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Mijail Sanchez

Professor Vladimir V Kalugin

Philosophy 305

Businesses and behavior of Indvi. Employees

Clerks

     Clerks is a movie about the life of the everyday clerk you encounter when shopping for basic needs and wants such as gas or cigarettes. Clerks follows two workers Dante Hicks and Randal Graves and their ways of dealing not only with the responsibilities of running and managing a store but also the external issues and pressures and how they come into play for good or bad. In the movie we witness the individual behavior and ethics of these two clerks Dante Hicks and Randal Graves and how they differ and are also similar.

     To start off Dante Hicks the clerk of a grocery store is called in on his day off to fill in, Dante agrees reluctantly. This fact already makes Dante Hicks unhappy he agreed to work on his day off, but sees it as he only agreed till noon. Throughout the film Dante Hicks day turns for the worse in every corner leading for him to make some poor decisions with the convincing of his friend Randal Graves. After finding out his boss lied to him about coming in at noon David is unhappy and starts to be more careless about the operations of the business. David not to miss his game decides to host the game on the store rooftop and close the store. Being that they only brought one ball the game ends abruptly. In the end the decisions to close the store has lost the business costumers not only for that moment but potentially long-term. Now even more unhappy he finds out one of his ex’s has died and they are holding a showing. Graves being more of a slacker again tells David to close shop a second time and head out to the showing. This again can lead to losing costumers as the film shows many costumers trying to enter at 4pm on a Saturday. Now Graves approach to losing costumers is more direct as he clearly hates his job and workplace. In the 1st scene we have Graves trying to help a women and her toddler order a kids movie, Graves being insensitive does so, but reads a list of vulgar sounding movies off, angering the mother. Another instance is where he completely ignores a women’s opinion on which film is the better one to renting, leading to her stating she would never come back here. Even when he closes the shop (another ethical mishap) to go hangout next door with David at his workplace he manages to lose a costumer for their business by spitting in a man’s face. In contrast to David who tries to help his costumers like when he gave the old man permission to use the restroom and even went as far as too give him softer toilet paper, but in an indirect way still manages to hurt the business by doing too much and not being able to say no.

     In the real world employees like this exist many unhappy employees bring their issues to work and it translates to how their behavior plays out, be it from not liking your job, marriage issues, financial contrasts, and other external pressures it does play out in the workplace like how the movie portrays it.