The best opportunity that I want to choose out of the very many problems I've presented in this class is plastic. We need to change the amount of plastic an average American uses versus how much they recycle due to either a lack of knowledge about plastic or just plain laziness.
The who: average Americans.
The what: Changing the amount of plastic the average American uses versus how much they recycle.
The why: Either lack of knowledge or just plain laziness
I have interviewed five people about the use of plastic ranging from eight people homes to a single apartment college kid.
The first interview is William John Crockett the fourth a junior staying at UNF. I asked him how much does he recycle and he responded with as much as possible. He told me there are recycling bins all across campus so it is quite easy for him to recycle as its almost harder to not recycle. I asked him if he knew a lot of students that liked to recycle and he said a good bit of students go out of their way to recycle plastics 1 and 2. He also said a lot of students couldn't care less about recycling and has seen students throw waste into the recycle bins. I asked him what classification of plastic does he throw away the most and he responded with mainly 1 and 2 but occasionally he gets the chance to recycle other kinds of plastic. I also asked him why? Why does he recycle even though other people. He responded with he likes recycling no matter how big or small he feels like his contribution is making a difference. Any chance he gets he will try to educate people on the harmfulness of plastic when it gets to the land fill as opposed to getting recycled.
The second person I interviewed is a traveling conversion team lead for Builders FirstSource. As a traveling conversion team lead Mr. Sanders has seen a lot of plastic when it comes to traveling. He said airports normally have recycle bins which makes it easy for him to recycle there. A lot of the hotels he stays in also offer recycling but some do not. Every chance he gets he will recycle but some times he can not. I asked him if any of his team members feel the same way about recycling and he said some do. At the beginning of every new wave each team has to do a team building exercise and he said since some of his team members don't share our belief he will find a river or ocean front and have the team run out and pick up as much trash as possible and the person with most amount of plastic will win a gift card. I told him this was a great idea and I loved how he got everyone involved and hopefully the team members will take this value to their home and spread it. I asked him why not as many people in airports, hotels , or even states care about recycling like we do. He responded that ignorance is bliss. They don't care that every pace of plastic they throw away will sit in a land fill for five hundred years as long as it is out of their hands it's not their problem anymore.
The third person I interviewed was Angela Pickett. Shes a mom of four who has both her mother and mother in law staying at her house. Collectively they generate almost double the amount of plastic my family will create. I asked her if she recycled at all and she said not at all. She doesn't know where to take her recyclables since none of our dumps recycle and she thought her trash pick up Advanced Disposal did not offer recycling services which they do. I asked her now that she knows its possible will she start recycling and she said of course she will because as a large family like that they can put a small dent in how much plastic is wasted. She said after this phone call she would go online to look at Advanced Disposals recycling options. I asked her now with this new view point on her possibility of recycling would she start spreading the word to everyone in her community. She said of course she would and that she can't wait to get that green "for mother earth" trash can.
The fourth person I interviewed is a construction worker name Elijah Rayburn. As a construction worker he definitely sees his fair share of plastic and other kinds of recyclables. I asked him if his company, project manager, or if even he recycled and said no to all. They are under such a time crunch right now that he said recycling is so far from everybody's mind. Then I explained what it would mean to the earth and the future humans who walked this planet and he kind of started to see where I was coming from. I asked once things start to slow back down that in one of the general meetings every morning to bring it up as an idea and show them what it really means to the environment. He said that was a great idea and that he him when given the opportunity will throw his plastic away in the recycle bins in certain gas stations in Ponte Vedra beach. I asked him if anyone in his family or even his union recycled and he said not to his knowledge but that he will try to change that to the best of his ability.
