Day 27 - Mar 18 2010 - Quiet Thursday with Friends

Day 27 - Mar 18 2010 - Quiet Thursday with Friends

Thursday I had a quiet day at work, but I was able to demo our system to Wakai san's team, GIN Network Global Sales. Nick Wakai is now VP of that team but 6 years ago he worked for a few years in the same office as me in Denver, Colorado. We used to work international deals together many years ago and he helped me out tremendously with getting up to speed on how to to treat them. So many years later, I got a chance to work with him and his team and was able to show our automation and efficiency enhancements. He made two comments after the demo. 1) You have done a LOT of work in the last few years 2) You may need to buy a home in Tokyo. Haha. I'm hoping our hard work back in the US will be able to sincerely help their team going forward.

After work, Benjamin and Judy met Yuri, who was a trainee for one year in the USA that ended last summer. She's been very instrumental in spreading the good word of our hard work and getting people at HQ excited about learning about it. We shared our exchange program experiences so far with her and listened about her experience in the US. I told her now that I have been here almost a month and in an overseas training program, we could have done a better job in the USA to take that extra time to train, exchange information and make guests feel more comfortable. Learn from your mistakes, make a difference, one person at a time. Hopefully I will be able to be assigned a trainee in the future, I will be much more prepared having gone through this program myself.



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