Never knew

Some young irresponsible boys think starting a blog does not come with responsibilities. These is a series of event I had with this stupid fellow that runs ajebo blog.

1. I am scrolling through facebook and see a sponsored ad for some slimming tea and I click, it takes me to this site http://ajeboblog.com/rextea/
I already know this should be some blogger maybe running affiliate marketing or something, what makes me a bit relaxed is site says fill the form
if you need the product and then you will pay on delivery when it is delivered, but you will also get a confirmation call that you will receive your product.

2. I receive no call, so I look through the blog and find this idiot's number 09061116476 I send him a text that I found the product on his blog,
was I on to the right person. He said yes its the delivery service number how can he help, I repeated myself again only for him to say I have
to pay to be confirmed, so I am wondering, your blog says pay on delivery and you are saying I should pay to be confirmed. I loose interest in
buying at all as that seems fishy so I don't reply him again.

3. I suddenly receive a call from delivery man that product has arrived, meaning the what I filled initially on the blog went through, I am confused because I didnt need it again after ajebo blog told me I had to pay first. There is nobody to also receive the product for me at the address as that is my friends office and she did not go to work day he came. So I tell delivery man to find a way to come to house.

4. He delivers, I see the product I can't find the Nafdac number on it the blog claims it has, I also can't find expiry date plus every other thing is written in chinese. So I decide I need to talk to someone, I start calling Ajebo blogger, idiot does not pic, I start calling delivery man he does not pick either and then suddenly delivery man's number is switched off and Ajebo blogger is rejecting calls too.

5. The only confidence is that delivery man is from God is Good logistics so I am guessing the person who sent the tea is different from the blogger but I still need to talk to someone.

6. Suddenly, delivery man calls me with another number saying he has lost his phone in my area when he came to drop the product, I am getting angry and confused, just that delivery guy seemed like a good guy, but I am confused because everything is looking confusing.

7. Ajebo blogger calls back and immediately I mention I am calling about the product he cuts the line, my mother calls him too and he does same
I call again, idiot tells me he wants to sleep I should stop calling his line, NOTE that in my earlier text to him, he told me he was the right person I was talking to. I texted him that he was crazy and he should keep sleeping, my mother calls him, the idiot is rude to her and is asking if a blog sells tea.

8. I search for him on the internet, his e-mail is iamjayahg@gmail.com I find his facebook name is JH AY https://web.facebook.com/jefferson.jerry.16 and see the idiot is the ajebo blog owner, one small boy that just finished secondary school in 2014 and wants to destroy his destiny.

I believe if you put up a product on your blog, you have a huge part to play in the customer experience and knowing about the product. Yes I received my product , which still looks like a questionable product I am still waiting for the delivery man to give e the number that actually sent the product because in the end we found his phone, someone in my area picked it, called me and I returned it to him. I paid 500 extra to the delivery man for making him change his delivery location and still had to pay the person who found the phone 500 atleast as thank you, all because of the initial misinformation fro the ajebo blogger slowpoke.

BUT IF I HAD PAID AJEBO BLOGGER UPFRONT AS HE REQUESTED, IT MEANS DELIVERY MAN WOULD HAVE CALLED ME AND I WOULD BE TELLING HIM I HAD PAID, BUT HE WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THAT, SINCE HIS OWN ORDER IS THE CUSTOMER SHOULD PAY ON DELIVERY, WHICH MEANS AJEBO BLOGGER INTENDED TO SCAM & THAT IS WHY HE WAS NOT READY TO PROVIDE OR RESPOND TO ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRODUCT.

Face of the idiot and his facebook profile

It’s rather sad that, much as there is a huge number of youths searching for employment, there are organizations who are lurking and waiting to exploit them. It could be understandable if the organization one finds themselves are struggling, but then not when an organization is adequately funded but chooses to exploits people, youths in particular.

This post is specifically about Youngstars Foundation located in Abuja, an insider’s experience from many months back, which is still trending. A word of advice first of all, if you observe an organization constantly seems to have openings, especially of the same roles and position, then be careful and weary of such organization as that in itself is a bad signal.

This is what Youngstars Foundation does, and I think, many voices should speak up against organizations who don’t do things right, we must also learn not enslave ourselves in the name of searching or needing jobs badly. Some organizations look all well packaged outside but are messy on the inside.

When you apply with youngstars foundation and you are considered for an interview, the text message you receive will specifically tell you how much you will be earning in that position, it could say 80K, 70K, or 60k, whatever. Good right? Because at least you know that if I get this job this is exactly what I would earn and I can begin planning my life around that. WRONG!

During your interview, Youngstars first level of deceit is to tell you that if you do get the job, you will have to do an internship of a month with them as that is their policy and during that month you will only be given transport allowance. Here is the thing, it does not matter whether you have a masters, plus 5 years experience, you will do this internship, they claim they will watch you, while you watch them as well and they will tell you at the end of the month if you are good to go. You think to yourself again, well fair enough, its just 1 month.
You will earn 15k in your 1 month internship!

Now this is where things get even more interesting, let’s say you were told you will earn 80k for the position you applied, you will only start earning this amount another 3 months following your internship month, because you will be paid a percentage of that 80k over the 3 month, so you could be earning something like 45k or thereabouts. The 3 months they claim is your probation.

The question this organization needs to answer include:

Why do you interview people in the first place and tell them to intern with you? An interview is a rating of how qualified a candidate is and if suitable for that position.

Interns are mostly those still in school and looking to gain some experience, why should someone with a masters and years of experience intern with you?

