Sheena Marie

Just a BA INTERNATIONAL STUDIES student in tumblr updating her OJT experiences.

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SHIN'S OJT EXPERIENCE!

OJT is nerve-wracking but I'll try to manage :> This is like a table of contents, it is easier to find my entries here!

ENTRIES: FIRST WEEK (JUNE 1-3) SECOND WEEK (JUNE 6-10) THIRD WEEK (JUNE 13-17) FOURTH WEEK (JUNE 20-24) FIFTH WEEK (JUNE 27-JULY 1) SIXTH WEEK (JULY 4-8)

RANDOM BURSTS OF FEELINGS RANTS PICTURES WITH NO CONTEXT JOKES OF THE DAY

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MIGRANT WORKER'S DAY

MIGRANT WORKER'S DAY! JUNE 6, 2O22 (MONDAY)

We have prepared a little something for our beloved OFWs! Free Coffee and Snacks!! We were the ones that helped arrange that :> and I see a lot of OFWs enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning, noon and afternoon. It warms my heart :>

Three Atenean Interns in POEA office during Migrant Worker's Day. (Left to right: Stephen Edward Villanueva, Rae Anne Grace Mejos and Sheena Marie Enriquez)

A rare photo of a penguin and an unidentified creature behind it caught in camera.

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Luuuuh, diba June 7 ang Migrant Wokers Day? Isumbong kay Ma'am be HAHAHAHAHA

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PASENSYA NA AHHAHAHA NAKALIMUTAN Q AHAHHAHAHHAHA *JUNE 7 PALA TUESDAY AHAHHA

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Second Week (OJT Experience)

Well, since the term of the OJT experience is "Decisionability" (courtesy to Ms. Rae Anne Mejos to this wonderful word that we learned) I have also decided that I would only write a blog per week and not during Wednesdays and Saturdays. Why do you ask? It's because POEA would leave all of us tired and dead by the end of the day. It's not that bad, I am happy that I am able to help a lot of OFWs and understand their story-- however, I really advise for them to learn to wait a little, there's only 4 of us in the information desk and some were preoccupied with helping their clients. OFWs kept flooding the information desk asking for help, and I wanted to help everyone but due to this, I also tend to forget helping the real ones who really need it: the Domestic Workers/Helpers. Since not all of them know how to operate their phone to go to onlineservice.dmw.gov.ph. Luckily, their patience is really long, like they could wait all day and they wouldn't scream at me. They're so sweet, to be honest. :insert crying emoji:

I did mention that I was quite alarmed because one intern happened to receive a tragic end of an OFW's rage (insert the OFW throwing a passport on her face) I found out the reason why that happened is because they keep inputting the wrong names/gender/passport identification, which caused a lot of tickets to be sent to the evaluators. Due to this gained knowledge, I have to quadruple check every single detail so that I wouldn't make the same mistakes as they did.

Anyways, this week was pretty okay. A little chill than the last week--- I think it's because we already know what to do, when to do it and always keep a smile within the face mask. At the start of the week, which is Monday, it's Migrant Worker's Day. We have prepared free coffee and snacks for our beloved OFWs! It warms my heart when I see them drinking and taking their time of the day, while waiting for us to call them to give them their OEA/Appointments. When the day ended, around 5pm, we started cleaning as always. We needed points :) for a higher grade, we have to do good. CHAR AHHAHAHHA.

The week went by smoothly, there were little to no struggles. As much as it was eventful during Monday, the following days went by like a blur. We were able to do our job decently, we talk, help them register, print appointments and OEC, we went on with our day. We eat in shifts, by the way. Since there's no lunch break, Joshua (the other GIP intern) and Edward go and have their lunch first, while Rae and I are left in the office. We handle the remaining clients, which is a lot. Then we eat around late 12 noon, or almost 1 because we had to wait for Edward and Josh to come back. Matagal talaga sila, nauumay na kame ni rae. AHHAHAHHA. Usually, we just eat at the karenderia outside, however, if we eat around 1pm there's no food/ulam left, so we have to go farther like MCDO or SM to be able to eat. We do limit our time around 40mins lunch and we come back right after.

