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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Idydarling(f): 12:46pm On Feb 23, 2015
am still a student sha, I need ur experiences b4 signing in as one.







on 2nd tots, I made fp 2day, 1st time since d nu yr came hmmm
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by kunlejazz(m): 12:48pm On Feb 23, 2015
In standardised work environment, contract staff generally earn more. I am referring to European and American multinationals, even in Nigeria.
This however does not happen at all levels and in all sectors.

My sincere opinion is, working as contract staff is a very good platform to build technical competence. In the process of doing the dirty work, one garners experience and grooming for the dream place.

The major and perhaps, only shortfall is the second-class, mediocre feeling many contract staff develop. No thanks to the full-term employees.
Yet, you only have yourself to blame if you indulge in this. It is the only thing that can keep you down.

Cheers!

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by idsamoo(m): 12:50pm On Feb 23, 2015
Its killing ,you are used and given rules that will never allow you to go for permanent jobs interviews n tests....I will like to call name of a bank that has used me crazily,bt I leave them to God cos I resigned and have something permanent and better,,we need to do something about the trash we call NLC in this country,they are meant to be in charge of this modern age slavery the lebanese,indians,chinese as well as south African companies are giving Nigerian graduates. NLC is a shame!!!!!

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by adioolayi(m): 12:50pm On Feb 23, 2015
My first job was as a contract staff...was made to sign two years bond with landed property as collateral. Friends, there was no job forthcoming so I have no option...but before I signed the agreement, I consulted a lawyer to interpret every clause of the agreement in a clear language I can understand... Especially the repercussions if I chose to resign later. Friends, after a year of dedicated service..my contract was terminated and I was fully staffed.
Although, it is still being underemployed even attaining the regular staff status...As a contract staff, do your job diligently also make sure you analyse the pros and cons before you venture into it.
God bless you

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by tyconcepts(f): 12:51pm On Feb 23, 2015
Its a modern day slavery and its pitiful most people are yet to realize hence the large queue still found in front of the offices of those suppose "messiah" of employment.

Fresh out of schooll with OND & BSC I was keen on getting a job no matter how low. I found myself in front of ICSL in Ibadan all the way from Warri where I was advised by a staff of the company that if I want to secure a job fast, I should apply with my OND certificate which I did (mumu me), wrote the test (stage 1 & 2) and was later called up for interview after 2-3months.

I got the job, I was shortlisted to one if these new generation banks (I was happy) but it didnt take long before it later dawned on me when I discovered I was been used judiciously and underpaid wickedly.

I worked Monday to sometimes Sunday as against what was stated on my appointment letter, the extra days were without any form of gratuity and one can't object to the order (the last order).

There was murmuring within we contract staffs and I was surprised there were some of us has been on the contract staff level for 8years, same pay, increased job functions....No promotion, no salary increment, no nothing. Too bad.

And the way the core staffs address the contract staffs was so deeming to make you wonder if God is partial. And to think I have same degree with some of the so called core staffs added insult to my injury. E pain me!

Management once held a meeting to tell us that there is a chance of been upgraded to core staffs for some of us ONLY if we work hard (harder than we are already doing)....Omo come see the way our morale high and the pace with which we handled our given functions increased yet 2years gone without any further talks on the suppose "upgrade".

I gave up and walahi....I had/have no regrets.

When I go to that same bank and see the frown of the faces of the contract staffs (we know them by the desk they occupy), I understand their plight.


