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CokeBar:
Share your experience with us if you have ever been fired. It would be better if we can share:

1. Why we were fired?
2. How did the firing process happen?
3. Aftermath of being fired… how did you feel, have you recovered, did you get something better?

So, I’ll start:

Sometimes last year, I got an unbelievable offer (well above #750k) at a remote company. I bought a PC, subscribed for large data and set-up a workspace. On Monday which was resumption day, I turned on my PC, logged in and started the online meeting… everything went well for the first day and I got introduced to my colleagues. My friend and I actually got employed for same position, so we usually chatted while working. To be onboarded, we had to install a productivity monitoring tool on our PCs, we were told everything we did on the PC would be captured if the tool was turned ON but I really don’t know why I cared less.

On Wednesday same week, we had a short and simple test, during the test, I asked my friend for an answer as I wasn’t so sure, he responded and that was it.

On Thursday, I had a quick one-on-one call with my manager, I was fired. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to ask for assistance while taking the test. I apologized but the answer was a straight NO (you sabi how oyinbo people strict). So in other words, I was sacked because I cheated ☹.

Well, they paid me for the few days I worked �

I have experienced other sad situations, but this has to be the worst. I was so depressed, the following Sunday, I went to Church and it was while Pastor asked us to greet our neighbor, I ed I didn’t brush… LMAO.

Now, I got something with abit lesser pay but still very chilled

Awon ti CrossOver for Work...we see you

I have never looked for a job before

U

helinues:
The only job I ever applied for, I resigned 2 months after..

I no fit come and kill myself for one boss

And u want to be someone's boss ??

This story look like a lie, so many loopholes

After offering 750k job for Naija

Alphaman007:
750k � and i dey collect 40k see gap. Inside life

Lol

G

southniyikaye:
in my present situation, 750k is looking like rocket science to me sincerely.

it means you have to increase your skill/knowledge.

Go to Udemy.com and acquire relevant skill

I accessed the server I created for my organization out of office and that was it.

@ op What area of IT are you into?

For 2 months I was still consulted to train the new IT guy

Read like a subtle scam bait but make I no talk

CokeBar:
Yes, why?

Please if I'm to train, how do I start. And which of the I.T skills should I start with?

Don’t give us half information here, What is your aim of telling us? We should go and beg for you or what? State in Clear what role your played in that company that Warrants 750k per month? what Company it is actually? and How some of us here can get your kind of connection?

damochewinner:

Awon ti CrossOver for Work...we see you

Do you work at Crossover?

CokeBar, sorry about your loss

Please what network and data subscription did you use?

I always avoid full-time freelance position because of data

My laptop drinks data like water

CokeBar:
Share your experience with us if you have ever been fired. It would be better if we can share:

1. Why we were fired?
2. How did the firing process happen?
3. Aftermath of being fired… how did you feel, have you recovered, did you get something better?

So, I’ll start:

Sometimes last year, I got an unbelievable offer (well above #750k) at a remote company. I bought a PC, subscribed for large data and set-up a workspace. On Monday which was resumption day, I turned on my PC, logged in and started the online meeting… everything went well for the first day and I got introduced to my colleagues. My friend and I actually got employed for same position, so we usually chatted while working. To be onboarded, we had to install a productivity monitoring tool on our PCs, we were told everything we did on the PC would be captured if the tool was turned ON but I really don’t know why I cared less.

On Wednesday same week, we had a short and simple test, during the test, I asked my friend for an answer as I wasn’t so sure, he responded and that was it.

On Thursday, I had a quick one-on-one call with my manager, I was fired. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to ask for assistance while taking the test. I apologized but the answer was a straight NO (you sabi how oyinbo people strict). So in other words, I was sacked because I cheated ☹.

Well, they paid me for the few days I worked �

I have experienced other sad situations, but this has to be the worst. I was so depressed, the following Sunday, I went to Church and it was while Pastor asked us to greet our neighbor, I ed I didn’t brush… LMAO.

Now, I got something with abit lesser pay but still very chilled

You are into tech, right? What aspect? If it is programming or software development can I PM you? I want to know a few things.

Hmm, interesting

helinues:
The only job I ever applied for, I resigned 2 months after..

I no fit come and kill myself for one boss

working is slavery

Think am well

Odingo1:
This story look like a lie, so many loopholes

After offering 750k job for Naija

No let poverty wound you. Devs in Nigeria are earning that much and higher in Nigeria.

I am talking of peeps in their 20s.