Mondays usually have a lot of clients while the rest of the days don't have as much. There are also a lot of clients in the morning rather than afternoon, that's why when we leave edward and josh for lunch, they don't have as much clients as we did before we ate. Usually OFWs enter in a crowd, a lot of them around 8 am then around 11 am. Also, during Mondays we have a flag ceremony with POEA of Manila and other parts of the Philippines. It was in a zoom call, a little embarrassing because we have flag ceremony with the clients already inside the office. :insert crying face:

Oh, we were also able to become acquainted with the workers in the Office:

Sir Kin, for legal assistance

Ma'am Helen, the cashier

Sir Leo and Jojie, the Evaluators

Sir Rogie, the Security Guard

Ma'am Lyn, an Organizer(?) She always organizes and encodes stuff when I go to her place and ask to print an OEC/Appointment for a client.

Ma'am Marietta, the head of POEA (which we happen to glimpse only once this week, she must be pretty busy.)

Another Mysterious Ma'am which encodes also, a Ma'am with glasses.

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of them. It would be really weird to take a picture of all of them. I'd look like a creepy stalker :>

BTW, before I end this-- parati kong napapakinggan ang kantang price tag sa loob ng office. Yun yung official kanta ng internship.

AND pwede din official kanta ng DMW AHAHHAHA pero wala ako link non. HAHAHHA

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at sabi po nga nila na kapag may mag promise tas hindi na keep lilibre ng milktea :>

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@raechive kamusta?

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MIGRANT WORKER'S DAY

MIGRANT WORKER'S DAY! JUNE 6, 2O22 (MONDAY)

We have prepared a little something for our beloved OFWs! Free Coffee and Snacks!! We were the ones that helped arrange that :> and I see a lot of OFWs enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning, noon and afternoon. It warms my heart :>

Three Atenean Interns in POEA office during Migrant Worker's Day. (Left to right: Stephen Edward Villanueva, Rae Anne Grace Mejos and Sheena Marie Enriquez)

A rare photo of a penguin and an unidentified creature behind it caught in camera.

@raechive @edwardv21

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Ticket

Tickets in POEA is often mistaken as a Flight ticket by our beloved OFWs. That's not the case... A ticket is when you have input wrong identification (did not double check to see if what was written was the right one) and it has already been placed and saved in the profile and made it into the final paper or Appointment letter. They create a ticket if in case an account has not retrieved but already registered in the new site, if names/gender/suffix has been written wrong or if anything is wrong with your account that needs to be changed within the workplace.

I personally have had my fair share of creating tickets due to the mistakes I made but luckily no one has been mad at me ;-; thank the heavens...

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at sabi po nga nila na kapag may mag promise tas hindi na keep lilibre ng milktea :>

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Went to war without weapons (Week 1)

Our first day at POEA can be summed up with the title I have written above, since the 7:30 am orientation did not happen as clients started coming in, us not knowing what to do until our head just suddenly told us to listen to what our seniors tell us. The atmosphere was busy, OFWs go in and out, complying with requirements and asking for our assistance with the new POEA website, and our seniors taught us how to use the website as well.

Keep reading

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excited daw pero d na yan sya excited, maam HAHHAHAHAHAHAH 👁👄👁 umay na si rae.

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Welcome to my Internship Circle

Hello there!!! So this will be my daily journal tracker of the introspective inside my internship journey starting from the first day until the last day of my journey towards a future where I can step up to my own and learn new things outside of my comfort zone.

Join me in my adventure as I explore the things I did as a POEA intern and live life according to my experience there.

