Thread by @skinandall_

1. You know I like to shalaye. So my response is an alaye. I would never have responded if you didn't ask.
While I agree that it is important to use your social media with sense, I think some stories may have been stretched beyond their elastic limit.

2. We forget that interviews are not made up of just one person especially if it is a teaching hospital. We forget that even if one person on the panel is prejudiced, they can't all be facing the same direction. I'm not saying that they did not see the said Dr's tweet.

3. If I remember correctly,I think I also saw the tweet where the said person praised the most prominent feature in the anterior thoracic wall and I passed by the tweet with amusement.But to say that they whipped his tweet out DURING the interview is akin to what we call "karamo"

4. Picture this

"Tell us why you want to do O & G"

Candidate rattles out a well articulated response.

Prof then whips out his phone (During the interview o)..."This you?"

And then he gets denied the job despite doing well in the interview.

E si beru Olohun. Infact.......

5. "E gbolohun tobi jamaan!" for this.

I sat on an interview panel recently and I have apologized internally for the lies I believed in the past when people say their interview went well but they don't know what happened. People of God...human beings can lie! I'm not saying

6. there are no bad interviews or prejudiced ones but a lot of people garnish the truth. Same way some people do when they fail in some oral exams and they say the examiner failed them. If you have ever chaperoned for exams, even you would have failed some of the candidates that

7. said they were failed. In that interview I was part of, I couldn't believe the responses of some of the candidates. My jaw was almost reaching my chest with some of the responses.

So in this case, I'm not saying it is a lie, but I'm just saying that we need to be certain

8. its the truth too.

And better don't deceive yourself. There's freedom of speech. Of course. Nkan to ba wu elenu lo le fenu so...but the consequences of such speech are not selective. If I wanted to know about someone, I would definitely be going through his/her SM pages

9. if I have them. Embassies are even asking for them now (I had to give my SM handles when I applied for a Brazilian visa). It is not peculiar to Nigeria alone.

"I am not what I post" and all you post are misogynistic posts which attacks women or

10. you are encouraging rape in your posts. Yet you want a job with the UN or with an NGO that is working on SDG 5😄..

My friend, you must be high on some cheap drug that has no antidote. O ti gbe gbogbo enu e soun fun mi.
While I recognize that we have to be kinder to ourselves

11. and that some have grouses with some senior colleagues, I would also say, easy on the disdain. "He who lives in glass houses does not throw stones."

I would also like to point out that I have seen some younger colleagues that their reign would probably be more tyrannical

12. than Pharaoh's own with the way some people behave. I chuckle to myself in amusement when I see the way some people treat others. Afterall, the Friday that would be filled with largesse, is usually obvious from the preceding Thursday. People don't change overnight.

13. I'm also very wary of cordiality with junior colleagues in Nigeria (not age)until I'm sure you won't take advantage of it. Before my house officer sends me a message and says, "hey"
Or I ask if you've clerked your patient and you tell me, "babe abeg rest, your own too much"🙆‍♀️

14. People take undue advantage of people that we otherwise won't have access to when they let you into their space. A lot of people don't handle cordiality well and can't separate work from playtime.

I'm a very friendly person and generally helpful but I am very careful who

15. I let into my personal space. I respect myself a lot...both online and offline.

"From inability to let well alone, from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense,

16. from treating patients as cases and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, good Lord deliver us." Sir Robert Hutchinson.
Use your SM wisely. Control your devices and not the other way round.
As you were.
Ugh. I like to shalaye sha