₦airaland Forum

guyboss:
Is there something i should know?

I can deal with a bad boss. As long as he/she can bleed.

Other than that, if the pay is okay, i can go with it.

Anaskie:
Nice initiatives. Sadly, Nigerian employers can never, ever relate.

Hhansome:
🙌

ON FUEL SUBSIDY...

As HR practitioners and driver of Businesses we cannot afford to take a back seat and fold our hands without proffering solutions to Senior Management and Executives, let’s be proactive.

Let’s not wait for that employee to slump in the office before making moves to ease this pressure and tension in the country.

Some initiatives you can introduce are:

👉🏽Remote or Hybrid work mode can be activated.

👉🏽Reduce work hours for early closure from work to enable staff get home on time.

👉🏽Introduce Rota-work system whereby some employees would have on and off-days.

👉🏽Employees can do car-pooling to save on cost of fueling.

👉🏽Organizations can sign agreement with Vehicle leasing companies to convey employees To and Fro their work places.

👉🏽Motivate employees by paying COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) or make provision for one-off payment on transportation allowance for 2 months.

Inflation rate has been estimated at 18.5% so calculate COLA at 18.5% of gross salary or work around a variable depending on organization purse.

👉🏽Increase or make provision for purchase of data to help improve seamless work from home.

👉🏽Organizations can withdraw cash systematically and help re-distribute to their employees through their bank’s relationship managers.

👉🏽Serve free lunch or pick 1-2 days a week to serve lunch in the office if you cannot afford 5 days.

👉🏽Introduce wellness programs and do physical exercise in the office once awhile.

👉🏽Admin officers or Facility Managers should liaise with their preferred (Vendor) Fuel Station they partnered with for their staff buses, so they can negotiate and purchase fuel to buy in gallons and re-distribute.

Never have we had it so bad; some people with salaries unable to access it in the banks, the accessible funds are being exorbitantly levied; unavailable and unaffordable fuel pump price has made a mockery of wages and salaries and the take-home pay cannot take people home again.

👉🏽While you are at it, have you started considering what Business Continuity Plan (BCP) you need to trigger going into the removal of fuel subsidy?

As HR practitioners, let’s start showing love and concern as the People’s Advocate.

Agree?

I made this huge mistake in the sixth year of my professional career. And it's amongst the few regrets I have…

While it is great to talk about accomplishments-little wins-work in progress- It does take immense courage to admit poor decisions and mistakes.

So, here I am, mustering up that courage to share my tale of woe with you-

I was at the peak of my performance but then I took a decision to switch to another organization for better pay. My decision to quit the company was a poor one.

If I could write a note to my younger self (I swear, I was younger back then) – I’d say:
📍The fundamental reasons to quit were not solid. I was experiencing tremendous learning there and had a great ‘fit’ with the culture and values. It was a mistake not to make the “quit” decision independent of the “join” decision. The quit decision was driven by a fancy title and pay.
📍 I should have evaluated my fit with the new company. It was apparent to me upon joining that I was not a great fit as it had a very different culture and values.

🔍 So- What factors are to be considered when you make the decision to quit? The answer lies in what it does to your real individual growth, your experience algorithm.

Keynotes when making the big career decision:
✅ The decision to quit your current organization and the decision to join a new one are two "different decisions". They are best made independent of each other. Ideally, the decision to quit must be made even before you start to explore and consider outside opportunities.
✅ The decision to quit your current organization should be driven by the fundamental reasons of learning and fit. Learning is about saying your experience algorithm growth has slowed down and the fit is about values and culture. Other reasons like pay, designation, and negative triggers like a temporary bad phase should have a lower weightage in the quit decision.
✅ Will the new place accelerate your real individual growth? Will the new place have a culture and value system where you will fit in and find it easy to deliver? Some key questions to evaluate apart from pay and other prospects.

Well - I do not believe in the “I have zero regrets in life” Policy!
We stumble, we learn & move past them.

I stumbled & did learn!
These are my takeaways from my professional experience- I'd love to hear yours

Ajione:
Normally I spent 1500 but today almost 2200.

INDUSTRIALFAN:
new minimum wage is now 11 pounds an hour and this started April this year. I started out as a cleaner when I got to the uk which I only did for 3 months then moved to care which by the way was not easy to get as I had to do courses which btw I paid for. Got into care and where I work, it is £13.60P and hour.By my contract, I work 40hrs a week which brings me to 2,176. Now that’s what I earn on my allocated hours but then, I usually pick up extra shift’s which btw re in abundance. In my 3 months cleaning, I advised a Nigerian working as a store attendant to take up a cleaning job like myself as it paid better that what he was paid and in his words “god forbid…. How I go de clean?” Note that the cleaning was done with machines and barely and physical strength. Most Nigerians complaining are of same mindset. You traveled out to make money and forge a better path not coming to swag up and be a big boy. No body sends who your father is. Get off ur high horse and work.

Below is a chat btw myself and a friend who got into care before me. He got a 2008 C300 for £2k from his first salary as a carer.
See samples of care jobs paying as much as £16.85 Per hour and all you need to get such jobs is getting certified which cost mostly less than £200 to do. What do I gain if I lie to anyone who doesn’t pay my bills to start with? I no de chase clout for any freaking reason not to talk of a faceless forum. To what end abeg?
Oh…. Lest I forget, if the people you’re relying on for information are students then yes…. They can barely land such jobs because no one wants a worker who complains of not being able to come to work because they have one class or the other especially when you are needed to cover your shift.