#Its A Vomit

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by ladodo: 12:59pm On Feb 23, 2015
Its like slavery in ur fatherland, I was once a contract staff of a security company posted to a beat in Ibadan, the beat was under d state Gov so our cheques is always ready when d state workers salaries are ready but in return we're been owed months salaries. After a personal investigation of d matter, it was gather dat d problem was frm our company dat d state gov has issued our cheque to our company, after much endurance I left d job. Do u belief dat uptill now my first month salary working wit them was not be paid. I work frm march 2012 to june 2013. Also when u're working under such condition u won't be give appointment letter so dat u can sue dem wit any evidence. Dat was my experience they are all thesame.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by veave(f): 1:03pm On Feb 23, 2015
Were will I start...
I always get emotional if i remember my days as a contract staff in a bank.
You work so hard, and when its time for payment they'll say they are restructuring the payment criteria. At a time, i wasn't paid for two months...
I just don't want to remember abeg...

cry cry cry

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Nobody: 1:06pm On Feb 23, 2015
Contract staff are NINJA Personalities ( No Income, No jobs and no assets), theres no future as a contract staff, the company has no contract with you, inspite of the number of years you work, theres no official record of your employment, you dont get entitlements when you re fired.
It sad that organizations that stood against worker casualisation in the 90s and early 2000s have fully embraced worker casualisation due to the need to remain profitable and competitive.

I think contract staff has come to stay in naija, theres no sign that it will ever go as more and more organizations are embracing it. cry

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Nobody: 1:07pm On Feb 23, 2015
I'm jobless but not hungry...
If I get contract sh*t now,na opportunity oo... Though I ve got a better stuff coming IJN.
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by JayIke: 1:10pm On Feb 23, 2015
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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Jessewizy(m): 1:13pm On Feb 23, 2015
Being a contract staff isn't really dat bad, SPDC pays well, a contract medic earns good money, however job security is d major problem.. D package make sense sha... lol smiley

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Dahjhi: 1:24pm On Feb 23, 2015
Company call it contract staff.. In government sector its Casual Staff: If you haven't experience it.. Please don't.. Sleep @ home and pray fro miracle/ utilized your ability instead lipsrsealed
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by rawpadgin(m): 1:35pm On Feb 23, 2015
Godfullsam:
It's not bn izi working as a contract staff. It's as if you are working for another man to eat undecided. Monkey dey work and baboon they chop tinz grin. Its even more painful when you realise that you are far better than most of the direct staff in the organisation.

The only hope that keeps me going is the fact that NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT.
Over the years, I av taken time to build myself, from SSCE to BSC and MSC (in view).
please, i work in one of the spdc facilities, I work 2 week in , 2weeks out.
now i am thinking of running weekend program in one of the universities.
how do i go about it

I know that one day, my story will change for good.
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by laoak2: 1:38pm On Feb 23, 2015
ladies and gents,


this is an interesting topic, it is affecting more than 50% of the presently employed people in Nigeria, in Banks, oil companies, etc. This contract staff works their ass out, they give above 100%. They deliver and cross the limit all the time. In the hope that, they will be one day converted and become staff of the company, which will never happen, if it happen, it is a miracle not a regular occurence. Little did they know that reward for hard work is more work. Contrary to what we know , persive, believe there is a labour law that covers for contractor staff , the executive of NLC and labour unions knows about this, in the labour law, there is a maximum number of months that you are suppose to work as a contractor, the company is under obligation to staff you and pay you all your entittlements in arrears or be sent away. unfortunatly, NLC is too corrupt to care, nigerian government is too busy with what they know how to do best.

When the company is doing well, contractor staff have no reward but the staff, but when there is a down turn in the company, contractor staff are the one to suffer for it, your target is increased, you are threatened with sacks and all the negatives.


When will things ever get better for contract staff? when will there be an NLC or TUC that will not compromise? when will a caring government ever come in? that will say to all this companies enough is enough?

