Transcript Nickel and Dimed Pages 22-39

Reading by Ryan Slattery
Vocabulary by Kevin Ayaz
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On Pages 23-24, the author has to work her
first Friday at Hearthside. What happens at
the mandatory meeting.
The top manager Phillip is introduced at the
meeting. He is upset with the way the Break
Room has been treated. Other people throw
in their concerns, but the meeting ends when
a cook named Andy says this is a waste of
time and his day off.
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On Pages 24-25, who is the culprit of the
Drug Problem?
Gossip goes around saying Stu is the culprit
of the drug problem.
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On Pages 28-30, the author needs an
alternative job to keep up with her
expenses. What job does she obtain?
The author gets a job at Jerry’s, which
attracts 3 to 4 times the amount of customers
as Hearthside.
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How does the author describe her new job?
The author describes the kitchen at Jerry’s as
disgusting and bad smelling. The sink is
cluttered, there are spills, and there are no
breaks and break rooms.
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On Page 31, how does the author describe
the people at her new job?
On her first day, she said she was hurt by her
sister server’s coldness.
Her mentor for the day was a competent and
emotionally uninflected twenty three year old.
The other people in a conversation ignored
her.
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On Page 32, what happens after the author
is caught by Stu? What does Gail do?
The author does not want to work at
Hearthside anymore. Gail was going to follow
her to Jerry’s, but she is offered by Phillip to
park in the parking lot during the night after
she separated with her roommate. Gail stays
for this reason.
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On Page 34, the author describes how the
management at Jerry’s is more “professionally
handled”. What are the two exceptions?
One is Joy, a plump woman in her thirties who
instructed the author on one-handed tray
carrying, but has mood swings from shift to shift.
The other is B.J. who yells at everyone while
standing by the counter. She is said to have
replaced the whipped cream squirt cans with
whipped-cream filled baggies.
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On Pages 37-38, the author meets a
dishwashing worker. Who is he/she?
The dishwasher is George. George is a
nineteen year-old Czech boy who has been in
the country for one week. He is said to be
hardworking by the author.
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On Page 38, how is the author punished by
B.J.?
The author punished because she gave B.J.
some attitude. At the end of the day, she has
to roll up 50 more sets of silverware and mix
blue cheese dressing.
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On Page 38, The author decides to move
closer to Key West. Why?
The author moves closer to Key West
because of the gas expenses.
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Definition - Done with regret.
As the word appears in the text:
Reflecting on her career, Gail tells me
ruefully that she swore, years ago, never to
work for a corporation again.
Original Sentence:
The boy ruefully told his mother that he
didn’t need her anymore.
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Definition: To make stronger by combining;
bringing together.
As the word appears in text:
So I wipe, I clean, I consolidate catsup bottles
and recheck the cheesecake supply, even tour the
tables to make sure the customer evaluation
forms are all standing perkily in their places.
Original Sentence:
I consolidated all of the basketballs and put them
away in the closet.
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Definition: Become subject to (something unwelcome or
unpleasant) as a result of one's own behavior or actions.
As the word appears in text:
Today a customer has left behind, he assigns me to
vacuum the entire floor with the broken vacuum cleaner,
which has a handle only two feet long, and the only way to
do that without incurring orthopedic damage is to proceed
from spot to spot on your knees.
Original Sentence:
You have to do all your work because if not done, you will
be incurring a lot of punishment.
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Definition: Of or relating to orthopedics (which is the study
of bones).
As the word appears in text:
Today a customer has left behind, he assigns me to
vacuum the entire floor with the broken vacuum cleaner,
which has a handle only two feet long, and the only way to
do that without incurring orthopedic damage is to proceed
from spot to spot on your knees.
Original Sentence:
While snowboarding, I landed awkwardly and caused a lot
of orthopedic damage to my ankle.
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Definition: Express sharp disapproval or criticism of
(someone) because of their behavior or actions.
As the word appears in text:
When Phillip has exhausted his agenda of rebukes, Joan
complains about the condition of the ladies' room and I
throw in my two bits about the vacuum cleaner.
Original Sentence:
The mother rebuked her child for his bad behavior in
school.
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Definition: An extreme state of depression.
As the word appears in text:
But I don't see any backup coming from my fellow
servers, each of whom has slipped into her own personal
funk; Gail, my role model, stares sorrowfully at a point
six inches from her nose.
Original Sentence:
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Jason fell into a
funk and wasn’t the same person after that.
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Definition: A person who is responsible for a crime or other
misdeed.
As the word appears in text:
Later in the evening, the gossip crystallizes around the
theory that Stu is himself the drug culprit, that he uses the
restaurant phone to order up marijuana and sends one of the
late servers out to fetch it for him.
Original Sentence:
After reviewing the security cameras, the manager found the
culprit. One of the employees were bringing drugs onto the
store premise.
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Definition: Walking towards in a timid manner; walking
sideways.
As the word appears in the text:
Personally, I'm ready to believe anything bad about Stu,
who serves no evident
function and presumes too much on our common
ethnicity, sidling up to me one night to engage in a little
nativism directed at the Haitian immigrants.
Original Sentence:
The girl sidled up to the boy and shyly started a
conversation.
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Definition: The view or theory that the self is all that can
be known to exist.
As the word appears in the text:
It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is
gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.
Original Sentence:
Solipsism causes most people to be unable to understand
anything outside of their world/beliefs.
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Definition: A mixture; a medley.
As the word appears in the text:
Almost everyone smokes as if their pulmonary wellbeing depended on it-the multinational mélange of
cooks; the dishwashers, who are all Czechs here; the
servers, who are American natives-creating an
atmosphere in which oxygen is only an occasional
pollutant.
Original Sentence:
My mother made a Chinese mélange of vegetables and
chicken for dinner.
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Who was the culprit of the drug problem?
What is the definition of solipsism?
Create a sentence with mélange.
How did the author describe her new job at
Jerry’s?
What is the definition of Consolidate?
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