The scam of 8am-5pm... The Lagos life

They say resumption is by 8am and closing by 5pm. Huge scam!!! When actually the time starts to count the very moment you wake up to prepare for work, be it 4am (or 3am for some Lagosians). The management care less whether you sleep on the roadside in a gridlock after you clock out of work, you must by 8am the next morning report for duty.

December 2018, I witnessed fully what Lagos workers call life. I arrived Lagos by 7pm and headed for my accommodation at ibeju...to cut the looong story short, Lagos traffic ensured I got to ibeju 12mins past 1am midnight. Yes you read that right 1:12am! That is not even the essence for the story. In the causeless gridlock that caused the delay, there was a staff bus of accelerate TV beside us. I saw the staffs already asleep in the bus. The lady closest to the window where I was seating, had her head against the window in high discomfort trying to catch some sleep, but she didn't have the space like the man beside her who was already in Dreamland. She just kept writhing in discomfort in her suit dress.

Guess what! By 5am I was on the road to catch up my appointment for the day which was still by 8am by the way but in Lagos, you don't gamble leaving early. I was shocked when we drove past the same staff bus of last night, it was packed by the road side. I took a peep inside the bus and I saw this same lady, in the same suit dress, at the same window seat of last night and the same man beside her. Could they have slept by the roadside? I asked my driver. "That won't be strange if it's there they slept, that is Lagos for you", was my driver's response. They must have agreed to just sleep by the roadside to make 8am resumption. Considering the time we got out of the gridlock last night, many of them may only have 2hours of sleep at home before they have to jump on the road again, so what's the use of going home again! Christ!

There was also the story of a banker who crashes with security men at security post from Monday to Friday and only goes home for weekend. What a life! Oops, and that reminds me, I hear Lagos parents now pick up children from school with Uber cause they wouldn't be able to make it back to work. Should this be? What remuneration can compensate for this kind of bondage? What is the way out of this savagery pls?

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Tayo Okanlawon

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U.I Awo Hall Executives (Team Standard 2018) Cleared of Alleged Misappropriation of Funds

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