A Narrative Report in On-The-Job Training

Undertaken at Ryonan Electric Philippines Corporation (REPCO)

Located at 105 East Main Avenue, Special Export Processing ZoneLaguna Technopark,

Biñan, Laguna

Presented to Sir Mark T. Bonaobra of Camarines Norte State College

College of Trades and Technology

OJT Coordinator

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology major in

Computer and Electronics Technology

Submitted by:

Maricris T. Cortez

Trainee
 Submitted to:

Mr. Mark T. Bonaobra

OJT Coordinator

ACKNOLEDGMENT

The completion of this training will not be possible without the assistance of significant

individuals and organization all throughout.

For this reason, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the people/organization

involved.

First, I would like to thank Sir Mark T. Bonaobra, for the guidance through the training.

Second, my friends, Ferdz, Manang Beb, Ghara, Ate Rosed, Manong Noel and Taps for

the laughters and every sweet experiences I had with them even before the training.

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 When I was a freshman, on the date of the enrolment, I was still clueless on what

course to take. I am with my good friend, Ferdz, and we are totally on the same page.

Then, we asked Ms. Uchi, a trainee assigned in school “Ate, what’s the best course

here at the campus?” then, she replied “BSIT major in Computer and Electronics

Technology, that’s the best but, the hardest course”. But, Ferdz and I didn’t mind her

saying “the hardest” instead, we both said in chorus that we want it and are willing to

take it. Years later, all I said to myself “why did I even took this course in the first

place?” It was hard. My second and third year in college was very challenging and

demanding. It cost me too much of my effort, mind and soul. On the contrary, I am still

excited for the coming year because of the said On-The-Job training that will be

conducted outside the province. I am ecstatic, yet anxious of how things will turn out.

The preparation of the requirements for the training have taken so much of my time,

along with my block mates. Money, too.

Then, the day of the examination and the interview had finally come. Still, the

excitement and the anxiousness is rooting in my veins. But, I had to tell myself that I

need to calm down for me to be able to pass. Toyota Autoparts, the first company that

came to our school is also my ideal company. For its known name and name it created

in the industry, I want to be a part of that name. But, I failed. I did not even had to take

an exam to fail my passage through the company. It only took my height to blow away

the chance.

On the contrary, there’s still a company that would come, and they say, will

surely accept us – those who failed to meet the Toyota’s height requirement named

Ryonan Electric Philippines Corporation or abbreviated as REPCO.

 Still, I am nervous. I did not want the same rejection I had with the first company

happen here at my second chance. I would not like it if my second failure would be my

height. And it never did. On the day a group of Repconians – Ma’am Badeth’s group,

came to our school, I am nervous. They have given us a bunch of test questions with

little time allotment and I never answered them all. The relaxation just came when they

have told us to pass our requirements and that they’ll be seeing us on Monday, two

days after the held exam. I was overflowing with happiness that I told my friends the

things we will need on our boarding house, the sweet little dreams we had, months

before the training and just every single thing that came into my mind. I couldn’t help

myself but to express the joy it had brought me.

Then, the nineteenth of November came, our first day in the company. Everyone

was plastered with smile where you can sense excitement in their faces. I was excited,

and nervous. I just don’t know what to expect; the surroundings, the kind of work I will

be assigned to, and the people.

Our first day have ended in a bliss yet really exhausting. We spent hours in the

company training room, crowded with people – and by people, I meant trainees like us,

too. I did not know that they handle so much trainees that most of their workers are. Our

first week have rotated with lecture and examination after lecture.

The summary of my lecture is shown in the picture;

(insert test papper picture)

I have learned, from the experience I had at Ryonan Electric Philippines

Corporation, is that studying, in class, was far way easier than working twelve to fifteen
hours a day. I realized that no matter how I try to be a kid and just enjoy, I am growing.

And that growing means being able to support myself, decide for the things I needed to

handle, and take things seriously at work, especially one’s punctuality and the name he

makes at work will be the outcome of his actions. I have learned that work is not just

work. One should include passion and love for the things he do so that the exhaustion

he felt would be less. I have learned that the my assigned work – inspection, must be

taken seriously for the lives of the people is at stake.

The truth is, it’s only today, fourteenth of March, that I realized few moments are

left for me to enjoy myself as a college student, and it saddens me.

2.

Ryonan Electric Philippines Corporation is a wiring harness manufacturing

company that provides even abroad. Our bosses are Japanese; our superiors came

from different cultures of the country, along with our co-trainees. With that stated, I have

been communicating with individuals of different culture; be it Bisaya, Ilocano, pure

Bicol-speaking Bicolanos and some I couldn’t remember. Nevertheless, I have talked to

them, laugh with them, eat with them and celebrated with them. Some I get to sit beside

with at the shuttle, some I get to exchange smiles at the hallway, some I get to felt

annoyed because of the work their doing that sometimes pester me, some I get to drink

and celebrate my birthday, some I get to be close with that I would never forget for the

rest of my life.
 I remember, back when I was just three days in the line, I have one pallet I

needed to finish inspecting because the line will continuously produce the product.

