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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Erums(m): 8:15pm On Jul 15, 2019
damtan:
So many interesting-to-read stories. I've had my own dose too. Got an offer of 3k monthly in 2009. I actually did it for more than a year until I finally gained admission. The value the job offered still helps me till date


Ain't. Making sense sir... This thread is not for your kind... Just read on

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by boolet: 8:18pm On Jul 15, 2019
czarina:
So, this happened after secondary school. I was home, got tired and decided to get a job.

Saw a sign at a restaurant; SALES GIRL NEEDED.

I branched and I get told the space was still vacant but to come back tomorrow to see madam.

I was elated, told my siblings and they were looking at me one kind. I did not mind, I sha just wanted to be leaving the house.

Got there the next morning, I saw madam and she goes:

Madam: We don't cook the food here, we cook at home and bring it. Your job first thing in the morning would be to bring in the food.

Me, thinking it was going to be in a Keke or even a taxi said no problem at all

Madam: You sabi push wheelbarrow?

Me: shocked shocked shocked

Madam: Because na wheelbarrow you go take push am come every morning.

Me: OK ma, I'll come tomorrow. (finalized everything but never went back)



I don die for laff cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by damtan(m): 8:18pm On Jul 15, 2019
kitaatita:
I was offered job to sell medications on a molue bus. I had applied as a marketing officer.
oh boy... Can't stop laughing

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by boolet: 8:20pm On Jul 15, 2019
czarina:
There was this very long ASUU strike. Decide to get a job seeing that it wasn't ending soon.

I saw a sign; FACTORY WORKERS NEEDED

Got there and discovered it was GNLD, after plenty talk, they came clean and told us it was actually a sales work and we'd become managers and manageresses (whatever that means) after only three weeks.

So, they offered a free training, and after plenty of motivational speeches, the trekking began.

We almost trekked the whole of Delta state and when we finished, the manager asked me how I enjoyed (God forbid bad thing) my sales experience.

Me: (already angry and with running nose from the trekking) It was great, I'll resume tomorrow

Oga manager called and called, I no just bother pick him call.
Na only u waka come? cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by damtan(m): 8:20pm On Jul 15, 2019
Erums:



Ain't. Making sense sir... This thread is not for your kind... Just read on
Pardon
Lemme ask, what do you understand by what you just read?

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Ytea(f): 8:23pm On Jul 15, 2019
It was during NYSC, while on camp I met with the ZI through a gender equality awareness group I joined, she told me there's this NGO that needs a female Corper, that's how I entered it. The NGO building was an abandoned flat in a market place... I was like OK, let's see what happens. The owner goes, "em I don't have anyone working with me, so you'll be the one to open and close everyday, you clean the whole place, I'll get you acquainted with some of the paper works we do here, so you'll take over. I mustn't forget to mention that some churches will want us to come speak with them on Sundays, so be ready to work on Sundays too. you'll be paid... Shebi NYSC is going to pay you 19,800". I was shocked, I told her to reject me o, she refused because she has a relationship with the ZI. Alot of drama happened sha, ZI wanted me to stay also, I maintained my refusal, they saw me as a bad shild but what's my own? I know one day, something go push the woman send me enter market go buy maggi and salt for am.

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by zeestone99(m): 8:28pm On Jul 15, 2019
Worked as a teacher after secondary school, pay was 4k lol. Better than sitting In the house waiting for nepa and playing football every evening. When I received my 1st pay, i bought gulder for dad grin



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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by sidben(m): 8:47pm On Jul 15, 2019
thank you guys
Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by kaima1984(f): 8:57pm On Jul 15, 2019
czarina:
So, this happened after secondary school. I was home, got tired and decided to get a job.

Saw a sign at a restaurant; SALES GIRL NEEDED.

I branched and I get told the space was still vacant but to come back tomorrow to see madam.

I was elated, told my siblings and they were looking at me one kind. I did not mind, I sha just wanted to be leaving the house.

Got there the next morning, I saw madam and she goes:

Madam: We don't cook the food here, we cook at home and bring it. Your job first thing in the morning would be to bring in the food.

Me, thinking it was going to be in a Keke or even a taxi said no problem at all

Madam: You sabi push wheelbarrow?

Me: shocked shocked shocked

Madam: Because na wheelbarrow you go take push am come every morning.

