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It's because you can afford to.

You even chose the best name possible because there's nothing that concerns your life with your fake story

ntipro:
You worked in a sane environment.
And your boss is great too.

Mine was just the opposite.
The school I served before I call it a quit is structured in a way that the teachers are seen to be suspects. You don't have to relate closely to any student for the fear that the parents will bankroll you. Parents-teachers relationship is non existent. Students see their teachers as servants and always threaten them with sack.
The boss is a thorough sadist, a narcissist. He never inspire you to work. He don't bring up new ideas. All he knows is to attack people's reputation in public. He is so interested in gossips and accusation and works on each one tabled before him without verifying the facts.
Ultimately, the school was going down. Their WAEC was seized because of malpractice, a fact he knows, something he could have managed before it snowballs but he kept blaming the innocent teachers. Then, the chicken came home to roost. He was sacked and calm was restored. Teachers he wickedly sacked or those that resigned because of his excesses were brought back.

In all, environment matters in all we do.
People don't do well in a toxic environment. Toxic environment are creations of poor managers.

Ewwww

Please, say this prayer of you're relocating permanently from Nigeria.

Some of us have children who will eventually have children and there is no telling if they'd come in contact with the effects of the virus you're potentially infusing into your generation.

ntipro:
My last role as a teacher nearly made my life miserable.
Most Nigerian bosses are evil.

True. Most Nigerian bosses are evil. I am a teacher too and I have a lot of evil things to say about my boss. That's if I choose to ignore all the positives he's had in my life. This is an experience that probably goes the opposite direction of yours.

I started as a lowly graduate teacher of a subject in a private school; but my thirst for self development meant my other skills in tech and guidance/counselling were offered for free to the school and students.

Didn't take long for the students to take to me and I took to them. Soon, I began to have more audience with the boss and took over everything tech-related in the school (website checks, electrical faults, DIYs tutorials, name it) and still teaching.

In addition, my knowledge of vast subject and willingness to read made me a buffer for many subjects. If the teacher is unavailable and I'm free, I'd cover for the subject. A number of staff then said it's eye service but I don't really care. I was doing what I love for a not-so-good pay. Soon, I became the V.P.(Acad) the year before COVID. and you could say it was a good achievement.

During COVID, school shut down for 6 months, my boss paid me salary all through, not 100% salary but better than nothing. The next year, my boss accepted my plea for an increment due to the rising costs and jacked up my current salary then by 50%, making me the highest paid in the school. I forgot to mention that the gifts in cash and kind I get from my boss could be worth up to my three-month salary per year in terms of value. He moved on to pay all the expenses for me to partake in a state-wide competition which I emerged first-runner up, putting the LGA on state map and the school too.

The presence of these achievements in my CV positioned me to land a remote opportunity whose pay dwarfs what I earn at the school by almost 400% in terms of value. My boss agreed to allow me spend only half the normal school time after which I leave to begin the remote task. Note that he didn't reduce my salary; neither did any of the benefits I get cut down.

The first 3 alerts I got this year were from former students I taught; who for one random reason or the other, thought of reaching out. One of my female students who graduated in 2019 has my account sitting in her DM now as per her request yesterday. Not to mention the many ways, many of them used their capacity to help me here and there (even to recommend/purchase quality electronic gadgets or jump those humongous queues at MTN Office ). My birthday is tomorrow. I can't remember the last time I actually planned to celebrate my birthday. January tough. But not these students/former students. Every year for the past 5 years, they always turn up with plans.

I am Igbo, and we're quite few in my organization, my boss is Yoruba. I could have all sorts of petty things to say about him. I'm sure many of my colleagues will have a lot lot more to say about him. But in the things that matter, he has been a catapult to the very high grounds I find myself today and that is all that really matters to me (not petty things and not other people's opinion of him).

It's a lengthy read but I don't know who is sitting in a similar bus headed in a similar direction. It'll probably work out sooner or later. Just don't stop doing something legit. Anything.

People despise the virtue of little beginnings.

Last year December, I was sitting over an evening drink with a friend when he said "Guy, see us last year (2021), e get when you believe say by this time this year (2022), you go dey where you dey'?"

I just did a little flashback, and started smiling, which later turned into laughter, a very long one. I almost choked on my drink. He joined me in laughing and that was how that episode went. The question went unanswered but the message was clear.

You must start somewhere and stay consistent. There's no guarantee it would happen for you until it happens. But you must be well positioned to receive it. That being said, there may be cases where you'd actually be sitting idle at home and golden opportunity will come find you; those cases are rare.

Do something legit. Anything! The experience and exposure you'd get provides the ladder to the next level.

CheapHomes1:
See this one. Which Nigerians? What has CBN done for you? Leave matter. You want help fight for a confused cbn against confused banks. Just stay your lane. CBN doesn't give a damn about you

This is exactly what people say when they see a poorly brought up child perpetrating evil on the streets

Awolowo's nose with no escape from the centre of Portable's sweat soaked pants

FreeStuffsNG:
Imagine Asiwaju meeting with NULASS. That hall will not even contain those in UNILAG and LASU alone let alone those in polys, CoE and universities outside Lagos.