Johnson225:

Felabrity:
Tinubu ardent supporter Yarimo caught queueing to buy fuel for 600/litre

God bless Tinubu 🙌

Rexymania:
Nice one 🙂

The career dilemma...

Many years ago I was where you are now.

I took the road less traveled. I settled for a career in Nigeria.

I got a job in a Big 4. Then moved on to an FMCG, where the perks are much higher!

On education, I got chartered, and I'm finishing an MBA.

On family, I got married to my best friend from University, and I just made my first baby.

Do I regret not moving to the US to join my mom, a US citizen?

I do. Every. Single. Minute.

Why? Nigeria is a very uncertain place to stay and thrive. You could be up there in the sky today and the next week you're back on the mud. In a country of many poor people, you run the risk of becoming a victim of crime due to envy...post COVID-19 it'll get worse.

Look at you at 30. You're dithering. You're pussyfooting.

Look at me at 28. I still regret the mistake my 25 year old self made. I'm pushing daily to leave Nigeria.

I want to leave, not because I'm broke in Nigeria, but the collective poverty in this country scares me...

Most crimes committed today are more out of envy and hunger than of greed.

If you can, please run. For your SAFETY

RoadMozart:
Walahi.

phemmyfour:
your way of making money

Positivepoint:
Proudly North and Hausa what about u?

Some interesting facts you need to know

1. If you speak too much, you will lie.

2. If you think too much, you will be depressed.

3. If you cry too much, you will lose your sight.

4. If you love too much, you will be lost.

5. If you care too much, you will be taken for granted.

6. If you play too much, you will not be taken serious often.

7. If you trust too much, you will be betrayed.

8. If you eat too much, you will be obessed

9. If you sleep too much, you will be idle.

10. If you spend too much, you will have no future.

11. If you wear make up too much, you will lose your beauty.

12. If you look too much, you will lose your focus.

13. If you pursue life too much, you will lose everything.

And lastly...

14. If you expect too much, you will be disappointed. Don't be too much because that too much can hurt you so much.

Annual leaves are earned and not a favour granted by managers. Companies/Management should ensure

1) Leave calendars are maintained
2) Managers are pushed to plan and execute leave plans
3) Employees are pushed to utilize leaves and are not disturbed during a break
4) Appropriate delegation is in place such that the work is not impacted
5) Leadership promotes a culture of appropriate work life balance

Don’t hesitate to ask for leaves. It’s your right. Just make sure that the assigned work is sorted in advance and the leaves are well planned such that a back up can take care.

Presidential Speech by Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) - A guide to understanding 5 economic jargons in the speech:

1. Unified exchange rate: An exchange rate (in this context) is the rate at which one currency is swapped for another (e.g N1 = $1). Nigeria currently has two exchange rates, the official rate set by the CBN (currently around N461), and the parallel market rate (currently around N760), which is decided by the market. A unified rate will mean that there will be only one exchange rate. A market led exchange rate is better ideally (but may lead to the naira losing value in the short run), especially if available to all as investors would be able to plan with the stability, the CBN would save USD and there will be less room for arbitrage.

2. Arbitrage: This is the buying and selling of an asset to take advantage of price differences. In this case, the arbitrage referred to here is the difference between the price of the USD at the official rate, and the price at the parallel market. For instance, getting access to $1m at the official rate would cost N460m, and selling it at the black market would yield N760m approximately. Money is made by just having access. BAT intends to minimise/eliminate such arbitrage because USD is limited in Nigeria and needs to get to those who need it for productive activities.

3. Subsidy Removal: Subsidy is money paid on a product to reduce its cost by the time it reaches the end consumer. The government currently pays subsidy on petrol, to reduce the final cost to Nigerians. The Federal Government set up a plan to remove subsidy this year, and the new President announced that the plan is still in motion.

Removal of fuel subsidy will make petrol a lot more expensive than it is today. The President intends for the cost savings to be used to improve education and healthcare.

4. Monetary Policy: Monetary policy is a set of actions to control a Nation's money supply. Monetary policy includes actions like determining interest rates, managing inflation, how much banks should keep in reserve, etc. The president wasn't specific on what Monetary Policy "house cleaning" means for this administration but it's likely to start by unifying the exchange rates.

5. Omnibus Jobs and Prosperity Bill: An Omnibus bill is a bill that covers diverse topics. In this case the Tinubu administration is proposing an omnibus bill for jobs and prosperity, which might mean that it will be targeted at providing jobs, promoting ease of doing business, and bettering living conditions.

A similar Act was passed in Canada and contained amendments of several acts in the fiscal, infrastructure, housing, social development, and various industrial sectors which helped to boost job creation.

These proposals are great and long overdue. Hopefully, the new administration has the resolve, discipline and wisdom to implement them appropriately.

pointblankeirie:
Times like this.... there should be constant power supply but no we never see light since 4 days now....

pointblankeirie:
Times like this.... there should be constant power supply but no we never see light since 4 days now....

N3TRAL:
We believe that the outcome of the meeting will be beneficial to Nigerians!


Our hope is renewed. We are optimistic.

Fr33born:
Private car owners are even more greedy than transporters