Jefferson Wears a Tie
Jefferson wears a tie.
The John Mansfield short story “Jefferson wears a tie” from 2006, starts in the morning in a train, where a sleepy Mr. Jefferson is looking out of the window. He admires the graffiti that’s painted on the walls that quickly runs by. Mr. Jefferson works at a company with the title: Sales Administration manager. He´s running on daily routines and does his job in such perfection that other staff would be unnecessary. He doesn´t get the respect that he trough his work has the right to.
Jefferson gets tired of doing everybody’s job and chooses to be like the others. He meet up ten minutes late in fine clothes, doesn´t do much else looking at news, chats with the other. When the backlog on his desk has become big, he knew that they would offer job as Sales Executive. He meets up a morning in a green pajama walks in to Marty´s office and offers him a promotion.
Characterization:
Jefferson is a staff member at an unknown company. He wants success in his career but he doesn´t want to step on anyone´s toes (p, 1. L, 15)“But Jefferson wanted success too – preferably without stepping on anyone´s toes” this tells me that he´s a person who cares about other people, that he´s a person who had experienced to be stepped on by others. His rank at the company is Sales Administration Manager, but he doesn´t brag about it, he tells us that the “manager” title just was something the top staff came up with to motivate. He´s pretty good at his work: (p, 2.l, 31)”he had honed every movement and keystroke to robotic perfection”. This and the fact that he has tried to get a promotion for a while, that he has done what it should take to get it, but he has never got any.(p, 2.ll32 But the quicker he had leant to do his job, the more work had arrived on his desk, so that the workload that had once been assigned to two people had become his sole responsibility” He has given the company his hand, but they has taken his whole arm. He has a hard time standing up for
The John Mansfield short story “Jefferson wears a tie” from 2006, starts in the morning in a train, where a sleepy Mr. Jefferson is looking out of the window. He admires the graffiti that’s painted on the walls that quickly runs by. Mr. Jefferson works at a company with the title: Sales Administration manager. He´s running on daily routines and does his job in such perfection that other staff would be unnecessary. He doesn´t get the respect that he trough his work has the right to.
Jefferson gets tired of doing everybody’s job and chooses to be like the others. He meet up ten minutes late in fine clothes, doesn´t do much else looking at news, chats with the other. When the backlog on his desk has become big, he knew that they would offer job as Sales Executive. He meets up a morning in a green pajama walks in to Marty´s office and offers him a promotion.
Characterization:
Jefferson is a staff member at an unknown company. He wants success in his career but he doesn´t want to step on anyone´s toes (p, 1. L, 15)“But Jefferson wanted success too – preferably without stepping on anyone´s toes” this tells me that he´s a person who cares about other people, that he´s a person who had experienced to be stepped on by others. His rank at the company is Sales Administration Manager, but he doesn´t brag about it, he tells us that the “manager” title just was something the top staff came up with to motivate. He´s pretty good at his work: (p, 2.l, 31)”he had honed every movement and keystroke to robotic perfection”. This and the fact that he has tried to get a promotion for a while, that he has done what it should take to get it, but he has never got any.(p, 2.ll32 But the quicker he had leant to do his job, the more work had arrived on his desk, so that the workload that had once been assigned to two people had become his sole responsibility” He has given the company his hand, but they has taken his whole arm. He has a hard time standing up for