The fifth person I interviewed is a PCT at St Vincent's Riverside Medical Center. As a PCT Kristen Godbold as seen her fair share of plastic. When I asked her if she recycles at home she said no. When I asked her if she recycles at her work she said yes she tries to every chance she gets. I asked her if any of her co workers also recycles and she said yes because it is convenient to since there are recycle bins in hot spots around the hospital. I asked her why she does not recycle at home then and she said no one in her family has ever wanted to recycle and she also did not know that Advanced Disposal has a recycle bin. I told her to let her family know what kind of impact they can have on their environment if her and her family would start to recycle at home. Kristen also said that she would talk to all of her friends and try to convey how important recycling really is,
I now know that my trash pick up Advanced Disposal offers a recycling bin thanks to my conversation with Mrs Pickett. Hopefully anyone reading this will also maybe just do some research on plastic and maybe even start recycling with the rest of us. This was actually a really fun exercise and I learned a lot of good information.
Friday, May 31, 2019
6A Identifying opportunities in economic and regulatory trends
I found my first economic opportunity in the New York Times economic section.
"Trade war starts changing manufactures in hard to reverse ways"
Since the tariffs are starting to affect a lot more manufactures in different ways an economic trend that just start is trying to design china out of the picture. Trumps goal of these tariffs is so that businesses come back home in stead they are just importing every they got out of china out of a bunch of other countries. This article was a very electronic based article so the example it gave was companies like ControlTek are now importing from Vietnam and Malaysia more now. The opportunity would to try and bulk buy a lot of the parts they need and slightly up charge since you can get it to them a lot faster. This opportunity would be quite difficult as you would need a large set of warehouses, employees, and a lot of money. I'm sure a lot of people see the exact same opportunity as me and i'm sure someone is acting on it but the reason most can see it but will not execute is because you need a lot of stuff to get this ball rolling that most people probably won't have.
I found my second economic opportunity in the New York Times economic section.
"As California wildfire season looms, finding tree trimmers is a new problem"
California has already fallen behind their 2019 target of trimming and removing 375,000 trees ultimately because they don't have the man power. Companies have been growing fast, Arbor works has expanded to 550 workers from its 100 in late 2016. California alone spent billions on all the wild fires they have had so they are now willing to spend millions to prevent such a natural disaster again. If you're a handy man, a tree worker, or have landscaping experience then you can become part of the union in California making 28 dollars an hour trimming and removing trees. That's a pretty good opportunity for the people with experience. If you had the experience then this would be easy. They would just have to live out in California making good money at a guaranteed job. I'm sure many people have seen this same article but don't have the experience to do anything about it. Hopefully some experienced people have seen this across the country and have trekked over to California to help prevent another major disaster.
I found my first regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Kentucky Regulatory Program
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) have proposed an amendment to the Kentucky Regulatory program. The OSMRE wants to change the fact that they are required to permit the area above their under ground mine and change the related public notification requirements. The customer would be the OSMRE and other mining companies. If this proposed amendment went through they would be able to mine a lot faster which in turn means that they are making more money. I'm sure other people have read this article and thought about it to but unless you are a miner or own a mining company we could not do it.
I found my second regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Safety zone; Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington
The Coast Guard want to amend the safety zone for the Seattle Air Show Performance. This is a necessary action to protect participants and spectators from low flying high speed aircraft's. The only way into this new designated zone as a person or vessel is if authorized by the Captain of Port Puget Sound or a designated representative. It might be harder to get into this safety zone as a person or vessel since you now would have to be authorized by the Captain. The customers to talk to would be long time flyers and spectators to get their point of view on this change. This would be an easier opportunity since you can call the people who have made a name for themselves in this show to see how they have reacted to this news. I'm not sure a lot of people have come to the same conclusion as me from reading this article because I had to think a little differently here than I did on my previous three.
"Trade war starts changing manufactures in hard to reverse ways"
Since the tariffs are starting to affect a lot more manufactures in different ways an economic trend that just start is trying to design china out of the picture. Trumps goal of these tariffs is so that businesses come back home in stead they are just importing every they got out of china out of a bunch of other countries. This article was a very electronic based article so the example it gave was companies like ControlTek are now importing from Vietnam and Malaysia more now. The opportunity would to try and bulk buy a lot of the parts they need and slightly up charge since you can get it to them a lot faster. This opportunity would be quite difficult as you would need a large set of warehouses, employees, and a lot of money. I'm sure a lot of people see the exact same opportunity as me and i'm sure someone is acting on it but the reason most can see it but will not execute is because you need a lot of stuff to get this ball rolling that most people probably won't have.
