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why subscribe to iroko when you can Youtube anything? even things done in the boss's bedroom?

Lizilicious:
The way on of their agents disturbed my life ehn, i had to subscribe by force...
She was too gentle Sha...

Your own was good, mine disturbed my lifecycle with calls that I had no option but to block her number, now i understand why it was so.... besides where is the light to even enjoy the subscription that one paid for. Better to use that money to bundle for data and watch YouTube videos

romenna:
Poor and lazy people will not cease to amaze me.
Their entitlement mentality is beyond imagination.
I work in a private firm and happen to be in d mgt team.
Companies are not charity organisations.
If you tink it's easy to start n run a company, proceed to cac n register urs.
U want him to pay u fat salaries n allowances ryt? Where do u expect d money to come from if u dnt meet ur target?
It is very idiotic to bash a firm online wen u r free to resign n leave them to crumble to ur satisfaction.

Very mad people

JubrinElSudan:
Most Nigerian private companies are like that. If Nigerians were the pioneer employers in the oil industry, it wouldn't be this lucrative

You are 100 % correct

Holybwoy:
I saw the viral thread on twitter..

The young man has a point.. Nigerians take their fellow Nigerians as slaves.. To Jesus be our glory...


lalasticlala nko?

Oya start your own company and pay people you guys will keep face like shit and run away,

Bro the pressure to be a CEO in this country is greater and idiots like u have the mentality of counting down date a take salary and not be productive

thesicilian:
It's a private company. If you accepted the targets during interview and months later you're complaining, it simply means you're unfit for the job and should leave for someone who can do it effectively to take over.

work places like that will never mention such things to u, at first they will be so nice to u untill u started the job fully and then they start showing u their real colors, even if it's a private sector that never give them the right to put humans under pressure jus because they pay them

The problem is Nigerians are not yet ready for movies online cost of data is not proportional to the income ratio of the people.

Most Nigerians earn from 50,000naira and below this set of people make up the bulk of the citizens in the south where they might give nollywood a chance to watch.

For you to watch movies on the Internet you need bulk data’s check the rate of bulk data’s from service producers then you see 12-17k as price!

How do someone with a pay of 50,000 below take out 12-17k to buy data to watch movies?you haven’t factor other family expenses.its not about paying 3k for subscription but about paying data to watch the subscription!

Even dstv have a dip in there Dstv subscribers cause you can’t expect people to pay 7k and above when power to watch that isn’t stable so people will rather go for Gotv and pay less than 2000naira!

Some can’t even maintain paying Gotv wvrymotnh this amount cause they’re hardly at home they rather buy 150# disc to watch latest nollywood or season film!

Yes if you have a dstv subscription you can watch on your mobile phone through dstv mobile app but the question is how many people are watching dstv through their mobile phone?practically little cause an average Nigeria can’t spend money to watch a full dstv with his data!

I know you will say but people watch YouTube and Instagram ! It’s a psychological thing people would rather watch Instagram of 1mins video and watch several different 1min content with data than watch 1hour plus of same content with data! Or watch their favorite YouTube music video of 4mins!

This problem is from the fact that an average Nigerian earn way too little to spend money so large on data to access internet tv.heck Nigerians will rather download a Hollywood movie and share offline than stream online l.so it’s not a case of Nollywood is bad content.

The purchasing power of Nigerians is low! An average Nigeria will rather buy petrol if 500naira inside I better pass my neighbor generator and put it on for 5hours and watch dvds/Gotv with lesser money spent

The way out is still the normal traditional way of absorbing content! Large chunk from DVDs and Gotv/startimes and perhaps cinemas in every city, we just have to solve the piracy problem then the industry players will make money! Cause Netflix works in America doesn’t mean iroko will work in Nigeria !

No wonder iroko TV agents won't let me rest. They call 5 times a day begging I subscribe. I asked one the last time if she's going to give me data to watch / download the movies lol.
Funny enough it's not just me both my friends. They angrily deleted the app.

romenna:
Poor and lazy people will not cease to amaze me.
Their entitlement mentality is beyond imagination.
I work in a private firm and happen to be in d mgt team.
Companies are not charity organisations.
If you tink it's easy to start n run a company, proceed to cac n register urs.
U want him to pay u fat salaries n allowances ryt? Where do u expect d money to come from if u dnt meet ur target?
It is very idiotic to bash a firm online wen u r free to resign n leave them to crumble to ur satisfaction.