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char libro yarn? HAHAHAH

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"Decisionability ang International Studies na nagtratrabaho sa POEA. " -Rae Anne Mejos

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First Week (OJT experience)

First thing's first, before I had any contact with my work site-- it all felt intimidating. The ambiance, the people, the job itself. I had no idea what I would do or what I'll be doing, it all just sums up to the term "intimidating." All I knew was that I had to do good, to be productive, since months after new year's 2022 I have been stagnant like a still water, unmoving. Pandemic has taken a toll on me that even going out of the house for a few hours tires me out. So when the day came, it was a shock that I did not expect.

When Ma'am Sweet endorsed us in POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration) I felt exciting but anxious at the same time, what journey lies within my time in this establishment?

JUNE 1, 2022 (WEDNESDAY)

The struggle of the first day was unimaginable. Entering the office at exactly 7:30 which the Ma'am Helen has instructed us to do, left me confused. I thought we were supposed to be interviewed or oriented, however it didn't happen. Interns from WMSU were the ones that gave us the seats in the Information Desk and slowly oriented us about what to do and what not to do-- and we faced the first wave of the crowd.

Let me tell you that the feeling of being lost, the one I felt during the first day kind of reminds me of a child being lost in a grocery store unable to find their parent. It was that exact feeling. It felt like we joined a war without properly learning how to use a gun. However, I thank God that the three of us are fast learners.

The whole time we were helping these OFWs to register into their new accounts for their details and we kept asking for assistance from the Interns of WMSU, they were patient with teaching us what we have to know. We made few mistakes, personally, I made a lot of mistakes during this time but thankfully our seniors were able to shoulder the burden of other OFW's that seemingly are more lost than the three of us.

The day ended with us feeling the fatigue setting in. The first day was overwhelming because we didn't know what to do, but we tried to help as many OFW's as we can. Gladly, we were able to get the grasp of what we're doing by the end of the day. JUNE 2, 2022 (THURSDAY)

2nd day also felt nerve-wracking, I wasn't as lost as I felt than the first day but I was able to learn properly what we were doing. We're assisting OFWs so that their information would be placed on their own accounts online. Since these OFWs didn't know how to, we give them information, the things they need while settling their accounts and if problems arises, we create tickets to send to our evaluators to solve it.

It wasn't a fast process, it's a bleeding process as the three of us are only able to handle a client one at a time. However, since we know a little bit than yesterday-- we are able to avoid the same mistakes we did yesterday. Personally, I have a gruff voice. Learning how to speak eloquently and soft to our clients was a hard one, but i managed to find the right tone for it. I also found out the difference of an OEC and an Appointment, at this time and it felt less confusing as the day went on. Ultimately, it was a good day. A bleeding but a good day, nonetheless. JUNE 3, 2022 (FRIDAY)

The last day of the week was great? I think? It was fulfilling. I was grounded and I was able to help as much people without feeling lost. Still, I made some mistakes however, it wasn't as much as the last two days because I finally understand the job that we have and what we're doing. We were able to get along with the people in the office, and I was able to learn more from both the Interns and the workers. In terms of handling clients, they are more open in talking with me and I was able to converse with them freely and kindly unlike the last two days that were more restricted, lost and confused. I was able to learn about their life.

However, I guess I could have one rant already for the first week: It's that some people should have gone to POEA earlier than their flight. They are "ora-orada," the moment their flight is drawing near, they go to the POEA a day before--which makes it our job to panic because they couldn't get all of their details finished in one day. There are way too many requirements to finish and they would be leaving Zamboanga, the day after. POEA office is not available in weekends. Which made it my job to panic while trying to finish and double check the requirements that they have.

So far, it was tiring but fulfilling. I felt lost at first but ultimately, I found out the purpose of why we're there. :> I'm happy and contented as it is. Hopefully, clients would be tame with us. I wouldn't want to end up like the last intern that cried because a client threw a passport on her face. ;-;

(This is a picture with Rae Anne Mejos and Stephen Edward Villanueva (Ateneo Interns) with two WMSU Interns and the Security Guard of POEA)

Note: My next entries won't be as "detailed" as this one, due to the job being a routine--however, only updates on interesting things I had learned during the weeks and the challenges we have faced over the weeks.