Collected Item: “Essential vs. Expendable Workers”
Give your story or documents a proposed title
Essential vs. Expendable Workers
Tell us a story; share your experience. Or describe the item you are submitting. What does the object or story you've uploaded say about the pandemic, and/or why is it important to you?
When the pandemic broke out, I was caught in the whirlwind of being an essential worker. I was a manager at my local McDonalds, so I've seen just how cruel people can be, and how corporations have continued to neglected their workers. Many people are minimum wage workers, and its frightening to know that such a large population is suffering so much, only to receive little appreciation and change. Through my personal story, I hope to have readers step in the shoes of a minimum wage worker than a pandemic, so when they step out, they'll raise awareness on the issue of lack of support and care for minimum wage workers.
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.? And where did you find it?
Text story
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I am sole creator
Name of the item creator, unless anonymous
Samantha SaintJour
Use tags (separated by commas) to describe your story or documents. For example: Does it relate to a particular neighborhood? Does it relate to a particular aspect of the pandemic: school, work, family, hospital.
Minimum Wage, COVID, Coronavirus, Sexual harassment, Work, Family, Immigrant Family, Father- Daughter, 2020, Canarsie, McDonald's
Give a date associated with this story or documents.
2021-02-14
What is your affiliation, if any, with Brooklyn College? (e.g. Junior undergrad majoring in history; faculty in the English Dept; human resources staff member; alumni; community member; Brooklyn resident; etc.)
Sophomore undergrad majoring in Political Science, minoring in Women's Studies
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