Thread by @GbengaWemimo

I once worked with a media outfit
I didn't apply for the job
I woke up one morning and saw a text message declaring that i had been scheduled for an interview with the management of the company
I assumed my wife or someone who knew me personally must have dropped my name for the

organization
I went for the test
I got my offer letter on November 13, 2013
I celebrated the new job by taking my wife and my brother-in-law (Also a journalist at the time) to an eatery close to my house
The days of earning 30,000 naira salary with another media outfit were over

The salary this new outfit offered was 100,000 Naira
It was a step in the right direction
We were asked to resume immediately for training
I met a lot of great guys who would be our presenters, cameramen, news anchors etc during the training
After the first month, the MD said he

couldn't pay salaries because "He paid for our training and we all ate lunch during the training" (I kid you not)
He gave us a quarter bag of rice and 1 liter of vegetable oil for Christmas
We worked from sunrise till sundown
I was good, so good that I was the producer in charge

of the 3 hours news show from 7-10am, and the 10pm news
I was also in charge of the social media and I was also training other producers
(If you type my name on youtube, you will see the programmes i produced)
December came and the MD said we must all get new account numbers

before he could pay salaries
He insisted on a bank and then he changed his mind and brought another bank, by this time January was almost over
The first salary was paid in February
We all settled in, believing that the teething problem was over and we can now meet our needs at

home
With the payment of the first salary came this change of attitude from the MD
he became abusive in words and in deed
i remembered that we had a programmes conference where producers explained the concept of their programme and how the set will be used
This guy just kept bad

mouthing everybody
His command of the English language was so poor and yet he keeps talking and yapping!
It was from his mouth i first heard "Why do you rude?"
Instead of "Why were you rude"
Nobody could correct him
He was the rich MD and everyone must worship him and do his

bidding
One day he called for a meeting and everybody had to be there even though it was slated for 7pm and those on the morning shift had gone home
He asked that they all must be there
Someone like me practically had no other life
I was not allowed to be on the roster because

I had to produce the morning belt and oversee the flagship news
After February, he didn't pay in March and April
He started talking about the huge wage bill and how the marketing department dropped the ball and how the company was not making money
He was proposing a 50% salary

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A lady joined us at this time for the position of a news anchor
I knew her before she joined the organization
@cokerwemimo introduced her to me and said she is a very good hand
My news show was supposed to start with newspaper review, the anchor that was supposed to do the

review was not on ground
It is either i improvised or the programme will fail
I put this young lady on set
She did a wonderful job
I got summoned by the MD
"Why did you put someone I had not ordered you to put on set on my set?"
"She did a very good job sir" I replied
He looked

straight at me and said "You are thinking as if you are a management staff, you carry yourself like that and talk like that. You're just an ordinary staff and you have to know your place!"
I said yes sir
An hour later, i got a letter saying I have to face a disciplinary committee

By this time he had started the suspension without pay rule for every staff
Once you made a mistake, you get suspended without pay but in my case, he decided a panel must sit and he will give the final verdict
The other staff members started laughing at the ridiculousness of it

all
I faced the panel
The panel members said "Your action was good but we do not encourage the use of initiative or discretion here! You should have called the MD before putting her on or let the show fail"
I said ok.
He couldn't suspend me because of all the things I do for the

organization, so his veridct was "two weeks working suspension without pay"
I heard it from the ED indirectly and then from the Head of News
I had not been given a letter
I was aware like the other staff members that he was sleeping with the HR manager (A married woman and mother

of three. her last child at the time was eleven months old. She was brought to the organization by one of the MD's babes and she was also servicing the MD by the side
I walked into her office and i said "If I get suspended, I will resign"
She called him and told him I was not to

be suspended
He quickly dropped the idea
because of the nature of the church, i had even forgotten i was a Christian
The first few days I would look for a corner and pray but when the workload got so staggering, i was overwhelmed
I worked everyday, including Sundays and I barely

had time for my family
I remember taking my family to Ibadan to see my younger sister when she delivered her first baby and returning to the office by 5pm only to find the MD cursing and throwing tantrums over the programme produced by the guy who stood in for me because of some

things the politician said (this was towards the Ekiti Election of that year)
When he saw me he almost exploded
"You will be running about like a headless chicken, strutting about aimlessly. Why were you not at work today?
Who gave you an off day? You're this and that, Geraahere!

When I got home that day, I laid down on my bed and said aloud "God, I didn't ask for this job! You brought it to me. When I was earning 30K a month, i had more than enough and my family had me. Now I earn 100K and I had gotten paid for only one month out of six months! Why?"
The

Holy Spirit responded to my cry at 4:05 AM the next morning by saying "This job is not from me"
I heard it clearly
I cried all the way to the office
Like Joshua did with the Gibeonites, I had fallen for an offer that I thought was good but was not from God!
I didn't even talk to

the Holy Spirit about it
The opportunity came at a time I felt i desperately needed a change of jobs and I assumed God made it happen.
I began to consider all that I had suffered in that six months all in the name of having a job and developing a career in my field of study!

By the time I got to the office that day, my enthusiasm was gone
I packed out my locker and cleared out my desk
I did the morning shift and closed by 6pm
I would naturally wait until the 10pm news and then its postmortem before driving home by midnight
But not anymore!
I got home

by 7pm
My phone rang
It was the MD
He said "I was told you had gone home after the morning shift, don't bother coming back"
I said "Okay sir"
The head of News called me a few minutes later
MD is angry, you better return to work now
I laughed
I never returned there for anything!

Malefic gbengawemimo.com/post/malefic
She said the MD almost raped her
When she resisted, he threw her out
of his house with her luggage at 1 AM
She said she took Uber to the Airport and
slept there all night until her flight took
off at 5 AM