Me: OK ma, I'll come tomorrow. (finalized everything but never went back)
Hahahahaha,you really cracked my ribs


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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by tbabs10166(m): 9:36pm On Jul 15, 2019
eghuan1:
As my NYSC was drawing to a close, the headmistress of the school I was serving told me she had talked to the ministry of education supervisors and they have agreed to take me as a staff of the school.

I was like wow!

I asked madam, how much us the salary, she said 10k. I said madam, I mean the pay at the end of the month, she said is 10k not enough for you? That's what they pay us o.

Na do I tell am say make I go show my parents my certificate first. I will come back and start work.

She went to tell the students that I will be coming back to teach them.

They've been waiting for me since 2013.
this guy na real clown I swear. This one has kept me rolling on the floor grin grin

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by tbabs10166(m): 9:44pm On Jul 15, 2019
PrincessB1:
grin grin cheesy
I need one chair pls grin

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by PrincessB1(f): 9:46pm On Jul 15, 2019
tbabs10166:
I need one chair pls grin
Okay

You're welcome grin cheesy

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by ucheuzor1(m): 10:17pm On Jul 15, 2019
Haven't really gone for any crazy interview. Nnpc interview happens to be my first ever interview after service..

I learnt how to fix tiles after secondary school. Right now, that's what I do for a living. I earn some good money though, but it's quite stressful.

Just praying to God to bless our hustle with a Good job.

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Edonice: 10:19pm On Jul 15, 2019
I was once called by one of the big entertainment center in Edo state for an interview, that very day I was so exited and highly elated, I had high expectations and hopes that i was about to start a career in a big firm, I ironed my trousers and starched my shirt.
On that faithful day I matched magestically to the center for the interview there i met other potential employees, I was confident in my self because I know the kind of stuff I am made up of.

It all began when we were asked to que up and one after the other we began to go into the office of the MD for the interview. I was eager for it to get to my turn as I wanted to unleash my persona on the MD.

Finally it got to my turn and I walk into the MD office head high, when I got there I was asked to introduced my self which I did, the MD was an Indian man asking me all sort of questions in his Indian ascent I kept answering him and lecturing him on the job of which I was being interview for..

When he was satisfied that I could handle the position effectively it can to the stage of salary negotiation..

He asked how much will I like to be paid I told him i am open to negotiation. Then the shocker came he started from 10000 then 15000 and finally he said the best the company can pay is 18000 naira.

I just walked out of his office and started heading back home

Lesson : you should not judge a book by its Cover.

I am still job hunting, praying hard to get a job at least that can make me settle down and start a family.

That's my story

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by tbabs10166(m): 10:25pm On Jul 15, 2019
Edonice:
I was once called by one of the big entertainment center in Edo state (kada plaza) for an interview, that very day I was so exited and highly elated, I had high expectations and hopes that i was about to start a career in a big firm, I ironed my trousers and starched my shirt.
On that faithful day I matched magestically to the center for the interview there i met other potential employees, I was confident in my self because I know the kind of stuff I am made up of.

It all began when we were asked to que up and one after the other we began to go into the office of the MD for the interview. I was eager for it to get to my turn as I wanted to unleash my persona on the MD.

Finally it got to my turn and I walk into the MD office head high, when I got there I was asked to introduced my self which I did, the MD was an Indian man asking me all sort of questions in his Indian ascent I kept answering him and lecturing him on the job of which I was being interview for..

When he was satisfied that I could handle the position effectively it can to the stage of salary negotiation..

He asked how much will I like to be paid I told him i am open to negotiation. Then the shocker came he started from 10000 then 15000 and finally he said the best the company can pay is 18000 naira.

I just walked out of his office and started heading back on..

Lesson : you should not judge a book by its Cover.

I am still job hunting, praying hard to get a job at least that can make me settle down and start a family.

That's my story
that's ridiculous; u mean that's the salary for a whole month or probably he was referring to daily payment or per week

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Edonice: 10:40pm On Jul 15, 2019
Monthly salary, he is an indian man so he probably thought that 18000 naira is the minimum wage

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by tbabs10166(m): 10:59pm On Jul 15, 2019
Edonice:
Monthly salary, he his an indian man so he probably thought that 18000 naira is the minimum wage
and because 18000 is the minimum wage he then decided to pick the minimum wage as the salary. some people aren't just human, they are animals in human flesh

