In Barbara's self-evaluation, she begins to reflect on everything she has gone through. In her opinion, she has done extremely well but has made some mistakes along the way. she now begins to weigh all of the good things she did with the mistakes she may have made and, after all she has been through, she comes to the conclusion that she made a very good poor person and, given time, she would have been able to survive, unless she were doing this while having kids and a husband.
After her self-evaluation she begins to give the reader her opinion about the lives of the poor people who actually live this life. She explains how America should be ashamed of the things they take for granted while these people do the jobs that we consider beneath us. She feel that the idea of having drug tests and personality surveys are extremely degrading and shouldn't be forced on the potential employees.
Questions: After Barbara has weighed the good with the bad, she explains that she made mistakes that anyone would make in those situations. However, if I were in the same situation as her Minnesota experience, I would have chosen the higher-paying job and, while working there, learn about the plumbing. Do you think that anyone would have really made the same mistakes that she did or do you think that she was trying to make herself feel better about making what could be considered "foolish mistakes"?
Barbara also stated that the mandatory drug tests and personality surveys were degrading to potential employees. Would you also consider these tests to be degrading if you were forced to take them or do you think that Barbara was simply ashamed of the things she may have learned about herself? Is she hiding something?
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I personally do not find the mandatory drug test degrading. If i were an employer I would want to know if my future employees were on drugs. I believe she found them degrading because she had done marajuana and had to detoxfiy her body in order to pass the drug test. I believe Barbara was ashamed of the fact that she had to bend over backwards to pass a simple drug test for a simple low wage job.
I dont find the drug test to be degrading i think that its actually good to have to go through that process since many people drink, smoke, and do other type of drugs. We cant be giving jobs to people who really dont deserve and perhaps will do a bad job because of the position they find themselve in being stoned or with a hangover or something while we have other people out there really looking for a job and being clean.
I do think people would make the same mistakes. Although they were good paying jobs, people do not always think of the money but the enjoyment. If they feel that they will not enjoy their job then they might as well don't have it at all. I mean what's the point of having it if you do not even like it in the first place.
I do not think that the mandatory tests are degrading because they are trying to make sure they don't hire criminals and drug addicts that will do something illegal. I do think she was felling a little bad and she was hiding something. But what she was hiding, I have no clue.
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