Gallery Essay draft

 The piece that I was interested in was productivity and hourly compensation piece.

The piece is so interesting because as it can be seen from the graphs, over the years, the amount of productivity has risen steadily while the compensation though it has risen hourly, it does not compare very well to productivity. As it can be seen, the productivity rises each year but compensation only rose for a few years and then remained steady in that there is little to no increase in compensation. This is crazy because if you consider the fact that the big companies, retailers such as Amazon and Walmart and others , they need people to fulfill their orders or to work in their warehouses yet these people are not receiving any increase in their salaries. If you work Retail, the most emphasized thing is productivity and yet cooperates are always complaining of  low sales hence less pay for the employees.

Personal narrative, I worked at a Rite aid pharmacy, overnight  as an asset protection associate. One thing I noticed was that, Cashiers, who did the most amount of work, were actually the ones paid the least, then the shift supervisor, who oversaw the cashiers and also worked hard, got an increase that was barely 2 dollars, then then asset protection, who risked getting into fights and being injured were not paid very much. Then the assistant managers barely made $20 an hour. The store manager, who was barely at work, made over $25 an hour. The higher positions such as district managers , who are barely doing any work at all made even better amounts.

This is a selfie portraying how broke I am despite being a hardworking man.