Monday, August 18, 2014

Reflections on Week 1

1) Some factors that may affect my performance in this class is my understanding of technology. I"m not "bad" with computers and stuff, but I'm not good enough to fugure out some f the more complicated stuff like posting a video (that works) to the blog. So I think that will be my biggest challenge.
2) The best learning experience I can think of off the top of my head was probably with my uncle Byron. Byron works in the strawberry fields as a kind of supervisor for Sweet Success Inc. He has to know a wide range of things, from advanced Spanish, to leadership, to the nuances of growing the best strawberry.  One day I went to work with him (It wasn't my first time, I went with him a lot,) and he told me a story about a truck driver for his company. He said that the driver had turned too sharp and some of the strawberries fell off. He called his boss and asked if he was fired. His boss said, ' no. just clean up the mess and give me a call back.' So the driver cleaned up all the strawberries, ( I thought I'd clarify that it was most of the strawberries he was carrying.) and he called his boss. The boss asked him if he was done cleaning up. The driver said yes. Then the boss said, ' Now your fired.'
The guy messed up, but instead of firing him immedialtley he made him clean it up first. his just illustrated the thining of a business man, and how the world may not always be a nice place.
3) The thing that I'm most excited about is that I don't know exactly what were going to do. The thing that concerns me is managing the workload. There just seems to be like 6 or 7 things happening simultaneously. So keeping up with that will be a challenge for me.

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