₦airaland Forum

kodred:
The reason I’m emphasizing on the WE is because you really are not here for our interests but your EKOCAB thing. You sold us out niti. You could have come like a gentleman to explain everything about the ekocab initially instead you were shielding it and trying to form/argue that we get the appropriate licenses for our operations even though you know fully well how redundant those licenses are and that it is just pure extortion by the govt.

If you claim to be in solidarity with us, you’d have our best interests at heart and let us know of the new initiative even before all the vio harrassments.

Do you want to know how many drivers suffered? How many lost their source of livelihood? Well I’m not mad at you anymore now that I know your angle, you were just acting in your greater interest (Ekocab)

Las las nobody holy pass.

Actually, I have no affiliation whatsoever with Ekocab. But I understand where you are coming from.

No wahala.

kodred:
Do you still drive?

No, I don't drive currently.
But that doesn't preclude me from being a stakeholder in this community; don't you see? That's why I use "we."

chucsmoore:
If you continue cancelling 4 trips in a day, you might wake up one morning to see your rating fall Yakata. Mind you there is a threshold of 22% on all cancellations, if u pass this limit automatically you will be blocked. All cancellations affects rating whether you want to go with rider or not. You just have to keep it minimal. Accepting Trips request without seeing destination @ times boost rating. These kind of trips are likely to be taking you to bad places, drivers reject them alot. Embarking on such trips can increase your rating. I took out time to study how the system works.

Man wey sabi.

kodred:
wait wait wait who’s the ‘we’ you talking about? Are you now driving? But you said you’re a COO and a book writer! You don add uber join? Abi na uber all along but you sey fantasize about being a coo

Now seriously I can see where our last argument about the necessary docs/license/govt sanctions/vio harrassment came about. You nothing but a gademn spy nigga. So you’re part of the stakeholders abi errand boy having this ‘inside information’ ba.

When e wan favour am, he switch to ‘we’. Before you were on about us having another hustle like writing books and what not but now you don join us dey form ‘we’, marketing and telling us all about your ekocab. Nigga stand one place and stop confusing thunder abeg.

I'm a legit member of this community. I did e-hailing - Uber and Bolt - for 3 years. I've earned my place in this community.

Whatever you think I am on this thread, think again. I've made contributions on this thread as far back as 2017. 2020 is my fourth year on this thread. Again, I'm a legit member of this community. I've earned for myself the right to use "we."

Maybe you should let bygones be bygones.

pope191:
All what u list here is still hustle, why not upgrade certificate or move to a better country where things work?

My brother, that's why I wrote e-hailing should always be seen as a side hustle.

On this Bolt trying to lower fares further, maybe we should consider porting to EkoCab. I see potential in EkoCab for two key reasons:
1. It is State Government backed;
2. Sterling Bank is financing

Why don't we form a "body" or a "committee" to engage EkoCab as it plans to launch. I have inside information that they have an initial 100 tokunbo cars to give out on hire purchase to drivers. The cap is #2,000,000 and the interest is 17% per annum for 2 years. That means a #2,680,000 payment over 2 years - or approximately #26,800 per week. If you take a car that is worth #1,500,000; your total payment over 2 years will be #2,010,000 or #20,100 per week. And the whole remittance thing is flexible.

I understand good cars can be registered on the platform too.

EkoCab has the potential to knock both Uber and Bolt out of the Lagos market. Maybe it's time we all key in.

Lastly, e-hailing should always be seen as a side hustle. There are other legit hustles that pay off well. For example, I know someone who brings in Palm Oil into Lagos from Benin. Another packages and sells yam flour on Jumia. Yet another brings in kilishi from Abuja. They all make good money.

My 2 Kobo.

Cheddaz:
But on a serious note, i don't really like involving in other people's matter. But this guy just asked for an innocent favour, of which who it may concern obviously saw that post. It was left for her to assist,ignore or give advice on such issues. You guys really have no right to meddle in his business. But what do i know?

This is a public forum. Open a dictionary and check the definition.

Ok, let me help you:
"a forum for debate/discussion" ~ Cambridge Dictionary.

Did you ask yourself why he didn't PM her? Emphasis here on PM?

This is the last I will post about this issue. I have more important things to do.

DEGREE2466:
[s]When did you become the PA or PR manager to the quoted person?

I wonder why some of you lack dignity. Someone you are responding on her behalf is right on this thread and can choose to respond or ignore the request completely.

Mister risk analyzer, you seem to know much about international shipping than you know Lagos roads.