I found my second economic opportunity in the New York Times economic section.
"As California wildfire season looms, finding tree trimmers is a new problem"
California has already fallen behind their 2019 target of trimming and removing 375,000 trees ultimately because they don't have the man power. Companies have been growing fast, Arbor works has expanded to 550 workers from its 100 in late 2016. California alone spent billions on all the wild fires they have had so they are now willing to spend millions to prevent such a natural disaster again. If you're a handy man, a tree worker, or have landscaping experience then you can become part of the union in California making 28 dollars an hour trimming and removing trees. That's a pretty good opportunity for the people with experience. If you had the experience then this would be easy. They would just have to live out in California making good money at a guaranteed job. I'm sure many people have seen this same article but don't have the experience to do anything about it. Hopefully some experienced people have seen this across the country and have trekked over to California to help prevent another major disaster.
I found my first regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Kentucky Regulatory Program
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) have proposed an amendment to the Kentucky Regulatory program. The OSMRE wants to change the fact that they are required to permit the area above their under ground mine and change the related public notification requirements. The customer would be the OSMRE and other mining companies. If this proposed amendment went through they would be able to mine a lot faster which in turn means that they are making more money. I'm sure other people have read this article and thought about it to but unless you are a miner or own a mining company we could not do it.
I found my second regulatory opportunity at Regulations.gov
Safety zone; Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington
The Coast Guard want to amend the safety zone for the Seattle Air Show Performance. This is a necessary action to protect participants and spectators from low flying high speed aircraft's. The only way into this new designated zone as a person or vessel is if authorized by the Captain of Port Puget Sound or a designated representative. It might be harder to get into this safety zone as a person or vessel since you now would have to be authorized by the Captain. The customers to talk to would be long time flyers and spectators to get their point of view on this change. This would be an easier opportunity since you can call the people who have made a name for themselves in this show to see how they have reacted to this news. I'm not sure a lot of people have come to the same conclusion as me from reading this article because I had to think a little differently here than I did on my previous three.
5A- Identifying local opportunities
Macclenny commission will limit deposits of yard waste at site.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 4
The city's yard waste disposal site off of North Sixth Street is being over run by landscaping and tree removal companies because they do not have a dumping fee. Since these companies have been dumping for free for so many years they have run out of room and can only accept residential yard debris now.
The problem for the city is they are running out of room to put all of the debris collected. The problem for the business is where to take said debris preferably somewhere that will not charge to dump like this dump site used to.
The small businesses who now have to drive elsewhere and might have to pay to dump their debris which would in turn cause the small businesses to raise their prices accordingly would really have the problem. Customers of said companies might have a problem with this verdict because now they have to pay even more to get the job done.
Speed bumps at Sands Pointe gotta go
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 6
One of the board members of the Sands Pointe home owners association was concerned about people speeding through the neighbor hood so she installed large rubber speed bumps inside the neighbor hood to prevent this "increasingly hazardous problem". She did not get permission from the city to put these speed bumps on a city road so they will be pulled up.
Only to Ms. Berkaw the speed bumps being pulled up is a huge problem. To everyone else in the neighbor hood the problem is that these speed bumps were unauthorized by the city.
The residents who live in Sands Pointe have a huge problem with these awful speed bumps that were not authorized by the city. An eighty year old couple says they agonize in pain every time they drive over it.
Lawsuit over BCI inmate beating in '15
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 7
A former BCI inmate will be suing the state, the prison, and several officers for failing to prevent or properly respond to a violent attack that left the inmate paralyzed for months with serious head injuries.
The guards and the prison failed to prevent or properly respond to a a known violent gang attack.
The former BCI inmate is the one with with the problem.
Local pot farm prospects on hold
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00742 Page 1
Chris Jones is wanting to put a medical marijuana cultivation facility in south west Macclenny but there is a hold on awaiting the resolution of a Tallahassee judges' ruling that the state lacked the authority to limit the amount of cultivation licenses as it already in 2017. There are only 17 allowed right now with four open spots left but they need to hurry so Chris Jones will be able to secure his spot in line.
