Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Job Shadowing

For my job shadowing I visited Tim Campbell at SAS. When I first arrived at SAS I was handed a visitors badge and a few minutes later I was greeted by Tim and he offered to buy me breakfast and for breakfast I had a bowl of grits. While we were eating our breakfast we talked about the AOIT program and football. After breakfast he gave me a tour of the basement which is where he works. After the tour we arrived to his office and he explained his employee benefits and he informed me on what I was going to do that day. After we talked he took me to one of the people who works for him who's name was Brian and I was with him for a couple hours. First he had to go repair a server that was not working correctly. We went into the database room and he showed me all the servers and other high tech things I didn't understand. The room was very weird because there was AC that was coming from the floor and then all the servers were hot so you had hot air coming from the sides and cold air coming from the bottom. It took him about ten minutes to do the repairment and after we finished we went to his office. There we were talking about college and how he just went to UNCW for the women which I thought was interesting. He then had a phone call and they were debating on whether to buy Dell products or Lenovo products. After the phone called occurred two others showed up in his office one was name Sanjay and the other guys name I couldn't remember. They then also debated about whether to buy Lenovo or Dell. Then the two other guys left and we went to another office where two people sat and Sanjay and Tim showed up and they were debating about Lenovo or Dell again. We then went back to his office and we talked about college and high school again. I then went to see a guy named John Noel and he looked like DJ Khaled. He went through what he did and I was extremely confused the entire time and I understood little to none about what he was talking about. He then talked about football with me which I was definitely not confused about. Tim then showed up after about 45 minutes and we went over to the Executive building to eat lunch with two other AOIT students Suvid and John Duffy. I got fresh made pizza for lunch and a lemon cake. The people John and Suvid were job shadowing were talking to Tim about business so we left with their premisson and sat with Jake who is also in AOIT who was job shadwoing a family friend. After lunch  we went to look at Dr. Goodnight's collection of rocks and we looked at a auditorium that looked like the UN headquarters. After lunch I went with these other two guys (one of them was in AOIT) to go put together a server and I watched them do that until I left. Overall I had a good time at SAS.
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