CokeBar:
Share your experience with us if you have ever been fired. It would be better if we can share:

1. Why we were fired?
2. How did the firing process happen?
3. Aftermath of being fired… how did you feel, have you recovered, did you get something better?

So, I’ll start:

Sometimes last year, I got an unbelievable offer (well above #750k) at a remote company. I bought a PC, subscribed for large data and set-up a workspace. On Monday which was resumption day, I turned on my PC, logged in and started the online meeting… everything went well for the first day and I got introduced to my colleagues. My friend and I actually got employed for same position, so we usually chatted while working. To be onboarded, we had to install a productivity monitoring tool on our PCs, we were told everything we did on the PC would be captured if the tool was turned ON but I really don’t know why I cared less.

On Wednesday same week, we had a short and simple test, during the test, I asked my friend for an answer as I wasn’t so sure, he responded and that was it.

On Thursday, I had a quick one-on-one call with my manager, I was fired. Apparently, I wasn’t supposed to ask for assistance while taking the test. I apologized but the answer was a straight NO (you sabi how oyinbo people strict). So in other words, I was sacked because I cheated ☹.

Well, they paid me for the few days I worked �

I have experienced other sad situations, but this has to be the worst. I was so depressed, the following Sunday, I went to Church and it was while Pastor asked us to greet our neighbor, I ed I didn’t brush… LMAO.

Now, I got something with abit lesser pay but still very chilled

do you code

Got a job on Upwork last year that paid 11 times what other Nigerian writers got. As much as 5,000 for a 400-word article. I was gearing to net 500k after commission and tax every month from the job.

Outsourced the job to someone because i was very busy with ission exams and boom! The fool was plagiarizing words carelessly and lost me the job.

One of the worst periods of my life....

orunmila144:
YOUDONEMINIT

I HAVE NEVER BEEN FIRED. I ALWAYS FIRE MYSELF. WHEN I FEEL STRESSED I STOP COMING TO WORK. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A LOUSY JOB KEEPER. I dont think i was created to be an employee

Lol, you know yourself well enough

Odingo1:
This story look like a lie, so many loopholes

After offering 750k job for Naija

There are people in this country earning more than that legitimately that you have no idea about.

Stallion93:
Don’t give us half information here, What is your aim of telling us? We should go and beg for you or what? State in Clear what role your played in that company that Warrants 750k per month? what Company it is actually? and How some of us here can get your kind of connection?

you believe the story


It's a set up to lure for a later scam


They are priming us

iCauseTrouble:
Audio

What exactly is audio?

AsomArchitectNG:
Mheen dat was bad

I know right, sometimes I still feel bad about it. But I am totally grateful

CokeBar:


Lol, you know yourself well enough

Yes oo lol

nairalee:
I've never been sacked but I've lost a good job opportunity. It's over 2 years now but I still think about it EVERY BLESSED DAY

Lol! Me too... I still think about it

Yeah. Got hired into a multinational and worked a few years before I was sacked. I was young and naïve, worked with 'multinational pride', to the extent of calling my direct boss by his first name ( forgetting we're all Nigerians working in Nigeria). The guy (my manager) benched me with seat belt, giving my colleagues tasks to execute and leaving me out. When Nigeria slided into recession, viola!!! the guy recommended me and mostly other guys from my tribe to be sacked(people from my tribe are seen as threats because of our smartness, no pride intended),we were all sacked. Then I earned about 450k.

Worked in a couple of other companies, moving from one to another as offers kept getting better and to the glory of God, I have at sight a salary of 7 figures every month.

Lesson learnt: the first attribute you need to progress after attitude, is loyalty. REM you're not indispensable, before you someone was doing it and after you, someone will do it!

na only one time i don work all my life so far, when I finished high school, I teached in a nursery school, I worked for 2 years plus, I resigned wen the owner of the school, talk say make we male teachers dey dress corporate, who get time for that shit..na so I fire myself lol

Roadtoyesterday:
We started the work as a field agent sometime last year, I was still in my final year in school when I ed. 4 months into the job I was made the supervisor, when I became, I notice the agents were been short changed, in of benefits, I tried working on the irregularities but it bounced back to me, gbam I was fired for lodging a complaint on the delayed salaries of the workers.

A. Month after, my depth profile became so high, I was the one ing my family and sponsoring my junior ones. I hate myself for trying to be holier than thou while at work. Till this moment, I've not gained myself. I've lost everything.

You lost nothing dear.

Your good deeds are waiting for you some where.