Sterope:
How do you expect productivity when you overwork your employees? High cost of production is not an excuse for any form of abuse or denying creatives their due credit. She can monitor productivity, give deadlines, map out parameters, communicate better. You can't expect high productivity and engagement by micromanaging and abuse.

pocohantas:


My point exactly, I wouldn’t know the full story, but people who think unnecessary strictness is the best way to maximize productivity are not being very fair.

Thanks to technology, you can monitor a lot realtime. Which one be to seize TV and sending spies.

VULCAN:
Funke Akindele has been employing people for years. Why is it only this lady complaining?

Since we should believe every accusation, I hope it's fine if we also believe the ones against you?

pocohantas:


My point exactly, I wouldn’t know the full story, but people who think unnecessary strictness is the best way to maximize productivity are not being very fair.

Thanks to technology, you can monitor a lot realtime. Which one be to seize TV and sending spies.

itsme01:


Well Funke just monitored her own staff manually , removing distractions like TVs, and she sends 'spies' aka supervisor to monitor what her staffs are doing cheap if you ask me,

Any Management Information System, or ERP software that would manage that digitaly would need Funke getting software that can register time stamp on resumption and closing, digitaly calculating numbers of script submitted per day and still using the software to monitor authenciticy of such scripts written... As a developer such software would cost her a biiiiig fortune and still get the lazy girl sacked for inefficiency, while the good old supervisor spying is cheaper

pocohantas:


It wouldn’t cost her anything that she can’t afford. It doesn’t cost fortunes to deploy ERPs. It is okay if you desperately want to defend her, but don’t exaggerate things here. Even medium-scale schools are embracing such models, they didn’t take loans or break banks to do them.


Sending spies and removing TVs doesn’t ensure quality productivity. I am not talking eye-service that is typical in Nigerian organizations.

ModestGal:
The comments here has made me realize what all these black Americans do say, Nigerians are one hell of a slave, and so used to be treated in an inhuman way that they see anyone voicing out as lazy.
Now, let me help you, there's difference between hardwork and stress work, it is Africans mentality or maybe Nigerian's mentality that stress work means more productivity, thats why in every sector in this country, one experience stress work, especially Nigerian university students, and banking sector and at the end, those stress work has not made Nigeria grow anyway forward

I do not condone laziness myself, but as a leader you should have strategies you use in making sure your employees are not underperforming nor over stressed. This is another reason why many housemaids employer overwork and stress out their housemaids because they believe in the peanuts they are paying. No matter what you pay people, it is not a reason to dehumanize them, thats is why we have the labour laws that I know its non functioning in Nigeria.
I do not know if this story is true or false, but I do know that lots of Funkes workers complain about how she treats them including one beautiful lady that was working for her Jennifer's diary that time (Toyo or something).

Learn not to dehumanize people you feed, it is a priviledge that you are in that high position, a good leader makes followers work hard in a healthy way.

Laidelaitangirl:
Actress Funke Akindele’s ex staff, Cassandra Owolabi, calls her out over alleged physical, emotional and financial abuse.

Physical, mental nor emotional abuse do not lead to creativity. If this is true, then there is no difference between what Funke did and what slave traders/owners did. It is not about how Nigerians are, it is about "have you given them another option aside from being strict or heavy handed? For all the works of Funke, what has it done in global affairs? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

But if you take, for example, Ikorodubois, in a short few years they are internationally recognized.

What one does will NEVER be as important as HOW ONE MAKES OTHERS feel.

Do Nigerians think Pep Guardiola or Klopp are not strict? They are. Very. However, they also give their players freedom to be creative, time to relax etc, because nobody can produce their best when stressed.

In the same vein, that is how Nigeria coaches treat their player- they train even when injured, or tell players not to drink water, dont pay salary or put them in shitty hotels etc. Whereas their counterparts abroad do things differently and are more successful.

Garbage in, garbage out- how you treat people, will determine the success of ones work. Once again I say it, for all the years Funke working, her works have not resulted in her being internationally recognized as say Ikorodubois; she and some other nigerian entertainers can only get international acclaim from other nigerians abroad and or few other Africans, but they cant get it from independent global personalities and or institutions. Its not a curse, its just a fact about the spirit ones work is done, will tell in the output.


https://www.instagram.com/tv/CB8NlkGlDm-/?igshid=5abnn5eyjt5x

itsme01:


In Entrepreneurship measurements of wages are calculated simply by dividing a staffs output in financial cost or financial worth and value into 3 , salary and staff keeps a share , company keeps a share, and the employer keeps a share... In simple terms if you have a sales girl that sells 10 products at 10 naira making 6 naira profit , 3 naira goes to the salary of the staff and her bonuses, lodging, tv tv subscriptions at the lodge, cost of feeding etc, company keeps a share in other to expand the business pay supplyers, pay loan back and keep company afloat, while the CEO makes the 3rd share as profit. On her investment...

