9:00 section / Carver - "Fat"

Lesson: Everyone's equal -- coworkers making fun of customer and narrator

Lesson: Don't make fun of people / don't be judgmental

Lesson: Don't judge someone on their looks -- accept them for who they are

Lesson (?): she defends him

Lesson (?): she is self-conscious herself (weight) -- she's affected somehow by the customer (and her coworkers) -- she also feels misunderstood, something on the inside

Lesson (?): Being influenced by others

Lesson (?): Getting advice or getting it off her chest / getting another perspective from her friend Rita

Customer defending himself

Lesson (?): Don't take work home with you -- don't let work affect your life

9:00 section / Hempel - "Now I Can See the Moon"

Connection: All 3 are "service" jobs

• Carver
• Hempel
• Cheever

Since home life is going downhill, they are working more to fill a void (?)

Lesson:

• She is working too much --> separation and divorce --> working more?
• Separation and divorce --> works more?
• Is it a good thing to use work to fill a void?

Husband told her to go work with her first love = dogs

Lesson (?): Go to work to get/find goodness and/or purpose

Lesson (?): p. 97 -- "learning"

Connection: Everyone has learned something

• Carver
• Hempel
• Cheever

Connection: All 3 workers too their jobs seriously

Connection: All 3 were uneasy about something

9:00 section / Cheever - "Clancy in the Tower of Babel"

Lesson: We are going to come across people we disagree with and we have to work with them to keep our job

Lesson: Mind your own business -- respect others' privacy

Clancy lived a sheltered life

His way or the highway

He did care about Mr. Rowantree

Sending wrong/mixed messages?

Lesson (?): Is it his place to do the things he's doing?

9:00 section / Johnson - "Emergency"

Lesson: Don't take drugs at work

Connection: Stories where coworkers are also friends

• Carver -- the narrator/waitress and Rudy
• Hempel
• Johnson -- the narrator/clerk and Georgie
• NOT Cheever
• Is there a lesson in this?

Lesson: Don't steal from your workplace

Lesson: Don't drive while high / pay attention

Connection: Characters in careers where they help people / serve people

Lesson: Don't lie

Lesson: Don't pick up hitchhikers

Connection: Stories focus on a main character and one other person

• Carver -- the narrator/waitress and the fat man (or and Rudy)
• Hempel -- the narrator/dog trainer and her husband (or and a friend at work, or and the dogs)
• Johnson -- the narrator/clerk and Georgie
• Cheever -- Clancy and Mr. Rowantree
• Is there a lesson in this?

Connection: Characters who take their jobs seriously

• Carver
• Hempel
• Cheever
• NOT Johnson
• Is there a lesson in this?

Connection: Characters all in middle / or / at bottom of power structure

• Carver -- waitress
• Hempel -- assistant dog trainer
• Cheever -- elevator man
• Johnson -- clerk
• Is there a lesson in this?

9:00 section / Yates -- "A Wrestler with Sharks"

Connection: Here are two more characters at the bottom of the ladder

Lesson: Listen to your boss's instructions -- follow directions

Sobel "mis-reads" the people in charge

Sobel has his own goal -- getting his name out there

Lesson (positive): Try to take advantage of opportunities given to you

Lesson (negative): Don't overstep your boundaries

• Connection: Sobel, Clancy, Georgie (?)

A "weird dynamic" between Kramm / Finney / Sobel

Sobel has no experience working in an office -- Lesson -- he wouldn't know what do or what not to do

Lesson (?): Taking a job without having any experience . . .

Connection: Coworkers as / and Friends -- doing good for someone else

Lesson: Listening to advice / following advice

Dead-end job?

Stop-over job?

Sobel is more optimistic -- he is new to it

McCabe is more __________ -- he is more experienced