Why should interns work like full staff? Interns work overtime almost every day and are fully involved, Youngstars Open 8am and closes 5pm, many are still around till 7pm. Not a bad thing, but then NGOs have a lot of work?

Why should staff not earn their full promised pay for the position till another 3months?

Why do you ask people continue as an intern to keep earning 15k after their first month, is one month not enough to rate your candidate if they will make a good staff?


NOTE NAIRALANDERS: Some persons continue as interns for up to 3 months or more earning the same 15k, that is minus the 3 months’ probation that will follow.

I don’t know if somebody will not attempt to remove this post, but I hope it stays, what we want to see are organizations doing the right thing. Youngstars is a youth NGO trying to make life better for youths out there through many quite commendable programmes, yet it does not seem to know that charity begins at home. Treat the youths working under you first and stop recycling staff simply because you don’t want to pay them what they are worth and you can afford to.

This organization gets funding for its programmes for UKAID, USAID DFID etc. so it’s not about a struggling organization here people. I could mention the name of the head of the place, but the intention here is not to slander anyone, but to use this platform to correct a system that is not doing the right thing.

This is for you, in case you are considering working with Youngstars foundation, ecerybody has their choice and an understanding of their worth, if you want to take what they offer, it’s your choice, but this system is wrong, it’s an exploitation of the unemployment problem in Nigeria.

Some people have them

First phase of a seeming relationship with this guy, he works in IT yes they go home as late as 9-10pm daily, but even from the first week of the relationship I had to go visit him at his office which is just a stone throw from mine. The weekend meeting/date we were to have didn't happen because he said he was ill. He never set up a proper date, I know where he works, he never knew mine.

Every weekend became quarrels, because all he would say is I do plan for us to see, I wish to, I want to, It is my intention... words and words but no action, the only times we see are the 5 - 10 minutes when I stop by his workplace and he comes out and spares a moment because he is busy. I send him a facebook friend request, he does not respond for up to 2 weeks even though I keep telling him to accept the request.

Then I throw tantrums and say I will walk because I cannot imagine how a guy cannot meet me or make time, then he promises he will not go to work on a certain day I can come to his place, oh yeah I don't know his place either. I am always ready to create the time if it means us moving forward, so I am ready on the said day, its already a bit funny its his place he is saying I come, which means its still me going to him not him coming to me or we both meeting somewhere, but I still tag along. He pushes the meeting hour on the said day ahead he said he did not go to work, he keeps pushing the hour ahead till he says he is at a meeting maybe I will meet him after the meeting, @5pm day is almost over and he says why don't I come by his office? I simply ignore him, and I go home so dissapointed, let down and hurt. I tell him later (we mostly talk through chat) that I do not wish for him to contact me again, I do not want to be rude, but what he did that day tore me inside. So he kept trying to message I just block him, and try to get over it.

He did not call or maybe even try to locate me and explain, I expected that maybe he would do so since he always says he cares but not by actions. Over the next 3months once or twice he tries to chat I brush him off. He never physically knew where I live either.

On a certain evening he says goodevening, I respond, we start talking again, says I have been ruthless, that he wishes I understand how demanding their work is, even their bosses have problems with their wives. I say okay fine he is forgiven but in my mind I have no intention of continuing, he then keeps chatting asking me things like what have I eaten, I then tell him I uncomfortable with those questions I do not wish to waste my time or that of another person, I make it clear I am searching for a true and meaningful connection with someone which I can grow. He then says lets redifine everything and claims he wants a true relationship... I give in again, I tell him clearly no matter how busy u have to create time even if once a week, we have to spend time together. he agrees, all this talk on phone.

First saturday of second phase when we are supposed to meet , he claims he is coming to my office, calls me at 4 or thereabts that his office car he drives broke down, so I shd please come by his office, I laugh and say that is history repeating itself, so its me that shd come again and meet him, I say I am heading home, cuz I was at work too, He calls me and rants abt how truthful he is, I shd understand, he wants to make things right this time, he really had a car break down,
I dnt want to be evil, so I go to him. we talk abit, he lets me in on his life and plans etc.

next few weeks, same ish, same me complaining, weekends come and go, its either he is sick or goes to work sunday, one excuse or the other, there was sallah break he traveled all through the days of the break, suffice to say in all the months I have still known this dude he never made time for us, only genuine thing abt him is we chat through the day, tells me where he is whats up with him when he gets home etc. One weekened he says his cousin is traveling to France and the guy wants him and his siblings around, IF he finishes at that visit ontime we will see, so seeing is always tied around a condition, and it still wnt even happen.

2months into second phase, I still dnt know physical location of his house and now I change jobs so he never got to know my office which was closer to him. I tell myself this isnt still working ... ontop of that he goes almost incommunicado for a week anddznt respond to messages, when he comes back, says he had some family issues that shook him which he could not share... That sort of breaks the bond however small left which I had to him.

Other funny traits he has, even when I said my salary wasnt paid on time and I dont have credit or I am so broke, he never helps out, now before anyone attacks saying girls like money, no I spend my own money, and almost everytime I visited him I would buy him something, He has never bought me anything, or spent a naira for me, not even during the first phase when had my birthday, he did not even see me that day either.

So are my demands too high? At this stage I am not even remembering he exists after he pulled the something happened to him that he cant share move, since I am not that much a part of his life... I am happy to be able to forget him naturally but I still respond to his hellos, I dnt want to be bitter and angry like the first time I want to treat him like an old friend.

When one is searching for love, this can be some of the humiliating experiences. Please your thoughts, and no insults people.