There are only 17 allowed medical marijuana licenses in Florida right now and with only four left Chris Jones is feeling the pressure of time.
Chris Jones has the problem with how long his hold is awaiting a judges ruling so he can get his medical marijuana cultivation facility.
Flu: Death rate twice state rate
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00728 Page 2
The states death rate for the flu averaged 9.17 fatalities per 100,000 people over the last 11 years while Baker county's rate is more than twice at 21.9 over the same period.
Baker County needs to step up their game when it come to influenza as strong as H1N1 or just the common cold.
The people who get the flu would be the ones with the problem since this county's death rate is more than doubled that of the states average.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 4
The city's yard waste disposal site off of North Sixth Street is being over run by landscaping and tree removal companies because they do not have a dumping fee. Since these companies have been dumping for free for so many years they have run out of room and can only accept residential yard debris now.
The problem for the city is they are running out of room to put all of the debris collected. The problem for the business is where to take said debris preferably somewhere that will not charge to dump like this dump site used to.
The small businesses who now have to drive elsewhere and might have to pay to dump their debris which would in turn cause the small businesses to raise their prices accordingly would really have the problem. Customers of said companies might have a problem with this verdict because now they have to pay even more to get the job done.
Speed bumps at Sands Pointe gotta go
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 6
One of the board members of the Sands Pointe home owners association was concerned about people speeding through the neighbor hood so she installed large rubber speed bumps inside the neighbor hood to prevent this "increasingly hazardous problem". She did not get permission from the city to put these speed bumps on a city road so they will be pulled up.
Only to Ms. Berkaw the speed bumps being pulled up is a huge problem. To everyone else in the neighbor hood the problem is that these speed bumps were unauthorized by the city.
The residents who live in Sands Pointe have a huge problem with these awful speed bumps that were not authorized by the city. An eighty year old couple says they agonize in pain every time they drive over it.
Lawsuit over BCI inmate beating in '15
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00756 Page 7
A former BCI inmate will be suing the state, the prison, and several officers for failing to prevent or properly respond to a violent attack that left the inmate paralyzed for months with serious head injuries.
The guards and the prison failed to prevent or properly respond to a a known violent gang attack.
The former BCI inmate is the one with with the problem.
Local pot farm prospects on hold
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00742 Page 1
Chris Jones is wanting to put a medical marijuana cultivation facility in south west Macclenny but there is a hold on awaiting the resolution of a Tallahassee judges' ruling that the state lacked the authority to limit the amount of cultivation licenses as it already in 2017. There are only 17 allowed right now with four open spots left but they need to hurry so Chris Jones will be able to secure his spot in line.
There are only 17 allowed medical marijuana licenses in Florida right now and with only four left Chris Jones is feeling the pressure of time.
Chris Jones has the problem with how long his hold is awaiting a judges ruling so he can get his medical marijuana cultivation facility.
Flu: Death rate twice state rate
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00024160/00728 Page 2
The states death rate for the flu averaged 9.17 fatalities per 100,000 people over the last 11 years while Baker county's rate is more than twice at 21.9 over the same period.
Baker County needs to step up their game when it come to influenza as strong as H1N1 or just the common cold.
The people who get the flu would be the ones with the problem since this county's death rate is more than doubled that of the states average.
Friday, May 24, 2019
4A- Forming an opportunity
Pressure washing is a huge opportunity to not only make money but make peoples belongings look way better than they did before. Driving around my uncles subdivision I noticed that everyone had the same nasty black grime all over their side walk, drive way and even their homes except my uncles. He told me he had gotten tired of everyone's concrete looking so nasty so he went and bought a pressure washer in hopes that his surrounding neighbors would take the hint and follow suit. I'm 75% sure that given the opportunity my uncles neighbors would pay to have their house, sidewalk, and drive way look pristine and brand new without having to buy a pressure washer or actually have to do it themselves.
Some customers could be just individuals in a subdivision, with my LLC I can sell my service to business' around me, or I could hit certain home owners association and get guaranteed work. Every one likes to have their house clean when visitors come over or their lawn well maintained for their neighbors. I think a fresh clean look has always been desirable amongst most home owners.