Anyway, I have got to find an alternative. You were quick to list the risks but never mentioned the dozens of businesses transpiring between nairaland members even when they have never met each other.

FYI, I had one of my cars paid for in the United States and shipped to Nigeria through a member I met here without knowing him before then.

No option to suggest maybe a verification or something, just an outright condemnation and 1001 reasons why such should never happen.

Please, grow up and stop asslicking. It will help you better[/s]

I don't have your time.

DEGREE2466:
Ma'am, I need your assistance to ship a phone from the United States to Nigeria. I will order the phone on eBay/Amazon and have it sent to your address so you can help me send it down to Nigeria.

All costs will be covered by me. Please, let me know if you can help.

Let me help Aunty RadAutoWorks reply.

This is not right for several reasons.

For one, you are soliciting someone who you don't know personally and who doesn't know you personally too to help you ship a product from the US to Nigeria. It's a security risk no one - including yourself - will take on behalf of someone not known to them.

There are shipping services out there you can use — UPS, DHL, ShoptoMyDoor etc. They will help you get your product down to Nigeria from Amazon even faster than @RadAutoWorks will do.

Lastly, I'm not insinuating anything. Please don't be offended.

eyinola:
i wasn't even expecting any request again , na play i say make i play and to be honest been my first and rider was going to MM2 i was scared cos i don hear many tinz abt airport boys here
.lolz

I remember I became a Don at doing airport trips. I dey sleep International Airport steady. 7:00am, I don go park. Before 9:00 am, Island trip - #3,000 - #5,000 must drop ni. Anywhere I drop off, destination back to Ikeja/Airport. Then to the airport car park again.

If I no see Island trip nko, no lele. Airport to Obafemi Awolowo Way Ikeja is #1,200-#1,500; 30 minutes journey max!

At the end of the day, my #15,000+ gross is sure. Weekend (Saturday and Sunday), na like #20,000 gross on each day. Sunday night, 9:00pm, I must pick my last rider for the week from Local Airport; usually, long trip!

Softwork. Chai, I miss those days.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]In your place of work, do your management give you people hand sanitizers and nose masks every week?
Do you know how many cars are on the platform?
Do you know what it will cost Bolt to fund and prepare for that?

Bolt is simply trying to see how they can protect their partners in this pandemic. These are the people they have a contract with. The rider is a customer. He has no allegiance with Bolt in whatsoever way

Your second point is what I think Bolt can adopt for Riders. But say make dem buy buy everything because they wan protect rider?

Na village Uche go end up before December
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Lol! You are trying to crucify the messenger while disregarding the message.

So, in my place of work, we went old-fashioned. First, we don't use facemask at work, but there is strict social distancing. Also, common surfaces — countertops, shelves, etc — are wiped down every now and then during the workday. Then it is also mandatory that every staff washes his or her hands every 2 hours with soap and Dettol. Sanitizing hands with alcohol-based sanitizer is very frequently, without count sef.

Then, I, as the leader, takes time out to keep educating my staff. It's not uncommon for me to go round and ask everyone when last he or she washed hands. I remind people regularly not to touch their faces.

I can go on and on ... there's no point getting into this argument for likes.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Any idea of what this system would look like?[/color]

Would it not be much better if Bolt puts in a bottle of alcohol-based sanitizer, a pack of single-user tri-ply facemasks and a can of aerosol disinfectant in every Bolt car every week?

How about Bolt investing in educating both riders and driver's about safe facemask practices? For example, I can bet my balls that 90% of everyone on this thread don't know how to safely remove their facemasks!

Most don't even know hanging your facemask under your chin is a no-no!

Our Nigerian system window-dresses; and solves no problem. I'm sure this protective shield of a thing is just another Naija contractor cashing out.

ojbanja:
Thank you for choosing to drive and earn with Bolt during this pandemic.


Since the lockdown in Lagos was eased, you and other drivers have been helping to move the city while adhering to the safety guidelines and for this, we thank you!


While we continue to work with the health authorities, we are putting some measures in place to improve the safety conditions while driving with Bolt with our new safety solution in Lagos – the Bolt Protect category. Cars in this category will feature a protective divider between the front and rear seat, adding an extra layer of safety for you.


You are invited to have this Protective Shield installed in your car for FREE. You will also receive a FREE face mask and hand sanitiser!


Installations will begin on Monday the 25th of May 2020. You will receive a text message with instructions with the date, time and location of your personal protect divider installation appointment.

