First Week in Office

This past week was my first time working in the USA Baseball office. I went in on Monday and Wednesday for a total of 10 hours. On Monday when I arrived I met up with Nate Logan, who I will be working under, to see if he had any work for me. At first he told me to sit around with the other interns and wait to receive a tour of the office and meet everyone. On the tour we were shown where employees offices where and what their position was with USA Baseball. Along the tour we were shown where some storage rooms where equipment went for certain age groups such as U14, U16, U18, and women’s softball. After the tour two other interns and I that were in the office for the day were shown where our work space would be for the summer. I was surprised to be shown that our work area was two offices with each of us having our own desk. For the rest of the time being we cleaned off our desks and straightened up our office room. In our office where boxes of folders that contained team rosters, waivers, and copies of birth certificates from teams that participated in the U14 and U16 tournaments in Florida and Arizona last summer. We had to put all the team folders in alphabetical order and then put them in boxes to be filed away because the law requires you to keep the information on file for 5 years in case there is ever a problem in the future. After cleaning up the office and filing away papers, I was told that on Wednesday I would be receiving a work laptop while I was with USA Baseball which I was surprised to find out because in past internships I was used to having to bring my own. That was my first day at the office. When I arrived on Wednesday, the main entrance of the office was filled with large UPS boxes. The boxes contained hats, bats, ball bags, and shirts. All of the equipment was for national teams and before we could put the equipment in the designated storage rooms we had to count each box to make sure we received the correct amount. As you can imagine this took quite some time since there were well over 20 boxes of equipment. Once all the equipment was counted for and stored away, Nate gave me my laptop that I would be using and walked me through setting up my email for USA Baseball which is stephenfox@usabaseball.com. Once I had my email account set up that was the conclusion of my second day in the office.