Now for Funke to make any profit she needs staff to deliver more creative contents hence the removal of TV from there lodge after initially installing it

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itsme01:


Well I have seen your lovely dishes presented on the foodies section, and I hope you have a restaurant one day, I hope you put a TV in your industrial kitchen and have your waiters watch TV during work hours relying on over the shelf ERP software that cost a furtune to your already lean profit due to cost of cooking, rent , etc

Sterope:
There is no labour law anywhere in the world that would allow 24/7 work environment. Entrepreneurship management does not discount productivity and morale. It is up to the entrepreneur to explore her options AND engage with her employees. Employment terms should also be communicated clearly and it must be fair. High cost of production is not an excuse for abuse!

Latidoh1:
We will look into it

abjecht:
Not to criticize anyone or other managers, but I think when you build a good schedule and make work fun for your staffs they become more productive. It’s called work life balance. You can get top class ideas while relaxing and watching other videos or even by interaction. That being said, the lady’s narration isn’t descriptive enough of the situation for me to take her side and criticize Funke.

africandollar:
At the end of the day if all she did was to be very strict about her business and doesn't dehumanize you in the process then I'll say Funke hasn't done anything wrong. You were there to work and not to play mind you, you don't get paid for browsing Facebook while you're expected to be writing scripts.

From experience, Nigerians are a stubborn set of people and you won't get results handling them with kid's gloves.

pocohantas:


It wouldn’t cost her anything that she can’t afford. It doesn’t cost fortunes to deploy ERPs. It is okay if you desperately want to defend her, but don’t exaggerate things here. Even medium-scale schools are embracing such models, they didn’t take loans or break banks to do them.


Sending spies and removing TVs doesn’t ensure quality productivity. I am not talking eye-service that is typical in Nigerian organizations.

itsme01:


Offshore oil rig workers are on oil rig platforms for months at a time working shifts , before getting weeks off, the script writter couldn't say how she was placed on 24hr work, when in fact she leave in a work lodge 24/7

Eulalia:
So?? Was she not paying you? Were there no terms and conditions agreement pact between you guys prior to getting the appointment?

I dont understand why people want to mix pleasure and work together. At least there's a period after work when you can observe your leisure. Not when working. Was even thinking she owed you salary but didn't read anything like that. So

Coming to shade her here now is to what end? For people to dislike her. Just move on. Her terms certainly didn't favor you and you left. So, no biggies. She didn't send you away. We all have had our fair share of bad working environment and harsh bosses but we left and moved on without making a fuse. So deal with it and let go.

In the future, you'll understand what it means to be an employer and having to manage and deal with your staffs without stepping on toes. I pray you become one someday.

pocohantas:


This is not a very balanced analogy. The TV was in their quarters. They work from home, maybe from their beds. Do chefs cook in their rooms? ??

Defense counsel, no one works and sleeps in a kitchen, even at that, a little music helps me cook better.

There are a 1001 ways to monitor productivity. You don’t even have to break a bank. Something as basic as daily/weekly reports does plenty magic.

ModestGal:
The comments here has made me realize what all these black Americans do say, Nigerians are one hell of a slave, and so used to be treated in an inhuman way that they see anyone voicing out as lazy.
Now, let me help you, there's difference between hardwork and stress work, it is Africans mentality or maybe Nigerian's mentality that stress work means more productivity, thats why in every sector in this country, one experience stress work, especially Nigerian university students, and banking sector and at the end, those stress work has not made Nigeria grow anyway forward

I do not condone laziness myself, but as a leader you should have strategies you use in making sure your employees are not underperforming nor over stressed. This is another reason why many housemaids employer overwork and stress out their housemaids because they believe in the peanuts they are paying. No matter what you pay people, it is not a reason to dehumanize them, thats is why we have the labour laws that I know its non functioning in Nigeria.
I do not know if this story is true or false, but I do know that lots of Funkes workers complain about how she treats them including one beautiful lady that was working for her Jennifer's diary that time (Toyo or something).

Learn not to dehumanize people you feed, it is a priviledge that you are in that high position, a good leader makes followers work hard in a healthy way.

Hathor5:


Nigerians don't understand the value of positive reinforcement, not in child education and not in the work place.

pocohantas:



No they don’t. They are paying you, they want to make profit, so you have to work till you quench. Oh, if you don’t, you are a lazy being. One that is oblivious of the travails of entrepreneurs.

Romangalactic:

My baby is now into resource monitoring softwares, knows all abt it and how it doesn't cost much.

What did u mean by medium-scale school tho, did u mean medium-sized?

pocohantas:


No, I mean MEDIUM-SCALE, Mr screenshot.

Yes, it doesn’t cost a FORTUNE to deploy ERP solutions. Lots of tech companies already have readymade solutions for targeted industries. All they have to do is integrate you into the system and maybe white label it if you wish!!

I never said I know ALL about it, but I know the competition is stiff for tech companies and pricing is the USP many use to stay afloat. So, solutions are now affordable for MEDIUM-SCALE businesses.

This is the point you say “okay cool” or look for another “error“ hah? You can’t argue intellectually. You will na claim you wanted me to explain myself to you. My dear, read a little of everything. You sure couldn’t find a screenshot to attack this time, we switch to weapon 2, sarcasm...

I attached a screenshot for you o.