Stuck In the box

Box, box, box...

I was told to sit in the box.

I sit in the box and sit in the box,

Then Kurspis comes up and wants to un-box.

I love to be in the box, why should I un-box?

He says, "Think outside of the box!"

How can I do that when I am in the box?

The world outside the box is not my world.

I love my world inside of my box.

He says,"Good managers think outside of the box."

Why should I trust him? He is not in the box!

I manage my box, I manage it good.

The world inside of my box is perfectly smooth!

Lets give it a shot!

I think I'll un-box. I think it must be good

Outside of this box

So, I leave my box but I am still in the box.

Professor Kurpis why am I in your box?

I guess ill stay here. This is a cool box!

I like the world outside of my box!

From McDonalds to McDonalds

After venturing to five McDonald restaurant me and Tatiana had no luck of finding a right personal who complied with our special order. We even went to restaurant located in the hart of the Time Square where most knowledgeable staff serves people all over the world. Every single McDonalds staff told us that their system was not designed to input order manually and everything was pre loaded for fast output.

Finally, on the way to school we stopped by a McDonalds in East Harlem area to try my luck again. we approached the girl and asked to give us a burger that had exactly four pickles on it and well done french-fries with no salt. Her first expression was if she was getting pank`d by someone. Then she tried to understand my order and tried to input pickles in to her system by pressing pickles four times. However, we already had experience with one of the sales person giving us a receipt with pickles listed four times. So, we told her that it was essential for us to have receipt with four pickles on it because we ware keeping a record of what we ware eating in detail. So she tried to list pickles the way I told her but unfortunately she was not able to do.

Meanwhile line on other register was getting longer and longer and we heard peoples frustration for taking so long to explain my order. The other cashier working on other register stepped in to help her fellow worker by trying to see if he can help us out. Unfortunately, he didn’t know either. We asked to speak to a manager. She came and asked us to wait ten minutes because she had to send all the orders out. She handled the orders and asked us to step to a closed register. She opened it up and start asking us, what it was that we needed. We explained that we kept track of what we eat and wanted a recipe with four pickles listed on it and french-fries well done no salt. She took time and tried her best to take care of us. After, few minutes of punching the screen she was able to give us a receipt with everything we wanted on it. Then she personally went to get our order ready. First she stopped by the frying machine and damped half of the basket of raw fries in to a machine. She put the frying basket in to boiling oil and went to make us a burgers. She was quick to make us an order, she got my fries out and put it in the McDonalds paper bag same thing she did for Tatiana. Once order was complete we gave her cash and opened up the bag to see our brown looking french-fries and burgers. we opened up burgers and saw four pickles located visibly. It looked like she counted the pickles and the placed it on the burger. She looked like she was an effective manager who cared about customers and customer service.

If I was brought to McDonalds to improve their system, I would educate their front line staff to be better informed about the ordering system. I would ask management to be more customer oriented because I had to go to six McDonald restaurants to get what I wanted. Finally, I would improve their computer system to be more easy to input special orders like I had.

Vision Man

Graduate from school with minimum GPA of 3.5

My first goal in my life is to graduate from this college with competitive GPA while not sacrificing anything in my life. I always had a vision of being a college student and athlete. While not sacrificing anything that can make my life less fun. I as some of you know have a great hobby of modifying cars. As of now I am Baruch student with competitive GPA. Moreover I compete for Baruch College tennis team playing at 4^th singles. My record is 7-0 not loosing even a single match in this season. With work, school and tennis I don’t have time to study more then I need. But I have a vision set to achieve a stellar GPA and graduate from this school as a athlete and student.

Join Police squad and become a financial officer

My vision is becoming a police officer in New York City Police department. I am already listed for their internship position list and if I get hired by them ill be a police cadet. Moreover, after graduation I will become a police officer and hopefully with my financial degree and skills I will be able to join their financial officer position that will run after financial crimes.

Become a FBI agent

But my vision does not end with becoming a police officer. I want to be a FBI agent. It is highly prestigious job and requires a very hard work to become an agent. But my vision is clear and I will try my best to achieve it.

Good Plan Gone Wrong

Our planning went really well. Unfortunately our egg was sacrificed to a great deed but the main goal of this activity was accomplished. Moreover, our group of six people was very successful going thought all the steps to try and protect the egg.

We started of with defining our goal. The goal was to protect precious egg. Also we looked over the time and all the attributes that we were getting. Ten minutes to think and then ten to actually create the cage seemed to be a good deal until we started the project. It felt more like five.

We planned to take over the scissors but then we decided that it was not worth to try and waist time getting it. We determined that we had straws and a tape that was not sticky. Therefore we had to come up with several alternative plans. We saw that with such small number of supplies and damaged tape it was really hard to accomplish the mission.

We came to a conclusion that we need a plan that required less tape and more straws. Since we had blueprints of what egg will look like, we started assigning jobs. Two people started to cut straws and other two were in charge to cut tape and one hold the egg. Then we all gathers our supplies and start building the cage for the egg. Our idea of the cage was 100% success because it was well protected from the impact side. The only thing that we did’t calculate was the shift of fluids In the egg itself what resulted of egg turning and dropping on its side and breaking. The 100% successful mission turned to failure but the main mission for this assignment was met and accomplished when we all did as a team.

Fridge On Wheels

I moved to United States in September 2001. I lived here for 9 years. Occasionally I go back to my country to visit family and friends. On one of the visits I was offered a business idea from my brother in law. We were supposed to import luxury SUV from America to Republic of Georgia. Moreover, I accepted this opportunity to invest money and start business. After shipping two containers with three SUV in each, this business appeared to be quite profitable. It was my third shipment when I saw this beautiful Mercedes ML320 for a very good price. In a day or two I delivered that car to the shipping company for immediate shipment. In about one month after shipping it I received a phone call from my brother in law, who asked me, why I send him a fridge. It was quite surprising for me to hear a complain about this beautiful car.

However, I started to understand that Georgians associate white cars with a fridge. It does not matter if it’s the best car in the world, it cannot be white. Two cars were sold immediately but white one was becoming a nightmare. Not a sigle buyer will look at it. It took us about three to four month to sell that white Mercedes with about 35% off from initial price.

Therefore, never again I looked for the white car to send it to Republic of Georgia. For quite some time it was a nightmare for me to look at the white car. However, I have learned my lesson for believing that I knew my own culture. As of now I don’t do this business anymore and I do like white cars.

Mikes mandatory blog

Hello, My name is Mikheil but i like to be called Mike cause it is short and easy. My major is Finance and minor is Mathematics. I play tennis for Baruch College. I also manage business with couple of my friends, we modify building light system to more energy efficient, one that saves 50% of electricity and is brighter. As you can see i have a very busy schedule and i love it. I am also a big car enthusiast, i fell in love with cars when i was two years old. I build and then race them "legally". In future i want a job that has something to do with car industry. I know some of you will ask. "But how would finance be beneficial in car industry?" Well majoring in finance and knowing cars is a beneficial in two ways. First, i can manage my own car business and second i can invest in car companies and technology that will be future of car industry. Thanks for reading