We are talking about millions of companies in nigerian, who have capitalised on nigeria govenment inadequacies and neglegence to rob their employees, such do not happen in advance countries. it is so sad, we are talking about big companies, we are talking about nationally and internationally recognise organisation . Institutions rolling in profits in thousands, in millions and in billions. I want a government that can identify our plight first of all, understand it and able to solve it. thank you.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by kezzy042(m): 1:40pm On Feb 23, 2015
nuesmann:
currently an outsource staff with an old generation bank, its a very shameful job that at times u will be crying deep inside asking God why you are facing this humiliation.the full staff are always happy to wash you down and the company itself will keep reminding you of your position as an outsource staff by adding the acronym OS to your name so that the whole world will know your logo that you aren't a core staff(in reality,my fellow OS colleague in my branch work like mad on various platforms while some of those core staffs will find it difficult to even fill a deposit slip correctly)

like I use to tell my colleague,we are like apprentice here,we just need to learn anything learnable and leave the organization(conversion isn't in their agenda again) with our experiences which will is an asset to us.

if you are suffering with inferiority complex,dont take this type of job offer.

Seems we work in d same organisation. I call it corpearate blood money. Evry month dey call ur name and u vomit money for dem. God will do miracles for d Os 1 day. Nwa na eme ntu'ari. can I ear u say Amen.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Nobody: 1:42pm On Feb 23, 2015
contract zone is d worst place 2 b, its terrible hell on earth. but with time , if u re converted u wil enjoy life. some ppl ve been dia 4 seven months witout payment. they re humbly languishing n dwindling in dat horrible zone now.
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by gidado14(m): 1:42pm On Feb 23, 2015
olawumia:
Labour Casualization cut across all industries in Nigeria, in fact we have Organizations that 65% of their employees are Contract staff. What baffles me is that there is no law protecting dis category of workers, not even a line in our weak Labour Law. Too bad.

Tell us your experience as a contract staff.
SERIOUSLY THIS IS JUST A MODERN SLAVERY IN THE 20ST CENTURY PERIOD , NO MORE NO LESS
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by bubbleforth: 1:45pm On Feb 23, 2015
I worked in IITA, Ibadan, and a Short Term Staff, which they still practised to date. It was a mess of a place. They wouldn't mind giving you a one-day contract to work yourself off.

All in all, everything that you do is always seen as not being enough. I went to work daily, 7 days a week, would be booked at the gate if I'm late to work but will never be paid for overtime of weekends.

Everything suffered and I endured it. Just mentioning the name IITA, many people would think you are paid in dollars, but it's not real. There are two types of workers: NRS and IRS. If you are an IRS then you would be paid in dollars. Those IRS are in two variants, Nigerians and others. Nigerians would pay tax while the others, even if you're from Ghana would never pay tax.

For the NRS, there are daily casual staff and the Short Term Staff that I fell under.

IRS- Internationally Recruited Staff
NRS- Nationally Recruited Staff

IITA was a hell of sort for me don't know about others o.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by olumzzz(m): 1:45pm On Feb 23, 2015
I was working as a contract staff in a new generation bank. D salary was nothing to write home about plus no end of the year bonus, promotion or entitlement of any kind. But Right from the start, sumone advised me to learn and remove d contract staff tag from my mind and work like I'm been paid 500k a week. Den I started learning o..After like 3 months, I don sabi so tey I fit cover for anyone even my oga. It got to a point dat I was d one in charge of anything Paydirect in my bank for d whole nigeria. Den I got invited to an interview in a power firm. All d questions I was asked was about my job functions at d bank. O boi come see how I dy fire dem. Alihamdulilah, I got d appointment.
So pls dnt see ur contract job as a limitation but as a stepping stone and learning curve for you.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by omoodeogere(m): 1:49pm On Feb 23, 2015
wait am coming
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by emmatemmy(m): 1:50pm On Feb 23, 2015
actually its a bitter experience i work in a banking sector as a contract staff for more than 2 years now it has been a difficult thing for me, whenever i look at some of my colleague that are full time staff and what they earn and some benefit like quarterly allowance upfront allowance that i dont have access to its painful and i have the same qualification with some of them i have HND upper credit and i work with ND and no hope of upgrade, but i always believe in God that its just a matter of time that soonest i will find my way out for better offer.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by lozanni(m): 1:56pm On Feb 23, 2015
alpea:
mine was horrible. i got my first job as a contract staff in an old generation bank where i had to assist in managing a top boss there. thwe job would'nt have been stressful and annoying if not for the immature boss i had. he started by asking me out.......i refused then he used so many tactics to get me to date him............ i still refused(so annoying ko). okay ooo! over to seeing that i won't date him, he talked ill of me to other bosses so i could be sacked but God was on my side and defended me.
i became frusterated at my job cos i had a masters then and all i got was a contract job in a bank sef instead of oil and gas which i specialised in. did i tell you guys that the outsourced coy did'nt help with matters cos they came up with useless reasons why the little monthly take home was debited ie housing etc (house that i never saw, stayed or knew of). pressures from my boss (he discriminated against me big time) but i kept all my worries to God and kept applying for jobs in oil and gas. God finally blessed me with a fantastic oil and gas job. youy guys need to see how i quickly resigned and blocked my boss and his cabals number in my phone (i had those numbers during my work in that bank cos i neede to inform them official stuff when they were not in the office at my cost (credit).)

