Prompt 1: Section 1 suggests that some employees have trouble communicating their true feelings to their superiors. Have you experienced this discomfort in any of your jobs? Explain why you find communicating with your boss easy or difficult?
Prompt 2: Section 3 addresses how workplace politics can impact ethical decision-making. What would you do if you found out that several company executives were using a product vendor that charged your company significantly higher rates than competitors, and you suspected that these decision
were being made because the product vendor is a relative of your boss? Would you challenge this decision? If so, what would you say and who would you tell? Also consider the extent to which your company may value trust with a particular vendor over lower cost.
Would you mind helping me respond to these two responses?
M1) I have experienced this at a few workplaces before. I have worked in retail and in the school system, and I would say working in the school system was extremely hard. I was a senior in high school, going to school half a day, and the other half I was going to a school to work at the front desk. There was this lady who did not like that I got the job over her daughter. This lady worked in the school system and in the office as well, so she thought her daughter should have gotten the job over me. A lot of drama with this lady happened on and off the whole year, and I had to sit down with the principle multiple times because she would say I wasn’t doing the work she wanted me to do. Even though I was doing all of my job and most of hers. Since I was still in school, I got graded on my job because I needed the credits to graduate. This lady was the one to give me my grades. She gave me an A for the first nine weeks, and for the last nine weeks, she gave me a B. This B kept me out of honors day my senior year and dropped my gpa. I feel like all this drama made it hard to communicate with my boss, which would have been the principle. I feel like I was not taken seriously because I was still in school and this lady was older. I think the principle took her side because he knew her better than he knew me.
P2) Section 1 suggests that some employees have trouble communicating their true feelings to their superiors. Have you experienced this discomfort in any of your jobs? Explain why you find communicating with your boss easy or difficult?
Yes, I can see where communicating with the boss can be troublesome. I have had this experience myself where I was not comfortable to talk to my boss. The boss was very standoffish and was not approachable. A lot of people didn’t like to talk to him as he had no personality. Once you got past his looks, he was a really nice guy he just looked angry all the time. After having that experience, I find it easier to talk to bosses now as I stopped trying to judge people’s attitude by the way they look.