Bureaucracy In My Life In R. H. Macy

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This journal is to discuss about the bureaucracy through Jackson’s short story “My Life in R.H. Macy”. In reality, the Macy’s Inc. is one of the world’s largest retailer. Jackson, once worked as a shop clerk in Macy, tries to examine its operation system from an inside perspective. From the story we know that there are 11,700 staffs work in the retailer, which is like a particular social community. While the division of labour, or departments is concrete, while requirement for the employees has no differences, as well as the confusing, meaningless training. In this sense, the employees are not selected and assigned by their abilities or personal skills, but in a random and general way. They can easily to be replaced by anyone. Similarly, the