Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these fold flat gift bags which are using eight by eight paper pads. So I've had quite a few people request for me to do eight by eight kind of size gift bags because of a lot of the paper craft or the paper boutique and the paper tree paper pads that they've been getting because they are all eight by eight. So I thought I would use one of the paper tree paper pads which I'll show you in a minute they're Christmas ones and this is I've just put bags within a bag so there are I think I've got about 10 they're all fold flat I've used this lovely fabric ribbon that I've had for so long now and I thought you know what it's going to go really well with this I know it's quite I guess more of a Scandinavian kind of detail and pattern there but I think it still works really really well so I've just pulled out the toppers from the pad and this is how one of the back the boxes look like now it is shorter but that's optional and I'll show you that in a moment because this is actually seven high so it's eight by three by seven but it can be eight by eight but I just wanted to do this detail and kind of conceal the ribbon underneath so all optional and I'll show you that when we get to it but if I just pull one of them out here you can see again how it all folds nice and flat so I thought this would make a really nice some well it would I think it'd be really nice to sell it at a craft fair it would also be nice as maybe a raffle prize obviously it's perfect for yourself as well to do you know to keep all your to put all your presents in for your friends and family near a Christmas time but I think it's just yeah it's quite a nice little gift in itself as well you can give this to a friend so yeah I've really liked them so like I said I think I'm going to be doing the 10th one and that's all using papers from one paper pad so let me show you how to make it okay so the one I'm using is the paper tree so the paper boutique and the paper tree are all the same company and there I think it's well yeah creative world of crafts so and they're very very similar I'm not entirely sure why the paper tree and why the paper boutique like why there are two different ones because they are so similar but anyway but yeah so some of you will have some of these and some of you will have the others but this is a Christmas tale it's really really lovely so I picked up the paper kit because I always say I repeat myself so much but I love the toppers that come with them so the kits are always good because you get the decorative papers and you also get the toppers so this one here had 32 die cut toppers and 20 tags and then you also get your papers and then this one here is just the paper pad so like I said it all came together so I had a lot of papers so what I've done is I've gone through pulled out basically I used all I've got left now is that so I've got one of each paper so that's perfect for cards so I'm going to make some nice cards with these using these toppers here and then these are just going to be nice to put on Christmas gifts and things like that these tags I will be putting on to these gift bags what I'll probably do is get some bakers twine and just tie them around the top of the handle when I come to actually give them so I'll probably pop a load of these out put them in a little plastic sleeve and put them with those bags until I decide what I'm going to do with them like I said I might it might get donated for a raffle prize it might go to charity shop or I might use it myself I've got a lot of projects going on at the moment so yeah it's it's nice that it's all done and then I can decide what I'm going to do with it later and you also get this here that you can buy which is the sentiment topper pad it's five by five you get 64 sheets and they're so cute really really lovely and I thought this would be nice in a mini album as well because that you know they're perfect for journaling on the back but they're great for big gift tags and just as toppers on Christmas cards so if you want to make really quick Christmas cards then these are going to be perfect so you do get that as well so this is my last kind of like I said one to make because I've pulled out so many of the papers so you need it's three and a half sheets of eight by eight for each bag but the other half can be used on another bag so there's no waste so the only half pieces that I do have left are literally a handful because a lot of them got used on the other bag if that makes sense so there I've only got three halves left but they'll be great and like I said they're going to get used in cards so that it's it's decent sized scraps that you have left but if you make two bags then you would need seven yeah seven pieces of eight by eight for two bags and there'd be no waste okay so hopefully that makes but makes sense you'll see when you go along you want two pieces of eight by eight and then you want three pieces of four by eight two of them are going to be for the side one for the base so if you do have odd bits of paper you know you one of them is going to be on the base you're not really going to see it anyway but the side ones obviously I wanted them to look the same so with your eight by eight pieces one of them now this is when it's optional so the to make them fold flat you need to score at one and a half okay at the bottom so if it's directional this needs to be the bottom here if you don't want them to fold flat then you don't need to do that score line at all and if you don't want the top to fold over then you don't need to do this pieces either so if you are just want them completely in their 3d form and not fold flat and don't have anything folded you'll just want this one piece of eight by eight with nothing on it at all and that'd be the same for the front you won't do any scoring on these pieces but if you do like I said you want to score it one and a half and then you want to score it seven and one eighth of an inch along here now you can do seven and fold it over but it might just give you it might I'm trying to explain like when we get to it it make more sense but it might put a bit of pressure on the corners and if you're slightly off with sticking it together because it's deconstructed having that one eighth of an inch will just kind of give you a little bit of just leeway really for any kind of slight errors or you know differences in sticking it all together again it should all make sense when it comes together it's very very easy then with the other piece of eight by eight you just want to score it seven and one eighth again if it's directional make sure because this is the top here seven and one eighth okay like I said you can do seven but you'll see when we get to it I think it's just good just have that little bit to play around with then for your base piece this is four by eight you want to score it half an inch and three and a half and that's along the four inch side okay and you can just fold and burnish those score lines okay then for your side pieces again two pieces of four by eight and first of all along the long side you're going to score now again if you yeah so you want to score it one okay and then if you want it to fold flat you want to score it two and a half okay then rotate it onto the short side and you're going to score it half an inch and three and a half and then you also if you want it to fold flat score it two down to the first score line now from there you also then if you want want to score from the bottom of that two inch that line to the bottom left and right of that rectangle that you will have I turn it over can you see that's much better so you come down here that's that two inch one you then can score down to here and down to here using your metal ruler and your stylus because this is a paper and it's very very easy I'm not bothering I haven't scored that I'm just going to fold it and it will naturally fall into that position so it's optional if you've got a heavyweight card stock I would advise that you do just score down there not down to this bit just within this rectangle here just from that's that middle score line okay do that on two pieces because that's your sides so hopefully I've broken that all down and explained what you need to do then if you want to do again the same handles as me you want two pieces of ribbon that are roughly this is 10 and a half inches and I've got again it's the last of that and I managed to literally use every bit up so it's been quite satisfying yeah it's nice when you can use up bits and pieces it's entirely up to you how you stick it together now if you are going to be having maybe lots of things in these gift bags and you want something that's going to be a bit more stronger than I would reinforce the base with some greyboard or some very thick card stock okay because this is only a 160 gsm so it's you know it is more of that board lined paper card but in these gift bags it's just nice for some chocolates or some you know pair of socks just those little nice little token presents so I'm not worried at all about you know reinforcing these so with the two pieces of eight by eight you will have one where you've scored seven and one eighth you want to fold that over okay that's going to be that decorative kind of piece at the top and the reason I've done it is because I'm concealing the ribbon ends underneath but it is optional you may be doing your ribbon and your handles very differently and in that case you won't fold that over but if you have you want to fold that one and again on the other one make sure you're folding the right end so this is again if your paper's directional then you will be but again it's that shorter piece at the top this one here you're going to fold back this way like so because that's going to be the fold flat piece so that's those two pieces there ready your base you would have already done that folding scored and burnished and then these side ones here again do the fold and burnish those the bottom one the one inch you want to fold up and then that next one you want to fold out okay again if you then scored in there then that's you know that's fine those will naturally fall into place when you go to fold it flat but you just want to pinch that middle score line down to the top of that one there it's all just going to help you when you come to fold it at the end so I'm just going to do that again on this one here okay but because again I'm working with a paper it's a bit softer it's a little bit more forgiving and it won't crack okay so now with the bottom of the side pieces so I've got that two inch score line down to here you've got that bottom one inch score line here okay excuse the light I've got some sun just coming through now but hopefully by the time I do this video it won't you know it's not going to come in too much onto my my mat there so I'm just cutting away the two little rectangles in either corner and then I've just taken a little wedge out while I've done it as well so I'll show you again on this one turn it over you've got these little rectangles here and here just cut up to the