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Since I don't currently have a job, I'll use my experience from my job last summer. Is that okay?

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Robert McCutchan; 17

1. What is your full job description? Frontier City Foods Department. I was what we called a "red tag." I was a grunt, basically.
2. What are your responsibilities at your job? I cooked food (fast food type) and worked the cash register and cleaned.
3. How do you communicate with other people on the job? At the restaraunt I worked with for the first half of the summer, my coworkers and I were pretty jovial while working. We joked around and had fun. During the second half, though, I was moved around to different restaraunts a bit and was a little less friendly, since I didn't really know them as well..
4. With customers/management/subordinates, would you say your communication is more direction-receiving, feedback, or equal and why? With my costumers, it was pretty much direction-receiving. They were customers... Management was a little weird. We had supervisors who were no older than I was. They were pretty much just coworkers with a tad more authority. The "gold tags" (the park managers and such) were more typical bosses.
5. What motivates you to work? Pretty much money. There was hardly any personal satisfaction from asking people if they wanted a souvenier cup.
6. Do you feel communication is significant at your workplace? Why/Why not? Yeah, I guess. I had to talk to the customers to see what they wanted. We also had to talk to the person on the cash register in case there was some special request that we couldn't read from the ticket.
7. What is something you would change about the way you could communicate with others at your job? [i]In some restaraunts, it was hard to tell the cooks to add an extra slice of cheese or something. Sometimes it wasn't clear what people wanted extra cheese or chili on, etc. SOmething to clarify that would have been nice...[i]
8. Do you feel you are an effective communicator? Why/why not? I think I did well enough. There were a couple of times that customers got ticked at me because I couldn't read their mind, but I hardly think that's my fault...


/me shrugs and walks away