₦airaland Forum

pocohantas:
No be you go tell me what to do.
Na me born them. I have suffered for them, they must suffer for me too. That is the cycle.

TemporaryHansel:
I don't know if it's just me but this looks like something lifted from chatgpt and co.

Ibime:
What policy is that?

Ibime:
Same Buhari that wiped out Maitatsine could not wipe out Boko Haram

Yesterdays problem is not todays problem

Ovems:
I am enjoying Reborn Rookie and The Legend Of Kitchen Soldier

cococandy:
Canada just banned all beef from Texas. Allegedly, farmers are being discouraged from reporting screwworms in cattle so they don't lose money.

Y’all please keep remembering that there was a department in charge of making sure this didn't happen, but DOGE cut it.

At that time Elon fan boys on here told us to “let him cook”. Because he was gonna save us so much money 🤡

Well here’s the result of that dish he was cooking.

Ode! Here’s how you look now. 🤡.

Hussein035:
All you people wants to calculate is inflation

Do you forget that inflation is an indication of economic growth

When cement was sold at #1500 how many beautiful houses were built in your street? When fuel was #30 so many family still eat egg and bread on festival days only

In my village, when fuel was #85 per liter nobody build a house with sewage all we do is shit inside nylon and discard onto the bush. Fuel is now #1400 yet people are building 3 bedroom flats and big chopping complex

Inflation can never be stopped because it's an indication of growth

No need to downplay the government efforts pls

pansophist:
Go back thousands or millions of years that humans have existed, and you’ll see that most people are poor and they all gave birth.

Not giving birth because you’re poor is playing against nature, and your natural predisposition.

Infact the poorer a person is, the likelihood they will have many children, and the richer a person is, the fewer children they have. It’s a paradox.

UnknownQueen:
If house helps = modern day slavery, what then do you call office assistants and cleaners??

Or even care givers in developed country...

Everybody cant be rich, even the poor the bible says will be amongst us.....tell me what the poor do, if not one of the above...

WatchYourSix:
What is this one saying seff??

What do you mean by “You’re the one dictating their every move. They don’t get to choose their tasks, you assign them”

Do u do whateva u like when you working for someone?? Of course your employer assigns your task…
Baba... U are just desperate to justify your point… look for another issue to jump on

pocohantas:
Lol! You are simply delusional.
Adults took a job as a domestic staff. They go home to their families everyday and you say I am exploiting them? Which labour rule was flouted? Their future is in their hands now, they are not working with me anymore.😂

pocohantas:
Slavery: Slavery is the condition in which one human being is legally owned by another and forced to work without compensation.

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My house assistants work conditions;

1) My two house assistants were adults.

2) They signed a formal contract to work for/with me.

3) Work hours are 9am to 5pm, Mon-Fri, and on days where they worked beyond 6pm, they were paid for extra hours. Mostly days we bulk cooked or had a lot of deep cleaning to do.

4) They were entitled to breakfast and lunch.

5) They handled everything but cooking and caregiving. Errands, sweep, mop, market pickup (I have a shopper, they only pickup from her), iron clothes, clean general areas. They never washed or ironed adult clothes.

6) They were paid above minimum wage. 100k/month to be very specific. N40,000 biweekly. N20,000 was kept aside as their pension, payable with its accumulated interest upon resignation.

7) They both lived within walkable distance. Like a 15mins walk, so they didn't incur transportation cost.


What part of this arrangement was slavery? I am open to learning because this seems like a day job to me and legal domestic staffing have existed in different forms under different names.

pocohantas:
Care to share how this correlates to my post?

izzou:
Lagos State arrested a female beggar and found 3 military uniforms in her possession

Roland17:
Genuine question though, why don't we acknowledge traditional religious practices like Isese and others?

Is it because of it's duplicity? Like Blueraydick said, I have also met academic intellectuals and professionals who do not believe in Christianity nor Islam but actively practice a form of traditional religion.

pocohantas:
I have had two house assistants (I rather not call them maid) and I ENJOYED it. I don't encourage using minors for domestic labour, but I employ adults. I also do not do live-in, and my decision to employ one had nothing to do with laziness or show-off. I simply conserved my time and energy for what is most important to us as a family. I would get another once I see a lady I connect with.

MindHacker9009:
Read about Tim Paterson; he has a CS degree. He was the one who created DOS, which MS bought from the company he worked for, for only $50K and later made billions/trillions from it. However, no one heard about him because he was just an employee, until recently, when YouTube brought it to attention. This is what often happens in tech: People with strong CS/SE backgrounds who create great stuff are not heard of, but those in control are the ones who take the credit and make billions/trillions.

Tim Paterson
Biography
Paterson was educated in the Seattle Public Schools, graduating from Ingraham High School in 1974. He attended the University of Washington, working as a repair technician for The Retail Computer Store in the Green Lake area of Seattle, Washington, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science[1] in June 1978. He went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer.[1] He designed the hardware of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlKASM8h5g