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works been fine and all and moreso i got attacked last weekend by some hoodlums masquerading as armed robbers on the highway.
Got beaten like mad still gat some mold on ma cheek tho.

Welcomers,
It's not being easy here o. There is serious fire on the mountain.
Yesterday was a bad day in the company, as the Group olori-oko released mail showing virtually all the top management staff in my subsidiary the way out, in what will be remembered as a shock of the year. Work practically stopped as all of us non-mgt staff were clustered in groups discussing the massive sack. It was very shocking.
Here are people I had thought were untouchable, people that wielded so much power.Na wa o, so oga pass oga. I now reason with people that say there is nothing like owning your business, being your own boss.

The effect has started telling on us their boys already. The surviving managers, among which was my direct boss, are now unusually tough on us. The rule now is zero tolerance for even inevitable mistakes. Everybody wants to save his head.

Fingers crossed

Ibiamu:
yes it may drop, depending on the economy of our nation.

Ibiamu:
ok, can i find something good from your office?

Wow, what a week!
Can you all thank the Lord for me please?! 
In my last post, i said something wasnt right around the office
Well my suspicions were confirmed two weeks ago when the Regional Director asked to meet with the whole office in Oxford
He has done the same thing at the other regional offices around us
One hour presentation, talk of restructuring and improving performances
Then the dude nicely linked it to the fact that there will be people paying the price of the whole new vision
And what dat means is COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
Not just in our region, but in the rest of the other 140 offices across the country with the exception of the offices abroad!
THE LOOK ON EVERYONE's FACE WAS NOT SURPRISING, VERY DEPRESSING!
There will be redundancies, there will be restructuring of how the office operate and above all, improved performances for our clients!
Chei, the economic and financial tormoil the world has found itself in, is hitting hard!
For a firm the size of ours, to claim some potential redundancies and reorganisation will happen, no other big wigs outhere is immune!


Anyway we were told anyone who will be affected will know by 27th March, there will be a one month consultation after and dismissal after!
I must admit i was scared, as one of the youngest and inexperienced staff in the office, but i was already on my toes
Sprucing up the CV and checking out the latest vacancies in the industry
I must admit, i even had one or two phone interviews, which i wont now be following up due to the outcome of the development in MOUCHEL
The criteria for selecting people for the chop was unclear, doing your job 120% well doesnt mean you are safe as well as licking the Directors bum!
My boss, one of the few chartered engineers and more experienced HOD was forced out two weeks ago, so no one else is safe!
Panic, gloom and fear around the office
Not a very good feeling and i must say performance level must have dropped seriously this week
I dont see people doing thier job properly knowing they may be facing the chop!

To celebrate my survival this week, i went car shopping and i found myself a new baby
Time to step up and join the league of luxury car owners, ya know
I have been through shitloads with the verbal warning 3weeks ago and the reorganisation programme this week, PHEWWW!!
BTW, the office manager who cautioned me 3 weeks ago, got the chop!!
NEW AUDI A4 TDI is the latest baybee!!!WOW!
Summer will be bang!bang!!

Last two weeks has been crazy maaaaan!!!!
A lot of tension around. especially my department
Had a ticking off from the office manager for a minor offence at work
Basically cracked a joke with a colleague and one of the married woman around didnt like it!
But it is all part of life experience so i have learnt from it, everyone around you could be laughing and singing your praises, but they go behind and knife u
Petty issue which should have been dealt with by my line manager within the team was spurned and instead got reported to the divisional office manager
I am a bit miffed to be honest because it wasnt a swear word or a derogatory or discriminatory comment, so i felt hard done by!
Good thing is, it was only a verbal warning for me and my mate, my job continues and my aim as well as my smarter objectives remains intact

I jokingly said "I AM SWEATING LIKE A RAPIST"

And one of the older woman around the team didnt find it funny!

Oh well, life lessons!!!!

Do you like stickers on your car or you like a car just plain,stickerless?

