nitigriti:
Something weird happened today at work. My boss calls me and says,
"Deji, please prepare the payroll for April; let's pay the staff their salary."

I was dumbfounded for a few seconds. My boss notices that I'm acting confused. He asks me what's wrong.

Me: "Sir, we are not paying April salary. The business didn't open. No member of staff came to work."

My boss stared at me, not believing himself. "Are you sure, Deji?"

Me: "Very sure, sir."

Did I do wrong? Did I not do wrong?

ajoks533:
Good morning hustlers. Sorry I haven't been here for a while. Have been carried away by the sweetness and bitterness of the hustle in Abuja. Hope everyone is good and safe this period.

Please, can any Pilot Drive a rider from Lagos to Bayelsa? It's a drop off and you have to decide on how you will be able to cover for security check points, but the rider is ready to pay for any arrangements you make which will be included on your bill.

Please indicate if interested.

davit:
Felicity0001, I sight you.

Guys, this winter is worse than than WW11.
I'm in Lekki online on Bolt for more than 1 hr, no request.

I think Bolt is not helping. They only sent message to drivers to update them on the new guideline but failed to do so with riders.

I guess, riders don't even know what is going on especially for those who can't make request after 6pm yesterday.

radautoworks:
In seeing linkages and bushings.

Okay. Next question. What cars do you drive and how many years on average so you see yourselves using those cars?

nitigriti:
Something weird happened today at work. My boss calls me and says,
"Deji, please prepare the payroll for April; let's pay the staff their salary."

I was dumbfounded for a few seconds. My boss notices that I'm acting confused. He asks me what's wrong.

Me: "Sir, we are not paying April salary. The business didn't open. No member of staff came to work."

My boss stared at me, not believing himself. "Are you sure, Deji?"

Me: "Very sure, sir."

Did I do wrong? Did I not do wrong?

ofime123:
Maybe the mod have block him

nitigriti:
So the moral of my two stories is this:
Don't take whatever doesn't belong to you.

If my employer was naive enough to the point of thinking he had a responsibility to pay staff who didn't work in April salary from business that never happened in April, then I, as his COO, is duty-bound to set him right. And I'm proud I did just that.

Now, if he decides, of his own freewill, to gift his staff their April salaries, then I'm cool with it.

Even for my car owner (in my second narrative), I was not willing to pay him for what the car never earned. We signed a rental agreement to use the car for e-hailing purposes and to remit a rent from the earnings thereof. The moment it became impossible for the car to earn the agreed rental, despite working 70 hours + in the week (clause also in the agreement), I had the right to call a 'force majeure,' which I did.

Concluding, this is not about morals. This is about doing right no matter its cost. I regularly encounter these situations of temptations and I regularly resist them. And my life has been better for it too.

nitigriti:
So the moral of my two stories is this:
Don't take whatever doesn't belong to you.

If my employer was naive enough to the point of thinking he had a responsibility to pay staff who didn't work in April salary from business that never happened in April, then I, as his COO, is duty-bound to set him right. And I'm proud I did just that.

Now, if he decides, of his own freewill, to gift his staff their April salaries, then I'm cool with it.

Even for my car owner (in my second narrative), I was not willing to pay him for what the car never earned. We signed a rental agreement to use the car for e-hailing purposes and to remit a rent from the earnings thereof. The moment it became impossible for the car to earn the agreed rental, despite working 70 hours + in the week (clause also in the agreement), I had the right to call a 'force majeure,' which I did.

Concluding, this is not about morals. This is about doing right no matter its cost. I regularly encounter these situations of temptations and I regularly resist them. And my life has been better for it too.

nitigriti:
So the moral of my two stories is this:
Don't take whatever doesn't belong to you.

If my employer was naive enough to the point of thinking he had a responsibility to pay staff who didn't work in April salary from business that never happened in April, then I, as his COO, is duty-bound to set him right. And I'm proud I did just that.

Now, if he decides, of his own freewill, to gift his staff their April salaries, then I'm cool with it.

