Author: mitch.dunaway

Hospitality House v2

Looks like we have 6 volunteers for our joint volunteer project with Cushman Wakefield Northmarq. They day the project starts is our payroll day so i assume most people want to be at that meeting and that is why we dont have more volunteers. I might participate because it would […]

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Rubbermaid & Tennant Roadshow

Today im going to a manufacturers showcase. I am excited to get out of the office to see what Rubbermaid and Tennant are showcasing for their new equipment. I hope their new equipment does not impact my maintenance guide.

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Awkward

Today I sat in on a pretty awkward situation between an employee and my boss. She had a relationship with another employee and it was prohibiting them from completing their work. One employee admitted to it and the other did not. HR did an investigation and found out that their […]

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Side Projects

Since this is my last week, i have been assisting in multiple side projects to keep myself busy. The first project was some excel coding to help HR view and manage their documents a little easier. The second reviewing all of the safety talks for the last 9 months for […]

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The Hospitality House

Yesterday I organized an event between ABM and Cushman Wakefield Northmarq for the cleaning of a local kids center in Minneapolis. We will be cleaning the Hospitality House’s Urban Learning Center that provides troubled kids with a place to learn, grow, and develop skills. I just wish my internship didnt […]

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Potential Career? Maybe??

Last week during our payroll meeting an employee of our branch gave me a shout out for it being my last week this week. A national account manager for United Heath Group came to me after and asked me if i would be interested in an analyst position through United […]

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Office Cleanup

This week has been extremely slow for me so I have been asking my coworkers if they have anything for me to do to keep myself busy. I talked the special services manager and he had some cleaning around the office that he had been meaning to get to but […]

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Tutorials

A couple of weeks ago we had a constructive brain storming activity with most of the employees in the northern branch. A lot of the criticism was towards our hours system called blueforce. It is a difficult program to operate but with a little playing around it becomes fairly easy. […]

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Phone Screening

Last week I had to phone screen over 30 applicants for our open positions. I called using my cell phone in a different room so I could hear the conversation. I left voicemails for 80% of the people I called and left them my desk phone to call back. By […]

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Cost Plus Billing

Last week I had the pleasure of joining the accounting team for Cost Plus Billing. I put together countless pages of billing for each manager to confirm the costs accrued throughout the month. At the end of the week I had to scan each packet to the manager so they […]

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Boiling Point

The tensions between our day manager and the staff at International Plaza finally boiled over at the end of last week. A new manager at the building has been hovering over our manager for the last couple of days and it caused her to break down. She was in tears […]

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Contract Abstract

Throughout this internship I have been working on a “never ending” project that the last intern started. I am proud to say that i have finished reading every single contract that we have and it is now put into an excel document which is accessible to all members of the […]

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Hines Proposal

Still no word on if we won the Hines bid for the properties of Wells Fargo Center, Mayo Clinic Square, Galleria, 50 South Sixth, International Plaza, U.S. Bank Plaza but It from the projects I worked on last week, it sounds like they want to switch to a flat fee […]

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Maintenance Program

Last week I found out that we have no preventative maintenance program in our company. I found this to be very odd because we use so many different types of equipment that require maintenance. I have been producing a simple preventative maintenance guide for our managers to use to reduce […]

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