During that time, my supervisor, Ma’am Lore came in to me and she just stood there,

without saying anything and watches me as I do my job. I was so anxious my hands are

shaking and the product I was holding for that entire layer was a blur. After I finished

another layer, she just walked away. She must’ve been observing me, I guess and I

guessed right. Two days after, I was in the main area of the inspectors when one of the

product special inspection inspectors have said my name out loud asking where I am.

Then I just came to him, realizing that I have passed a no good product to him. It is a

one-piece power steering product wherein the connector is damaged. When we look at

the lot number, I realized that those where the lot I was processing when my supervisor

have observed me. I couldn’t help but just admit my fault, that I didn’t do my job right

just because I was nervous of someone watching me. I told myself that I will be a better

inspector, never cramming when one of those happen again. And I, thankfully, did! Days

later, there was an audit in the BHA-21S1 line and I was the assigned inspector at that

time. Two Japanese came into me, watched me as I move the product and talk with

their language. Thankfully, I just did my job the way I know how to do it right. I did my

process calmly and I am so proud of myself.

These two events are unforgettable because I wouldn’t realize the significance of

calmness and trusting myself without it. I am really glad I have experienced both, at

different times, with different people and with different outcome.

I have been close with my co-trainees namely; Geraldine, Kuya Jc, Kris, Kuya

Juniel, Kuya Arnold, Ronnie, Ian, Jomel, Jv, Marlon, Jerry, Ate Alyssa, Ate Rochelle,
and many more I couldn’t even write the names. I even got closer to some of my

classmates I was not really close to like Ruby. They have been my sunshine in my

every day at the company. We were sometimes yelled at, by our supervisor because we

were so noisy and all we did was laugh after. We received so much sermons, almos

every single day when someone violates the rules. We were the department that are

always over the break time. The department that produce most of the noise in the area.

The department that sleeps in the pallets, using carton boxes in the line, though it is

actually prohibited. We are the department that violates the use of face mask. We are

the line that violates the rules, that’s what everyone knows. And somehow, yes, we are.

But, we are the department that tries really hard to prevent a no good product outflow.

Even though sometimes they rushes us to finish loads of product for delivery, we still did

our work right, I did. We are the department that has built metal walls of friendship that

accepts each other and admits one’s fault. In my months of training, that’s what I saw

and what I experienced.

There was actually a time when we bonded, almost everyone in my department;

we went to Splash Island, and just celebrated the day, nothing more special than us,

enjoying the day we all get to be with. There was also a time, maybe three or four when

we spend the day at Kua Jc’s house where we just hang out, sing karaoke and laugh at

everything. We even celebrated a late birthday party for me because we were so busy

at our own schedules.

I have learned that whatever language you speak, whatever intonation your

words consist and whatever perceptions you have in life, you get attached to them,

because I did. The fourteen-hour work every single day is exhausting and only them,
makes working much easier and happier. Maybe without my friends at the company, I

haven’t stayed there for months, maybe I didn’t lasted this long. They have made sure

to keep me from quitting by accompanying me in everything.

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The most memorable event in the industry immersion I had so far

4.I would recommend that before the training, there must be a closed meeting between

parents, the coordinator and the students so that they could talk about the way life is

lived outside of their comfort zones. There should be a discussion on the contract the

students will be signing with the company.

I also recommend that the college will a lot a budget on the expenses of the

coordinator so that he could visit and check his students monthly.

5.

It was hard. The Industry Immersion of the Camarines Norte State College-

College of Trades and Technology was the hardest part of the four-year course they

offer. One will get to experienced being away from their family, he will experience going

home, after a long tiring day, without food prepared for him, he will be in a situation

where he is annoyed with his board mates, he will wake up with no mom waking him up,

he will walk out of the doorstep without the sun rising up and go home with the sun

settled down, he will receive countless sermons and painful words from his supervisor

when he couldn’t do his job right, he will be making his three hundred peso bill last a

week. He will become a worker, just with a label of an OJT.

 On the contrary, he will learn. He will be able to stand for himself, he will realize

the significance of hard work, the significance of moving forward, attitude and maturity.

He will soon be prepared of the future that awaits him – he, as a worker.

With the above stated, my advice to the future trainees of the college is that you

should know when to take things seriously and when to take it easy. When you’re

getting down, do not give up. Give it a hundred more tries and you’ll know one day, a

price of your hardwork and perseverance awaits. When you feel so tired at work, take a

day rest, get up tomorrow and face the new day of work. When you feel like giving up,

think of your dreams and goals in life, it will be your key on holding on. If you feel

stressed at everything, take a walk, put your headphones on and try to listen. The

melody of your life depends on the way you handle it. When you’ve been receiving bad

comments from your supervisor, take it as a challenge. A challenge to improve yourself.

When you feel emotionally pained, busy yourself with work and friends, it lessens.

You must know when to keep your mouth shut and when to ask politely on your

supervisors. No work is easy, as I realized it now. So, my ultimate advice to the future of

the college is that, never give up. Love the things that pains you. Though the work

stresses you, try being passionate of what you do, it will be easier. You should never

give up, because we never did and I know you will never do, too.

Never expect things to be easy because nothing is.