My job experience by Ryli

My job experience by Ryli - March 2026 Scholarship Essay

My first job and only job so far, is working at Braums. It's little known Texas store that serves both food and groceries. I had worked there for 6 months before being fired simply for letting a customer get some groceries without paying. It was a teenage boy getting groceries for himself and it was a Friday so I thought I could let the gesture slide. Then on that second Saturday I had gotten called in not knowing that I was going to be fired. I had learned something valuable that day, it's that the job market is kinda ruthless with how their products are being sold or given. I would assume anyone wouldn't want someone to starve.

Think for example the homeless population. If you are from the United States, you see them all around in downtown Dallas, on the corners of Texas Highways, and even in Arlington. I hate to see them in their state and wonder what actions did they do get to that state, but rather wondering about their actions I would rather focus on the economic side of things.Yet businesses like Arizona tea or Little Caesars are both still caring enough to have their good reasonable priced and good quality. Not saying Braums products aren't, but that got me thinking on their empathic factor that I had let a teenage boy get groceries without paying for them.

Sure I hadn't paid for the boy's groceries which I should've simply just done. It was kinda inconsiderate of me in that moment to not think about the profits of this restaurant that pays me about 9 dollars an hours to stand at a grocery stand and listen to how people's day was. So I thought it was an insignificant issue to let a boy get groceries, on a Friday, without pay. Maybe I'm generous sure, but it kinda makes me wonder, why do companies and businesses care so much about their financial well being and not really the well being of their customers?

Maybe because of societal greed or wanting to be seen as a "wealthy business or a good business" at that. That experience made me realize that even the biggest corporations care so much for a piece of paper that they already have loads of: and the piece of paper is Money. Money can really do a lot, it can take societal pressure off of you, help you breathe, helps you really value life, not for the hustle and bustle of work and needing to earn money. When money in someone's reality really grows on trees it makes you almost do more with your life too. So I experienced in myself that money can do wonders to people's lives and has impacted the way I see major companies in their values of their customers as well.