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@ op , pls do they eva hav openings 4 those witout xperience? I'll b interested in dat.

Pls any1 goin 2 any owerri branch to check result, can u help us ask dem if anoda test will hold dis wkend... Pls.

austinemar: @ swizy, its actually a driving licence i have....i stay alone

Dude how did it go, were u allowed to write finally or did u use sth else as I'd

neva came across any1 born same day as me...
May 10th...
Am I such a rare gem
Kinda neva had any spectagular gift on my Bday. Hoping dia'll b a turn around dis year...

Lag 1st interview hopefuls... Any news so far D wait is stretching n yet no news , smh... 4 how long r we goin to wait? God help us all.

Got an iv last year dec. 16th 4 test in Lag, but culdnt make it.... I jst sent my cv again. Really hopin to get d iv 4 d nxt batch in owerri.

austinemar: @ swizy, its actually a driving licence i have....i stay alone

I'll suggest u call d owerri branch office n tell dem den ask wat u shld do bout it.
U can get d no frm db site branch locator. D nos r dia. All d best.

austinemar: Hi everyone, i left abuja dis mornin for owerri for db apt test. Just now, i discovered i forgot my id card at home and am so worried. Pls wot can i do? I need ur candid advice everyone.

eh ya... Dunno which Id card u hav dat u 4got, but is dia no oda one wit u? Lyk voters Id, national Id or jst any oda... Even ATM!! (Jst kiddin)... Mayb u shld ask ur peepz back home to scan n send it to ur email, den u print it out. It myt b an alternative. Jst a suggestion tho.

yahooz: Sis pls go 2 d venue of d test, dnt patiently wait, I fink u've waited enuf, dey myt av 4gotn abt ur case.

I mailed dem yesterday n got d reply 2day... Moreova, am currently in lag n can't make it to owerri dis wkend... I bliv dis is d 1st batch 4 owerri (if not d whole east 4 dis year). So I bliv I'll b invited duly. Am very positive bout it.

Pls has any1 heard anythin frm dem

I got d invite 4 16/12/12 but culdnt attend n mailed dem to request 4 invite in d east. I mailed/called dem again to tell dem I haven't got any invite yet n got a reply " u'll be invited 4 anoda test in Owerri"...
Guess it means dia'll still b anoda batch in owerri afta dis wkend. Patiently waiting...
I'll also advice those who submitted cv last year wit no invites to submit again.

[quote author='Ella99]I was invited o. I missed lagos last december&gt re-invited in owerri.[/quote]pls I also missed dat of dec. Lag. I havnt gotten d iv 4 dis owerri. Did u reapply ? Or did u call dem? Or wat?... Pls did u do any oda thing dat made dem re invite u...


@polipompom, u said u gate crashed n it wrked. Pls enlighten me more, how were u den given d exam no? Cos wen I got d iv it came wit exam no?

Pls I need advice, I got a test invite 4 16/12/12 venue: lag. But culdnt attend due to som issues (I was in d east den). I sent dem a mail n askd if its possible to be re-invited anywere in d east (Enugu, Owerri or Ph). I got a call frm dem n was told its possible but dat'll b dis year. Now d iv 4 owerri is rollin out n I didn't get any. I'v sent dem a mail previously to enquire n was told I'll b contacted soon. Jst sent dem anoda mail 2day, only got d auto response sayin I'll b contacted in response to my enquiry within 24hrs (guess cos its past wrk tym)...

Shld I hav submitted anoda cv @ d owerri branch? Tho I dunno any1 dia n am in lag. Or is dia still hope I'll still be invited for d already slated dates?...

Congrats to all those dat r bin inducted 2day...

4 those of us still waiting 4 d interview... Patience. God is on our side...

Hmmm, I won't lie oh! D waiting is gettn too long n boring!!!

[quote author=hiden_conyo]if there is need to apply a little force, i will....she has no right to pick my calls[/quote]u so sound lyk one of em dudes dat is cracked enof to hit dia mum!!!

Well... @ dis jet age, any guy as frm 18 dat hasn't started thinkin of how to achieve absolute privacy which comes by leavin ur parents house, den he shld be ready to take wateva is dealt to him by d parents!!! Simple!

@baba oyo... Dis one is not a boundry issue, he is infuriated cos she is uncoverin all his white lies n tryn to make him behave himself!!! Btw she's had to untangle him frm one bad allegation by a girl n her parents. Y won't she meddle in all his affairs since he doesn't seem to behave, more ova unda her own roof??

byvan: I ll simply leave the phone for her and walk away.

Exactly my tots!!![quote author=hiden_conyo]i will simply collect the phone frm her and hide it....#hiding tyns[/quote]

byvan: I ll simply leave the phone for her and walk away.

Exactly my tots!!!

Collect d phone frm her... As in struggle wit her Smh seriously!