first score line like so and then just cut away on an angle both sides and again I'm just going to cut up and just take away any overhang that there might be that's all the cutting you're doing so that is the only I'd say waste for the bin that you're going to have any other waste might have been one half of say this piece because there's your one two three and then your half of the eight by eight so the other half of that will go into you know your scrap so now I'm going to use double sided tape for all of this it is a strong double sided tape it's my scotch tape but you can use liquid glue by all means so I'm just going to run because this is a half inch tab my half inch tape fits perfectly so I'm just going to run that along both sides there okay and then you want to pop it along the bottom of each of your tabs there and then along the side as well okay I'm going to do that again on this one here okay so that's that already then with these pieces here I'm going to run inside again this is only if you've done these just along the top there of that flap okay and again just along the top there so that when we peel that off it will fold over but we need to do our little holes on that first so what you want to do is I'm going to use my little punch here there's sunlight coming in there I might okay so just pulled the curtains now so hopefully the lighting's a bit better right so you've got your two pieces here flip them over so it's just easier for you to see and I got my ruler and you want to come in two and a half inches on each side again that's completely optional you just want to pop a little dot you might want to do it on the reverse side so you don't see the pencil but I will be removing it with this anyway so along that score line two and a half so I'm just putting a pencil right on the score line so I know I'm going to get rid of it and then one two two and a half so I popped a pencil mark there at two and a half and five and a half okay and then what you can do is pop it over the top of this other one make sure they are perfectly lined up because I'm going to punch through both at the same time and you want to just make sure that sits right over the score line so you've got half and half can you see there so now when we fold it in half you should have half the semi-circle showing on each side so now the ribbon will go in perfectly along the top okay if you go through both at the same time just saves you a bit you know just quicker but again you want to do this however many times you want to make these gift bags you'll need to be doing this that's amount of times so now I'm going to grab my base I'm going to do the handle at the end you can do it now if you want to but I'll just do it at the end so I'm going to take off the backing on one side and I'm just going to sit this right over the top like so if you fold it over you can check that you're all in line there and you've got everything where it should be and then grab the next one just very carefully make sure you get it right just above the score line again fold it over you can see that everything is in place and then I'm going to keep it that way so I find it easier to stick everything down I'm going to take the backing off of the base now if you're not having these pieces fold down yours will be the full eight inches height but because we've we needed to have some form of a tab to attach the sides your side pieces will be seven tall so you will have one inch but it looks nice I've made lots of gift bags with the sides slightly shorter so it is supposed to be like that if you've done it that way if you're doing it my way then it will be one eighth of an inch ish short but like I said I think it's best to have that then do it you know exactly two seven okay so just stuck that one down again you're just focusing on your score lines each time and then again just sliding that one under quite easy to line up because you're also making sure that this score line runs with this one and so on so everything will find its home and then flip it over and you just want to start on your side so I'm just going to take the backing off of this one first fold that in and just start from the bottom and just kind of tack it into place and again all the score lines should line up so this is what I mean with the top so when I fold that over there's that tiny bit where this is slightly higher but if you do the score line at the same I mean you can but you run the risk if you stuck this slightly off or you've started from the bottom a little bit higher than you should have that little one eighth of an inch will hide all of that so deconstructed boxes or gift bags it's quite handy to have that little bit of an overhang at the top if you've been making these a long time and you are always spot on with your sticking and everything then do that score line at seven rather than seven and one eighths okay so but I do think that this is a bit more foolproof so yeah if you do sometimes think oh I was slightly off with that this will just hide those little bits for you and crap the other one and you're just basically working along but it's quite good first of all just attack the bottom and then you can just slowly lay it down and it will just all find its home go inside each time just put some pressure on it you might find it easy with liquid glue just because you've got that wiggle room and that time obviously it's a lot more instant with the double sided tape so just use what works for you and then again just going to go from the side just kind of run your finger and your thumb along there as you work your way up to the top and that way you know everything will stay lined up and then the last one again just tacking the bottom in place and then the rest you can just slowly lay it down like so now depending on whether or not you scored within the box I didn't because I'm using the paper but you basically want to just push kind of at the bottom of that two inch score line like so that back score line there that you've done should line up perfectly and just push it kind of pinch the whole thing in together and it will just fall into place so again for speed you know you don't need to worry about doing that score line there if it's paper it will just fold but if it's a card stock then I would do because you don't want it to crack you can see now just how neatly everything is so next I just need to add my ribbon what I'm going to do yeah I would do that now so I've got my hot glue on because I just use that to tack it in place and I want to make sure I've got the pattern coming through again this is quite thick on a paper so do you kind of go well I don't think you're all going to have the same ribbon as me I can't remember where I actually got this from it was from a car fair I'm not sure so I'm just popping it in there and just with a bit of hot glue I'm just kind of tacking it in place because once we fold this piece over the top it will just conceal and secure all of that but I do like this look I've done it on a few gift bags I think it looks really nice and bring it right up close there to the top and let that sit there for a sec take off the backing on the very top piece and then because that glue's still a bit wet as well that will all help fold the whole thing over and you will have that nice finish okay obviously if you've got a gift tag then put that on before if you if you've whole punched it and stuff but I'm going to tie mine with twine I like to do little bows and dangles and stuff like that nearer the time that's if I end up using these for myself so um yeah I always I tend to always add my tags last again I'm just going to feed that through and do the same on this one okay and there we have already a really nice little fold flat gift bag which is just such a nice size you'll get lots of nice little treats in there so then it's just a decorate so I've already got this last of the toppers and then I've die cut this circle here just I thought it was nice just to frame the topper so this is four inches and then this is just a doily so I'm going to add some foam on this piece first just to give it a little bit of dimension obviously you don't have to add a topper to the front it's completely optional stick that on there and then I used hot glue for everything else pop that one there I just thought that doily was really nice to frame it and then put some more hot glue on there fold that flat again just a bit easier to stick this down and just pop that in the center you could put something else along here if you want maybe with some of those scraps I could cut a thinner strip but I quite like that white um overhang and by the time I've got a tag and things on it anyway I think that's all gonna finish it off nicely okay so there it is finished so actually I've just realized it's the same as the front and I didn't even plan that so then I'm just gonna feed it in here somewhere now I've got a ton of gift bags look at that and again it didn't take too long you just kind of have to do a bit of a convey about I went through and scored and burnished everything then I went through and cut the sides then I went through and put all the tape on and then I went and put them all together so all in all it probably took me about an hour and a half to do all of that I think it's a lovely little gift like I said it's perfect for a craft fair it's perfect to just donate for a raffle I think it's a really handy gift so yeah I love this I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you're inspired I hope it's helped those of you that asked about making gift bags with your eight by eight papers I have a whole playlist full of fold flat gift bags so they all vary in sizes in style so just go and check them out I will link it up there and if not I would have linked it at the beginning as well anyway please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