My first prototypical customer was my brothers friends neighbor, Andrew Keenee. The way his roof is lined up with his sidewalk way all the rain just hammers down since he does not have a gutter system installed. He told me he hates walking up that dirty side walk everyday. He notices the grime any time he looks out his windows. As of right now he is too broke to buy a pressure washer or to even pay me to clean it up for him. I was a little sad that my first prototypical customer rejected me but when trying to sell something you should always expect a no but hope for a yes!
My second prototypical customer was my dads construction boss. They go in to already built subdivisions and spackle and sponge the homes on the block. Henry told me that a lot of the others homes that were already built could definitely use some pressure washing. He said some of them are bad but a lot of them are brand new as well. He offered to put in a good word for me to the guy who gave him this job to get me started but I told him it was all hypothetical at the moment.
My third prototypical customer was going to be my step brothers home owners association but they never returned his call. So I went and talked to his mom who owns two homes in the same area and asked her all the questions. She said she knows for a fact that a lot of the older rich folks would love to have their side walks and homes pressure washed. Even if I couldn't get a contract with the home owners association that I could just go around the neighborhood and advertise my service. She also asked if I maybe thought about expanding my idea a little further into a landscaping business that does lawn mowing, weed eating, pressure washing and everything in between. I realize that if I expanded I would receive a lot more business
I honestly learned a lot about my opportunity through this assignment. It was actually really fun to think of a problem backwards like this and create a solution. I was pretty surprised that my step brothers mom told about the expansion of my idea to create a lot more opportunity which would be very smart.
My original opportunity is still there at the foundation but if I were to follow through I would definitely expand this into a landscaping business to make more money.
I do believe my new opportunity is more accurate than when I first started.
I definitely feel that entrepreneurs should adapt to their customers feedback because there is always room for improvement no matter what.
Some customers could be just individuals in a subdivision, with my LLC I can sell my service to business' around me, or I could hit certain home owners association and get guaranteed work. Every one likes to have their house clean when visitors come over or their lawn well maintained for their neighbors. I think a fresh clean look has always been desirable amongst most home owners.
My first prototypical customer was my brothers friends neighbor, Andrew Keenee. The way his roof is lined up with his sidewalk way all the rain just hammers down since he does not have a gutter system installed. He told me he hates walking up that dirty side walk everyday. He notices the grime any time he looks out his windows. As of right now he is too broke to buy a pressure washer or to even pay me to clean it up for him. I was a little sad that my first prototypical customer rejected me but when trying to sell something you should always expect a no but hope for a yes!
My second prototypical customer was my dads construction boss. They go in to already built subdivisions and spackle and sponge the homes on the block. Henry told me that a lot of the others homes that were already built could definitely use some pressure washing. He said some of them are bad but a lot of them are brand new as well. He offered to put in a good word for me to the guy who gave him this job to get me started but I told him it was all hypothetical at the moment.
My third prototypical customer was going to be my step brothers home owners association but they never returned his call. So I went and talked to his mom who owns two homes in the same area and asked her all the questions. She said she knows for a fact that a lot of the older rich folks would love to have their side walks and homes pressure washed. Even if I couldn't get a contract with the home owners association that I could just go around the neighborhood and advertise my service. She also asked if I maybe thought about expanding my idea a little further into a landscaping business that does lawn mowing, weed eating, pressure washing and everything in between. I realize that if I expanded I would receive a lot more business
I honestly learned a lot about my opportunity through this assignment. It was actually really fun to think of a problem backwards like this and create a solution. I was pretty surprised that my step brothers mom told about the expansion of my idea to create a lot more opportunity which would be very smart.
My original opportunity is still there at the foundation but if I were to follow through I would definitely expand this into a landscaping business to make more money.
I do believe my new opportunity is more accurate than when I first started.
