This week we tried something new, we had simultaneous sales in two different places on campus on Wednesday: in high school during break and lunch and in middle school during lunch. We had never had simultaneous sales in two different places and it was overwhelming, exhaustive and we definitely were not as efficient as we needed to have been. First of all, we had to set up and taken down our stand many times. We spent all morning setting up for the high school break sale and for the middle school lunch sale. Once the break sale was over, we spent most of mid-morning cleaning up the high school stand, taking everything back up to the class, making smoothies for deliveries and setting up again for the lunch sales. This was definitely not the best use of our time. The first sale hadn't even begun and we were already feeling overwhelmed and exhausted from running around all over school. Not only were we setting up the stands with the supplies we had, but we were also looking for equipment that we should have thought of at least the day before. By the end of the day, I, along with most, if not all, of my classmates, were exhausted and felt we couldn't even pick up a finger or get our brains to reflect about the day. At the end of the day, I felt like we had worked double the amount of time and put in double the amount of effort to sell the same amount of smoothies we have sold other times; times which didn't require even a fraction of the effort we put into setting up and taking down the stand. Drew came up with a good solution: when we have sales, each person should be in charge of getting one or two things and should be in charge of setting up those things each time we have a sale. In the long run, we wouldn't have to rely on others to see how we could be helpful because honestly, when we ask around, it makes everything and everyone a lot more overwhelmed. Also, we would become experts in what we would do which would make us a lot more efficient in the long run. Now that I think back on Wednesday, I realize that as soon as the 8:00 am bell rang, we were all running all over the place doing things that we thought were the best use of our time, when in reality, this was not the case. Some people had too many things on their plate when others didn't have much at all. This goes back to the conversation of taking initiative that we had a couple of weeks ago and how we should all start taking more initiative because it is the best way to step up your game and persevere in whatever you're doing; but in all honestly, it was hard to see what had to be done when everyone was all over the place and roles were not defined.
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Corey Topf
11/7/2014 03:23:26 am
I guess it's a fine balance between slowing down, but also remaining productive and efficient. We might have bit off more than we could chew, and that's what got us out of whack. :)
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