I Know one thing for sure

That it is NOT easy to start up a business at all....

I'm into businesses as well and I can agree with you on that 100 %

BUT THEN....

we should be fair to our staff (relatively) and the staff should also buckle up and give value for salaries paid

#DasAll

JubrinElSudan:
Most Nigerian private companies are like that. If Nigerians were the pioneer employers in the oil industry, it wouldn't be this lucrative

You mean productive??


Lucrativeness is a function of productivity. You can't pay what you don't have.

thesicilian:
It's a private company. If you accepted the targets during interview and months later you're complaining, it simply means you're unfit for the job and should leave for someone who can do it effectively to take over.

Its not how you see it bro. You give someone unrealistic goals because they don't have any other option. If it was that easy him and his wife would have been doing it. I am not for or against anyone but I know marketing jobs in Nigeria is a sequel to living in bondage

I can subscribe but the data used to watch is the problem,

Dirkcoyt:
The problem is Nigerians are not yet ready for movies online cost of data is not proportional to the income ratio of the people.

Most Nigerians earn from 50,000naira and below this set of people make up the bulk of the citizens in the south where they might give nollywood a chance to watch.

For you to watch movies on the Internet you need bulk data’s check the rate of bulk data’s from service producers then you see 12-17k as price!

How do someone with a pay of 50,000 below take out 12-17k to buy data to watch movies?you haven’t factor other family expenses.its not about paying 3k for subscription but about paying data to watch the subscription!

Even dstv have a dip in there Dstv subscribers cause you can’t expect people to pay 7k and above when power to watch that isn’t stable so people will rather go for Gotv and pay less than 2000naira!

Some can’t even maintain paying Gotv wvrymotnh this amount cause they’re hardly at home they rather buy 150# disc to watch latest nollywood or season film!

Yes if you have a dstv subscription you can watch on your mobile phone through dstv mobile app but the question is how many people are watching dstv through their mobile phone?practically little cause an average Nigeria can’t spend money to watch a full dstv with his data!

I know you will say but people watch YouTube and Instagram ! It’s a psychological thing people would rather watch Instagram of 1mins video and watch several different 1min content with data than watch 1hour plus of same content with data! Or watch their favorite YouTube music video of 4mins!

This problem is from the fact that an average Nigerian earn way too little to spend money so large on data to access internet tv.heck Nigerians will rather download a Hollywood movie and share offline than stream online l.so it’s not a case of Nollywood is bad content.

The purchasing power of Nigerians is low! An average Nigeria will rather buy petrol if 500naira inside I better pass my neighbor generator and put it on for 5hours and watch dvds/Gotv with lesser money spent

The way out is still the normal traditional way of absorbing content! Large chunk from DVDs and Gotv/startimes we just have to solve the piracy problem then the industry players will make money! Cause Netflix works in America doesn’t mean iroko will work in Nigeria !

the purchasing power of Nigerians need to improve for businesses to thrive in Nigeria

Acidosis:
You mean productive??


Lucrativeness is a function of productivity. You can't pay what you don't have.

It's both of them

ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world.

they re talking A, u re talking Z.
Do u knw who d man or his father is
U pple will jst be online takling rubbish.

What brought his father in ur useless post na??

Somebody say na lekki lekki films..

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ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world.

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Much you say about nothing

Where do they think the salaries would come from?

If the pressure is too much resign

hey didn't tie your umbilical cord to Iroko

Topmaike007:
not only Iroko guys even our so called banks are doing this target things,but the difference there is no sacking threat involve

Who told you they don't? One EcoBank branch in Kano i was told by a friend freed all their Direct Sales Agents after they have committed a year in services to them.

Toluabigr8:
them full Ibadan no be only irokotv, I don see person wey collect 29naira(twenty nine naira) as salary after they porate their salary.....

What about the company I saw that paid N1 million as total salary in a month where they couldn't realise N100k.

ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

I've seen firms go down because of this. They come back from Abroad, decide to start a business, after reading motivational books of "happy staff, happy business" and seeing the American and British style abroad, they decide to use it for Nigerians and start pampering their staff. Before they know what hit them, they've closed down and their back to square one. The lucky ones will be able to get back on their feet after few decades. This time they've learnt their lesson, they'll treat Nigerians like they deserve to be treated, with an iron fist, and when they do this, business begins to boom.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world.

