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 Looking for the most confused institution that bases its decisions on how much you have in your pocket?  Welcome to the Judiciary in Nigeria. 

 Broadly speaking,  there are two types of people. Some make decisions and those for whom decisions are made.  There are always costs for every decision. While those who make decisions take responsibility for their actions,  those for whom decisions are made, shifts responsibility by blaming others.  It is usually easy to amend a decision when it is made by you. The reverse is the case,  if the decision is made for you.  I have made several decisions which have made me who I am today.  Below are some of the personal decisions I have made,  but in no particular order. Some with dates and others without dates.  They are as follows: - - Around 1957, I decided that I would not die young.  - I bought and fully paid for play.  - About 1969-1970, I decided not to inherit nobody's enemies.  - In 1970, I decided to go to school in 1972, by rejecting to become a furniture maker.  - At an early age,  I decided not to marry anybody's first daughter.  - In 1975, I decided to study Sociology

 Looking for a country where the Judiciary is used to prevent the Accuser from proving the guilt of the Accused?  Welcome to Nigeria. 

 Most illiterate HR Practitioners negotiate their salaries with unofficial earnings at the back of their minds so that what they get paid is usually low and not competitive.  On the other hand,  educated HR Professionals negotiate quality official salaries with blind eyes on unofficial earnings.  Another very bad attitude of these illiterate HR Practitioners is their massive resistance to anybody who negotiates a higher salary or anyone earning more than them. They resist any form of salary increase that will increase the gap between them and others.  As I stated somewhere earlier on in this Blog, apart from my first HR job,  no other position I occupied was any previous occupant paid more than I was paid.  When I was to be engaged in one publicly quoted company,  my offer was delayed for two months until existing staff salaries were adjusted to meet my demand.  In another place,  my salary was by far above that of the Chief Accountant. In this particular company,  I recommended a 100%

 Looking for a Timid and an Unreliable man?  Find a Lying and Covenant-breaking man who lives by Stomach infrastructure. 

 For the illiterate HR Practitioner,  employment is a favour by the employer,  but this is not so with the educated HR Professional. The illiterates have not heard of "quid pro quo" The illiterate HR Practitioner goes into Thin Air once he secures a job usually by nepotism. He is never concerned by anything going on in the labour market.  Some of the reasons for Job Hopping by educated HR Professionals may include the following: - - Toxic work environment.  - Greater opportunities.  - Refusing to be put down.  - Speaking truth to authority.  - External pressure to move.  - Inability to tolerate rubbish.  - Refusal to become illiterate all over again.  - Holding unto your integrity - both personal and professional.  - Ability and capacity to identify what you want out of pay employment.  - Poor pay.  - Salary inequity.  As I said somewhere earlier in this blog,  I got involved in job-hopping for upward mobility and salary increments.  Two examples only:  Firstly,  I once joine

 My motivation to go for a master's degree program was the series of rejections I suffered without it in my search for employment. Unfortunately,  I lost my first very good job consequent upon the master's degree.  I want to assume that generally, publicly quoted companies are better organized and operated than private limited companies.  During my active work life,  I worked in four Public Limited Companies and my reporting lines followed almost the same pattern. In no particular order,  I did not report directly to anyone who was as educated as I was.  Generally,  I was the first master's degree holder in HR ever employed with some experience in these companies.  Another thing that happened was that it was only in one company that I reported directly to the Head of the HR Function and the gentleman to whom I reported had no degree in HR,  so I was like a consultant to him.  In the other places,  I reported directly to people who had only Bachelor's degrees,  so they l