Internship at NIKE.

Nike is a very good place to work. People there are mostly really friendly. Their dressings for work are very casual. Shirley, the director of finance and administration is the person who we interview with, and got accepted. She is a really nice person, looking after us like mother and sons! John is the mentor I work with. He is like the director of the footwear-testing laboratory. Judy taught me all the materials that were use in shoes manufacture. Finny taught me how to type a data entry report, which is most likely what I will be doing through out the year. The other four cool and humorous ladies teach me how to do footwear-testing all the time. Betty is Angus’ mentor. She was also the lady who took us to the factory last time. I think that was the most powerful experience I had. The shoes manufacturing process actually looks very complicated, and it takes a lot of workers to make a pair of shoes. A worker might have to do the same step for years, such as packaging the shoes. It has been a tiring month, but I think the experiences I have are valuable.

Foxies In The Room

After I watched this movie, I was really shocked by the facts. I have heard lots of companies collapse, and people can not get their money back. But, I did not know that there are these kinds of things happened behind each financial collapsed company. Enron- The smartest Guys in the Room, This movie really shows the greed and hubris of people. One same moral between Enron’s movie and Ishmael is that people eventually hurt themselves by getting more and more power. Peter Parker’s uncle, the main character from Spider-man, Ben once told him: "With great power, comes great responsibility." As Enron got more and more power, they did not handle well with responsibility and ethics. Those managers and CEOs do not care the others at all. This ties back to the book Ishmael, the competition and survival fits ideas by human. People want to be at the top to take control of everything. I think once people got on the top, they would do whatever they can keep themselves away from falling. One of the parts from the movie that really shocks me was the psychological test where one person is acting to be electrified and another person is adding up the voltage without knowing it is fake. This just shows that Enron’s Company already lost their ethics when they were lying to people. The founder of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling is serving a 24-year, 4-month prison with the conviction in 2006 of many crimes as the financial collapse of Enron. Kenneth Lay is dead by the heart attack in July 5, 2006, just about three and a half months before sentence. I think one of the misinterpretations they had which let to their financial collapse is- “Market will correct itself.” They are too arrogant and over confident with curability they might have. They did not want ask people for, because they feel it might look bad. Enron cares too much about the look. They did not want to be frank, because they think it might damage their reputation, even though it is just temporally. One thing I really think all the company should follow is King Car Company. It is a Taiwanese drink company. When the contaminate milk powder events exposed in China, King Car Company was the first one who acclaim that they imported milk powder from China, so they took back every milk powder products they sold, and apologize to the people. Now, the consumers would more likely to buy their products, because they are really honest and sincere, and they stopped using the contaminated milk powder. They might loose some money and reputation, but these are just temporally; they will be really successful in the future. Honesty is the most important thing in corporation!