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There's no other matter that's constantly urgent in every situation of life, than the business of the soul. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
derekzife
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derekzife
@derekzife
Better a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.
Joined May 2011
- Joined a company back in March 2020, worked 8am to 7pm on average. Went to work on Saturdays and still scheduled tasks on Sunday afternoons. MD became obsessed with me, almost forgot there where employees that had been with him since 2012/2013.Have you ever worked in an organization where only 1 person does their job well? Usually such a person isn't liked because they "make the others look bad". So the group doesn't mind killing the organization just so that person doesn't succeed
- Replying to @derekzifeSo I tendered my resignation the following month. I stayed on till January on-boarding my replacement. So yeah, sometimes you work so hard you begin to piss even the owner of the company off that they begin to go the voodoo way against you.
- Replying to @derekzifegiving me titles like commissioner for works, minister for labour. Then it graduated to "oga pleaser". The main battle began when I found myself supervising men that have been there for 7 to 9 years. The promotion announcement was made so loud by the MD just to spite some people.
- Replying to @derekzifeCovid lockdown began in April, I still worked at home, doing cold calls to clients and attending zoom meetings. Lockdown was lifted in May. June, MD promoted me to Project Manager overseeing the entire company's projects in Lagos, Benin, Warri and Abuja.
- Replying to @derekzifeThat was when I realized what I'd done. You see, all the while I was working tirelessly, bringing in new skill-sets the company had to outsource and casually executing tasks that seemed herculian, I managed to amass enemies. It started with Co-workers teasing me,
- Replying to @ugbajewilliamsLife is not always black and white. There's the side which we don't see coming, even with our mind's eye.
- Replying to @derekzifeI bore the brunt of it all. There where times I'd be with the MD at the office by 8pm and we'll call one of the Engineers and he'd be like, "So you're still there by this time?" MD will get mad and yell at him, stating why they are all stagnant and I'm the one growing rapidly.
- Replying to @derekzifeIt came to a climax in October, while I was at one of the sites supervising the work being done (I should add that I also am a Civil Engineer and COREN certified), I was trying to point out an error being made about a beam with insufficient depth for a lenght of 5 meters.
- Replying to @derekzifeI needed something to immerse myself in, and that job gave me the perfect escape. So I was a perpetual motion machine at the time. I loved the job, as it got me engaged round the clock. There was always a task that needed to be done either from Warri, Lagos, Benin or even Abuja
- Replying to @derekzifeI was pointing at it and was about to tell my fellow Engineer to look into it's span/effective depth ratio, and then, I woke up at CEDACREST HOSPITAL. I had collapsed, I didn't know how it happened. I was very fine, and no symptom of sickness. Someone might say 'exhaustion'
- Replying to @derekzifeIt wasn't. They'd checked my vitals and couldn't point out one single anomaly. MD was worried, told me to take some time off, as I was discharged the following day. I couldn't, here's why. I'd lost my mom back in December 2019 and my whole world somehow stopped.
- Replying to @derekzifeLong ago, I was just being preserved by the mercy of God. "Not like we can't fight the battle" she said, but it's not worth it. You're young, you're skilled, you're going to succeed either way. She said "The Boss" weirdly was chief among the opps I have to contend with.
- Replying to @derekzifeaway from the grief I suffered. Anywho, I called my aunt who happens to be "very spiritual" a prayer warrior and an Evangelist. She prayed about it and called me back some days later with the single instruction, "leave that job". Why?! I exclaimed. She said the battle had begun