Even tho she's not ur biological mother, but she takes u as her own son (she doesn't have one). U'v bin livin wit her for almost a decade now. she has defended u frm her own sisters, husband, neighbours, friends etc. She even accepted d girlfriend u brought home....
Jst lyk every gud mother will act, she doesn't condone ur adventures wit oda girls weda and has always chided u n adviced u to desist frm fooling around with oda girls n to worsen d mata, girls in d same church (were he is one of d choir lead singers)!!!...
U used to laff ova it wen she admonishes u, n 2day she seized ur phone because u were answering a call frm one of d girls, n she decided to find out who it is btw. U queried her! Even raising ur voice! Demandin to knw y she is answerin ur call (not lyk its d 1st tym she's done it) and requestin to hav ur phone back!!! (As if u'll beat her if she doesn't) ...

If she is ur biological mum, will u hav d cracked mind to talk to her lyk dat Jst cos she's tryn to make u desist frm doing wrong tins( U bin a kinda leader in d church) hmmmm ... Wat kinda man acts lyk dis

10 Most Weird Reasons Why People Got Fired at Work

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Hiring and Firing has long been a part of life in the today’s business world. People get fired for various reasons from poor performance to scandals (sexual, financial etc).

Still there are some weird reasons why people have got sacked at work. Everyday people get sacked (that’s not news is it?). It’s the reason why some get sacked that pricks the attention.
Here are some of the downright craziest and not so understandable reasons why people have been sacked by their employees.

Note that we have not ranked them in any particular order.

1. Being Too Beautiful and Attractive

Melissa Nelson was fired by her boss for being “too beautiful and irrestistible” Her employee said she was fired because she was becoming a threat to his marriage as he could no longer stop being attracted to her.

Melissa went to court and the funniest thing? The all-male Iowa State Supreme Court ruled that James Knight, Nelson’s boss, was within his legal rights when he fired her, affirming the decision of a lower court.

The 32 year old married mother of two was shocked when she was fired and told the reason for her sack.
“I was very surprised after working so many years side by side I didn’t have any idea that that would have crossed his mind,” she said.

The two never had a s*xual relationship or sought one, according to court documents, however in the final year and a half of Nelson’s employment, Knight began to make comments about her clothing being too tight or distracting.

2. Writing a Blog

Did you ever think having your own blog could get you fired at work? That’s exactly what happened to Ellen Simonetti a former flight attendant with Dleta Airlines. The management of Delta Airlines discovered she had a blog “Diary of a Flight Attendant” where she writes about her life as a flight attendant. And according to her she never wrote anything to bring the airline into bad light.

However Delta Airline said they found one of the photos of Simonetti in her uniform on the blog inappropriate. A part of her bra was visible in the picture. And so she got fired.

3. Beating a Team 100 – 0

Is it not the ambition of owners of sports team that their team defeat allother opposition by as many goals or points as possible?

Not so sure it is, going by the account of a coach that got himself sacked for beating another by 100 – 0. Micah Grimes was the basketball team coach for his girls’ high school basketball team. The school named Covenant School was a private Christian school. The match was between the Covenant School girls’ basketball team and one academy that specialized in helping kids with learning differences like dyslexia.
The school determined that beating a team of people with learning disorders by 100 – 0 was not Christ-like. Micah Grimes refused to apologise and was sacked.

4. Dancing Gangnam Style

14 Lifeguards at California were fired by their employees for recording avideo where they danced a version of PSY’s “Gangnam Style”

According to the authorities the 14 lifguards shouldn’t have done the dance wearing their lifeguard swimsuits issued by the authorities. Even though it was confirmed that they did the dance outside of their work hours.

5. Typing in ALL CAPS


Vicky Walker an accountant with ProCare Health in New Zealand was

fired for typing her emails in capital letters all through. She however took her case to the courts and won a $17,000 NZ compensation for wrongful dismissal and got her job back.

6. Shaving Your Hair for Charity

Stacey Fearnall, whose father died of cancer, decided to shave her head for a cancer fundraising event. But when she returned to work at Nathaniels restaurant, where she worked as a waiter, she was laid off. The mother of two was told by her boss to go home after she refused to wear a wig.

7. Updating Your Facebook Status

Now this is one thing almost all of us are guilty of in this country. Every now and then you sneak into your social media account. Just know that it could get you sacked. Just ask Kimberly Swann.

Kimberly Swann was summarily sacked after her boss learned — via her updated status — that she was “bored at work.” Her boss, meanwhile, says Swann’s admission of boredom revealed that “she just wasn’t happy here” and thus “it wasn’t going to work out.”
The question is, why was the boss perusing Facebook on company time? Was he, perhaps, a little bored?

