Summary Of Working At Wendy's By Joey Franklin

Joey franklin, a creative nonfiction writer grew up in Beaverton Oregon. Franklin married his wife Melissa and together they had three boys. In the essay “working at Wendy’s” Franklin takes readers back to a time when Melissa is in her last semester of college and Franklin is two semesters away from graduating. The only problem is that they both can’t go to school at the same time because someone has to be home to take care of their son. This conflict leads Franklin into getting a night shift job at Wendy’s so that he can be home during the day while his wife is at school. There was a time in his life where he felt, even though the job that he had may seem below him, it is something he has to do for the benefit of his family and to support

For example Franklin tells us about Sara, a nineteen year old single mother who was only working at Wendy’s to stay out of jail. By telling her story and many other stories of his coworkers, Franklin helps readers to understand why he feels like you can not stereotype fast food employees because they all have different stories. Another anecdote Franklin shared with us is nineteen year old Oren’s story. Oren is a teenager who works at Wendy’s to pay his cell phone bill and to have something to do in his spare time. Although Sara and Oren are the same age and work together they have two completely different reasons for working at Wendy’s as do many people that work there, other fast food places, and other jobs. This comes to show that everyone has a story that’s hasn’t been

The first question I asked was if she could relate to the author. She responded, “ Yes I can relate to the author because I remember feeling embarrassed to tell people I worked at Burger King when I was working there”. The next question I asked her was if she felt as if fast food workers were stereotypes . She replied ,“ yes I do think they are stereotyped because it is easy to assume that they work in that field because that is all their capable of doing“. The last question that was asked was “have you ever found yourself taking pity on a fast food employee?” Her response was “ I have not ,probably because I was one at one point and I know how hard they work.” Following this series of interview questions on the subject of fast food employees, embarrassment and pity, there is an assumption that it is easier to not stereotype fast food workers if you have been one