- Bi spoke with four people using social media to share different perspectives in their jobs.
- Through dances and sketches, these individuals display the community, passion and purpose.
- Co -operation of grocery stores make videos to fight boredom while a teacher highlights diversity in the stem.
Everyone, Linisha Smith hours at 5am to restore Aisles to a Safeway in Seattle. After three decades shelves, she was starting to bored.
This is when Smith and her two associates, Brian Bosch and Melissa Turner, began filming video with 40 seconds Tiktok during their 10-minute vacation. Three of them that make the core cast of #breakroomchronicles.
Business Insider spoke with four people using social media to share different perspectives in their work through sketches and dance videos while also displaying community, passion and purpose.
Grocery store workers dance through boredom at work
Three Safeway shop collaborators found a way to make their job interesting by filming funny dance videos during their vacation. Linisha Smith
Three years, more than 400,000 followers, and 11.8 million likes later, #The #Breakroomchronicles Trio has accumulated a strong audience by wearing props like neon Green Boa scarves and swollen wigs as they dance and synchronize the lips for the songs.
“When I am with these people my day passes quickly,” said Turner, 47. “This makes the environment happy.
Sometimes the three of them are known at work or called in the ark area to take pictures with fans. Bosch, 67, said a client told him that the videos were popular in Uganda.
“We have a lot of comments saying,“ You guys hire? I have to apply, ”Smith said.
A nurse indicates that health care workers are not burnt alone
Mary Kate Wardlow uses her social media to underline how she sails in the balance of work and life as a nurse. Mary Kate Wardlow
Mary Kat Wardlow began training to be a nurse two years ago and noticed many health care workers shared content for hatred of their jobs. More than a quarter of nurses planned to leave the field by 2027, for a 2022 study of about 335,000 nurses published in 2023 by the National Council of Nursing Boards.
When she started posting video “Day in Life” to work as an orthopedic nurse with elderly patients at an Agoikago hospital, she said other internet health care professionals were engulfed towards her positive stay.
“You have to take care of people when they are probably some of the worst days of their lives,” Wardlow said about her job as a nurse. Despite the difficult days where she may be standing for a whole 12-hour change, she is deeply grateful for her work. “I feel like I’m really making a difference in people’s lives.”
Wardlow shares videos about her work-life equilibrium or dance routines with her associates at over 12,700 followers. She enjoys seeing the response from the largest community of nursing, especially her peers of her age.
“I like to see that younger nurses are like,” Oh, that’s so inspiring. This is what we want to see as we are entering our career of nursing, “the 23-year-old said.
A science teacher highlights diversity and vibrancy in the stem
Chemistry professor André Isaacs shows that being a scientist is not just to spend hours in the lab. André Isaacs
It was the beginning of the pandemic blockage and the associate professor of chemistry and neuroscience André Isaacs was transferring his internet courses. Some people recommended that he check tiktok for better Understand his students of Gen Mr.
At first, he used it to cope, he said. Then there was a way to tease his followers of science. He wants to change narrative about saturated scientists sitting only surrounded by research. Many of his videos show Isaacs and his students at the Holy Cross College, lined with laboratory coats between beers and breeze.
Isaacs now has over half a million followers in Tiktok and one of his most popular videos, which Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl performance parodies have over 400,000 Instagram likes.
“Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees … They don’t like it! Poc in the stem are here to stay,” The title for the video inspired by the Super Bowl, reads, drawing lyrics from Lamar’s song “No We”.
This is the other side of Isaacs’ pleasant dance: his passion to highlight diversity in the championship.
“As a black immigrant, I remember growing up, I didn’t see many models with roles or people who look like me in the stem,” Isaacs said.
A teacher uses sketches to inspire his high school students
Berhanu Dallas students started his Instagram page. Now he has more than 1.4 million followers. Berhanu Dallas
Two years ago, Berhanu Dallas high school marketing teacher did not even have Instagram. Today, his account – which was started by his students – has over 1.4 million followers.
The 36-year-old teacher of Forest Park High School became a hit on social media After his students began to throw that sculpted idea to display life inside the classroom. Many of the videos show comic sketches where he eats an apple his students chosen by the trash bin mock to have dry skin.
Parents and school administrators know that it is everything in good fun and they have given a good reaction, said Dallas. He thinks this is because videos show a side of school life where students are engaged and excited about the school.
“There is this perception that students are rude and disrespectful,” Dallas said. “I really wanted to start a channel to show people another side of teaching. A teacher who likes to be in class and students who want to be in class too.”
Dallas films with his students on Friday after school and weekends. But the extra work is worthwhile to use students’ participation in the video as an opportunity to engage them towards academic success.
How do you find the meaning and purpose in your work? Arrived at this reporter at jddeng@insider.com.