8:00 section / Carver -- "Fat"

Gossip

• Narrator to Rita
• Among coworkers
• Lesson: Don't gossip (?)
• Lesson: Gossip can be helpful (?) -- stress relief

Lesson: Don't judge a person by the way they look

• coworkers -- vs. -- narrator
• the fat man also judges himself, making excuses?

Lesson: Customer service -- different kinds of people ...

Lesson: Letting your work affect you

Lesson: Don't take your work home with you (?)

Lesson: Separate work life from social life

8:00 section / Hempel -- "Now I Can See the Moon"

She's helping the blind people by training dogs

Connection: all 3 characters are really dedicated to their work (includes the waitress and Clancy)

Is she using her job as an outlet or an escape from her marriage?

Did she work too much which drove her husband away?

Connection:

• She is married (separated)
• Clancy is also married
• The waitress is in a relationship
• All 3 characters are in relationships

Lesson (?) -- p. 99 -- does she work to get goodness?

Is she hiding behind her job?

She is doing work to help people in need

8:00 section / Cheever -- "Clancy in the Tower of Babel"

Lesson: Don't let your personal beliefs or pride or _____ get in the way of your job

Lesson: Be aware of "boundaries" - not getting involved in other people's business

Lesson (?): It pays to be good - Mr. R collects money for Clancy

Is Clancy good?

Is Mr. Rowantree good?

8:00 section / Johnson -- "Emergency"

Lesson: Don't do drugs at work

Connection: Having friends at work as coworkers

• Carver - the waitress and Rudy
• Hempel
• Johnson
• NOT Cheever
• Is there a Lesson in this?

Lesson: Don't do drugs while driving

Connection: All of our characters are not at the "top of the ladder" at work -- is there a Lesson in this?

Connection: Customer Service - serving others

• Carver
• Hempel?
• Cheever
• Johnson
• Is there a Lesson in this?

Connection/Lesson: Doing "idiotic" things at work that might jeopardize your job

• Carver -- gossiping
• Hempel -- getting too attached to the dogs
• Cheever -- letting pride get in the way
• Johnson -- drugs and pulling out knife

Connection: Reflecting / Looking Back / In the Past

• Johnson - p. 112
• Carver
• Hempel?
• Any lesson in this?

Connection: Characters who just got a new job

• Cheever -- Clancy
• Johnson -- ER clerk
• (Yates) --
• Any lesson in this?

Connection: Religion

• Clancy
• Georgie
• Any lesson in this?

Connection:

1. Stories start with personality
2. Stories show personality through work = who you are comes out
3. Who these people were reflected on what their life was like due to their personality

Connection: Refusing to or not doing the job as asked, or not in the proper order

Connection: All were pretty good at their jobs -- they cared about their jobs -- they liked their jobs

8:00 section / Yates -- "A Wrestler with Sharks"

Lesson: Do the job you are asked to do.

• Follow the directions you are given
• Your boss is higher than you
• If you have your own ideas, ask permission first

Lesson: Listen to advice from coworkers

Connection: Yates and Cheever -- both Sobel and Clancy had previous jobs; both previous jobs involved more money

Sobel is doing a job (column) that no one else in the office wanted to do

• He was excited about it
• He wanted his name known
• He wanted to teach Finney a lesson

Connection: Worker's Pride -- Yates and Cheever -- they had their own ways of doing things

Connection (?): No management or supervision for the project

Connection: Characters with families to take care of

Connection: Coworkers

Being a good friend -- McCabe tries to find Sobel another job -- helping each other out -- ? -- Clancy and Mr. Rowantree (?)

Lesson (?): Maybe sometimes it is better to do what you want to do rather than what you have to do

Lesson (?): p. 206 -- a stop-over job or a dead-end job (?)