tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159902448499102985.post6079323994286564592..comments2023-03-25T11:59:40.769-07:00Comments on College Writing II - TR - Spring 2015: Sweating for Every Nickel and Dimeshilohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14959677775982862372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159902448499102985.post-91730265219018586762015-03-12T12:23:26.358-07:002015-03-12T12:23:26.358-07:00I agree with Asia and Deicy's viewpoints on Eh...I agree with Asia and Deicy's viewpoints on Ehrenreich's "From Nickel and Dimed" about how people in blue collar and working professions are often times taken advantage of in their manual labor jobs. Their mother companies and bosses don't consider the welfare of their workers and simply treat them like dogs to get their money's worth out of them, because after all, to them, the workers are dispensable. Though, it is a sad fact that that is just how our society is run, we are based on a largely capitalist consumer society who places too much importance on money. Weather or not it is right or fair, the problem will continue with no betterment in the near future. I would like to however contract their ideas on one point. These home owners which are spoken of in the "Nickel and Dimed" essay may not be the unemotional and uncaring monsters they can be perceived to be. Weather or not one is in a blue collar job or in a salary paid job at an executive office both do work which is comparable to their skill levels. Individuals with homes which need to be cleaned by these women are most likely college graduates who have poured tears, sweat, and blood into their job and degree, getting to the position of financial stability they are currently in. Neither are better because both are needed to make "America," but both manual laborers and individuals with professional jobs face struggles and challenges in their lives and shouldn't be discredited. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03140088143860406190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1159902448499102985.post-78505604652148094282015-03-12T11:11:30.389-07:002015-03-12T11:11:30.389-07:00Deicy is certainly right about how people that wor...Deicy is certainly right about how people that work in the minimum wage jobs get taken advantage of by not getting paid enough for the work that they do. The workers could be doing so much more work and over working themselves and not getting paid what they should be getting paid for the work that they do. The upper class did in the article "From Nickel and Dimed" take advantage of the work that the maids did for their household's. They did not care how much the maids for getting paid, all the cared about was how well they were cleaning their house's. I agree that no matter what job you work for you do deserve every penny that you earned during the process because it is not right to make a human work their asses off and not get paid for it. It is hard to make a living making little to no money at all. People are willing to bend over backwards for these jobs because sometimes that is all they can get and they should not be taken advantage of because of it. I do believe that if people were more considerate of how hard people work on a day to day basis they could possibly try to pay them more or they could possibly set rules so that people do not over work themselves all the time for very little money. I really enjoyed this reading because it did show how hard the poor work just to make it in their lives. It shows that even the poor people that do try still are not able to make a living.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17689136151297989714noreply@blogger.com