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...name is Mansur Shah and I went to RSI in '__. I'm currently in High School Student...
...full of toys and other contraptions. "She has everything she'd ever need," Vicky said. "My dream is to take her to Greece. Right now I don't have enough money. Bills go up, they don't go down. Last year, I told her next year. This year, I'm telling her the same thing. But I do hope to go next year. The problem is I work in the summer and eight weeks goes by very fast. Two weeks vacation is too short. It's 900 dollars for nothing. By the time you go you have to come back...
...Vicky tries to go to church on Sundays. But so far this year, she has worked every Sunday, (supposedly her day off) in the Lowell dining hall. On one Sunday morning, she sat watching the long line at the waffle machine and sulked, saying, "I'm tired. Every Sunday I've worked this year. The boss asks me, 'Do you think you can do it?,' and I say sure. I can't say no very well." The frenetic nature of the dining hall this year has also tired her out. "It's busy this year. We're busier, big time...
...recounted some other differences between today and when she started. "I'm so used to the food after 19 years," she said. "They do have their own system--it's good. They have a dietician and the cooks go to cooking school. It used to be one meat dish, and a vegetarian dish. They've added more vegetables and the salad's bar twice as long as it used to be." Vicky's favorite food in the dining hall is soup. "They make good soups. Someone in the main kitchen makes the soup from scratch the day before and they...
...Vicky's principal frustration is the paucity of workers on the job. "They don't want to hire anybody else because it costs money. But they need workers--I'm working overtime every week!" When reminded that Harvard has money, she shook her head and says, "Don't even go there." Dining hall workers do receive raises twice a year and almost all receive more than ten dollars an hour. "We get a raise of 25 cents twice a year." Vicky said...