Stop imagining and just copy the strategy.

Won't be the first time

Ordinary meeting with students, you're displaying rainbow coloured envy.

LGBTQIA+

CBN should be proactive and create a report room where proof of ATMs dispensing old notes can be uploaded.

Nigerians need to take it upon themselves then to report any ATM dispensing old cash.

Toosure70:
You will work for it not by rotation. Where were you when others and their region were building bridges . You and your people busy calling other cows and afonja, APC Awolowo's party

Yeah. Him and his people also started Yoruba Nation and were recently involved in the killing spree at Ojota.

Elidrisy20:
The same thing tinubu said

Nope. Tinubu was just interested in the Agbado beverage, A MILO CORN'.

If you had read the news before commenting, you'd have seen that Peter Obi said : ..but I am in the race as a Nigerian wishing to be hired based on my track record, competence and capacity.”

It always goes around, boys.

Be careful who you taunt today because it always goes around.

R.I.P. to the dead. We hope for a peaceful resolution to Nigeria's many problems under a President who understands the meaning of empathy.

Vote wisely.

We keep telling our brothers from other parts of Nigeria that the ways of the average Igbo man is that every man is a king unto himself.

No matter how influential you are, you can't lord over anybody or do things unacceptable and not get cancelled.

This is Ihedioha who harvested BLOC votes from the Mbaise clan in 2019. But the moment he stopped representing the people's interest; it became over for him.

SilverOrLead:
Then let us replace govt with corporations and become a corporatist state .

Fool, let the govt be replaced by a corporation. in short, let's call Rothschild to restart his Royal Niger Company.

Fool..

Yet your wisdom could not allow you discern 'who runs it' from 'how it is run' .

Engage in discussions only if you understand the context.

Fool.

SilverOrLead:
That means he is insinuating that federal universities should be operated as a business.

Lol.. If It isn't run as a business, should it be run as an NGO?

God abeg. How y'all don't see the bigger picture of it was staring at you in the face is a mystery.

Imagine, just imagine for a second, if the federal-government-controlled tertiary education system in Nigeria was a business model, are you aware it is a failed venture?

You don't want to pay workers for not working (business model) yet you don't want to run it as a business? Agbadooooooo

The future of Nigeria under a certain person.

He who has ears, let him listen.

IbileIfe:
You are wrong.
That's British sarcasm.
You don't understand the British and their English.

Urchins won't be the end of me. TF is British Sarcasm?
Dude even said you don't understand British and their English. Who else owns the language?

IbileIfe:
She forgot that thousands of boys and girls dropped out school when Peter Obi was the governor of the state.

The agberos and pioneer urchins of Lagos aren't exactly premium school graduates are they? It's weird that you're coming after Anambra State who keep hitting the Nigerian airwaves with multiple academic excellence

NgeneUkwenu:
Thats actually an insult to Peter IPOB Obi...But since almost all Peter Obi's supporters are illiterates, I am not surprised with these comments here..

Ironic that for someone so adept at spotting illiterates, the first word in your comment is a grammatical error

Small time, they will go to one random web nuisance, www.todaygist.com and debunk the nonsense they created in the first place.

Urchinhood and waste of brain.

When Peter Obi becomes the President, I'm ready to pay my own N60k from my hard earned money, even if I don't know how I managed to owe such amount but I'd like Peter Obi to be focused on reviving the economy for the next generation.

The pant photo is weird. Is that what sets him apart from other car influencers?

Antoeni:
Brig. Gen. Oladapo Oyelade, the COAS argued that officers leaving the Army must advance cogent reasons, stressing that loss of interest in military service would no longer be accepted.

This is a joke right?

kimjongJezebel:
APC gave us a sick Emilokan who can't make a coherent speech instead of an intelligent man like Osinbajo .

God bless you.

lhordspy:
Me, a young man?

If you're not a young man and you're like this, hmmmm.

That is all I can say.

LeoDeKing:
I used to buy 3 bottles of a particular juice from one shop and leave my balance of N600 for the sales boy. I give 3k and my balance is 600. The sales boy became so "entitled" to this 600 that the moment he sees me parked in front of his shop, he simply arranged the 3 juice in poly bag for me and collect the 3k while I wind up and move. One day, the entitled idiot asked, "oga, nothing for your boy"? To cut the story short, I collected my 600 that day, and the last time he saw me there.

How do you like your zobo guys?

I'll give you two crime reports by the same poster. Make of it what you will.

Cc: Nlfpmod Mynd44 Seun

The Monsters You Made.

KillSars:
First pray that what u believe make e no end u...

That's basically the same thing as what you quoted

Moh247:
Tinubu doesn't interfere in governance he isn't part of

Interesting.

If he isn't part of this government, then where is the Emilokan justification coming from?

Your lies will not be the end of you.