God is alive and wonderful, he showed this to you by changing your Job. situation for The better.
Btw, na by force to date someone, The labour laws in The country about outsourcing of staff and sexual harassment in The workplace really needs serious upgrading.
An ex-staff of a bank has belled The cat by asking for N1.5 billion as damages for. wrongful arrest and defamation by his former employer; I hope The Judiciary lines. up on The side of labour in this case.
The above case can also cause The issue of contract staffing and other unfAir labour practices to become a social issue and debated on The Floor of The National Assembly.

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Ukeachu1(m): 1:59pm On Feb 23, 2015
na wa o
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Chazzyboy: 2:03pm On Feb 23, 2015
Abduletudaye:
So no one has had experience apart from the top posters?? Haba na...
they say another thing and pay another thing and u can't do anything about it

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by arowolobioyinbo: 2:11pm On Feb 23, 2015
I have a friend who is a contract staff. His monthly salary is over =N=500k plus other allowances. He still complains and planing to quit to start his own business. Please what advice should I give to him.
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by saduman(m): 2:17pm On Feb 23, 2015
Ukeachu1:
na wa o
Hmm,... Pple wey get something for hand dey complain. What of those that r still jobless praying for a JOB(just above broke) to get by their daily needs? embarassed
It's clear something is wrong with our system n I see no light ahead. U go to banks, look at their staffs n they give u d impression all is good/well with them while deep inside... undecided
Naija people suffering n smiling since forever cry

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by hizaya61(m): 2:19pm On Feb 23, 2015
contract staff in an india company no hope no future, salary rage 18k-45k ur certificate is useless, its called more work less pay, to make the issue worst they add overtime N100 per hour just for you to work till 9pm. u work for 10yrs or more before they make you junior staff sad

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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by Saucekide25(m): 2:23pm On Feb 23, 2015
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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by cozy7(m): 2:32pm On Feb 23, 2015
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Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by emoa2002(m): 2:35pm On Feb 23, 2015
plss for this contract thing or casualisation of workers in Nigeria Oshiomole Edo State gov. should answer what he concluded with lebanese because he is part and parcel of it.
Re: Tell Us About Your Experience As A Contract Staff Member (Outsourcing) by verygudbadguy(m): 2:41pm On Feb 23, 2015
nuesmann:
currently an outsource staff with an old generation bank, its a very shameful job that at times u will be crying deep inside asking God why you are facing this humiliation.the full staff are always happy to wash you down and the company itself will keep reminding you of your position as an outsource staff by adding the acronym OS to your name so that the whole world will know your logo that you aren't a core staff(in reality,my fellow OS colleague in my branch work like mad on various platforms while some of those core staffs will find it difficult to even fill a deposit slip correctly)

like I use to tell my colleague,we are like apprentice here,we just need to learn anything learnable and leave the organization(conversion isn't in their agenda again) with our experiences which will is an asset to us.

if you are suffering with inferiority complex,dont take this type of job offer.

GGMUB!

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