A lot on my mind
I am reminded of the old saying, "WTF Claire do your paper!" I've come to terms with the fact that I'm a last minute person. I work well under pressure. I get comparable grades as people who finish a week in advance. Still, the habit is bad and so am I for still working on a paper assigned three weeks ago.
Bad habits to fix:
- procrastination
- being late
- not exercising enough
- gossiping about people
- wasting time and never getting enough sleep
I can't wait until Thursday at 9:30pm! I'll have more free time and one less thing to worry about.
Today was really busy. There is so much work for such an overworked intern! But the brown bag lunch event for the interns was really educational. The head of global conduct came to talk to us about his job, which is basically making sure that there are no sweatshops making our clothes. The talk really inspired me to look towards the corporate social responsibility, public policy, nonprofit, and public sector types of jobs as a career. I used to say that my dream job was taken by Rachael Ray, doing 30 minute meals and $40 a day. That's still high in my mind because it seems so fun, but what if you could be a leader in a large nonprofit, something like the Bill Gates Foundation or Unicef? It boggles my mind the billions of money they deal with, and how much of a difference you can make.
I asked this guy how a company like ours could work with a company like Walmart. There has to be something non-conduct-like about that! I know it sounds arrogant, but just looking at the basics we have such a different corporate culture, and way different values. One values profits, the other values people. He said that 1. they are a huge and important customer 2. they actually only get bashed a lot for being such a big company 3. we get to make some difference in their behavior; he's actually trained management at Walmart on how to be more socially responsible 4. sometimes they surprise us with their CSR, like the new eco-friendly initiatives 5. we need some way to reach that market of people (aka low income). I'm not sure how convincing his argument was. I tried to keep an open mind, but the main point was still that they are an important customer. I'm sure they know this, and use it to their advantage. Walmart sucks. Especially because they are so rich and donate next to nothing to charity. Let's not even get into the negative externalities. GRR
How did I get off on this tangent? Well, WOF is still too far away. For now, I will focus on school. My paper, btw, is about gentrification and the homeless, weighing the costs and benefits of city beautification programs with regards to civil rights violations of the homeless. I'm using a case study of San Diego and San Francisco. So interesting, I swear. I've never had this much fun writing a paper. (Really that wasn't sarcastic, it's really interesting.) Places in SF that we take for granted now, like the Mission district, North Beach, and the Financial district have come a long way. It takes evicting poor people, driving away/arresting the homeless, and ridiculous city ordinances to make an area "desirable". Chew on that for a little bit.
Bad habits to fix:
- procrastination
- being late
- not exercising enough
- gossiping about people
- wasting time and never getting enough sleep
I can't wait until Thursday at 9:30pm! I'll have more free time and one less thing to worry about.
Today was really busy. There is so much work for such an overworked intern! But the brown bag lunch event for the interns was really educational. The head of global conduct came to talk to us about his job, which is basically making sure that there are no sweatshops making our clothes. The talk really inspired me to look towards the corporate social responsibility, public policy, nonprofit, and public sector types of jobs as a career. I used to say that my dream job was taken by Rachael Ray, doing 30 minute meals and $40 a day. That's still high in my mind because it seems so fun, but what if you could be a leader in a large nonprofit, something like the Bill Gates Foundation or Unicef? It boggles my mind the billions of money they deal with, and how much of a difference you can make.
I asked this guy how a company like ours could work with a company like Walmart. There has to be something non-conduct-like about that! I know it sounds arrogant, but just looking at the basics we have such a different corporate culture, and way different values. One values profits, the other values people. He said that 1. they are a huge and important customer 2. they actually only get bashed a lot for being such a big company 3. we get to make some difference in their behavior; he's actually trained management at Walmart on how to be more socially responsible 4. sometimes they surprise us with their CSR, like the new eco-friendly initiatives 5. we need some way to reach that market of people (aka low income). I'm not sure how convincing his argument was. I tried to keep an open mind, but the main point was still that they are an important customer. I'm sure they know this, and use it to their advantage. Walmart sucks. Especially because they are so rich and donate next to nothing to charity. Let's not even get into the negative externalities. GRR
How did I get off on this tangent? Well, WOF is still too far away. For now, I will focus on school. My paper, btw, is about gentrification and the homeless, weighing the costs and benefits of city beautification programs with regards to civil rights violations of the homeless. I'm using a case study of San Diego and San Francisco. So interesting, I swear. I've never had this much fun writing a paper. (Really that wasn't sarcastic, it's really interesting.) Places in SF that we take for granted now, like the Mission district, North Beach, and the Financial district have come a long way. It takes evicting poor people, driving away/arresting the homeless, and ridiculous city ordinances to make an area "desirable". Chew on that for a little bit.