I definitely feel that entrepreneurs should adapt to their customers feedback because there is always room for improvement no matter what.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
3A- My Entrepreneurship story
Back in 9th grade I got my very first job with my best friends older brother John David Peterson. He started his bee keeping career as a school project in the 8th grade. He had just graduated when I first started working for him. He was still pretty small time but with the help of me and my brother we turned a couple of bee hives into a flourishing business. After a couple of years of grinding away my brother and I started traveling with boss man and the bees to Wisconsin to pollinate the cranberries and then all the way to California to pollinate the almonds. We also traveled to south Florida to pollinate Orange grooves. One of the best managerial and entrepreneurship stories i have is when the whole crew bailed on a last minute trip to put queens in the hives so they can start producing honey. Bossman told me that if I hadn't decided to come even on short notice there was no way he could do this on his own. I was still in school at the time so we had to make this quick. We got there Friday evening and it poured rain the entire time. Thankfully we got seven out of twelve yards done but the last five were the biggest yards. On Saturday night Bossman ordered Pizza Meat lovers for him and a cheese pizza for me. I am awoken to John David puking his guts out at three in the morning and he claimed that pizza hut had given him severe food poisoning. So I had to drive out to all five yards put in over 300 queen cells by myself. To this day John David still tells me how much that meant to him and how much that helped out World Honey Market. He was a great entrepreneur to learn from and can't wait to implements everything he taught me to my own business one day.
To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration
but I can see now that I think I will enjoy this class.
To be honest I enrolled in ENT3003 because I needed it for my Bachelors in Business Administration
2A- Bug List
- My yard is infested with all sorts of wildlife ranging from ants, wasps, and birds .
- This is spring time so it is natural to have wildlife scurrying everywhere
- After a year and half my landlord still has not screened in our back porch resulting in wasp, ant, and bird fly by's threatening our good times.
- My land lord is a very busy man with multiple other properties so we are low on his priority list
- Less than a mile down my road there is an intersection that is getting very difficult to navigate. Macclenny is an ever growing city so there are many people here now that causes trying to cross two lanes of traffic with out a light on a single road is getting near impossible.
- Right after the intersection there are people getting off of I-10 so if there was a light the line could back up onto the interstate. It would also cost a lot of money to install a light.
- Right before the stop sign there is a zaxbys which is probably the most popular fast food spot Macclenny has and there is now a huge four story hotel that is being built right behind zaxbys which is going to make so much traffic especially at that crappy stop sign.
- The city is putting a hotel there because Macclenny is growing so fast and our police department has busted every other motel in town for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine.
- I work at Walmart DC 6099 and the equipment we operate are called Center Riders and they run off of hydrogen. Unfortunately we have to fill our rides up very often so there is always a line at the fill up station.
- Walmart uses hydrogen because it is cheaper than their old system and it is easier to maintain. It takes about five minutes to fill up now but the old system took almost 30 minutes.
- I am an order filler in the Freezer so my job is very simple. I play 3D tetris all day by stacking boxes into neat cubic pallets. The order that we get our boxes in and where each box is in the warehouse is called our profile. As of right now our profile is messed up we are losing workers and it is getting harder to stack certain trips as fast as I would like to.
- The profile could be very easily and quickly changed by our Quality Assurance team but they let the over night haulers determine where new boxes and new slots go.
- Walmart also just changed how we as order fillers wrap our trips. We used take our pallets to the staging area, drop it off, and start another trip while our loaders/ wrappers would wrap each trip and take it to the correct door. Now they have us as order fillers pull a trip, now wait in line to wrap our pallets, fix a problem or help a new wrap his awful pallet, take it to the door, THEN start a new trip. They also have not given us the proper amount of time so if I was running a 130% six months ago that is now a 100% which is stealing money from me.
- So many whys to address here yet it all seriously boils down to money. They displaced 5 loaders/ wrappers so we could wrap our own pallets and they could save money by not paying those wrappers. They have not given us the proper time back because that would mean dishes out so much more money than they want to.
- Recently our perishable sides power went out for thirty minuets so our temperatures started warming up. To combat the warm temperatures they made it colder and have had the fans blowing nonstop so it is so cold right now.