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by ThothHermes: 11:13pm On Jul 15, 2019
I had graduated and was waiting for induction. I needed money for clearance, suit and other stuff like mad so I was willing to do anything. After knocking on half the company doors in Apapa, my friend and I finally got "work" at Oxford factory; makers of the popular Cabin and Digestive biscuits.
Daily wage was 800. The work was evil. Six to six with a one hour break. Trying to keep up with machines for hours on end.
Every section of the factory was designed to kill. Packaging, mixing, stamping, name it. There was no end to it. The machines just wouldn't stop.
Work for 10 people would be assigned to three people.
Thunder fire those Indians and the Nigerians enabling them. Those bastards would still try to pay you less than the useless wage on one flimsy excuse or the other.
It was hell. The revolutionary in me always wanted to fight them. I felt so bad (still do) for the men and women would would still beg to do that dehumanizing work.
There was a limit to the number of workers needed each day so people were turned back when the limit was exceeded.
Come and see people's fathers and mothers begging to be enslaved. People dey suffer sha.
My friend had a 50kg ? bag of flour dropped on his neck from a storey by mistake. He complained for days. He is well built so it was nothing serious. Someone else would have landed in the hospital.

I will put a stop to all forms of slavery when I become Commander-in-Chief because that's what that was; and still is because I'm sure nothing has changed. I even hear it's worse in other factories.
Did I mention there was no limit to the number of biscuits you could consume grin grin

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by TemmyWon(f): 11:18pm On Jul 15, 2019
Ytea:
It was during NYSC, while on camp I met with the ZGI through a gender equality awareness group I joined, she told me there's this NGO that needs a female Corper, that's how I entered it. The NGO building was an abandoned flat in a market place... I was like OK, let's see what happens. The owner goes, "em I don't have anyone working with me, so you'll be the one to open and close everyday, you clean the whole place, I'll get you acquainted with some of the paper works we do here, so you'll take over. I mustn't forget to mention that some churches will want us to come speak with them on Sundays, so be ready to work on Sundays too. you'll be paid 5,000 naira, shebi NYSC is going to pay you 19,800". I was shocked, I told her to reject me o.

People like her are the reasons I dislike NGOs. Using Peter to rob Paul and getting rich at both's expense

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Tosky4: 11:19pm On Jul 15, 2019
One thing I realize is that you likely won't know your worth when you are broke. During my days of job hunting I was so broke that I felt elated when a tutorial center accepted my application to teach. N750 per period twice a week. I needed something to atleast eat. Damn me!!! Fortunately I got an offer a week later for a better Job (N3M+ annual pay). In fact I got to decline two other offers paying some fraction lower. I feel for job seekers. Despite I only spent 3months after NYSC, I passed through hell that I wondered how people survive months to years being jobless.

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Ytea(f): 11:38pm On Jul 15, 2019
TemmyWon:


People like her are the reasons I dislike NGOs. Using Peter to rob Paul and getting rich at both's expense
Mama I'm telling you. I was ready to do charity work sef, shebi it's NGO, I understand what it entails so I was prepared not to get paid sef. Just her selfish ways and plans to donkey use me changed my mind. Ahah, even cleaner she could not employ.

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by MubarakMukhtar(m): 11:47pm On Jul 15, 2019
Please are you guys serious about what you are saying cox it's really panicking and terrible, am just a fresh graduate waiting for service, my mind always telling me that I will be posted to federal government institution for ppa where after my successful service year they wouldn't hesitate to retain me be their temporary worker b4 being parmanented, definitely my salary going to start like somewhere from 120k above per month.




To me own surprise am here seeing 800 2k and highest 18k per month as personal salary.
What a shock? Was it am ambitious ����

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by eghuan1(m): 12:06am On Jul 16, 2019
Edonice:
I was once called by one of the big entertainment center in Edo state (kada plaza) for an interview, that very day I was so exited and highly elated, I had high expectations and hopes that i was about to start a career in a big firm, I ironed my trousers and starched my shirt.
On that faithful day I matched magestically to the center for the interview there i met other potential employees, I was confident in my self because I know the kind of stuff I am made up of.

It all began when we were asked to que up and one after the other we began to go into the office of the MD for the interview. I was eager for it to get to my turn as I wanted to unleash my persona on the MD.

Finally it got to my turn and I walk into the MD office head high, when I got there I was asked to introduced my self which I did, the MD was an Indian man asking me all sort of questions in his Indian ascent I kept answering him and lecturing him on the job of which I was being interview for..

When he was satisfied that I could handle the position effectively it can to the stage of salary negotiation..

He asked how much will I like to be paid I told him i am open to negotiation. Then the shocker came he started from 10000 then 15000 and finally he said the best the company can pay is 18000 naira.

