Continuing with my internship has been both fun and stressful. As I mentioned in my previous entry the other intern and I have been working on the Competitive Report really hard for about two weeks. We have been communicating with other people in the office as well as amongst ourselves to gather all of the information that is necessary to complete the report. Looking up this information can be stressful especially when you’re sitting in a cubicle for eight hours a day. I have learned a lot about the competitors and now when I’m watching TV or out with friends I notice advertising and marketing a lot more than I did before. I was watching sports center the other day and noticed Lumber Liquidators advertising and I was able to add that to our report.
I have been able to attend more events than just the Braves game. I worked at The Home Depot hospitality tent for the Peachtree Road Race, The BMW Tennis Tournament, and my favorite event so far, the Women’s Professional Soccer All-Star Game for Puma (I got some sweet new shoes). At the Peachtree Road Race we checked employees in to the tent. We had to meet at work at 4:30 in the morning and left the event around 1pm on the fourth of July. At the BMW Tennis Tournament I was signing people up to test drive BMW’s. If they signed up they got a free dry fit and hat. At the Puma event, there were a lot of things going on. They had a huge cube/tent set up where inside they had face painting, tattoos, photos being taken, and a thing where you could make a 7 second video and it was turned into a flip book. I was not assigned to work in the cube; I was part of the group of people who got to take care of “Section Puma.” Every game Puma designates a specific section and that section gets a ton of free stuff: Bags, Jerseys, balls, horns, posters, etc. I loved this because as I said before I was president of the spirit club and ran pep-rallies in high school so I was able to bring my energy to the fans and get them pumped up.
I have taken on a leadership role with the other intern. I am order than him, but I do not think that that has anything to do with it. I am extremely organized at work, I work hard, and I am extremely productive. I have actually started to get frustrated with the work ethic I see from him. I am having a hard time communicating to him that I need him to work harder than he is, because I feel as if it is making me look bad. Hopefully I will be able to work that out.
