I was sixteen years old. I was in high school. I already was working full time after school and on weekends at Dunkin Donuts. I decided that I wanted to take on another job. I applied at a local grocery store named Better Value. Better Value was a small chain of grocery stores located throughout the surrounding towns that I grew up in. I can recall going shopping at an A & P when I was younger; Better Value was a similar style store, in fact some of the Better Value grocery stores had occupied buildings that A & P previously occupied years before. I was immediately called in for an interview. The older women who called me stated that she needed me to come in for the interview as soon as I was available. We made arrangements for me to meet her at the Plainfield Better Value since that was the store that needed a cashier. I had originally applied two towns away closer to my high school at the Better Value in Killingly. I was fairly nervous, because I had always thought that it would be fun to be a cashier at a grocery store. I remember the night before the interview I was day dreaming about how I would play cashier as a child with a toy cash register and plastic goods. The following day I when I arrived for my interview the women I spoke with on the phone was not there. Another maniger who was seemingly very busy hardly igknoledged that I had arrived. I immediately felt out of place, and quickly realized that the local grocery store didn’t feel as comfortable as it once did while shopping there. The manger decided that she wanted me to start training that day, and without any notice left me with another cashier to learn the work. I trained for the remaining of an eight hour shift. Before I left for the day, the manger asked me to... ... middle of paper ... ...ing a cashier at the Better Value was not the right job for me. I was embarrassed that I couldn’t work the register. I felt stranded because there was not another employee ever available to help me or answer questions. It seemed like it was a never ending precession of disgruntled senior citizens with coupons flying out of there pocket books. Looking back now I realized that it was wrong for me to quit that job without first learning how to do it. However, I was 16, it was my second job and I had to much pride to be belittled by the perception that I was an incompetent cashier. After I quit, I never went back to that Better Value. I think that Sammy said I quit because the manger had violated what Sammy thought to be polite behavior. I imagine that he felt that the manger had no right to draw so much attention to something as monotimiss as dress code. .
In the story A&P, we know as the story begins, Sammy is employed at A&P. He is ringing a older lady, who he describes as a "witch", groceries up. While Sammy is occupied, in walks three girls, wearing bathing suits, who catch Sammy's eye. Their attire is against the stores policy, which is not enforced, until the manager approaches them. Once the manager approaches them, we later read that Sammy quits his job. Following his first announce in him quitting, he says, "You didn't have to embarrass them" (152), which let us know, he felt the girls were embarrassed. Sammy's main point for quitting his job at A&P, in his and my opinion, is to be an "unsuspected hero" (152).
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The boss, Lengel, seems to think that he has authority over Sammy, which he kind of does being the boss and everything. Sammy knows that Lengel thinks he is the big man, Sammy says, “I forgot to say he thinks he’s going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it’s called the Great Alexandrov and Petooshki Tea Company or something”(371). This is where the story gets more complex; since Lengel thinks he is the big boss, he decides that he wants to say something to the girls about being in their bathing suits. The girls were only in the store to pick up one thing for “Queenie’s” mother, but from Sammy’s point of view, it seems as if Lengel just wanted to show that he is higher up than the other workers. Sammy thinks that Lengel disrespected the girls by telling them that they need to wear clothing the next time they came into the store, and this made Sammy mad; Sammy wanted to look like a hero of sorts to the girls and quits his job on the spot in hopes that the girls would hear him and know that he did it for
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