"Lori Zarza, the second manager, has a somewhat different impression of McCandless. "Frankly, I was surprised he ever got hired," she says. "He could do the job-he cooked in the back-but he always worked at the same slow pace, even during the lunch rush, no matter how much you'd get on him to hurry it up. Customers would be stacked ten-deep at the counter, and he wouldn't understand why I was on his case. He just didn't make the connection. it was like he was off in his own universe."
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ReplyDeleteMcCandless doesn't enjoy his job so he is going to work as slow as he wants. He doesn't care what others have to say; he will work at his own pace. This is because he took the quote "Why should we be in such a desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away (Walden pg.412)" literal. McCandless thinks that his drum beats at a slower pace then everyone around him so he just ignores Lori. When it is lunch time and the store is crowded, McCandless thinks that just because everyone is in a hurry, it doesn't mean that he has to be in a hurry. McCandless takes a lot of advice that Thoreau gives literally which turns out bad for McCandless. This is some advice that wasn't meant to be taken so literal. When this quote is taken literal, it makes it seem like its okay to take your time while working at McDonalds. Some parts of life have to be done in a timely manner and not at the pace of a different drummer.
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