Team Production with Gift Exchange
The articles we were asked to read for this blog post all had a similar theme to some of the social aspects to economic transaction. At my current job, we have a form of team production with gift exchange in the way that we give up and pick up shifts. When I first got hired at the bar I started as a doorman, which meant I cleaned up the bar, and ensure nothing too crazy happened. Every week we fill out a Google sheet with the shifts we want and don’t want to work, and if you forget to fill them out you could end up working a shift you don’t want to or not work a shift at all. When it comes to getting shifts covered there is a sense of altruism that is described from the third article. Whenever someone tries to get a shift covered due to a family emergency or something important that is related to school, another employee will usually step up right away to take the shift. While sometimes those motives aren’t always altruistic and could be attributed to a lack of shifts or money, wh...