Day - 11 Jay Fu

Monday morning Burt from ABB robotics came to visit us at the hotel to talk to us about a variety of different topics, due to a last minute cancellation of SABB. Burt came in and first talked to us about the differences in the work places throughout the world. This was very interesting because for some cultures having a job you love is a huge contributing factor and in others it is not. Burt told us a story about an R&D program he was trying to set up in India. He figured that there motivation to work hard would be similar to that of Sweden. Which was give these employes jobs that are very cool and giving them freedom to work with these robots. It failed though he said which doesn't make sense because many of these workers are well paid and are highly qualified for these jobs. This is because there they want a job where they can constantly get promoted, to show that they are successful in their job. Burt created this job layout so there weren't as many job promotion opportunities as his workers would have liked. Another topic we talked about was the

transition he had to take when dealing with generation Y. He said that they were somewhat of a pain but they get there work done and are very passionate about there work which for some of the older employees get upset with. One of his examples was that a few new gen Y managers wanted to change a big part in an operation to try and make the process more efficient. To many of the older managers it seems like they are trying to make to much noise to quickly which gets on a lot of the older managers nerves. This is something I will be encountering in the work force in the next few years so it was an interesting topic to cover.


Our next stop was at Stylt Trampoli a design and marketing company. This company was awesome! They did a lot of very cool things, they do designing and marketing for many hotels and restaurants. They have won quite a few awards for their fantastic work recently and are becoming a big name in the European market. Our speaker went through a number of the companies recent workThey were all breathtaking and thats coming from a guy! These places they designed were beautiful and the stories that went along with them were pure gold. One of their favorite stories the made is for a restaurant called Jay Fu's the Amasian Steak House. Jay Fu is about a asian martial arts guy who wants to get into a Kung Fu Hollywood movie. He makes it to Hollywood only to be the punching bag for an up and coming Chinese martial artist. Becoming very discouraged he decided to open up his own restaurant. This is the background story of the restaurant which I thought was extremely creative and cool.

 This restaurant before they asked for the help of Stylt was about to close and Stylt came in and gave them a new look and created a memorable experience for the customers which in turn drew a larger volume of them boosting sales. This was a very cool presentation as well as experience. I learned a lot from listening to the different ideas and problems that Stylt encounters but well worth the visit. I really hope they enjoyed having us and allow the group next year to visit again as well because I know for a fact they will learn alot.

Later that night we found a bar with an open mic so a group of us went out and got the Piano man Alex Nelson on the keyboard! He absolutely killed it everyone in the bar was going crazy about how talented he was, especially our group that we brought out there. Another big surprise was Nick Chin! We all found out that he was a fantastic singer and apparently has an album out! He sang a few songs up on the stage and blew everyone away as well. Of course I cant forget Connor's tambourine and morraca skills just having a blast up there every song. Wow what another great night, got to hear some great music and hang out with a bunch of great people, I couldn't ask for anything more!