During Take Your Kid To Work Day, I went to my dad’s work. My dad is an IT specialist at Herschel, he helps with all things using technology and helps the websites. Today he had shown me around his office and also around the marketing team office, showroom, kitchen, lunchroom, other offices around the building. During my visit, i arrived in the building at around 9:00 am, I was following my dad around in meetings on zoom at 9:30. After finishing his check-up meeting he went downstairs to get a coffee and helped a coworker with their password problem. Most of the time he would answer emails during 10 to 12pm, for lunch we went to a restaurant for take-out. After we ate, he answered more work-emails and set up a password changer, then fixed a user from meta viewer. A few things I found interesting was that there was a dog named Fosco, they had a car with Halloween decorations and saw some new products that they have created. They have a showroom of all the different items that they will sell in the future.
Assignment 3A Questions:
1. What did you hear, see, smell, and feel in the work environment on Nov. 1st?
In the work environment on November 1st, I can hear background music and workers talking, I see many bags, laptops, and monitor screens. It smells like coffee and woodfrom the floor. The work environment feels welcoming and fun.
2. What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work?
The co-workers are kind and there is nice background music that would motivate me to wake up every day to attend work.
3. What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work?
One thing about the work environment that would discourage me from waking up every day to attend work would be that some people work from home, but I would still have to work in the office.
4. What is ONE thing you found interesting about your workplace visit?
One thing I found interesting was that they have a showroom for all the new bags, clothes and other items that have not been released.
Here are the pictures I took:
Picture of the showroom
Picture of an entrance
Picture of Fosco the dog