8. Saving a Woman About to Be Robbed

A waiter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who left his shift to rescue a woman being attacked by an armed carjacker was fired after the heroic effort. A 22-year-old woman was attacked by a knife-wielding man outside the 84 Thai Food restaurant in the Southland Shopping Center. Restaurant waiter Juan Canales spotted the attack and ran to help. Canales said he tackled the culprit, who police identified as Albert Means, and held him until police could arrive. However, when Canales went back to work, he said his boss terminated him. The woman he saved, Massiel Marquartdt, said she did not understand why Canales was fired. The restaurant manager said Canales may be a hero but he just wasn’t that good of an employee.

9. Texting in Court

If you thought playing around with a phone and sending texts during serious issues are a problem of teenager and youths only think again.

And if you think magistrates can get away with breaking certain rules you are wrong.

Magistrate Danielle Gregory lost her job because she was caught texting during a trial. Among the text messages she sent were three pictures of herself to a married male employee in the middle of more than one juvenile hearing. Gregory’s supervisor wrote in the disciplinary record that “Multiple text messages were sent from [Gregory's] cell phone number to [the male employee's] cell phone during court hours including times [she] was on the bench conducting court sessions.

10. Wearing Orange to Work

At a law firm in Florida, there had been a tradition among the office workers of wearing orange on paydays as a sign of solidarity when they went out to happy hour after work. Orange is pretty much synonymous with Florida – from the University of Florida Gators, right down to the oranges for which the state is famous. But in 2012, the law firm fired 14 people who had been wearing orange on these days for months – simply because the new company executives somehow took it as an insult.

The new management felt that the orange-wearing of so many employees must have been some form of protest, despite the fact that it had been going on since before they took control of the firm, and also despite the fact that there was no policy against wearing orange.

Duh? How Does One Explain This?
Had a gud laff reading dis so I tot I culd share it wit u guys jst 4 d fun.

Credits: oddee.com, listverse.com, realitypod.com, ngcareers.com

jadepinkett: Jst to b clear, i'm making no snap judgememt here, jst reposting wat i saw.

u saw it, true. But @ least u shld hav made som lil fact findin of ur own b4 postin it here, cos its lyk spreading rumor... Did u check if d person is a staff of uba? How did he get d info of d amt of money dat was allegedly stolen by an insider?... Jst thinkn out loud.

beatiegirl: Hi house, I was invited for the Uba test on 12/04/2013. Plz I need to knw how strict they r wif the degree cert...cos I only hv degree statement of result. Ds is urgent, Thanks

Ur degree statement of result can b pardoned 4 jst d CBT, but b sure to get it b4 dey call u 4 interview... I hope u hav d original certs of all d oda certs needed...
All d best.

Dia r 2 threads on UBA, I'll suggest u look thru dem cos u'll find all u need dia.

[quote author=style$co]What about the value of the certificate?
And the quality?
Which of the schools is well known and better accepted?.[/quote]Exactly my thoughts!

And I heard its for airtel... So which one now

Relixy2k: Dont bother going for any training. Keep ur tabs on nairaland. Go to the etisalat thread and read then apply.

tnx. I do follow d thread. And I'v sent my cv to all d emails dia n more... Haven't gotten any iv of any sort yet.

@ boron, I think d BSc holders in TS now r frm Ibadan. Tho I stand to b corrected. But haven't heard of any1 who did CBT @ marina dat has bin called 4 interview not to talk of TS. Cos I am waitin patiently 4 d IV too.
...Or is dia any such person here?

nenergy: Very well thanks! My team mate left recently to join you guys. I'm staying here too for now. Take care.

seems lyk its dose wit xperience dat r excellin in diz ccr tin. But jst wonderin, how did u guys get in n den acquired all d xperience? Was it one of diz ccr trainings/ certificates? Or u were employed witout xperince den trained.
Pls help me out wit d info, cos I calld u-connect n was asked if I hav any xperince, cos dats wat dey r currently lookn 4.
U guys can also help me wit links of any vacancy. My email is susanonunze@gmail.com. Tnx y'all.

DejiOluyem: I called the indian guy last week tuesday, he said they are compiling d list.

tnx 4 d update.

Haven't heard frm them after d interview. Has any1 bin called after

I tried to send my cv, but it was not bin delivered, den I tried goin to d site, and it showed it was under reconstruction or somethin. Jst unavailable. Pls wen is d closing date? Cos I don't wanna miss out.

Curtis10: Its over with. Selected pple resumes 2moro

Really Jst lyk dat?? How com no one heard bout interview iv's? At least a mail to say ur application didn't scale thru on d nxt stage. Since dey sent a mail sayn d 1st phase of screenin is over...
Hmmmm... I'm jst wonderin out loud.

DejiOluyem: The interview went well. It was basically on my cv. Another technical interview is to be scheduled at a later date. But i heard they dont pay as much.

wat was d range of pay u heard pls.

ifyalways: Hope the interview mails did not come from yahoo, gmail and co? If yes just know its scam.

Good luck in the test.

Nope. It came frm .....@danagroup.com
And d interview is taking place at dia coy's office. So I don't see anythin fishy in it.