My hero: Low wage workers who do excellent work

I was recently asked about who I admire most. The person asking the question was looking for the name of a specific person, but my response was this:

Low-wage workers who do an outstanding job every day and take great pride in their work despite the size of their paychecks.

This includes everyone from fast food workers who provide outstanding service every day to adjunct professors who are being paid a fraction of a tenured professor’s salary for doing the same or oftentimes better job teaching students.

Doing your best, even when you’re not being rewarded properly for your efforts, has always impressed me.

I’ve often said that if I was running a large company and in need of good people, I would poach the best employees from fast-food restaurants, retail establishments, and anywhere else I could find outstanding people who I could train to work at my company.

Like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgIaeG97ig&t=1s