Chapter 7/8- Prestige

Prestige is all about respect or regard.  Certain jobs are looked at with more prestige than others using four general features. The jobs held up on more prestige tend to pay more, require more education, involve more thought, and they offer greater independence to the worker. In this picture is a group of the trainers at my work. At my workplace, trainers are looked at with more prestige than regular servers. When you are training someone, the pay is better than the normal minimum wages. There are specific meetings that must be attended to teach trainers more about training. There is definitely more thought involved, because you have to think about the best way to explain processes. Greater independence is offered because you are not babied and have more opportunities to be independent in the restaurant. The red aprons in the picture are the 'prestigious' trainer aprons, and the brown one is the generic server apron.