we're dumbasses

50 First Dates

"There's laughing my head."When Prof. Kurpis told us we would be using an egg for our experiment. IMMEDIATELY! NO JOKE! I was thinking about Adam Sandler in the movie "50 First Dates...(funny trailer link above) haha

Quite shocking a class of college students actually...attentively gathered around the "picnic area" without the need of free food or big boobs. The whole class was about planning (I think) , it was extremely exciting yet...nerve wrecking. It came to point where Mandus ( known as Amanda on ID card) slapped me a few times for making her even more nervous. Also to the point, where I almost dropped the egg, and the other's eyes were like O_O!! haha idiots
To the Point
Mission: To get those extra 5 POINTS! DURFF!!!

Goal: To become better planners

Objective: To drop "Eggbert" without cracks
Strategy: Build a Cage? Basket? Barrier? Legs? Cushion?
Tactic: Thickening the Straws. Conserve Tape & Resource. Manage Time.
Action: 40 sweaty fingers INTERTWINED into what's a foursome to create the ultimate triangular protection device. Retail value: $.77?

We came up with many ideas with the straws and tape. A basket, an octopus, a yo yo, but at the end, we stuck with the cage-like idea like the rest of the class. However, our cage was scultped in more of a triangular form. IT WAS VERY PRETTY!

Then it was the moment of truth..( Pictures to be uploaded when missing cord is found. )
Mandus...nervous stood 5'2? stood on top of the desk with her arms straight out presented Eggbert?

-Drop-

-Fail-

Overall, as cocky as it sounds, as BAD as it sounds, I have no idea what went wrong. It's very weird. t fell in a lopsided sorta manner! Stupid gravity! I mean Mandus' passed Physics! and I studied Architecture for a year in high school! We had a drawing! We had 3 mini drawings! the other 2 ...they are risk takers & think outside the box! Weird, weird, weird.

You can stick it up your...

recent situation: There was a special promotion at work. There were 3 managers, 3 associates (including me), and 1 stock. It was peak hours, I was scheduled downstairs. A few customers came down the store. I assisted the customers. Suddenly, a huge wave of customers came down the store. 4-5 customers wanted to try 1-2 different pair of shoes in 1-3 different sizes (because dumbasses don't know the sizes of their own feet) along with 3-4 customers looking at non shoe items, with the occassional 1-2 customers who can't afford anything but likes to look around. PANIC! PANIC! So many shoes! So many feet! So many bags! So many faces! I called upstairs for assistance as I was the only associate downstairs because each of the managers were caught up with a customer that involves a heavy register, the two associates are caught controlling the traffic upstairs. SON OF A BITCH! PANIC! To top it off, items were mislabeled, so items were misgiven, misinformed, practically misled. DAMNIT! I can't call stock as there's only ONE! BUT THANK YOU THANK YOU that ONE was able to help me. Slowly...slowly...the traffic decipated as I felt like I was somewhat gangraped with guilt thinking I wasn't good enough. Sad.

analysis: The recession's definitely affected luxury brands as costs were cut dramatically. There were only a total of 7 workers in a high volume flagship store, which is crazy. It was obviously not the Associate or in this case, my fault. It was a constant note and strategy from the managers to break away from customers to assist many different customers, however, that wasn't used by managers themselves. Furthermore, it was clearly unorganized and BRUTAL to just zone one poor associate in one whole floor as everyone else assists everyone from above. It was brutal! It comes to the point where you can just break down and grasp your head to tell everyone to shut the hell up! Reminder: In class, a pizza restaurant experiment was tested in class, where a specific group would have a total of 7 workers and another would have up to 24 or 27. Both numbers are completely ludicrous. As experienced first hand, a group of 7 may save the most costs, but at the same time, you are overworking your employees which can lead to bad customer service. With such a handful of workers, you can lose out on many sales because everything is so tight. The groups of 24 to 27 is rather generous, you would most likely to have your employees socializing with each other during downtime, possible might even lead to hookup stories and more. It's inevitable as there's always sex going on in every work environment. It's just unneccessary as quality would trump quantity in the case. In my opinion, an average of both would be most efficient.

Behind the scenes, everyone is very focused in making their own goal that they wouldn't neccessarily help one another out without helping themselves first. The managers put so much emphasis in making your goals that co workers would actually go to malicious situations to steal your customers or your sales to make their own goals. There is no prize but recognition, so why the hostility? It's literally come to the point where the environment is so negative from the insecurity and tension, which will lead to nothing but gossip and even more negativity.Mcgregor's studies are represented in the situation, where the managers fit into more of the Manager X category, where they would push workers to work to the extent where they are treated as dummies. All their orders just become redundant and gets disregarded. Like Argyris' studies, employees just want to be treated as adults and be left alone to work their magic naturally. So just get out of our butts already!

Luxury's just as cheap

situation: One would think working for a luxury brand would be easy. Less customers, Less racks, Less mess. Associate just stands in a 10x10 spacious cube with clean floors and shiny objects. Customer enters and Associate greets. Done.

Wrong. So so so wrong...

actual situation: Associate stands in a 10x10 spacious cube with clean floors and shiny objects they polished last night with their very own sweat because the cleaning crew is too $. Customer enters with sunglasses with a 'tude and Associate greets. Associates ignored. Customer too blind to find the actual price of an item due to oversized sunglasses, at the same time, too snobbish to reveal their precious new nose or lips to a lower class college student in retail, asks price of not so attractive but overly priced item. The not so attractive but overly priced item (also not so practical, unflattering, made actually in China but told Italy) actually runs for $$$$$$. Customer goes okay. Associate dismissed.

why i'm dog pEEs

Reason why I'm dog urine because of Mr. Rosado, high school art teacher. Assignment was to paint an inanimate object which represents you. A fire hydrant is defined as an upright pipe with a nozzle for drawing water from a water main. I am defined as a human being with a conscience for drawing morals from encounters.

I feel the need to say this, but I am actually not a fan of dogs. I don't hate dogs but I'm terrified of dogs. Lesson learned...dogs should never be left unattended without a leash before a kid has even hit puberty yet, it can be rather scarring.