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Hi everybody, oh that's louder than I thought it would be. Welcome to coding for a course, welcome to the library track, isn't this an awesome room? How many of you guys were here last year for this room? Maybe that's the reason you came back just so you could sit here. But yeah, I just love this place, it's a bit of a privilege. We were just saying before we started, we feel like the need to live up to this weight of knowledge that's around us. We'll do our best. So welcome to our talk which is called Coding for a Cause. My name is Chris Parsons and this is my friend and compadre Steve Took. And we're going to be doing a little bit of a kind of two in for a few today. We had an opportunity about a year ago or so to work on a really interesting project, which was quite unlike any project we've done before. Not in terms of the technology, but in terms of the setup and the context. And we'd love to talk a little bit about that. So this is the way it's going to go. I'm going to kick off by kind of setting the scene and telling you a little bit about the kind of background. And then Steve's going to talk you through. Steve was one of the principal developers on the project and he's going to talk you through how that went and challenges and lessons learned. And then I'm going to kind of wrap things up. So to move on. So Comic Relief, how many people watched Comic Relief this year? Three. How many people have watched Comic Relief in the past? Okay, lots of people. So when we think of charity work, when we think of charitable giving maybe, a lot of different kind of images and thoughts come to our minds. Sometimes we think, oh, taxable expense to be honest. Sometimes it's like, you know, maybe I should put that through my business rather than through my personal money because it's, you know, I can save tax. So, you know, but generally speaking, when you watch these kind of big events, big shows, what's going on is that there's kind of, it's almost like mass produced charity. So you have these big shows that are put on to encourage people to watch them so that they can see what's going on maybe in a really difficult environment in a long way across the world.  And then what happens is they collect all the money together and it's like, hey, we've raised 100 million pounds or whatever it is. And then they spend this money on large scale making a big difference. And that is absolutely great. I'm not here to knock any of that. And I think that that's a really effective way of helping people who really need help. But it's not the whole story about how we can actually give something to people who really need help. So I suppose what I want to do is maybe reveal a little bit about a slightly different kind of story as to how maybe we can get involved. Sometimes it feels a little bit difficult, doesn't it? When we watch things on TV, it's behind this big glass TV screen and it almost feels like it's really difficult to reach out to. But actually in the last few years specifically there's become really interesting new ways to be able to help charities specifically maybe a very long way away that has come to light. And I want to talk a little bit about that. So guys, some questions for you. What is the main thing that charities, that people who work in relief situations and disaster zones, what do they need? Water. Okay, so what do the charities need to be able to give those guys? That's probably a better way of phrasing the question. Money, that's a very important first one. Something else. People, yep. Sorry. Infrastructure, very good. Information, excellent. So I'm going to kind of wrap a lot of that up into logistics. Charities need, they need cash, but they also need an ability to get the cash from your bank accounts to a blanket wrapped around someone after an earthquake, right? That's what they need. Now this kind of stuff, the logistics of running a charity costs a fortune. I don't know if you guys know this. But how much do you think that a typical charity might spend on administration and basically not spend on the actual programme work? Any ideas at all? 20%. 30%. So there's an organisation in the US called the Better Business Bureau and they have like guidelines for charities. They try, they're credit charities and they say that as a minimum you should be spending 65% of your money actually on the charitable work which means that a whopping 35% of your money could potentially be going on just paying people salaries and you know kind of paying for flights and getting stuff over there and shipping stuff. Which is insane I think. That's a huge amount of money. And I think for bigger charities like for example I looked up the American Red Cross and they are proud to say that they spend 9% of their money on logistics. But that's still millions of pounds, that's a lot of money. And as a big charity you have the ability to apply scale to this which is great so you can hire a whole ship rather than just a few containers to get stuff out there. But for smaller charities people who are working in specific zones with specific people with specific needs, that's a real struggle. I mean I remember talking to one charity who said that for every 15 pound donation in the last year they worked out that they'd spent 12 of that on costs and only three pounds had actually gone to the cause that they were all there for. So for a smaller charity who doesn't really have access to this scale it can be a real struggle. Now what drives logistics, what drives all of this kind of stuff is data. Is that not coming up? Oh yeah, there we go. Oh yeah, it's on that screen and I'm doing the other one. So Steve's being my lovely assistant at the moment. But yeah, the data that we have, so this is some made up CSV data but you know what I mean, it's like where are the people who need help? What do they need? How can we organize that data? How can we make sure the trucks are going to the right places? All of that kind of stuff is really important to charities. Analyzing, managing their data actually saves lives. If you know where the people are who need help and you can get help to them more quickly then that's a real bonus and obviously in some situations that can be very time critical. So how do we ordinarily manage data? Well you kind of see where I'm going with this. We manage it through software, right? We are able to, and us in this room, most of us are able to actually write software to manipulate and manage that data. So that's where we come in. We have the skills here in this room that are able to manage and manipulate data which helps charities reach people more successfully. So a brilliant example of this is the Google People Finder. How many of you guys have heard of the Google People Finder? For those of you who haven't, I'll explain it. What they did is they threw up a really simple app really quickly and basically used the Google Marketing Machine to get it out there which is, you know, they have two boxes. I know about someone in Japan, I've found someone in Japan who needs to find their family or I'm looking for someone. And literally they would just put people together. The system would try and work out who would connect people so that they could find people who were missing. So that's awesome. And so when they threw up really quickly. But it doesn't have to be on the scale of Google. We are able to maybe help some of these smaller charities who usually really struggle with logistics and data management to actually have really good systems that enable them to do their jobs so much better. Now for me, that's much more worthwhile than as worthwhile as it is to give 25 pounds or 50 pounds to Comet Relief. It's very worthwhile to me to be able to use my skills as a software developer to actually help a charity and use my time. You know, both are important, but that is something that I think is untapped amongst us and I think we can hopefully be inspired to get involved and start helping people. So why is this kind of now? You know, often the problem I think is that, yeah, sure, great, we have these skills. How on earth do we go about applying them and finding people who can help? So why is this message timely? A few things have changed in the last 20 years or so. Back say in the 80s, how did you get software to a charity?  That's the only way to do it. You know, these days it's completely different, right?  We are able to put our software on the internet and have it immediately download. You know, that's a huge win so that we can access, you know, we can help people with information over quite a big difference. So that was about 20 years ago and about maybe 10 years ago it got a bit better.  It's the whole kind of applications on the internet thing. You know, we were able to put more interactive stuff on the net so to enable people to manage data, not just read it. And you know, it was, it got a lot better and a lot easier when about 10 years ago and more recently Skype has come along. You know, not necessarily Skype. There are many other, not particularly endorsing Skype but this is what we used. But there are many other ways of doing this but the ability to have a real-time video conversation with someone halfway across the world for free is very recent if you think about it. We kind of, as tech guys, we kind of take it for granted but that is awesome if you think about that as a power of communication and sharing. So now it hasn't been, we've had that for about five years perhaps in the UK but really only in the last two or three years has the infrastructure in some of these kind of, especially disaster relief zones and places in developing countries, the infrastructure has kind of caught up so that we are able now to have Skype conversations with people out there. So that's awesome. So this leads us to be able to develop our software in an agile way because if we are able to have real-time video communications and we're able to chip software instantly if you think about it, it's like we're just in the next room almost. It's not that we're two continents away. We should in theory be able to respond to feedback and start developing software for these guys and be able to kind of make a difference to what they're doing and progressively improve what we're doing. So I guess what I'm saying is that a few things have come together in the last, maybe a few years, which have kind of changed the way that we can help people in far-flung places who really need help. In the past we've really only been able to give our money and that's great. Now we're in a position where without flying miles and miles we're actually able to give our time and our energy and our resources. So like Dave was saying this morning in the keynote, we have almost like these capabilities that we have. They're like needs too. And if we can spend our capabilities doing something that's really worthwhile, then that's awesome to me. So this is exciting and this is something that really has only come about quite recently. And now it sounds absolutely great in theory, right? But when you actually try it, it's really hard. It has some issues. So we were lucky enough to get into, I just want to say, that's what I just said before, but we want to get into a project that we were working with where we actually, you know, fresh off the kind of, you know, the realisation that we could do this and specifically hearing a talk a couple years back about similar things, we thought, yeah, let's get involved. And we came across this project with this charity and we just want to share about how that went. So I'm going to hand over to Steve to talk us through that. So hi, I'm Steve. CFI, Children's Future International is a charity based in Cambodia. They focus on helping marginalised and vulnerable children. Very few Cambodian children, less than half, actually complete primary school, let alone secondary school. Their teachers are underpaid and under-experienced. So CFI have a range of programmes to help children back into education. They give catch-up lessons, they give support to further education, additional education as well as the public education. They have support programmes for food, transport and shelter. CFI came to us because they needed a student record system. They wanted a tool which would help them manage their programmes on the ground in Cambodia. The only records