Do you have any sticker on your car?

What is it?

What motivates you to use the sticker?

If not, why?

Kay 17:
Hajj, what a silly thing to die for!

oyb:

Jarus:
@Ajanlekoko,
Yes, anytime I recall dat incident i laff my a.s.s off. I also recall oyb digging out your previous post on fluffing mobil test. I remember calling u d in-house comedian to provide comic relief. etc. your posts sounded exaggerated dat tym, how u call meetings only 2 hear grammar. . . Cant recall dat vocab u used again. Wé no know say u be big boss then. . . lol

FEBRUARY 17 2009: ENTER AJANLEKOKO THE 'FAFFER'  

hey all,
well, I work in the telcos (GSM), been there since '01, and I'm now a senior member of the organization I work for.
In my office, I kind of have a really big team, managers and supervisors report to me, so I don't really have to do anything. I therefore spend my time observing the fray, the various physical exercises I mentioned in my ealier post. Then of course I jump into the fray.

Mostly I research and read books like 'the road to CEO', 'how to undermine your boss and contemporaries', 'the mafia manager', and other such 'evil' books.  At my level, navigational skills seem to be more important than academic or professional skills, as I am beginning to find out. So I am busy with the re-education of moi, transforming into your typical average evil treacherous boss.

Right now, I'm out of the country attending a conference, so I don't have a day at work this week. But my typical day at work is spent attending meetings.
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. Meetings I call, meetings called by others just to hear my honed oratorial skills, meetings we all use to display our latest tricks and schemes and generally rubbish ourselves before our expatriate bosses, who now proceed to fall our hand big time.

The really cool thing about this job be say I am still younger than the average guy at this level. Therefore it tickles me to no end when older guys I run into in the lift and around the office say 'oga' and 'sir'. I feel like taking them by the scruff of their neck and shaking them, screaming 'can't you see I'm just me?'. Ah, well,

Nowadays I get to fly first and business class on international trips, having spent a decade flying economy. Brothers and sisters no be mai mai o! VIP lounge access, no queues at ANY airport in the world, limo service, etc,etc. The first time wey I fly after getting the promotion, I no even sabi how the bed-seat dem dey work, how to arrange the wackies, so I just dey observe one oyinbo as he dey do everything. The guy obviously caught on, cos he kept grinning at me throughout the 8 hour flight. Na im sabi.

Got to run. I'm late for the first session of the conference I'm attending, as a result of excessive partying last night. Will be posting later. Ta!

. . . and TKB fired the first shot at the 'faffer'  

so what you do is faff around as a boss?
do they pay you? what are they paying for?

did you say you work for a Telco?
your org needs some restructuring

. . .historian oyb continued the firing  

the guy is a marketer, he flunked a mobil interview(since when  mobil dey invite 2.2?), he has been working for over 10 years,

must be tales from the internet

and hes the same slowpoke who was yarning op about engineers

. . .TKB was not done yet  :

i saw his 'engineering goof' o bros.
mobil 2:2?

hehehehe, they wanna scatter this thread.
abeggi lemme go alooking too

When I also read our ''faffer's'' post, I knew another arrogant bragger had strayed here. His assertions were incoherent. Managers and supervisors reporting to him? Calling meetings just to hear grammar? Flying business and first classes?  But in order not to be confrontational, I just teased him up as a 'big boy'.

We are not saying this is not impossible. In fact it will be nice having a top mgt staff(as his assertions presented him) with us in this discussion, but it is easy to see LIE and EXAGGERATION written all over his post.

TKB has offered the right advice - the organization needs restructuring, if its ever exists.

But oyb has already delivered the final straw, bursting his bubble!

