Comm Res 160 Journal Entry No. 1

Today is actually the start of my internship. I happened to be delayed for a week because my boss, Sir Victor Cajoles was out of the country to attend a food seminar in Singapore.

I arrived at the office of San Miguel Foods Inc. in Pasig at around 7AM. I thought that my internship will start at 8AM. It turns out office hours in San Miguel Foods start at 9AM.

When my boss came, he gave us certain tasks already such as the filing of the different brochures about food service industry, food service trends and food trends. We categorized it according to the types of food each brochures especialize in and per country that distributes these foods.

We were also asked to read researches, reports, and magazines about food service industry, food offerings, etc. There were a lot of tasks dumped to us because of the food seminar our boss had to attend. My team is composed of 2 business administration students from University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) named Ivan and Anton and 1 commerce student from University of Santo Tomas (UST) named Marj.

Our team decided to divide the tasks among us. One will do the lay-outing and the powerpoint which flashes data about month to date revenue and year to date revenue. The other has to categorized all the products of San Miguel Foods Inc. Another will do the cost estimation. I did the latter.

I was not able to finish the cost estimation and was only able to do 2 out of the 3 CEs. The task reminded me of one of the skills I learned in Comm Res 180 (Project Development in Communication Research) which is scheduling and budgeting. The task is very toxic but those are the tasks I can perform. I am very fond of managerial work.

Tomorrow, I will continue with the CE task. I have to make an analysis on why the proposed budget for the activity did not match with the actual final budget.