they were keeping were the paper questionnaires, which the social workers used when they visited the students. The data was completely unstructured and they had no way to analyse it or make any use of it. They couldn't pull out any relationships or find what was happening at all. So we took the project on and we really wanted to run the project in the same way we ran any other project. Weekly iterations, over communication, user stories, all the other agile things that most of us are used to. This project wasn't really like anything we'd done before. Getting a really good level of communication was one of the biggest challenges. Cambodia is several thousand miles away, six or seven hours ahead of UK time. We've worked with clients from abroad before and we've used Skype a lot. As Chris said, Skype really helps bring things close together. Fortunately, their internet connection was a huge problem. At the start of the project, they didn't have any internet at the centre where they worked, they had mobile devices, but they could only manage a Skype call once a week. Things started getting really confused. We were really struggling to understand what they wanted the system to do. So we decided to take the lead and we just looked at the smallest thing we thought we could do which would give them something. We just built them a really simple tool for keeping track of the students. It was basically just a collection of text fields that they filled in the data from the questionnaires in, but what it meant was they didn't just have parts of paper anymore. They had data on a system which they could use and giving them that thing which even though it was far from perfect, it gave them something to grab hold of. It gave them something tangible that they could use to figure out what they needed to improve it. They could see they needed full-text search, they could see they needed a way to have relationships between students, to see who were the parents, who were the sisters, the brothers, who was actually taking care of that child day to day. A lot of the parents were migratory workers, so they would follow the seasons around working in the fields and in the farming industries and they'd leave the children with other people. And it was really important to know who was looking after these children and what situation they were in. As we built the system and they started using it, they started seeing that they wanted to be able to keep notes on the children, show which courses they were on, which programs they were providing and actually using the thing gave them something to hold onto and they were able to push forward the direction of the system. We did struggle to keep momentum on the project. We had other projects running. We were difficult to keep a regular staff on the project. It was a lot harder than we anticipated from the start to keep going. So we brought down the size of the features and we had a really useful thing at Eden at the time was that we had people come in and pair with us for a day. There's a couple of guys sat in the room now who came. And we would use CFI at that point for them to come in and work with us. We had a lot of people coming in because it was running in an Eden way. It was a Rails project, Cucumber Scenarios, aspect examples, Hamelsass, JBoss... JBoss? JQuery. We didn't do very much JBoss. Yeah. Flashbacks. All of our usual biases. Whatever experience our visitors had, they could come in and provide value to charity in Cambodia in a day. They would do something which would get used to help children in the Far East. It was great and with the small features and adding value every week it worked really well. And because of this we decided that we wanted to push it out to contributors outside of Eden. It was open source from the start but what we really wanted was to keep momentum going and push it forward. So Chris took it on and we really went out looking for open source contributions. One thing I did want to say quickly is New Bamboo and Eden had a hack day and that was the kind of first time that we'd really worked on CFI outside and I think, Martin, were you working on it as well that day? Wasn't you was it? But a number of guys from New Bamboo came and worked on that project with us and that was great fun actually and a lot was done that day and it was really satisfying to really push it forward. We did some kind of wireframes and it was fun. So that was kind of the first time that we really pushed it outside of Eden but actually this kind of drive to kind of get more people involved is true so I basically took on the maintenance role of this project as an open source project kept the features really small so that they could be done because I think in some way that an open source developer really only wants something that they could spend 45 minutes doing there's this kind of metric where if you can get something of value in 45 minutes when you're doing an open source project that's kind of apparently there's a statistic that shows that's the average amount of time block an open source developer has to spend on something so keeping those features tiny meant that someone could add value really easily which meant the barrier to entry on working on the project was really low so in some ways this was no different to any open source project but the difference was that why we were doing it it was like whatever was committed we basically had a github issues tracker which is what we used it was still using and we have tags for you can help with this thing people would comment, people would do pull requests and push them the only difference was is that when they were pushed I would stick them up on a staging server and check them out with the charity and then they would go and use them straight away and a number of committers who I don't know at all who have come in and I've talked about this project on my blog and a couple of times it's just various user groups and it's getting a bit of momentum it could do with some more guys to work on it but it's a very satisfying thing to put something out there that people can help with so that kind of sounds great and woman fuzzy and all that and we had fun and that kind of thing but I kind of wanted to to kind of focus on how we can apply this you guys listen to this and it's all very well but how can you get involved in this kind of exciting new way of helping charities well the first thing you can do is help out on CFI if you'd like this is where the github repository is at the moment there's a number of issues and a number of features you can literally just pick up a feature and start working on it and push it if you'd like to obviously no pressure but it's a really exciting project and you can hear a lot more about it if you kind of go there and look at some of the things that are going on the other thing that I'd really encourage you guys to do is to connect with other people so we have there's a number of people on the internet who are thinking about these kinds of ideas of being able to help from far away maybe to be able to connect into really local situations and charities rather than kind of going through the big charity route so a couple of those guys are these guys on Twitter Milena Chan has until recently been travelling around she's I think from Australia originally and she's travelling around quite a lot of countries in Southeast Asia she has been trying to help them with our IT infrastructure and actually the way that I'll tell you the story how we found out about CFI because they're not really active in the UK they actually have American donors who give money to Cambodia but the reason we found this out was through Pat Allen who's Pat on Twitter there he was he gave a really good talk at Rails Underground in London in who was there actually did anyone hear Pat's talk yeah cool so that really inspired me you know he was talking about how we can use our skills to make a difference and he was talking about how he'd spent time in Cambodia and showed us some pictures and we were quite inspired by that so I remember having a beer with him at London Rebuser Group about he was there for a few weeks and I just went up to him and introduced myself and said I was really inspired by what you said and we got chatting and I just said to him if you ever come across a project that could do with some help just ping me and we'll talk and I didn't hear anything from him for months and then suddenly I got this email saying hey I know this girl Melina who's in touch with this charity they really could do with some data management so really it was as simple as that he introduced us, we set up a Skype call and we talked about the problem and we decided to get involved so the best way of getting involved is really to connect with people like this you know hit both of us up on Twitter we'll put you in touch and we can start talking about ways that we can get involved it's kind of nascent and there's no structure as such but there is a conversation so get involved and join in yeah there are lots and lots of opportunities that keep coming up and the other key thing that we learnt was that I said at the beginning how Skype communication is like now possible as Steve said it's possible but it's still quite difficult and so therefore what we found was that the two things that really helped us with that were starting with something so simple that we could build really quickly that just did one thing and we had no clue about what type the different SQL columns should be so we just made them all strings because we really didn't know anything about this project it was really hard to talk it through so we started with something so simple and actually communicated through the delivery of that application rather than trying to talk about it because that just wasn't working so what we thought was we'll build something we'll ship it and then they can tell us how they want it to be different from that trying to explain what they wanted and the other problem that came up was that they didn't really know what we could do either they needed as much education about what us guys do as we needed about what they do and sometimes you forget that people don't necessarily understand your job and it's important to explain that there was a time when we felt like we weren't delivering very much because we were struggling to get people on the project regularly but we were doing a little bit every week and they were so happy to get what little was improving every week that it didn't matter to them that we weren't hitting the pace we wanted to hit but they were happy to be their lot was improving every week and it's really important to remember to make us with a small start you can make a big difference yeah definitely and because we were doing this for free there was a kind of issue there they were really happy with everything we did we were pleased and thankful but we always felt a little bit behind the curve but actually we had to kind of take a step back and think okay we're doing something it doesn't feel very much but we're doing something so starting small and actually keeping the increments