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Follow these guidelines when you arrive for your protect divider installation

Arrive on time for your FREE installation and wait in your car for your turn
If you arrive on time, you will be attended to quickly. If you miss your appointment, the Protect divider kept for you may be given to someone else.
Installation takes about 10 mins per vehicle
You may be asked to identify yourself with your driver's license
You must be driving the current car on your profile. Your car is a Toyota corolla
The protect divider can easily be removed from your car when not in use for driving with Bolt


If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at nigeria@bolt.eu.



Stay Safe! �

#BoltHeroes


What's your take on this?

It won't work! Bolt is being clever by half.

Say, I'm a driver and I've installed this protective shield. Let's assume my rider #1 for the day happens to be positive for Covid-19. I'm carrying him from Egbeda to Lekki, a 2- hour journey on the average.

On our way, he makes and answers calls. He sneezes maybe once or twice. He coughs once. I'm jamming serious tunes on the car stereo — he's singing along too. I drop him off in Lekki 2 hours later. New request comes in ... I head out to the pickup location ...

So the protective shield is no good if all it does is protect the driver and leave riders exposed! The right thing for Bolt to do is to create systems that will make drivers disinfect their cars and the spaces riders occupy after every ride. That way, everyone is protected.

Meanwhile, @1daboi
Please don't trade forex. It will end in tears.

Take my words to the bank.

radautoworks:
Very true. At least not USA. Economy is in shambles, unemployment rate is almost 30%, businesses folding up left, right and center. I DID NOT CALL YOU INTO THIS CONVERSATION. YOU KNOW YOURSELF.

If you must leave, go to a Nordic country.

Or Australia. Or New Zealand.

Somewhere far and remote from this madness called Nigeria.

My future plan(s). Only the fear of leaving my mother alone has been holding me back.

northbird:
Boss,well, its up to the CEO to decide, you have done ur advisory role as COO

But know that the staff not coming to work is purely circumstantial ( its beyond their control)

True, they can't demand for pay dey didn't work for.

But at times, we look beyond the staff members,

look @ d trickle down effect of the payment, how many individuals, family members, cousins, dependents will share from that paycheck.

So even if its a token to cover TRANSPORT ( although it won't b made known to them that way) , just like

Oga dash everybody money o, that kind stuff.

Then wait for the harvest , heartfelt prayers from the staff members.

You are very much on point sir. I will just run with this and see if I can plead with my boss to release something or everything sef for the staff; based on compassionate grounds.

Thank you so much for the advice.

kodred:
While they were not at work, I'm sure they were still 'working' at home i.e receiving calls from clients or calling clients etc. You could have just showed your boss the worksheet for the month and advised him to use his discretion since it was nobody's fault.

Everyone needs some sort of palliatives now as the situation is peculiar. You advising against payment is outright evil. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

No go let oversabi kill you o.

Nobody worked at home, except me. I made sure everyone's salary was paid up to date before the lockdown.

My question is: if you were the owner of the company, would you pay your staff for the month none of them came to work and you also had no business?

Bigleaf1006:
The circumstances are different, I don't know what your engagement contracts or terms are between your employer and his employees, if they were wage earners or salaried.

For the former, decision to pay or not could be at Management's whim but for the latter you are obliged to pay or at worst negotiate.

The car rental analogy, for as long as you are in pocession of the car, u must pay the rental and if you are unable to for any reason,u should drop the car except your partner allows you hold on to it..

Your partner applied discretion and chose to be magnanimous, he could have as well rescheduled your payment to a future date thereby having you in arrears while you on the other hand utterly chose to be downright insensitive to your workers plight.

Every staff is salaried where I work.

And insensitive or not, it is not right for anyone to expect payment for work that he or she did not do.

Carshopper:
The right thing was 'to prepare the payroll for oga to see' .. actually u didnt do ur duty - 'to prepare the payroll' which would have shown NO WORK done for that month...

Do you think ur oga forgot?

You have a point there, actually.

So the moral of my two stories is this:
Don't take whatever doesn't belong to you.

If my employer was naive enough to the point of thinking he had a responsibility to pay staff who didn't work in April salary from business that never happened in April, then I, as his COO, is duty-bound to set him right. And I'm proud I did just that.

Now, if he decides, of his own freewill, to gift his staff their April salaries, then I'm cool with it.

Even for my car owner (in my second narrative), I was not willing to pay him for what the car never earned. We signed a rental agreement to use the car for e-hailing purposes and to remit a rent from the earnings thereof. The moment it became impossible for the car to earn the agreed rental, despite working 70 hours + in the week (clause also in the agreement), I had the right to call a 'force majeure,' which I did.

