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HR MISTAKES BY YOURS TRULY 6

 My refusal to accept two direct instructions from two gentlemen who were instrumental to my employment in two companies where I enjoyed working, cost yours truly those jobs because I considered those instructions as unreasonable.

Firstly, I was asked to provide information that would lead to the termination of the employment of five high performing managers. My response was to send my boss a local ICBM to the effect that "a man who circumcises woman do not talk". If the man talks, he will die of hunger.

Secondly, I was asked to tell half truths by my boss, which I considered to be telling lies and I refused. My boss explained further to yours truly, that what he was saying was for yours truly to play politics because politics is about half truths. He stated further that should yours truly continue to insist on the truth only, he would join others in fighting yours truly. My response to him was "you're welcome. Within five weeks of this discussion, your truly was transferred out HR to the Administration department.

In both cases I lost the confidence of those two gentlemen, so that when the agents of Nepotism came for my job, they lifted no fingers.

What has been very pervasive in all these my contents is the Evil of Nepotism in my clime. I can report confidently that all the jobs yours truly had during my active work life  with the exception of one, all others were at the insistence of foreigners. No Nigerian wanted yours truly employed because of minority status.

On the 26th March, 2025, when I shall conclude this content series, I shall discuss the "Mother" of all HR MISTAKES by yours truly.

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