Ben Bernanke Blog

I used to work for the retail store Gordman's the summer before my sophomore year of college. I worked around 6 am Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unloading a truck full of new supplies. I would open the boxes of supplies and then hang the clothes and tag other home supplies. I also worked at a cash register about twice a week depending on when they would schedule me. After a couple of weeks of working in the store, I was acquainted with most of the staff and new how to do my job fairly well. Working as a cashier I mostly only talked with my customers. However, on days when I unloaded the truck I would be in the same room with the same people for about 5 hours. The conflict that arose reached a critical point around a month into starting this job and involved the crew who unloaded the truck. One of my coworkers, Gary is his alias, was in his 50's and was a lot older than the rest of us. Three of us that worked unloading the truck were about college aged and one other person was...

In my current job there is more than enough gift exchange happening each day. I work for the Illinois video crew filming the football team's practices and games. Before each practice and game it is necessary to set up the cameras and test them at least an hour before the football team starts practice or a game. There are a variety of cameras that need to be set up, but most of them can be set up within ten minutes and tested within another ten minutes. This usually leaves some spare time before any actual game play and filming. The video crew consists of around twelve workers. Ten of us film on different types of cameras while two of us format SD cards and edit film on the inside and don't actually film. Also, only half of us film the entire practice while the others only film certain parts of practice. And each worker only works six games, including four home games and two away games. In the video crew each of us cannot make it on time an hour before practice every day to se...