If he needs to use the restroom, he must wait for someone to come over and fill his shift for a few minutes, and people usually don t have time to spare from their own under-staffed shifts. His chief concern is that he wants to be treated fairly. He also thinks that people should be paid more, in order to make enough that you can live on. He receives raises, yet it isn t clear what establishes how much of a raise a worker gets. He can barely make ends meet.
Amelia is a single parent with four children.
She feels that because of the wages and the overwork from understaffing, the Dining Services workers are not treated like real people. She says that all of the workers need to get raises, especially since they all do more than their share. She, like Lydia and Jake, figures that they are short-staffed because of working conditions, rates, and no benefits. All that she requests to make her job livable would be a decent wage, the necessary number of people to do the jobs, and for the Bucknell students, faculty, and Dining Services management to treat her with respect. Ultimately, she wants to be treated fairly to be looked upon as a human being.