Concluding, this is not about morals. This is about doing right no matter its cost. I regularly encounter these situations of temptations and I regularly resist them. And my life has been better for it too.

So I will share another experience.

After 2017/2018 Christmas/New Year festivities, during which I hammered normal (I was on rental with a nice 2005 Toyota Corolla), winter set in.

There was not much of rides happening. Those were days I would be online for 13 hours in one day and gross #7,000 for the whole 13 hours.

Winter week 1, I paid the major part of my #35,000 rental from my festivities hammer. Same for winter week 2 and winter week 3. Omo, winter week 4, I told car owner I can't afford to pay rental for that week; that he has to "adjuire," as we say in (Great) Ife. He asked me why, and I told him, see, you have a tracker on your car. You can see every km the car travelled during the week. Here is my email and PIN to both apps. Calculate everything I've grossed, remove the money I've spent for fuel and I will pay you whatever is left.

Like we say in Ife, it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war. Car owner reasoned with me and told me to not to pay anything for that week.

Fast forward 1 year plus, he still calls me till tomorrow to ask after me. Sometime last year, he called me to ask if I wanted a tokunbo Corolla on hire purchase. I will pay at my convenience. No deposit, no guarantor. I told him no sir, I have a job.

I am going somewhere with my stories.

Something weird happened today at work. My boss calls me and says,
"Deji, please prepare the payroll for April; let's pay the staff their salary."

I was dumbfounded for a few seconds. My boss notices that I'm acting confused. He asks me what's wrong.

Me: "Sir, we are not paying April salary. The business didn't open. No member of staff came to work."

My boss stared at me, not believing himself. "Are you sure, Deji?"

Me: "Very sure, sir."

Did I do wrong? Did I not do wrong?

mrjaydee:
Yes bro, OVO crew we outchea!

Nice one. I'm a Drake fan too.

northbird:
The relax is aimed @ SMEs n not any other economic group.

This people form the bulk of the nation's workforce.

8am- 6pm. They grab whatever they can , head home n continue d following day.

Wa shere, padi mi

mrjaydee:
Nothing was the same..this year is cancelled.

Drake fan?

chillex8:
Second of May. Sir

Oh, Ok.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Yeah. I actually meant you were right

He said movement is from 6am to 9pm

Hmm. Na better surge go dey by 6am oh [/color]

You people are tempting me ooo.

chillex8:
Lockdown lifted

No sir, not until May 4th.

Extension for another 1 week.
Curfew nationwide from 8:00pm to 6:00am.
No non-essential inter-state travel.
Only goods and services can be moved in between states.
Compulsory use of facemasks in public nationwide.
Physical distancing and good hygiene practices advised.
No religious or social gatherings.
Kano is on total 2 weeks lockdown.

~ President Buhari's Nationwide Address Highlights.

chillex8:
The son killed the father.
There was no PS4 in 1992. Also no mobile phones then. So, who called him?

You don dey near the truth small small.

Honestly, I don't know the answer to my riddle, but let me try.

I smell a conspiracy.

The Wife and Son did it. The househelp and driver knows. Only the gateman is innocent.

COPIED FROM FACEBOOK:
It's a lock down something lets rack our brains a little

A rich noble man in Nigeria died.. He was half Indian and half Edo...He was so selfless and stinkingly wealthy, he died 01/10/1992. He had just one beautiful wife from Imo State, A spoilt son, One pretty house-maid, A loyal gate-man and a good driver.

Police men went to the house and interrogated them one after another.

Wife -: I left my hubby peacefully at home during breakfast oooo and while I was partying with my friends since it was our annual meeting hang out, the maid called me that oga was in his own pool of blood lifeless then I came home.

Maid -: Before madam comot for house, she send me go market to buy foodstuffs. As I come back na him I see oga body for sitting room, oga don die..

spoilt son-: I was out with my friends in the next hood playing PS4 when my phone rang that my dad was dead.. I rushed home and met his body

Driver-: I am so confused, early this morning oga sent me to the bank to withdraw some cash and I was shocked to have returned and met his lifeless body. OMG!!!

Gateman -: I be dey sleep for my gateman house as I work over night then for my sleep I hear the housemaid shout. Na him I wake up, I come run enter main house see say my oga body dey for ground with blood..

The police men laughed and arrested the murderer.

Question ? Who killed oga and prove it?