Diversity In The Workplace

When considering the sheer amount of people in the world, it’s fair to say that meeting different people with different thoughts, ideologies, and experiences is basically inevitable. As such, I too have met my fair share of different people, despite being shy and introverted, however the people that had the most impact on me came from my first workplace. The people who I met at my workplace where people whose different experiences in the same workplace helped me start enjoying working for Whataburger. As soon as I turned 16 I knew I had to get a job, I didn’t want keep relying on my mother for money, but I was still surprised when I got an interview with Whataburger only two weeks into my job hunt. Throughout my orientation into the job I became

However, when I started I immediately got moved from my position of choice, the grill, to the back in order to prepare produce. On my first day I stayed from 5 to almost 1 o’ clock preparing the perfect salads for my strict manager, I wasn’t feeling the Whata-love. Thinking about how I was going to have to spend the next two years precisely cutting produce until late at night, I quickly lost my enthusiasm. To add to my un-enthusiasm I was only one out maybe 3 new hires that month, meaning I was the only new hire in a group of long time employees. Despite setbacks I still held a hope in my heart that I could foster some form of friendship with my new coworkers, such as the ones you see on TV. However, all my coworkers seemed jaded and hardened from years in the fast food business, none of them had the passion that I had at the start. They only spoke to each other and were older than me, which meant that I with my lack of social skills could not bring myself to trouble them with chit-chat. By the second month I was almost ready to hold a funeral for my Whataburger-brand Pride, Care, and Love, but luckily that was also the