tiny really small pieces of work those things if they can just add a photo of one of the children onto the site then that makes a huge difference then because it can be hard to remember lots of names and photos of families that's a really easy way for their social workers to connect with particular children and to be able to remember them and that kind of thing and to be able to store all those together in one place was a huge win for them so we have a lot of access to tools and software here to do all sorts of different things but they really didn't so anything we delivered was a win for them they were winning every possible talk so yeah start small and really guys you can make a difference be encouraged there is so much that we can do as developers to help people and the great thing is is that the borders of our range of influences expanding almost every week with the ability to communicate and network with the whole world really and it's getting better and easier and easier so you guys really can make a difference to projects so yeah be encouraged so that's our bit have you guys got any questions or comments or thoughts or anything like that and then maybe we'll show you what we built okay yeah we're gonna show it go ahead how much is the internet connection and bandwidth and the platform that they're browsing your application on is that an issue so they started off not having an internet connection at the centre but they did all have internet connections where they lived and they had various mobile devices which gave them some internet access but once we actually launched the system in they'd managed to get enough bandwidth at the centre that they could use the system we hosted it on Heroku and it's running on one or two dinos I think one dino and it's more than enough for them and it's going really well and so the bandwidth works for the platform it's also worth saying that there are no images in the actually it's not very pretty but there are no we didn't use fancy kind of heavy footprint pages and things like that so it would be quick to load both on or slow internet but also you have to remember that the machines there are much slower and the monitors are much smaller and you kind of have to think back about 5-10 years and then you've probably got the spec of a machine that they're using so it's quite important to keep the apps really simple we found that do you think there's a scope for some kind of directory of these kind of open source applications so it seems really great that you can make a contribution to this one charity but it seems like a lot of charities will have the same issues in many cases and kind of building software for every charity seems slightly wasteful I don't know I mean that's a really good point I actually involved with another charity who works in Africa and he runs in Uganda AIDS Orphans because there's a huge AIDS problem in Uganda and what they're trying to do is basically get those orphans adopted into families which is a really good thing and their needs for the application are almost exactly the same as CFI's needs so the plan the master plan at some point is to try and basically de-brand CFI and turn it into an engine that we can then basically white label for different charities because there's an awful lot of charities that have donors and have recipients often people and they need to keep track of in a local community or communities and they want to be able to publish, ultimately publish updates back to the donors from wherever the country is so there's a really fairly generic model there in there somewhere that we're going to try and set free at some point so yeah really good point and I think it's not quite a directory but I think that there is definitely scope to take what's there fork it which has actually happened and start building it out for another charity as well and try and maintain it so that my job would then be to try and keep the code fairly keep the changes coming back into the main app so everyone benefits just one more point is there maybe a way that you can as well as just kind of exporting your skills directly actually get developers in those countries involved so that's a really good idea I hadn't thought of that I actually think one of the contributors on since we went open source with the open source model is actually from Cambodia I think that's the case but I think that would be great and I'd like to plug Pat's talk again which is from the keyboard to the community Pat went out to Cambodia and was working in Cambodia with a different charity and I think if anyone wants to going back to Dave's talk this morning if anyone wanted to do a journey in some way like Cory had done doing this in time in a developing country helping local developers work in these things that would be a great use of your skills that's obviously more investment than actually doing it from here but I think that would be really good it would be great to get I think there's a group called Geeks Without Borders Pat mentions it in his talk but it'd be really if you're interested in doing that sort of thing get in touch with those guys and British overseas there's various groups that you could probably find that would help you do that and I think that would be a really useful thing to do I'll post a link to Pat's talk on twitter with scott ruby tush tag after this yeah we need them like sorry there's no video sorry what was that about okay hi yeah I hope it's not too cheeky for me to mention another project that's quite similar so it's called Rapid FTR okay and the idea behind it is that after a disaster hits an area like an earthquake or a civil war or something to help reunite children with their parents awesome so how it works is that we've developed a blackberry client for taking pictures of children as often you know there might be two or three people that and that's fed into a website so that the sort of people in unicef who are working on it can sort of coordinate finding out where their family are that's awesome so that's called Rapid FTR and if anybody is in London every Monday night at the top works office it's like called jam with pizza and stuff like that awesome, cool so can you post a link to some more info it's scott ruby hashtag and maybe people can get it from there, awesome, thank you any other questions or thoughts or other projects with a cynical commercial head on how has your charitable work impacted on the stuff you charge money for has it benefited it or has it compromised it in any way well Eden actually shut down two weeks ago which is why we're not really mentioning it much I think it was difficult to find the time to work on it it was for free when we originally decided to do it which was back in probably a very early part of the year in 2010 we had people on the bench and we were happy to spend the time doing that unfortunately we got really busy between the time that we decided to do it and actually starting work because it took a while to get it together and that was a real struggle to be honest and quite a hard time for the developers who were tasked with working on it if I'm honest it was very hard for us to say no you haven't got time and it was very hard for them to say you haven't had much done on it this week I'm really sorry but we kind of got through that we worked through that but yet it was unfortunately we wanted to treat it as a first-class project at the time we hadn't quite got enough reserve to be able to treat it as like a completely first-class project unfortunately but the intention was there but unfortunately we probably should have just said we're going to do this when we've got time rather than trying to treat it as a first-class project because really we didn't really have the capacity to do that so that was probably the mistake there in practice we didn't let it have an impact on the business at the time and actually the company, the shut two weeks ago but that was for different reasons that wasn't any way a direct causal link but yeah it was a more of a prioritization struggle for me particularly and Todd who was the guy doing operations for us at the time that was quite hard Do you want to say anything on that? I think what we learned from that experience was that for a start even though we didn't have the capacity to run it as a first-class project we couldn't get the communication levels up to make that viable anyway so you can actually provide more benefit doing lots of people doing small things than one group taking on the whole thing managing it from a central place but having lots of people work on it really is the way to do these things well I think that's the lesson we learned from that So the model that we ended up going to which is more sort of an open source contributions model has been a much better fit and she got just as much done than we ever did when we tried to run it as a first-class project Well I've got the microphone off I'll ask you another question Did the fact you were doing working on that project helping the charity did that have a positive impact on your commercial clients did it make you look good? We didn't talk about it until quite recently until it went open source we deliberately did not want to make money off doing charitable work it was something that we as a group of people really wanted to do for ourselves so we deliberately made a decision not to talk about it So I'd say the big benefit as a business to us doing it was we did have this project that enabled us to invite people from the community to come in and work with us We had an open come and pair with Eden for a day policy Despo came in and worked with us a couple of times and having this project was a really great thing for them to work on at the time It wasn't necessarily a commercial benefit but as a community benefit for us as well as not just helping Cambodia but a Ruby local community benefit that was great Yeah and I think we also it was our first Rails 3 project at the time so there were things that we learned from things we benefited from having it but we didn't directly there was no direct benefit I'm going to very quickly take you through the app there's not much to see actually because it's pretty simple but I'd love you to kind of see it and then we'll close there but thanks very much This is going to be quite hard to see I've been told to make this as big as possible but live demo maybe we should have just taken screenshots Yeah let's give this a go So this is the staging site I'm not going to show you the live site because it's got pictures of vulnerable kids on it and I don't think that's appropriate but I'll show you how it works so this is very data free but obviously the data on there is confidential so I can't actually show you it in action I can't show you it at all actually What I could do is look onto my I'll do the data hotspot thing The white flag Turn it off Okay We'll try that Okay we've got access here I don't have my pass so I'll do So that's going to work Hopefully we'll be able to get you saying it Have you got a local question? No I do but it's not set up Live demos Please work It was working earlier