Ps. Ajanlekoko, Welcome to da club, Will have fun reading your fiction

. . .Madam Cristalz blowed hot  

Now I ain't pleased about this
Please it's not compulsory to post on this thread. If you don't want to just ignore it. Spoiling it is one thing I really won't let happen o. Why should anyone lie here, I mean,who's there to impress,faceless forum users?
Thread's just for those that actually do something for a living and feel like sharing the ups/downs, good/bad of their work places in here,no matter where that work place is or what the job is.
Mr. Ajanlekoko, I'm nicely asking you to desist from anything negative in here,k? Thanks. Like I said before, it's not compulsory to post here.

Your just a very silly child. Look around you! Can you see unserious people posting crap here. Your mingling with the future leaders of this nation and how we go about our daily jobs either good or bad and how we can help each other suceed and your here posting fairy tales slum dog millionaire lifestyles that even Microsoft CEOs dont engage in.

Pls dont derail this thread. Its one of the threads where serious minded people on nairaland with careers discuss important issues devoid of teenage comments that circulates in your romance or jokes threads!

Mr Man govern your self accordingly

Hi lawyer,
No vex o, but, did you seriously write this? I mean, serious-minded people on nairaland with careers discuss important issues, etc etc. Again, make una no vex but, what exactly is wrong with all of you guys?
Okay. You guys win. I apologise. Seriously I didn't come here to brag or anything of that nature. But neither did I come here to defend myself or try to prove whatever to you guys. Do you guys really take yourselves that seriously? I was just having fun, haba. You know, F-U-N, fun. Aren't you guys here to unwind, or is this an extension of your jobs/careers/lives? Come on, man (abi na woman)!
Look guys. Life is too short, and this is after all a web forum, not Dr Phil (not that I watch the man).
Haba. I tire o.

But on a much more serious note. As much as I would have loved to say otherwise, I am a senior professional with about a decade work experience, with the palis and experience to back it up. What I don't really get is, why would you think I was lying? What does it matter to you guys who or what I am? I don't necessarily want to know exactly what any of you guys do, I just like to read from you, and contribute when I feel like. Or do I need to undergo a background/identity check to do that? Abi you people know unaself from somewhere before wey me just go chuck head? I just dey try understand una raking.

I won't contribute to your thread again. Really sorry to have butted in, sincerely

About time we had a bit of drama up in here.

If Ajanlekoko likes to engage in a bit of fantasy living, guys lets leave him be. We should at least give him benefit of doubt until his bragging gets too much or he gets caught up in a web of his lies, half truths, or whatever this is.

Ajanlekoko
Yes we take ourselves seriously and no this ain't Dr Phil.
Hope the 360 degrees spinning building didn't make you dizzy?

Please let Ajanlekoko the faffer be. He will be a good side attraction to this thread. After all, even in serious retreats, comedians are invited to add some humour.

I'm enjoying his fiction. He is our Baba Suwe here. The name itself(Ajanlekoko - dog dey pursue wolf) is funny.

Let teh discussion continue, while the comedian continue to entertain us

If he wants to keep ''entertaining'' in here he is very free to, but there are nicer ways to have fun than making jest of people undeservedly

tkb417:
lol

its around the time of the year when im jumping on the plane for some lil enjoyment

yeah so whos popping the champagne for our first year anniversary?
i know oyb and jarus dont drink, we'll buy maltina for them

AjanleKoko:
LOL.
Don't forget mine o.

wunmexoni:
this happen about six years ago.
in the early hours of a working day around seven o'clock one danfo with passengers suddenly developed fault .
passengers come down and started asking for thier money,
u wount believe that the conducted because he didnt want to return thier money he removed he clothes .
his unclothedness scared people away and they gave up the money,

IMAGINE,

ayde:
Let's reminisce back in those days when we were kids in primary school, singing songs like -

" Wherever u go(go-go-gongo)wherever u've been (sisi-eko),do not say yes when u mean 2 say no(baba-ibadan)!
let's have yours,

Stick to one wife and live a happy life.

Olusan4all:
I have an angel check it out ,

Iyineda:
Samuel ETO'O fils, hands down.
Followed by Yaya Touré, then Michael Essien.