Acknowledgement
I take the opportunity to show my appreciation to the following people for their help during this educational period.
I am grateful to the Wisynco Group of Companies for facilitating me for my work experience assignment. I have conjured a lot of knowledge during the short period of time spent working at the organization. To my supervisor Miss Sasha Lewis and the staff of the Employees Benefits Department who helped me develop in the right way in the period.
To my school, the School of Business Administration, University of Technology, for providing a course such as this which gives students the opportunity to put the skills taught in class into action. This course has allowed me to examine myself as it related to how competent I am in the working world and it truly was a marvellous experience.

Thank you all.

Introduction
This assignment gives a brief summary of my six (6) weeks of Work Experience done at the Wisynco Corporate Office. This experience is a core component needed to be completed for the module Cooperative Experience. The report will allow readers to see my opinion on the whole experience as it will highlight my ups and downs during the period. I will also make references to practices incorporated by other organizations and will make recommendations as it concerns how I could of made the journey a lot better.

Company Overview
WISYNCO is located in St. Catherine, Jamaica, and operates from two main locations. Manufacturing takes place at White Marl, while Lakes Pen carries out all distribution activities. Wisynco also owns franchises for Wendy’s, Haagen-Dazs stores and Domino’s pizza restaurants located island-wide. Today we distribute 110 brands with over 4,000 different products between beverages, grocery and synthetic items. We manufacture synthetic items such as foam containers, and cups. Overall, we pride ourselves in providing the Jamaican public with top familiar brands and products enjoyed worldwide.
Our beverages include some major brands such as Coca-Cola, Sprite and Welch’s not to mention our own locally produced brands Bigga, Wata, Cran Wata : White, Strawberry, Gran and Original Flavours, Minute Maid and Hawaiian Punch. Some of the major grocery brands include General Mills, Unilever, Nestle and Kellogg’s; more specifically items from Yoplait, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, Haagen-Dazs, Green Giant, Hunt’s and many more.
It all began with Twickenham Park, our first location with our first manufacturing line and storage facility that later became home to our plastic and synthetics division.
Later we outgrew Twickenham Park as a storage facility, which is when White Marl was built as the first expansion to the WISYNCO compound, created to house our many imported products, and later became the site of Beverage Division production line which now runs off more than 60 products.
Finally, late in 2007, WISYNCO’s latest addition to its locations was opened – WISYNCO Distribution Centre, unprecedented in Jamaica for its size as a warehouse and distribution centre.

Objectives to be achieved
• To learn valuable professional skills which will help in my personal development.
• To gain experience working in a fast pace organization that is renowned for its high productivity level.
• To contribute positively to the overall success of the department and organization Duties Performed
• Filing
• Recording
• Sorting
• Delivering
• Preparing Payroll slips for disbursement

Relevance of activities at the company/departments to courses covered at Utech
The duties I performed while at Wisynco were quite challenging. However because of my knowledge garnered from Records and Information Management and Professionalism in the Organization it was a task that I soon manoeuvred over by implementing the skills I was taught.

Positive Experiences during work experience
Some of the positive experiences that occurred were:
• Networking with the directors of the group
• Learning new management skills
• Being exposed to a dynamic work environment
• Being supervised by one of the most understanding persons I have ever met.
• Surrounded by a supportive group of colleagues
• Participating in numerous company promotions
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There were a few negative experiences that were encountered during the tenure of my experience. Those include the following
• Severe back pain
This was due to the fact that I was doing filing and as such had to bend down really low to do some of the filing. After going to the doctor I decided that it would be best to take out the files in the lower drawers and file does in another area where I didn’t have to hurt myself. This also posed a problem as there were many space constrictions in the office. However I tried my best to work with what I had and by the end of my time there the files were all packed away safely.
• Rudeness from existing employees
This occurred on many occasions. I received sass from persons in different departments. Persons would behave as if I had no right to be at the organisation and would just greet me with attitude the moment they saw me. This wasn’t just to me though other persons got the rudeness as well. I chose to ignore it and that helped up to a point where persons started behaving nice to me. However, there was an incident where someone got really rude and there was an argument between myself and the individual. The problem was rectified by my supervisor and the necessary apologies made. Assessment of objectives
• To learn valuable professional skills which will help in my personal development.

• To gain experience working in a fast pace organization that is renowned for its high productivity level.
• To contribute positively to the overall success of the department and organization

Benefit of work experience to intern
The six weeks spent at Wisynco was a very interesting one. I learnt a little tricks that are useful for business and I got an opportunity to put into practice all that I have been taught. I have to say that during the tenure has contributed positively on my personal and professional growth.

Contribution to the organization by the intern
During my time at the firm, I can recall several people telling me in my last week how much they have taken notice of me and the fact that I am always smiling. My colleagues within my department always commend me on helpfulness and grateful they are. Also, I think my ability to strike balance in conflicts by providing a voice reasoning which I did by having persons try and see things based on other persons’ perspectives on a matter.