Ban CostCo

I’m sitting at work right now waiting for the day to end. I have a headache because I have stared at a compute screen the entire day. This week has been slow, I have had little to do. I got one large project at the beginning of the week that should last me for a week except that I’m almost done with it. I have even had several smaller finance projects that took me less than an hour today. So I have spent the day reading newspaper editorials that relate to the United States or Japan, oh I worked for about and hour on my project.

A decision was made by me and the rest of the class here and China to ban CostCo from our lives. I have never shopped at CostCo and now I never will. Three of my class got internships at CostCo here in Japan, all of them at offices in the marketing department. Well we get here and all three of them don’t end up working at the marketing department but instead get jobs mopping floors and stocking warehouses. The rest of us are writing marketing plans, doing financial analyses, accounting, and giving strategy presentations. We are MBA students and CostCo took three of us and decided to use them as free physical labor. It was made clear to all the companies that we are supposed to practice our skills but they decided to ignore this. I do not have anything against management working on the floor and learning every aspect of a company but these three were taken advantage of. We do have a presentation to give at the end of this about how we combined all of our skills, and what are they supposed to present. All three have left and moved on to other internships which was difficult for the program to find at the last minute. In even this they were hassled and CostCo even tried to lie to the program to what was really going on to get them to stay.

Tonight I’m going out to meet some biotechnology entrepreneur here in Japan. He is doing something with Mangos I think.