Summarizer. Section 6. Pages 143-169. Kassi Bierman.

  In this section of the reading, Barbara attends her Wal-mart orientation after passing her drug test.  She though she wouldn't need this job, since she was supposed to make ten dollars an hour at Mendard's, but after hearing of the pay rate and lack of overtime pay at Menard's she turns down the job and relies on Wal-mart.  She then goes to move into her motel room when her finds that her room has been given away.  She instead gets a room at the Clearview Inn, which is much closer to her Wal-mart job.  She has to bargain for a room that doesn't smell like mold and this results in a room with a broken window screen and no deadbolt lock on the door.  There is a lack of privacy here and she admits that she feels unsafe for herself and her belongings.  There are minimal places to get food around her room; after complaining about this a coworker surprises her with a sandwich one day because she felt sorry for Barbara.  She later begins her first day at Wal-mart, amazed at how simply the daily tasks are,  varying from hanging up clothes to separating items by style.  She end up having a shift change and begins working the night shift where she will receive an extra half hour of pay and a dinner break.  Here she works a new coworker who she dislikes.  Barbara begins to realize that working here is making her turn 'mean.'  She notices she is not always polite and peppy as she used to be on the first day.
     The author writes the section much like the rest of the book: very casually.  She uses good word choices that serve to describe and illustrate each paragraph very well.  She seems to portray herself as a bit above the rest of her coworkers.  She describes how the jobs she is given to do at Wal-mart require a very little IQ; this downgrades any of the employees that have any difficulty doing their tasks.  She makes herself seem smarter than the rest of the people there.