which is unfortunate Could you get my phone and we can try Chris? Yeah So what happens in Campodio when the internet goes down Is there any replication or backup or offline access? So right now there isn't I think it would be great to either come up with maybe offline use the H5 for offline or some sort of replication give them a local version there are a few options we could do on a certain stage in the development but if anyone has some experience of doing that it would be a great way to help out the project It doesn't look very good because I've got it on tape but basically we have a list of people Oh sorry Just on the rapid FDR thing The reason we're using BlackBerry is because mobile networks are much more reliable and also after a disaster they can set them up really quickly usually if the NGO is going to talk about things That would be a great way to take the project So we have a list of people these are the text fields that we've got Charlie who may or may not be a student we've got his information here so we've got public information caretakers comments we can add comments It's quite good running it through a hotspot This is through my iPhone so this is pretty much the experience that they would have So you've got school courses with time schedules, teachers who are on those courses We can run villages We have households Households are groups of people who are together not necessarily related but they may be We also keep comments on households but only social workers can see them so there's permissions behind this too As I say this looks much better with data but obviously I don't really want to show you the data So yeah One thing that I would love to do for this is actually put an example of its use and try and get a demo website up so people can see how it's being used without actually seeing the data that's not something I've done yet but I think it would be a really good thing so you can see how it can impact people So that's it, so thanks very much for listening guys and be inspired to go out and do similar So thank you


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Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. If you like these types of videos, make sure to give this video a big thumbs up and subscribe and hit the little notification bell because I do a lot of giveaways on my channel and I wouldn't want you guys to miss out on those. So without further ado, let's get right on into this video. Working in a theme park is definitely an adventure. Some people are totally meant for that lifestyle and some people are not. I'm kind of in the middle because I'm going to kind of just tell you my experience with working in a theme park because I've had really, really good experience and I've also had like a not so good experience, but it's like all combined within the same experience. So when I first started at the said theme park, I know you guys know it was universal. I don't really want to say like the specific location. If you go back on my videos, you could probably figure it out. I just don't it's not really relevant to this video. So I'm just telling you my experience. I worked in merchandise. I did deal with food because there was a candy store and I did deal with like shirts and other types of merchandise like towels and like cups. When I first started there, I was so excited. It was kind of like my first real labor working job where I clocked in and all of that. It was cool to see the backstage of the park and see what people don't see. I'll get into all of that stuff a little later. There's not like too much stuff. It's not like glamorous or anything. So basically I started working there and I absolutely loved it. Like all the people were awesome. Everyone was so nice. My manager at the time when I first started like he went above and beyond for the employees and stuff. And I still remember this one story about this one team member like being all sick and he legit drove that person to their house. So they wouldn't have to drive and stuff. I just thought that was like so cool. He was so good that he like moved up in the company like really, really fast and like no wonder. He's like an excellent worker. He's a cool guy and stuff. He would come into the stores and like work with us and like we would have like jokes. And I remember like we served with these cupcakes and we had these cupcake containers and he would put the cupcake in and he couldn't like get it closed but I could. So like I like closed it for him. It was just a really fun time. It was always like a party when I went there and also the team captains were awesome. Like all of them there wasn't like anyone that I didn't like. Maybe there was like a few times that I like got annoyed with one of them but like they were all like super chill. Again, like it was a party. Nothing really to complain about this one time. I worked like a lot of days at least for myself and stuff. And then I got these like migraines and stuff. So I figured out I had to wear my glasses. So that was really cool. And then we got a new management team because like they rotate managers kind of a lot. Again, this is another thing I don't really understand with theme parks. Not one theme park is different. They're all kind of like operated the same way. This is like a little side note, but it is really, really hard to grow in those companies. You have to know somebody to get in or you have to just get really lucky because those companies know exactly who they want to fill roles and stuff. And it's really difficult sort of to move up in any way, shape or form. So I highly suggest if you want to get a position there that's not like entry level, then you get an education and you start out in the company to show your loyalty and stuff. That's just the cold hard truth. All theme parks are kind of run the same way. Meaning you don't like grow up in the company. You kind of just go lateral. So if you're like a team captain, like a manager, I think it's like really hard to get up into like corporate and stuff. So you're just like moved around different areas. So like if you're in Tune Lagoon and you're like a manager, you could like move positions, but like you're not going to be in Tune Lagoon anymore doing the same position. You're going to be over in Jurassic Park doing that same job, but you're in a like a different location. If that makes any sense to you, you're not really like moving up. You're just like kind of moving around. So every three to four years, I think managers shift. So during my time at Universal, we had a manager like shift. So we got a new manager and my current manager, I think he moved up in the company, which is awesome, but it was just kind of like a change in pace and stuff. It still is great. All my friends that I kind of like started working there with, we're still there. Some of them went to different locations to work, but overall it was like a cool area and stuff. So fast forward. It started kind of getting like, I don't know, before I say anything else just to let you know, there's kind of a high turnover and there's these things called seasonals. So I was a seasonal at Universal. So I only worked like two times a year summer and winter. We're my like two times of the year that I worked there. When I say high turnover, it's not like a lot of people like quit and stuff. We do have like a lot of that type of turnover, but there's also like a lot of like rotation within like workers and stuff. But every season ever since probably I started there 2016 2017 was fine. It was kind of like the 2018 slash 2019. It was just kind of like it started kind of going downhill for me. Like I wasn't very excited to go anymore. It just kind of felt like blah and I don't know if it was like the people, but I just felt like the spirits were like kind of down and a lot of people that I worked with when I started had quit. Like a lot of the team captains that I started working with also went other places. So it was kind of unfortunate.  And we got new team captains that like some were really good, but then like others just like, hmm, not. I just wasn't feeling it with them. I don't know some of the team captains that were like that had moved. It was super sad because they were like some of my favorite people. Like there was this one lady named Marion and I don't know if she'll ever like see this or anything like that. But the store that I worked in, she kind of like took ownership in and she was like such a hard worker and when we would like stay to close the store and stuff like she would help clean. And I just felt like she was also a team member. Even though she was a team captain, I don't really remember the last time like towards the end of my experience working there that like anyone really like stayed to help or anything really. We didn't get like really any help or like anything like that. It just didn't feel like it was before and I am comparing it because I was at this location and stuff for a fairly long time So towards the end he just like I was not feeling it. I was just always not wanting to go and stuff a lot of the time it's the people that you work with that make it like awesome. So some of the people at the location I was that just weren't making it awesome. There was like a good handful of people that did make it awesome but it's not like I worked with them like a whole lot and there was like a couple team captains that I absolutely loved but I feel bad for them because like they had to work with like other team captains that I didn't really like. So it was just kind of odd at the end and I really didn't like it. Now I'm going to kind of get into the job part of the working at a theme park.  I just don't understand why but I understand why because like people will take advantage of the system but it's definitely not an environment that I really liked for working at a theme park.  If I were to get in trouble like half a point or a point would be taken away which a universal you want points and at Disney you don't want points with the clocking and clocking out we did have a 15 minute break that we were allowed to take but if you're one minute over then your 15 minute break would like cut into your like paycheck and stuff some people didn't even take their 15s because it was kind of a waste of time because of 15 minutes went by way too fast. Sometimes I took mine and then sometimes I didn't just depending on the timing so being in a theme park clearly you're going to have to work with a lot of people. There wasn't a lot of people that I didn't get along with. There was only a I think a couple that I was just not feeling the rest of people like I could totally work with and they were cool. Most of the people at that location are really cool people. It was just a couple that I was like and then you know and then some of them like one of them was like I think seasonal or whatever but just so you know when you work at a theme park you're going to have to work with so many types of people that it's not funny like one shift you might be working with someone you've never even seen before and it's just kind of weird. Sorry for all of the movement my legs were literally falling asleep and I was like sitting on my leg. So this is a type of job that I kind of consider laborious and I'm not trying to say that to sound like lazy or whatever.   