Robertkenny:
Mrs. Juliet

I was with my husband on March 31st, it was 3 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon and I took a phone call from the owner of my company, the president and COO. He informed me that my position was being eliminated.

Significant changes had to be made to the small, family-owned business I worked for due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Coming from leadership, I understand. I worked for Skymack communications, a publishing company here in Lagos, for over 13 years. I was senior vice president of operations, client service and account management. The majority of the clients I worked with were in the airline space, so Covid-19 had huge impact on the area of the business I managed.

Even though being let go is not a personal issue for me, when you get that call from your boss, it’s quite a shock to the system.
I love the people that I worked with. And I have never been unemployed.

This was a first for me, and I had to tell my kids.
The first person I told was my husband. We went for a walk because I just wanted to takeout bad thought and feel free. It’s so overwhelming that you don’t want to think about the “What if”.

I cried when I told my husband, but it wasn’t sadness that I felt. I didn’t feel a connection to my job title such that it was a loss of my sense of self. It was more, “Well, what am I going to do now?” Or maybe it was because you have to say those words: “I’ve been laid off.” I never said those words before.

But I didn’t actually tell my two girls, who are 12 and 16, for almost a full 48hours. I just sat with it first. I was thinking, “How am I going to tell them that I have been laid off”?.

My girls have seen me get up and go to work their whole lives. I don’t believe they tied me as a person to my job, but they do understand that my job provides money for the family to live.

I was really trying to figure out, how do I tell them without scaring them? And how will I keep a level of composure?.

The third day I told them. Schools in Lagos were closed, so my daughters were homeschooling. I called them into the living room, sat down and told them that I had been let go from my position at work. I was crying while telling them.

They both sort of looked at me and they said, “Well, what does that mean for us?”

How you handle yourself is everything when it comes to how they’re going to respond, so I immediately composed myself.
“Well, we’re probably going to have to make some changes initially, but as a parent let I and your dad focus on that. I don’t want you to worry about that” I said.

My eldest daughter got angry and frustrated at my employer. “Aren’t you important? Don’t they think you’re valuable?” she asked with a sad face.

“I am valuable” I said. But my value has nothing to do with my job. I’m valuable for a lot of other reasons.”

“I will find a job that makes me happier, a place to work that values me, a place where I want to be” I said. The girls asked questions about money too. I have a loan to pay and other bills. “Yeah, we’re going to have to make some changes, for me to be able to pay back” I said.

“I’m going to have to really work to get another job or figure out what my next move is” I said.

For now we’re good. My girls and I are stable and we’re happy. We have made some changes towards managing most things around us. For instance with food shopping, we are not particularly frivolous, but now we are much more careful.

Also there is no “I need does cloths just because they’re beautiful or I want to do online shopping for me and my girls”. They know they need to be conscientious about what they ask for. And they have been fantastic without reminder.

And I have not stopped my job search, but I am not obsessing. Right now everything is fine, but that won’t last forever. So I am trying to determine what my new normal is going to be.

Thank you Bogger for sharing my story

Have you ever lost any job that makes you think twice? Please share your story.

Quite touching Wish I could give you a job right now

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No Dividend

too bad

chibjohn:

Please stop this... We are all adults here. Anybody playing in the market should understand the risks involved. This will discourage people with genuine info in the future from opening up. We all know that no one can say with absolute certainty the market direction. The best we can have are intelligent guesses.

Can you imagine the audacity?

Baba, I no be your pikin o

megawealth01:
Which experience? I post what I post with caution always so look for who took your monies

That's the excuse most of you give when you monkey hunt.

You go and buy a good quantity of a dead nonsense stock that has been lying around on 20kobo and create unusual activity there.

Then come here to announce as if you are unaware that you are the one that bought the same units you are announcing here.

and when newbies flock there to buy innocently, you sell on them and bail.

and you think you are doing well

Karma is waiting for you

megawealth01:
GOD will help us all... When you were buying your fundamentally correct OANDO did you ever think it will go zigzag... Just chill... Everyone here is playing to win whether analysis or not

I learnt from my experience and I am willing to share knowledge to save every other person from the same mistake. Did you learn from your experience?

emmanuelewumi:



Stone keh, it is the fact.


Those doing very well don't blow their trumpets, people get to find out. People who blow their trumpets have an agenda

You are very correct sir. That's why megawealth jumping up and down and luring people into dead stocks is a good example.

megawealth01:
When TRANSCORP enters full bid all the naysayers should cover their faces in shame.

This is not a buy recommendation... DD applies always

it wont justify what you are doing or water down my points

it will only kick the evil can down the road a little.

The evil day will still come

Mcy56:

Think I'm getting justified now........when I said I wanted to stop posting anything penny stock here again...........
I wonder how some people, possibly those who missed out of the price appreciation, will expect market to keep going up without people booking profits or pullbacks occuring........
Even if its bear, what about those who already made profits?
Will wait to read what they've got to say once it gets to the turn of the big/medium caps...
It's well.

God Forbid I Follow this noise of you guys into any of these nonsense stocks without hope of dividend. I started trading long before you had a computer and cant be swayed by market noise.

I only post so that newbies will know what they are getting into when they go into such NONSENSE STOCKS.

Spend the evening in a house where if rain meets you, you can ask for mat and spend the night too.

emmanuelewumi:


It is allowed, but we should be careful of those who blow their trumpets

This stone looks like MEGAwealth's own

11:05AM

Transcorpse already traded 358million units Imagine the outstanding units available for trading in 1Hr. That's not including the hidden offers and overhead.


and you wonder why it never ever rallies for long

GANDALF1:


For those deceived into this bus, SELL now and take your loss.


