Summary: Discrimination In The Workplace

On November 13, 2015 I conducted an interview with Gary Martinelli who is a supervisor at Del’s Custard & Yogurt, which he has worked at for 20 years. I use to work at this establishment and with that being said I have always felt that as a supervisor Mr. Gary Martinelli’s responsibilities were always over looked or unappreciated. I felt that even though he was a supervisor not everyone always saw all the work that he actually did. I was very interested in this interview to see all the effort he really put into his job. I was very interested to learn all the small details he put into his role as a supervisor.
The business is small so it is simple there is one department. Gary Martinelli is the second in command under the owner which mean on
How do you manage conflict between team members?
Conflict in the work place is interesting because some people do not have what the ability to handle the situation properly. Different supervisors handle issue by either avoiding or resolving. I wanted to ask this question see what Mr. Martinelli’s take was on the issue.
2. How do you handle working with difficult people or with someone whom you don’t get along with?
3. What kinds of discrimination do you see in the workplace? How do you deal with it?
I feel that in today world the discrimination is still an issue but should never be brought into the work place. Since we do not live in a perfect world, discrimination does come up.
4. Have you ever encountered an ethical dilemma? What was it and how did you handle it?
This goes hand and hand with discrimination. These type issues needs handle right away and I think it is important to know a supervisors take on the concept. Some supervisors avoid the issue and do not want the type of responsibility that is part of the job.
5. What qualities do you look for in an employee?

6. What advice would you give to someone who is not yet a supervisor, but wants to become
The “family” part of the business some time interferes. When communicated with the owners is pretty easy, but at time it is easier to talk to them all individually and repeat yourself then depending on them to contact each other. Each of the owner are different, nonetheless they all do listen and respond back to whatever the issue of topic is at the moment.
Gary stated that he does not have conflict with others and it is never problematic. He is the type of person that he is he gets along with almost everyone he comes into contact with. He doesn’t not get offended easily, but he did say that there has been few people I the past that he didn’t not particularly get along with. In these situation he never showed it and tried to keep thing casual. Mr. Martinelli’s exact words were, “For the most part I am pretty confident they all knew that I liked them!” If there are any conflicts between the girls and it is bad enough he will send the trouble maker home. This way they both get the idea and usually don’t repeat the