You always have to look like you're doing something at least that's how I always felt or else like a team captain or someone would come in and be like you need to look like you're doing something and you were never allowed to stand behind the register if you weren't serving a guest which I think that's kind of ridiculous but I guess they want to show that like you're always out there like willing to help in different parts of the park operate differently. So sometimes there will only be cashier so like you're always at the register and then other people like the stalkers there'll be specific people out on the floor like stocking things but in our location we had to do both. One thing that really really bugged me that I hated about the job was doing the cooler. Now when you go into any type of store really you know the coolers that have like the Coca-Cola the sprite the lemonade look I've memorized everything the monster the water the Diet Coke the cherry Coke all of those have to be hand-stocked like you yourself have to like put in the drinks and then they get cold and then other people like take them out that is such a like job that I hated doing but the good thing I was trying to look at the positives when I worked there at least it almost always took at least an hour to do that not like an hour but it took a long time to do that considering depending on if the cooler was like low and needed a lot of drinks it did take up a lot of time and I felt sometimes that like you could just be like standing there like not knowing what to do half of the time if you had no like guests in your store or whatever but that's one job that I did not really care for and I also wanted to add some of the team members thought that they were like above you and would tell you what to do and I really didn't appreciate that also a lot of the team captains thought they were in charge which they were in charge but they would always think that they were above each other so it was like hard to tell who was the boss and it not all of them but some of them and it's like no the manager is the one in charge so that really heated me up another thing about working in a theme park you're going to get a lot of drama and I know that like no matter where you go or work and stuff like there's going to be like drama and people talking about certain things or people it's just really annoying but in this specific location like the more that went on like the more drama that was created and it just was like kind of annoying but your girl likes listening to the tea so I didn't mind too too much okay so I want to talk about kind of the wardrobe there's this building like backstage it's called wardrobe and it's basically just like this warehouse of like all the costumes and all the clothing pieces that you need for work so this is the part that I really really didn't like about working at Universal when you work at Universal if you're full time you can take home your clothes meaning you can like take them to your house do laundry like normal and everything but if you're seasonal or like part time some part time and some seasonal actually got to take home their outfits which I had no idea why that was totally unfair I asked but they were like no sounds like alright fine so I had to end up leaving like an hour and a half to get to work because of like traffic and stuff but also because you need to go to this place called wardrobe pick out your clothes and then go into the locker which smells like feet sometimes it smelled better than other times but it's still kind of smelled in there because everyone had to like change and stuff because I worked at the park that's like further away I had to like walk all this way which is great because I was getting some exercise there was a bus I would take you but like sometimes it would be late I always left pretty early so I could catch the bus and it was great I really didn't have any issues with the bus but towards the end of it I just started walking because I wanted the exercise I didn't like having to like go change into stuff and then like go to work and then have to change back because that just like takes so much time and like another thing that I didn't really like about working at a theme park and this kind of goes in general for working with people like service type jobs it's not all bad don't get me wrong but there are some people that it's just like why it makes me like not like society sometimes because the way people talk to their kids and like the way people just like go about asking for things is just not the nicest sometimes and I'm like dude I'm a person I'm here working this job getting $12 now or like please respect me please like be a little bit nicer and you don't understand that so many people don't put back items where they're supposed to go and it's like are you I mean I get we're all lazy and these people paid a lot of money to get in the park but like come on people like put the shirt back not with the plushies put it back with the other shirts it's okay if you don't like get the shirt right like the same design or whatever but put in the same area like half the time there would be pieces of merchandise that would be like all the way on the other side of the store and if you are working in a dump store which is a store after a ride you were constantly like a dog chasing your tail because you were just like cleaning up after the next like wave of people it was like the never-ending task another thing that wasn't too bad but like still not the best sometimes you would be in stores alone and when you're in a store alone it was kind of like lonely but also you had all these people like waiting in line sometimes I don't understand can you just not take your break right now could you just go a little later but this goes into my next point where you had this thing and I think that they had this like everywhere and I know a lot of theme parks do this it's called a breakboard it's not literally a board it's kind of like a piece of paper that's on like the cash register area and it tells you when your lunch is and your breaks so that's why it's called like a breakboard and it tells you when your times to go to lunch are and I understand that but sometimes and this frustrated me so much the breakboard did not make sense whatsoever like sometimes there'd be people that were like in a store alone and like it's the busiest time of the night or something and then other times you would get into work you would check the breakboard and you're like wait why am I taking a 15 minute break after one hour of work it made no sense whatsoever and they started changing it kind of this is like towards the very end of my era or time at Universal and I asked like my manager could I take my lunch a little bit later cuz like I don't need to go to lunch like two hours after I started working you know and she was like oh we're trying to like make sure there's like always two people in the store I don't know like she gave me this excuse and it was kind of lame because I don't need to be like taking a lunch break after two hours work that's ridiculous I also feel like this I mean okay so the breakboard thing is just like completely stupid I think the people in the store should just determine and like work it out amongst themselves on like who's going when I think that would be totally fine because most of the time there's only like at least low season there's only like four people I mean like four people like scheduled in the store but I definitely have always felt that there wasn't a lot of people so I don't understand why could those people couldn't just work it out amongst themselves so this brings me into my other point sometimes we were like really overly staffed and then other times we were so understaffed I don't understand why the scheduling people like just did it in such a weird way because and there was only like one scheduler and it was um it was an assistant manager you would think that like they would schedule enough people to like work I don't know I don't understand it never have never will and I guess I totally get they have a budget and stuff and they don't want to have to pay all these people if they're not busy and stuff because if we weren't busy they would like try to send people home because like then they don't have to like pay them you know and that's probably just like a company thing if we're not you know making the money then like yeah then they would want to send you home which I was totally okay with because even though I like making that coin I still did not really want to be working at Universal a lot of the time another thing I wanted to mention was purchase with purchase items and like selling up or upselling items it was such a pain because you know all these people are spending like thousands of dollars to come to Florida on a vacation and stuff and you're like trying to sell them this like cheap pin or this cheap magnet thing like no they're not gonna want that I mean I'm sold a few things but like if it was practical like sunscreen okay maybe that would make more sense to like try to upsell but these people are not going to buy that stuff I normally honestly didn't mention stuff to people except for like you know there was a six-piece fudge special that I would be like okay if they're already buying three might as well buy one more and get too free it's not too bad but like other things like a cheap-ass universal bag that's probably gonna get a hole in it in two days I'm not going to like offer that to them I just thought it was like kind of stupid and ridiculous it's not it's not my deal to make and I did mention it sometimes and sometimes the people would buy but I just did not like feeling bad about like selling something to somebody one more thing that I really really did not like was I had to stand for like so long and my feet started hurting and even though I'm young and stuff I don't know how people do it luckily I have these like cool inserts that I got not too long ago so I started wearing those to work during the winter season and it helped a little bit but still like standing on my feet for so long I just did not like that whatsoever that's another thing too at like a big theme park and working at Universal like I always felt like they were treating me like I was stupid and they didn't really like appreciate my work and stuff and the calling out policy thing it was kind of ridiculous because I in my entire lifetime of being at Universal I have called out once and I can say that because like that is honest to God truth called out once and I asked that for that day off to the person and she was all like no but I was never going to see my cousin graduate again she was only going to graduate high school once so I wanted to be there so I called out because of that but other times like I told them like hey I'm not going to be here and they still scheduled me I'm like okay well whatever