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Blog Post 9

When employees do very similar work, it is easier to see who is more productive and who is not as productive. Tensions can arise among people when they feel that they are working harder than the rest of the team. When I worked at a textbook warehouse after my freshman year, nearly all the employees did the same work. There were a few supervisors, but most of the employees were warehouse associates. As warehouse associates, we had to take tubs of books and put the books in different areas throughout the warehouse. There was a computer system that tracked how productive an employee was, so in theory everyone should be doing approximately the same amount of work. Even though everyone had the same productivity requirements and this seemed like very simple work, there were people who did not do the best work. My coworkers, let’s call them Larry and Johnson, were two people who exemplified this variety in the quality of work.  Larry would always use his phone during his shift and cu...
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Blog Post 7

Many classes I have taken have required attendance and require you to sign in or answer an I-clicker question in order to receive credit; however, all of them offered at least a few free absences. In my experience, most days this greatly increased the overall class attendance, but for a few days out of the year attendance would drop off significantly. Classes on Fridays before breaks or long weekends had a significantly lower attendance, even lower than those with no attendance policy. Much like the article that talked about how more parents were late to pick up their kids after a fine was imposed, students were more likely to skip classes that required attendance but offered a few days of allowed skips. When these students use their free skips, they are essentially purchasing an absence. They don’t feel bad about skipping class because they are giving up one of their free absences. Attendance in all classes before break is generally lower but having a certain number of absences se...
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Blog Post 3

The summer after my freshman year I worked in a textbook warehouse as a warehouse associate. For the first week on the job, my sole responsibility was to stand near a conveyor belt and take totes with books off the line and sort the totes by the colored labels on them. This was at best mind numbing and monotonous, but it had to be done. Because this was early in the summer, the company was solely focused on buying used books to resell in the fall, so everyday hundreds of new books would be brought into the warehouse. The totes I took off would be picked up by other workers and the books inside would be placed in their appropriate location in the warehouse. This job, at least in my opinion, was far superior because it allowed you to walk around all day rather than being stuck along a conveyor belt for eight hours a day. However, after about a week and a half working the line, I was trained on the technology and began working as one of the people who put books away. I enjoyed this ...
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