Diego Alatorre
Business Internship
Period:7
Work Journals
#1 November 11, 2016-- On this very day is when I began to work at Petco. My manager Sean McBride was a very productive manager. He would always be working even though he should have been supervising the employees.
#2 Continued--He changed my mindset about the job. I was not going to break a bone working at Petco, but after I saw Sean work, he inspired me to work as hard as I could.
#3 Continued--Working at Petco was not as I expected, I thought I would be able to feed and open the animals, but it turns out you have to be 18 years old to handle the animals.
#4 Continued--I am big on animals so I was kinda upset about that. Sean had me sweep the floors and dust the store my …show more content…
This is important because Jessica the manager who was ringing up the customer told me to get the crickets.
#6 Continued--The crickets are found in a trash can with small hole in it to light air flow in. I asked one of the employees to teach me how exactly to get the crickets, and they did just that.
#7 Continued--It turns out there's a process to bag the crickets. You must put them in the bag, then count them while in the bag.Once the bag has the amount of crickets the customer asked for you pinch the bag and spin it.
#8 Continued--Once it has been spun you put a rubber band on top of the pinched portion so the crickets will not escape.Once I got home, I thought to myself how hard and how efficient you have to be to work at Petco. I saw none of the employees walking or talking.
#9 December 9th, 2016-- On December 9th, 2016 I went to work for about three hours, and I saw Ulysses. The reason I left work so early was because I was super tired and my eyes kept closing.
#10 Continued--Besides the point I was sweeping as usual and Ulysses walks into the store. Ulysses signs in and helps me pick up all the dirt from the floor. We both seek Sean for a new task, but he went on break, so we went to
Business Internship
Period:7
Work Journals
#1 November 11, 2016-- On this very day is when I began to work at Petco. My manager Sean McBride was a very productive manager. He would always be working even though he should have been supervising the employees.
#2 Continued--He changed my mindset about the job. I was not going to break a bone working at Petco, but after I saw Sean work, he inspired me to work as hard as I could.
#3 Continued--Working at Petco was not as I expected, I thought I would be able to feed and open the animals, but it turns out you have to be 18 years old to handle the animals.
#4 Continued--I am big on animals so I was kinda upset about that. Sean had me sweep the floors and dust the store my …show more content…
This is important because Jessica the manager who was ringing up the customer told me to get the crickets.
#6 Continued--The crickets are found in a trash can with small hole in it to light air flow in. I asked one of the employees to teach me how exactly to get the crickets, and they did just that.
#7 Continued--It turns out there's a process to bag the crickets. You must put them in the bag, then count them while in the bag.Once the bag has the amount of crickets the customer asked for you pinch the bag and spin it.
#8 Continued--Once it has been spun you put a rubber band on top of the pinched portion so the crickets will not escape.Once I got home, I thought to myself how hard and how efficient you have to be to work at Petco. I saw none of the employees walking or talking.
#9 December 9th, 2016-- On December 9th, 2016 I went to work for about three hours, and I saw Ulysses. The reason I left work so early was because I was super tired and my eyes kept closing.
#10 Continued--Besides the point I was sweeping as usual and Ulysses walks into the store. Ulysses signs in and helps me pick up all the dirt from the floor. We both seek Sean for a new task, but he went on break, so we went to