If you want to be a stubborn guy and be having faith of recovery, the watch those 30m+ units at 1.17 closely and be refreshing your screen constantly. Once that bid is removed or sold, SELL ALL YOUR HOLDINGS at 1.16, take the loss and RUNNNNNNNNN

Now 13m @ 1.17.

Plan your exit now

in other news, JaPAULCopper will trade below N1 tomorrow What A LIFE

kintus:


Mr. Market should act fast. Enough of the manipulations.

Paying lot of school fees lately....T'was NEIMETH, and now MANSARD....... kiaaaaa..... I need small break abeg

Nooo, dont take a break

Come and be following manipulators to play NSE. You will lose your shirt, trouser and shoes by the time they finish with you here.

And you will still say THANK YOU

GANDALF1:


Are you a wicked person in real life? why mock this golden Transcorpse bus that is riding to N20 next week

Anyways, those who haven't learnt will learn from their experience.

They will hold Transcorpse for years like loco and only be sighting their breakeven price from 80-90k distance.

For those deceived into this bus, SELL now and take your loss.


If you want to be a stubborn guy and be having faith of recovery, the watch those 30m+ units at 1.17 closely and be refreshing your screen constantly. Once that bid is removed or sold, SELL ALL YOUR HOLDINGS at 1.16, take the loss and RUNNNNNNNNN

sellydion:
Weak hand shaken out I suppose

Are you a wicked person in real life? why mock this golden Transcorpse bus that is riding to N20 next week

Anyways, those who haven't learnt will learn from their experience.

They will hold Transcorpse for years like loco and only be sighting their breakeven price from 80-90k distance.

Mcy56:


Me I dont keep kwayet, just dey read from the elders nah.

Anyway, Oga Gandalf1 , as you no see your 10M buy, make you look the way of dividend paying stock.
One or two don dey gather momentum since last week........
There's one that used to be the first coy to release result................bids far outweigh offers there....

HOW FAR?

GANDALF1:


you will wake up suddenly and start looking for those bids

They will be nowhere to be found

and you will be left with an empty can

EMPTY CANS

megawealth01:
Well JAPAUL and TRANSCORP aren't same... You can use another stock at the level of JAPAUL to make your analysis

You dey compare TRANSCORP with JAPAUL... Can you compare the LIVING with the dead?

No comments.

I noticed you deleted all the comments you made with your former moniker which I deliberately quoted for posterity sake.

Continue deceiving those you can deceive.

In other news, JapaulGold has 122,865,244 units full offer. So where is the story of illiquidity coming from?

OBAGADAFFI:


Trancorp is liquid
Japual is illiquid.

There will always be excuses and justifications


You guys never cease to amaze me

Livestock has trapped its own share of prisoners.

FTNCOCOA also got some share.

No dividend or interest payments for a while.

Back to drybone status

Zagee:
I'm sure he keeps missing those 10 10 million single bids.
If you have money, you'll equally have access to good information. As for me, I keep riding on that sentiment and whatever shenanigans may occur with japaul!! Cuz it'll only end up with more %tage. #WeMove

you will wake up suddenly and start looking for those bids

They will be nowhere to be found

and you will be left with an empty can

nna777:


Have you checked the volume of bid lately??

There's something the Ruggedprof used to say whenever people talk like this.

He would say he is an old man and don't have the strength to struggle with youngsters when the door narrows or locks.

enjoy your paper profit sir

megawealth01:
He speaks like PETER

You are definitely a newbie. If not, you will know Peter doesn't discuss extensively like this. Also, you would have seen some good memes.

Anyways, those you are trying to impress should ask you why you changed your moniker since you are an old contributor.

Why did you change name?

Are you Japaul?

sellydion:
Leave Japaul shell holders alone. I dont play empty stock.

I strongly opin that SEC should investigate this MMM coy .

Some of them get carried away by the myopic bants of a few newbies who started investing in 2018 here.

That's why the likes of Rabbi have stopped commenting cos when you talk, children will come for you.

But one has to still sound the warning from time to time

emmanuelewumi:


I never owned Japaul ooo. I consider figures, fundamentals, growth potentials, margin of safety and management before I invest.

Good. So when commenting, also sound this warning along side.

Thanks

Willie2015:


So many still in this forum bro....
We dont have anywhere to go....
Stock Biz is all what we know....
And have passion for...

Yeah bro. Every one cannot leave but my question was clear and can be comprehended.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE THAT INVESTED IN 2007/2008 ARE STILL IN NSE AS OF TODAY

Lets look at this forum self.

where is Knight of Delta (KOD)

Nosa

Feelamong

and all our other comrades?

ositadiima1:
Sir, are you Gandalf the gray from lord of d rings?

emmanuelewumi:



Very much around.

You will average down, if the stock is fundamentally sound.

Your Zenith Bank gave bonus thrice between 2008 and now. You must have also earned about N30 dividends till date, if you add the dividends earned by the initial shares and additional shares through the bonuses declared

Good one. So tell me, How much has Japaul returned to those trapped in it since their IPO in 2007?

megawealth01:
I am sure I have more monies in real stocks than this your advise Sir... No force me to reveal my real IDENTIFY... I AREN'T A LEARNER at all... I have real time INVESTMENT in foreign commodities sef... NSE has given me so much in the past few months

Your typing and font format looks like that guy that was begging everyone to invest in him some moons ago. The guy that trades in foreign commodities and FX Demos. Forgotten his name already

Are you the one?

megawealth01:
I am sure I have more monies in real stocks than this your advise Sir... No force me to reveal my real IDENTIFY... I AREN'T A LEARNER at all

Good for you.

megawealth01:
They plenty here and they are still contributing to the success of this forum

The bottom line is take your risk management serious without blaming a fellow adult

After this my warning, they dare not come here to blame anyone.

I don talk enough already