasty Catering and wrote an essay titled “Yes I’m 26 and Yes I Do the Hiring”. She says, “Sometimes being recognized for your efforts is more important than money” (Pg. 560). Pritscher’s point is employees are human beings too and that if managers want any respect or quality work out of their employees they should try to keep them happy and recognize their efforts. It is no surprise that there are many working class citizens that leave jobs simply because they feel undignified, mistreated, and unwanted at their own place of work.
In Pritscher’s essay she concludes with “Employees want to feel appreciated, no matter what their age. A simple ‘thank you’ goes a long way” (Pg. 560) and this is true if you want to earn some respect from your employees but it’s not the only thing that will maintain a positive morale. Employees are still human beings that need a reason to go to work every morning and most will say that reason is a paycheck, but if your job is most of your life and you are miserable at your place of work than wouldn’t you look for another place to work? Yes, you would and many do because that paycheck doesn’t go very far if other needs are not met by management. One way to earn respect from your workers is to actually help employees meet your standards. Pritscher said when her company installed global positioning systems in the trucks that some employees (particularly the older workers) could not figure out how to use them. Some of the employees that knew how to use the GPS tried helping the ones that couldn’t figure out how to use it, but still some employees weren’t able to comprehend it. So what did Pritscher do? Did she decide to just fire the employees that were having trouble doing their job and meeting the company's standards? No she didn’t, instead she decided to take the