Dolores Dante told the story of working as a waitress. She loved her job and the many people she got to interact with everyday. Her point of view of working as a waitress was interesting. She felt some sort of anger towards people above her that didn't have to work as hard for their living. "People say, 'No one does good work any more.' I don't believe it. YOu know who's saying that? The man at the top, who says the people beneath him are not doing a good job. He's the one who always said, 'You're nothing'" (Terkel 334). Dolores Dante states that people that do not work very hard for their living as she did, didn't know how hard people like her tried. They didn't understand the circumstances that people were left with leading them to work jobs like being a waitress.
Phil Stallings discussed how important work was to him and how his job could be replaced easily while he worked for Ford. He knew that with the machines he was working with, his job could go to someone else if he messed up. "You really begin to wonder. What price do they put on me? Look at the price they put on the machine. If that machine breaks down, there's somebody out there to fix it right away. If I break down, I'm just pushed over to the other side till another man takes my place. The only thing they have on their mind is to keep that line running" (Terkel 356). I think the idea that Phil Stallings brings up of having a price put on him is interesting. I think that people in a position of great power don't really value the hard work that their workers put in. In some cases, the work is dangerous and often bosses do not fully appreciate what workers go through on a daily basis.
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