Alice Tam On The Job Training Essay

Young employees struggle to an extent, facing limited issues when they get into their workplace. Some struggle with anxiety while others from balancing their social lives, however for those which were ready and building towards this part of their life, this is not always the case. Alice Tam has written an article titled “On-the Job Training” and she states how the workplace is a cruel and difficult place to fit in. During this article she becomes extremely defensive and even states that her peers are all trying to protect themselves. I disagree that the workplace is naturally a stressful place because your superiors do not always have unspoken expectations, being judged by peers is natural in society, and she is feeling intimidated because
of her mentality and not her surroundings.
To begin, Alice states that in your new workplace your bosses will always have unspoken expectations towards you and any other new employees however this is not true at all especially in the typical North American workplace. Many jobs nowadays don’t even give you the chance to do extra tasks which your supervisor does not tell you of. A simple example of this would be working as a bus driver in the GTA. Your job is to drive people around the city and making sure that the bus is not behind on time. First of all, your superiors rarely contact you while you are on the job to cause less issues and to add on, when your job ends you are free to go home since there are no real extracurricular at driving based jobs. Since your superiors are people too they may not even ask you anything extra even if they could.