Target on top how much pay oga u can't be paying someone 60k and be generating tyms 600 of what u pay the person that iz slavery

ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

I've seen firms go down because of this. They come back from Abroad, decide to start a business, after reading motivational books of "happy staff, happy business" and seeing the American and British style abroad, they decide to use it for Nigerians and start pampering their staff. Before they know what hit them, they've closed down and their back to square one. The lucky ones will be able to get back on their feet after few decades. This time they've learnt their lesson, they'll treat Nigerians like they deserve to be treated, with an iron fist, and when they do this, business begins to boom.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world.

You don't know what you are talking about. I work for a multinational company with other offices abroad. Our work ethics in Nigeria is twice higher than those of my colleagues in the US. I know this because I work with them virtually every day. We Nigerians kill ourselves on the job, the white guys do the bare minimum and always look for ways to transfer their work to us. We are not lazy. If you see iyibo laziness, you go fear

The majority of Nigerian workers by default are very lazy. Plus they have this entitlement mentality, and it is not a new phenomenon. It's been like that for ages, hence the infamous "Oga ta, Oga o ta" slogan, which literally translate to, "whether the company makes money or not, I must collect my salary". It is with this mentality most Nigerian workers operates. The " I cannot comman go and kee masef" mentally. Meanwhile, these severely affects the company.

If you doubt this, just drive around and observe as a consumer and see how employees of different companies attend to you. If you don't know where to go, I'd suggest you drive into two different filling stations for example. One without sales target and the other with sales target and watch which one will serve you better and faster. I can tell you for free right now that there will be many of those attendants that will be gisting while you are waiting to be served. Some will even be giving you attitude. And If you really want to mess yourself, tell them you are buying N500 fuel and watch how they look at you. I know all these firsthand because I used to run family filling stations. And being the MD of the business, do you think you'd be happy seeing your employees with such attitudes? If you are not satisfied with my example, look around for yours and come back here to tell us your sincere observation.

Most people supporting the tweet has never started or run a business before. Anyone who has been privileged to lead a company for at least a fiscal year will understand what it entails. Just imagine marketers complaining about pressure, have you ever wonder how much pressure the Njoku guy is under himself. No matter how pressured you think you are, it can't be up to 10% of what the management is going through or 5% of what the CEO is going through. But most of you wouldnt know. All you see if their well-tailored suits and well AC-ed cars and offices. Why do you even think they are always under AC? Hot pressure, if you must know. Some of us have suddenly become hypertensive at young age. But you all wouldn't know that.

vanminister:
why subscribe to iroko when you can Youtube anything? even things done in the boss's bedroom?

I pay for Netflix every month...

It's like an addiction...

Dirkcoyt:
The problem is Nigerians are not yet ready for movies online cost of data is not proportional to the income ratio of the people.

Most Nigerians earn from 50,000naira and below this set of people make up the bulk of the citizens in the south where they might give nollywood a chance to watch.

For you to watch movies on the Internet you need bulk data’s check the rate of bulk data’s from service producers then you see 12-17k as price!

How do someone with a pay of 50,000 below take out 12-17k to buy data to watch movies?you haven’t factor other family expenses.its not about paying 3k for subscription but about paying data to watch the subscription!

Even dstv have a dip in there Dstv subscribers cause you can’t expect people to pay 7k and above when power to watch that isn’t stable so people will rather go for Gotv and pay less than 2000naira!

Some can’t even maintain paying Gotv wvrymotnh this amount cause they’re hardly at home they rather buy 150# disc to watch latest nollywood or season film!

Yes if you have a dstv subscription you can watch on your mobile phone through dstv mobile app but the question is how many people are watching dstv through their mobile phone?practically little cause an average Nigeria can’t spend money to watch a full dstv with his data!

I know you will say but people watch YouTube and Instagram ! It’s a psychological thing people would rather watch Instagram of 1mins video and watch several different 1min content with data than watch 1hour plus of same content with data! Or watch their favorite YouTube music video of 4mins!

This problem is from the fact that an average Nigerian earn way too little to spend money so large on data to access internet tv.heck Nigerians will rather download a Hollywood movie and share offline than stream online l.so it’s not a case of Nollywood is bad content.

The purchasing power of Nigerians is low! An average Nigeria will rather buy petrol if 500naira inside I better pass my neighbor generator and put it on for 5hours and watch dvds/Gotv with lesser money spent

The way out is still the normal traditional way of absorbing content! Large chunk from DVDs and Gotv/startimes we just have to solve the piracy problem then the industry players will make money! Cause Netflix works in America doesn’t mean iroko will work in Nigeria !

