Back from Florida and Back to Work

Today was my first day back to work from my short weekend excursion to Florida. It felt like I haven't missed anything. I arrived early and was put straight to work. I was shocked because my boss was already at work before me and I have arrived at 8:30am. As usual, I started off with my daily work ritual. I began with checking the voicemails for the department and the two bosses. As usual, it was a lot of messages for me to check which took me about an hour. Called back all of the people who I can help on my own and solved their issues. Also, I was given assignments that I was supposed to accomplish throughout the day. These assignments were to call all of the contest winners for the upcoming week, distribute prizes to the winners, create event bags and to enter all of the new winners into Promosuites.

After checking all of our messages, I proceeded onto entering all of the new winners into Promosuites. These winners won tickets to the Sean Paul Concert, Who's Next Slaughter House Concert, Maxwell Concert, On Da Reggae Tip Concert, Queen Latifah Concert and also for De La Soul. This took a long time because there was a lot of different contests won over the weekend. Also, it was hard to decipher the information put on the contest sheets because the interns in the studio tend to write horribly (to the point that we have to strain to read what they wrote). Sometimes we would have to call the winners back to make sure they gave us the accurate information so we can understand it and use it for future reference.

After finishing this, I went onto calling all of the new contest winners that were just entered into the system. This was another task that took entirely too long. This was because we did not have a full staff in office today. We were missing one of the main part-timers and two interns. All of the work was just left for me and another intern name Justin. Even though the assignments were not so intense, they were very tedious. At that time as usual, a lot of people came to claim their tickets. They were coming in rapidly from 1pm-5pm. And as usual, I am the only intern to allowed to get all of the tickets. Which made the task seem like I was entitled to do it myself.

By the time I was finished with all of this, it was 5pm. I couldn't stay late today because I had to meet up with my mother. Also, the other intern, Justin, had to leave early as well to tend to some personal matters. Even though I was supposed to leave work exactly at 5pm, I stayed a little longer so I could help out with some last minute preparations that we were doing for this weekends event (called Harlem Day). This is a big Harlem festival that is for the community where Hot 97 and our sister station plays a crucial part in.

By the time I was packing up to leave, I realized that there was still many assignments that I have not finished for the day. I had to leave it for tomorrow. The left over assignments were to call the rest of the winners as well as enter in upcoming text messaging contest for the station and creating event bags. Also, I had to remind myself to create a list of all the winners and the contest they won. All of this is supposed to be my assignment for tomorrow.