luckily there was like little people from heaven that came and down and took my shifts so thank you and shout out to you guys because I needed those days off because I was out of town for Christmas with Spencer's family so I really needed that time off when I first started the scheduling person she was like awesome and like oh she was like such a sweetheart and then again like when management changed she left she was the type of person if you asked her for days off two weeks in advance she would most likely if she could give you those times off there was not really a lot of like graciousness I just felt like I was like underappreciated and there was one manager that they'd say like thank you every night and that was like really awesome and I did feel kind of appreciated we had this thing that we would take it was like a test called t-set it stood for team member satisfaction it was basically like a survey on like how team members felt and everything and I thought that my fellow team members were all on the same page of like how we felt everything and I don't know if they like took any of that advice but every time like I would take it and stuff like each time it like work kind of got worse I'm like they're not really like fixing anything I think that is going to be it because I rambled on it so long this is going to take me so long to edit listening to my own voice make sure to give this video a big thumbs up don't forget to subscribe also if you have any other questions let me know down in the comments down below I would love to answer the questions for you there was just so much that went on there also I will link down below a video about a guest making me cry that was fun now I laugh about it now but anyway that is going to be it and I'll see you guys in my next video bye


This is Dockerman 11397. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters and today we are checking out this exceptionally clean 2019 Ford F450 crew cab longbox dual rear wheel. This truck has the XL package with the STX appearance group. It has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel that has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Oxford white is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 19 and a half inch polished aluminum rims. It has Continental Conta Hybrid HD3 225 70R 19 and a half tires and they have a really good amount of tread left I'd say 80% maybe even a little bit more. Framing underbody is an excellent shape on this truck. Front fender no dents or dings on that and the headlight lenses are nice and clear. Front bumper and lower valance are an excellent condition as well and the hood is in really nice shape too. This one does come with the clearance lights up top or cab lights whatever you want to call them. Passengers side front fender no dents or dings on that and the passenger side rim no major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is. No dents no dings no scuffs no scrapes no scratches very nice condition. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck you can see the truck hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here or you get the truck truck ship to you there's absolutely no surprises and that's why we offer this Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment quote even appraise a trade all from the comfort of your own home so when you do get here or do get the truck there's no surprises and you'll be all set to go. Back rims and excellent condition back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and the frame and under body back here is in great shape too. It does have the camper package with the anti-sway bars there and this truck is super clean all the way underneath. Has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way you get all the skid plates with the FX4 off-road suspension package and the lower rockers are an excellent condition. Comes with the nice chrome step bars FX4 sticker there and as we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in great shape does have of course the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring the tailgate does have the tailgate step assist you get a very nice spraying bed liner I wouldn't doubt that that's a factory spraying has the goose neck and fifth wheel prep package and it also has a goose neck hitch in it seven pin wiring you do get LED bed lighting which lights up those lights and the cab lights up there it also has the cargo cam which is really nice tailgate step assist as well and as you go down this side the truck just as clean as the passenger side. Dually tubs on this are in really nice shape didn't see any scuffs or scrapes or rock chips or anything and for full disclosure this back rim is an excellent condition as well down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good you do get the telescopic tow mirrors they have blind spot monitoring so they do telescope out they go in like so you can never tell how much pressure you're gonna have to apply to them you get the LED side lights as well and then they do manually fold in they do have the cameras on them as well so this one has the 360 camera in addition to the cargo cam inside the XL package gives you the gray cloth interior there are no rips there are no tears on the seats they're in really nice shape do you get driver side lumbar it has the heavy-duty rubber floors auto headlamps tilt telescopic steering wheel power windows power locks and power mirrors and as we hop inside the truck here this one has 14,535 miles you get the built for tough animation at the beginning there and have all your information settings right there we can dim that down for a little bit better view and very nice and clean instrument cluster steering wheel is full of controls you get cruise and information center controls on the left volume and Bluetooth controls on the right steering wheels in excellent shape you do get these six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift this one comes with the sync 8 inch radio you do get AM FM and see what all your sources are and serious XM radio capabilities the other cool thing about this radio is you get Apple CarPlay Android Auto where you can project your cell phone to the screen so while this one doesn't have a navigation system you can project your cell phone with a navigation system on it to the screen and then use the nav through the screen so it's like you have nav right on the screen so really a cool system has a factory exhaust break stability control downhill assist control that's your hazard lights and then there's your 360 camera you can see it is very nice and clear and then you can also pick which cameras you're looking at so if you want to look at your cargo cam you can do that you can look at a wide view of the front you can look at a narrow view of the front and then you can check out the 360 and then of course if you put it in reverse it'll put it into your backup camera and then you can zoom in to get right over your receiver hitch so when you're hooking up to your bolt camper or trailer or whatever you may be hauling you can get it hooked up the first time every time without much assistance so really a nice camera system there turned out four-wheel drive factory brake controller they're your volume and tune controls and media controls and your climate controls this one does have a 110 volt 400 watt max plug-in two USB jacks down there flooring is very clean passenger side seat is very clean headliner is very clean smells very clean inside this truck I don't think it's ever been smoked in and then you do get six auxiliary upfit switches and your power sliding rear window button map lights up there and we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and check out under the hood the back seats are just as nice as the front seats you get the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost these seats do fold up for extra storage and you get a nice flat floor back here which is nice if you have pets you can put the seats up and they got a nice flat place to lay or just got a bunch of stuff to haul around and don't want to get your seats dirty side-current airbags in this truck power windows back here child safety locks on the back doors bottoms of the doors look perfect and we'll start it up take a look under the hood no check engine lights or anything like that I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around I'd give it a 9.9 on the nice scale under the hood we have a 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine bay is very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go I would highly recommend this truck and to see more pictures of this truck for one of rather 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons 450s 550s you name it we got it go to our website right there www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you'll see a link to 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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Well, thank you to you, the President of the United States. Well, of course we all know why we're here, and I think it's wonderful that so many of you would join in what is the most, I think, wonderful and worthy endeavor. The idea being to start a foundation, it will be named the Brady Foundation, in honor of Jim Brady. And of course the purpose is to have a permanent foundation for individuals who have happened to them, what happened to Jim in attempts of the same kind, from the past and for the future. And I, Jim Lynn is going to serve as President of the Brady Foundation. Joe Rogers and Bob Strauss are going to be the Foundation's co-chairman.  I think all of us here have a love for Jim Brady, and he certainly proved he has high connections. He was out of the ball game, and I don't think you even knew this. And it was raining, and he was introduced and stopped raining. So there is much more to be said for it than that. This thing, and we, I think all of us are going to do everything we can to see that it succeeds and that it does become permanently established and able to make provision for those who've paid a price and who need its help. I couldn't say anything to any of you about the man we honor with that Jim Brady that you don't already know.  Oh, dear. You said you wanted the youngest and most handsome. My Y and R. Well, I'm not going to keep you here. I think the purpose is a little entertainment. Y and H. Yes, Y and H. All right. Well, thank you again for all of you for being here.


Imagine if you receive an email requesting you or one of your products by a certain date. How would you handle that? Let me show you how to do that. I'm going to open my email account, and I do have an email from Dustin Garza requesting to meet on the 16th. Now to handle this, I'm going to click on the More button, click on Create Event, go to the proper date, which as I remember was the 16th. The time wasn't specified, but it's going to be from 5 to 6, so I'm comfortable with this, so I'm going to save it. I won't send an invitation since this is a demonstration. I now go back to my calendar to the 16th, and there it is. We need to meet from Dustin.