Conformity In The Workplace

Switch on, switch off, it is that simple to change from one personality to another. Once I step into that back room of my work, I am transformed into one of them. I have to become someone who my family members and friends don’t even notice; subsequently, someone who is of completely opposite characteristics. There are several reasons why I need to conform to a certain standard in order to fit into the ideal in-n-out worker. The first reason I need to conform to the in-n-out ideal is that I need to be seen as sociable. Everyone that I work with are very much extrovert while I am an introvert, so “in a complete betrayal” of my actual personality I had to be like one of them. When I first got hired people would give me strange looks because I wouldn’t say hello to anyone I would just go right into work, but later on I learned that it is important to say your hellos before starting work. At work “to play coy” was not an option, but to be spontaneous and outspoken was. In a matter of months I was “no longer silent”; in fact, I had transformed into this social butterfly. The second reason I need to conform to the in-n-out ideal would be that I had give great customer service. Our

I “was healthy, tested intelligent,” but that wasn’t enough for them. Since I was little I would suffer from panic attacks, and I learned the hard way that in such a fast working environment there is no time to panic. So as a result I would have to put my anxieties aside; in fact, we have this saying to leave your troubles at the door, which definitely came into play in this work field. Whenever I am affected by my anxieties, I have to automatically forget about them in order to get the task done. They expect me to forget “the terror” and anxieties. When the rush hour passes, my coworkers find an “uncomfortable silence’’ in the quite, but for me it is a relief to finally be able relax and