I just walked out of his office and started heading back home

Lesson : you should not judge a book by its Cover.

I am still job hunting, praying hard to get a job at least that can make me settle down and start a family.

That's my story


I was invited for an interview at Kada Cinemas, but didn't go.

Have you ever gone for interview at GT Food?

Those ones do interview every Wednesday that year.

A friend of mine from Uniben called me o. Guy wetin you de do for house, come GT Food na, interview de. Just dress come. Na so I leave my PS wey I de beat my cousin o. Carry all my documents enter bus from oko central straight to ring road. From there to their office at Ekewhan road.

Got there, receptionist give me paper, say make I write my name then join the others who were looking at me like, this one wan come collect our job.

You know that kind of situation when you enter into an interview room and you just know you're over qualified for such positions available because of the type of people present.

That's how they gave us calculus to solve o. Me wey study philosophy for class, wetin concern me with maths? I was just looking at the paper until the invigilator asked everybody to submit.

At that moment, that kolo just enter my head and I went to him with my empty sheet and told the guy, if you can solve two these questions I will work for free for one month.

The guy look me finish say make I wait. Later showed me to their Oga who asked me for my qualifications, my experience and what position did I apply for?

After many talk the guy said they will give me a try but I will be following their bus to do catering services during weddings and obitos ( obito for Benin na short for obituary). And the pay was 18k per month but you'll get free lunch sha.

What turned me off was when he said since there's no ceremonies during the week, I'll be at uniben selling with their van.

Na so I just know say that PS will do me better o.

I've had many funny experiences o. But thank God for today sha

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Emmiola: 6:40am On Jul 16, 2019
After my service year, i just wanted to work(anything sef). I got invites for interviews but I went for this particular one cos i felt it was a "touche" one. I met three guys n I was the only female, I went in n I was so confident that I did very well. The CEO called me the next morning that I n one other guy had 8.5/10 but they have to choose between us.
CEO: The pay is 24,000/month(in my mind "what", a whole admin officer) & you'll be on probation for 6months, then if you're hardworking, we'll review it. Lastly, you'll sign an undertaking that you won't leave this job for 6months too. Pls, let me know your decision.
I didn't take it o, me that i was thinking it'll be a stepping stone for another job. A month later, i got my present job.

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by devlishGINGER(m): 6:41am On Jul 16, 2019
Very funny thread

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Eaugusta(f): 7:33am On Jul 16, 2019
sparog:



You are brave ooh

U left certainty for uncertainty grin
Unfortunately, that doesn't define braveness

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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by sparog(m): 7:35am On Jul 16, 2019
Eaugusta:

Unfortunately, that doesn't define braveness

To an extent it does ooh
Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Nobody: 7:39am On Jul 16, 2019
Hahaa...u made mi day
czarina:
So, this happened after secondary school. I was home, got tired and decided to get a job.

Saw a sign at a restaurant; SALES GIRL NEEDED.

I branched and I get told the space was still vacant but to come back tomorrow to see madam.

I was elated, told my siblings and they were looking at me one kind. I did not mind, I sha just wanted to be leaving the house.

Got there the next morning, I saw madam and she goes:

Madam: We don't cook the food here, we cook at home and bring it. Your job first thing in the morning would be to bring in the food.

Me, thinking it was going to be in a Keke or even a taxi said no problem at all

Madam: You sabi push wheelbarrow?

Me: shocked shocked shocked

Madam: Because na wheelbarrow you go take push am come every morning.

Me: OK ma, I'll come tomorrow. (finalized everything but never went back)



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Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by Eaugusta(f): 7:39am On Jul 16, 2019
sparog:


To an extent it does ooh
Well, in my opinion it's not.
He didn't apply wisdom
Re: What Is The Most Ridiculous Job Offer You Have Ever Received? by ezrael360(m): 7:42am On Jul 16, 2019
A private school offered me a teaching job about 3months ago to teach Chemistry and mathematics from SS1 to SS3 (3arms for each class for maths) for 15k per month with my second class degree and NYSC discharge cert. I turned it down outrightly. He has already stressed me with several screenings before tabling his offer, I was so gutted. To the glory of God am the quality control officer of a reputable firm as I'm typing write now.
My advice to you all reading this who is yet to get a job, don't let desperation and circumstance make u settle for less when you know you're far worth more, when you take those offers u miss out on the bigger ones coming. Stay blessed you all

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