Small Talk

It’s a chilly day outside today at my field site. The wind even picked up making it even colder. After all the hail that we have recently got I’m not looking forward to the cold weather that’s closely approaching. Luckily I’m seated inside so I don’t have to deal with the wind. You would think that when it’s cold outside and the business that you are observing in main selling beverage is coffee, that it would be warm inside. But that’s not the case and I’m already cold from the air conditioners that are running inside. It’s the evening so there’s quite a bit of people seated with their computers out in front of them, or they are on their phones, or working with a group of people. A Taylor Swift song is playing right now which goes to show how this organization isn’t afraid to play different genres of music to their customers. There is not a lot going on besides one of the groups of people who seem to be working together are being really loud and laughing obnoxiously as if they have no care in the world of other people that are trying to focus on other tasks. They do seem to be having a fun time together so I’m starting to think that they are here more for social purposes than business or work aspects. That just goes to show how my field site is a place where people can go to either get some leisure time, bust out some work or homework, and also to just simply convers with others using small talk. As a result there isn’t a lot of action happening at my field site today. I’m guessing the weather had an impact on the amount of customers that are present in this organization. All in all today’s observations goes to show how different organizations can maintain different social behaviors within that business.