U get plenty sense..Its not the cost of subscription but the data cost.I had subscribed for Netflix in Naija; just to try;and mehn I ended up spending wayyy more than I planned;even more than d subscription money;all on Data.Even if one tries downloading the movies to "watch later";the movies still need huge data to be downloaded..Not to talk about many Nigerians that don't give a fu*k about Nollywood movies;e go hard to spend such money.I think if they want their business to grow;dey gotta do some sort of alliance with these telecom companies; maybe get an Iroko data package that is cheaper.

Driggs:
Are they the only private company? abeg!!
To think those sales girls are overused and underpaid is beyond me.. chaii

You people are heartless..

Nigeria private sector, like most other sectors, is one of the worst in the world...

Staff Welfare: Poor.
Staff Remuneration: Poor
Leave Grants: Poor
Work Hours: Abnormal
Pension Scheme: Almost Non-existent
Profit Benefit: None

We have a very corrupt and useless labour ministry.

Sorry what's Iroko TV? I know Iroko tree please

ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault. If you don't meet target, how do you expect them to pay your salaries.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

I've seen firms go down because of this. They come back from Abroad, decide to start a business, after reading motivational books and seeing the style used for sensible staff abroad, they decide to use it for Nigerians and start pampering their staff. Before they know what hit them, they've closed down and their back to square one. The lucky ones will be able to get back on their feet after few decades. This time they've learnt their lesson, they'll treat Nigerians like they deserve to be treated, with an iron fist, and when they do this, business begins to boom.


He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world. Let him start his own business and employ staff and pay them as much as he wants without tieing their performance to salary and let's see if he'll last.

Wow!
You were able to convince me to change my stance on the matter .
You'll make a good debater.

The first time i ever liked a post on nairaland....

ultron12345:
Rubbish

When you went for the job interview, didn't you accept to work based on target. If the targets are too much, why not reject the job, or resign immediately. I know his type, lazy employees, they don't want targets so they can come and sit in the office all day, doing nothing but gossiping and gisting with other staff, and end up collecting full salary at the end of the month. The company won't get any income from them, but will be paying salaries it goes bankrupt and shuts down, and these lazy staff responsible will open their dirty, maggot infested mouths to say it's buhari's fault. If you don't meet target, how do you expect them to pay your salaries.

They think private firms are like government establishments that have money to waste around and useless, redundant staff like himself.

This is why most firms prefer to employ expartriates like the Indians. Unlike Nigerians that are lazy with the stupid mentality of "why should I kill myself here, it's not my father's business", foreigners have strong work ethic. A Nigerian will sit all day in the office doing nothing while the foreigner will prefer to be in the heat of the production area personally supervising. After Nigerians lazy around and do nothing, they'll now say "na where man dey work, na for their e dey chop, no e make them dey callam workshop" and start stealing the little money the company has. Chai.

If you don't understand yet, go and establish a marketing-intensive business. Hire Nigerians and put them on as big as a salary you want, without marketing targets tied to their salary. Watch and see how you'll go bankrupt. While you think their on the field marketing, they'll either be at home or using the time to run their own business.

I've seen firms go down because of this. They come back from Abroad, decide to start a business, after reading motivational books and seeing the style used for sensible staff abroad, they decide to use it for Nigerians and start pampering their staff. Before they know what hit them, they've closed down and their back to square one. The lucky ones will be able to get back on their feet after few decades. This time they've learnt their lesson, they'll treat Nigerians like they deserve to be treated, with an iron fist, and when they do this, business begins to boom.


He can insult the CEO all he likes, the fact is that he has achieved was him and his father couldn't dream of achieving, a media empire providing wonderful services for fans of the Nigerian movie industry, all over the world. Let him start his own business and employ staff and pay them as much as he wants without tieing their performance to salary and let's see if he'll last.

If the work tire the guy then he should quit.
One thing about huge population countries is people will do any job for a lower price than whoever’s into it at the moment.
Entitlement won’t kill these lazy youths.
Him threatening and not pushing forward with the action means he’s either looking for quick money or has little evidence hence asking for others to share testimonies.

thesicilian:
It's a private company. If you accepted the targets during interview and months later you're complaining, it simply means you're unfit for the job and should leave for someone who can do it effectively to take over.

Correct! Private companies are not government entities Or charities. Delivery is key. Every penny counts to them. They thought they were gonna have it easy. Most private companies are like these. Some better than others, but if it's sales driven, always expect the pressure.