- It makes sense why Walmart is just protecting so much perishable goods it just sucks running so hard in an even colder climate. The ice cream room is usually -30 but it's around -40 still.
- Walmart just recently moved our lockers from perishable side to dry side. We not only have to walk further but I am dressed to run in a freezer so when I start walking around dry side trying to get to my locker I start heating up quick.
- Walmart moved the lockers to add a whole other isle in the dry produce room to fix their profile.
- As an order filler I rely heavily on my equipment to not fail me so I have a good day and it is very rare for nothing to die on me all day. We have old center riders that die all the time, we finally got Bluetooth headsets that can run out of battery sometimes, and our talkman that also runs on a battery.
- Walmart uses all of these because they were the cheapest option they could find. They got the hydrogen center riders knowing they die a lot but it was still cheaper, we got our Bluetooth headsets when amazon upgraded head sets because the ones we bought from them kept dying so much.
- I just attended my girlfriends little sister graduation. She graduated from 3rd grade so they had it in the Glenn Baptist Church. We went to side down in empty seats and the little kid at they end of the row said he needed three extra seats and of course I was sitting in the 3rd seat so we all got up and moved a row back. The entire graduation happened which was an hour and thirty five minutes and that kid saved three seats for no body to show up!!
- He told us he was saving seats for his family and we believed him. I have no idea why the family did not show up but it bugged everyone.
- Just bought a pool table and I like treating it with great respect. I clean it after every use and I re-rack the table so when I come back to play it is already racked and I just have to break. My older brother on the other hand likes to leave in the middle of a game or will finish said game and wont re-rack the table.
- My brother is just being plain lazy and does not want to show my beloved pool table the same amount of respect that I do.
- I bought a cheap bed and bed frame from Walmart because I get a 10% discount and it was a nice bed. After six months the bed decided to start squeaking very loudly at the slightest of movements.
- After six months of sleeping on a cheap Walmart bed frame without greasing up the pressure points I can understand some squeaking. I have since bought a new bed that does not squeak.
- Just bought my girlfriend and I a new set of My Pillows because I was very pleased with my purchases. Unfortunately this time the pillow did not fluff up like it was supposed to.
- I put the dryer on medium heat instead of high heat so the pillows did not fluff up the way they were supposed to. I have put the dryer on high heat and am letting it go for round two.
- Last night we bought some hardees and their sweet tea tasted awful.
- There are a lot of things that could have happened here. It could have been a newbies first week, the manager could have shown this person how to make sweet tea wrong, or this person was a Northerner and just like to make to make proper sweet tea.
- Walmart's employee website Walmart One has now changed to Walmart Wire now and it has not worked properly this entire time.
- It could be really hard to transfer all that data over and make a fully functional website but I feel if Walmart is paying to get this done they would try to get this huge issue fixed so their employees can look at their pay checks or look for new job opportunities.
- Last week at work I went to the break room to take my lunch break and I could not find my food. Someone had moved my food all the way to the back so they could put their ginormous lunch box in front of every body even though on the front of the refrigerator it clearly says no lunch boxes!
- Some one who is already inconsiderate decided to inconvenience my life so their life would be easier.
- My neighbor has an obsession with taking care of his yard. He is literally out there everyday in the spring either weed eating or mowing his lawn for the fifth time this week.
- He either really wants to get away from his wife or he takes a lot of pride in the way his yard looks.
- I'm in charge of the trash at my house and my brother takes care of the lawn. With just four people living here we as humans create so much trash its astounding and makes me think about how many families there are and how much trash there is out in the world.
- Our capitalistic economy runs off of people buying things. When you buy something there is almost always something to throw away.
- The amount plastic that is in my house alone honestly scares me. I'm thinking about starting to recycle and see if I can make money on recycling so much plastic because just a family of four uses and discards so much plastic it is crazy to think about.
- Once again this capitalistic economy runs on people buying things which are usually wrapped in all kinds of plastic. Plastic is inevitable and the only thing we can do is recycle.
This assignment was actually pretty cool. I got to think about what bugged me and why it exists. This will definitely carry on in my life when I get bugged by something I will instantly start asking why?
Monday, May 13, 2019
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