Even for my car owner (in my second narrative), I was not willing to pay him for what the car never earned. We signed a rental agreement to use the car for e-hailing purposes and to remit a rent from the earnings thereof. The moment it became impossible for the car to earn the agreed rental, despite working 70 hours + in the week (clause also in the agreement), I had the right to call a 'force majeure,' which I did.

Concluding, this is not about morals. This is about doing right no matter its cost. I regularly encounter these situations of temptations and I regularly resist them. And my life has been better for it too.

Carshopper:



The right thing was 'to prepare the payroll for oga to see' .. actually u didnt do ur duty - 'to prepare the payroll' which would have shown NO WORK done for that month...

Do you think ur oga forgot?

nitigriti:


You have a point there, actually.

Bigleaf1006:


The circumstances are different, I don't know what your engagement contracts or terms are between your employer and his employees, if they were wage earners or salaried.

For the former, decision to pay or not could be at Management's whim but for the latter you are obliged to pay or at worst negotiate.

The car rental analogy, for as long as you are in pocession of the car, u must pay the rental and if you are unable to for any reason,u should drop the car except your partner allows you hold on to it..

Your partner applied discretion and chose to be magnanimous, he could have as well rescheduled your payment to a future date thereby having you in arrears while you on the other hand utterly chose to be downright insensitive to your workers plight.

kodred:
While they were not at work, I'm sure they were still 'working' at home i.e receiving calls from clients or calling clients etc. You could have just showed your boss the worksheet for the month and advised him to use his discretion since it was nobody's fault.

Everyone needs some sort of palliatives now as the situation is peculiar. You advising against payment is outright evil. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

No go let oversabi kill you o.

nitigriti:


Nobody worked at home, except me. I made sure everyone's salary was paid up to date before the lockdown.

My question is: if you were the owner of the company, would you pay your staff for the month none of them came to work and you also had no business?

nitigriti:


Nobody worked at home, except me. I made sure everyone's salary was paid up to date before the lockdown.

My question is: if you were the owner of the company, would you pay your staff for the month none of them came to work and you also had no business?

nitigriti:


Every staff is salaried where I work.

And insensitive or not, it is not right for anyone to expect payment for work that he or she did not do.

Babadee1900:
Good morning my people.

Here how I’m trying to stay safe while looking for BREAD!

This morning I cleaned my car interior with little hypo and water mixture. Then proceeded to spraying all the door handles with methylated spirit, left the doors opened for awhile to allow fresh air enter then spray air freshener.

I turned on the heater and allowed the car heat up for all the time I needed to bath and get ready to hit the road.

Before Corona, washing of the car and cleaning the interior is my security guys job but now I’m taking responsibility of the interior while he does the exterior cleaning.

Guys please pay extra attention to the driver area, your seat belt, radio console area, wiper switch, light switch, window controls etc.
NO SAFETY MEASURE IS TOO MUCH. Do whatever you need to do in order to stay safe.

Last night, when I got home my babe wanted to hug, I quickly signaled to her to stay back, took of my clothes and went straight to the bathroom. When I finished, I rubbed sanitizer over my phones , WiFi device, wristwatch then drank ginger laced warm water.

God be with us all as we go about our daily activities.

Incase you don’t know, some people contracted the virus yesterday just by been foolish

peeps4u:


I hope you disinfect the entire car (exterior and interior) before your security washes it?

Richdee1:
Please Who can help me with the details of this number using true caller
08103205691

His address if possible,Social Media account and all

nitigriti:
Something weird happened today at work. My boss calls me and says,
"Deji, please prepare the payroll for April; let's pay the staff their salary."

I was dumbfounded for a few seconds. My boss notices that I'm acting confused. He asks me what's wrong.

Me: "Sir, we are not paying April salary. The business didn't open. No member of staff came to work."

My boss stared at me, not believing himself. "Are you sure, Deji?"

Me: "Very sure, sir."

Did I do wrong? Did I not do wrong?

izzou:


What did he do?

northbird:
@ babadee, davit, and others.

pls wats the update on biz environment like today,

Like any spike in rides. Abeg make una update us o.

For my area now, no bikes @ all. Even small short distance to buy bread n co.

Unless you drive.