This was inspired by the lack of someone to vent to and a collection of stories and experiences I have heard from other people. If y’all love it, don’t be praying I don’t get someone to vent to. But to put you at ease, it will probably not happen in the immediate future. Story for another day. Let’s get right into this.
Like I said, these are stories I have heard and experienced myself. They do not all apply to all bosses but I think it’s safe to assume that we shall let the ratio of the goods to bad help draw the conclusion.
1) Fruit business is a very interesting industry. Generally the agricultural industries is pretty exciting especially when you put into consideration that 50% of its success is determined by nature. So a friend was in this business trying to get his life together. Hustling while in campus and doing pretty ok for himself especially when you consider his age. Anyway, he and his team of 2 other friends we doing really goes at being the retailers of this particular fruit and as you guess, the “wholesalers” were the big money and the Big Bosses. So once the big bosses noticed what was happening with this ambitious, handsome well built (I have to say) young men, they started limiting the supply and even reducing the pay. They then demoted them and started working with the less ambitious part of the company that would do as they were told. So my hot young fellows ended up quitting. They had invested so much time in this business that when they quit, things got a bit rough. So much so that one of them went M.I.A and disappeared to the Aberdare’s for a couple of weeks. What I came to find out that this was the 2nd time the first time being something equally stressful for him too.
2) A friend recently got a job at this cool company doing this fascinating thing in a department that no one would have thought would be a source of employment. Ok maybe just the corporate department was cool. So in this part of the company, people are so free with their bosses. The bosses do not discourage individuality and actually take time to brain storm with every member of this department. The bosses are so cool that one of them got into a dancing competition. Yea, that’s the situation there. I am happy to report that he won a trip abroad from this competition with the help of the team.
3) This other place, the Big Boss seemed very nattering and to be practicing the “open door” policy. Only for my friend to find out that it was all a facade. In this organization, if you were not the Big Boss’ family or pet “for lack of a better word, (I have the words I just do not want to use them). So, if you were not in this circle, you’re typically doomed. No matter how much work you brought into the company, malipo yalikuwa yale ya punda. This “special” group of people would either try to sabotage your work or make up rumours to make the people they did not like look incompetent. It was so bad that while this friend was working there, at least 3 people quit their jobs. Yea, AT LEAST THREE. ( had to emphasize that because of how shocked I was to learn this)
4) My experience was with this awesome boss. The guy I was reporting to. We were employed defiantly and as you can imagine, our contacts were therefore, sabotaged. Needless to say, we did not sign it. Anyway, my department’s boss was so easy I often forgot he was the boss. My colleague and I even discussed general relationship issues during our breaks. We also got free good advice and teased each other and encouraged each other when things at the office were not going too well. He also always kept it 100. He was just a good human being that did not need a title to feel good about himself. (For y’all reading this and going all judgmental, I was not into him. Just admired him professionally.)
5) This by far was the most annoying almost the similar case of Big Boss number 3. This Big Boss had even the nerve to blatantly disregard the authority of the teachers in front of the students and even reprimand them openly. He too ruled with, “What the pet wants, pet gets.” This was so bad that the institution he was working in took a nasty turn and the performance of the students went down because Mr. Big Boss was going beyond his way to please the students and his boot lickers. Not to mention this were high school boys. Mixed Priorities much.
With bosses acting like this, I am left to wonder, where will the youths get mentorship from? Is this the type of people we’re left to look up to and emulate? Has society gotten so rotten and twisted that wrong becomes right and vice verse? Or how would you explain these “mipango wa kando” walking around these companies and institutions with zero shame. Some even are proud of this that they do not even try to hide it. Like there is ZERO SHAME!!!
Anyway darls, stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. No job or amount of money is worth your dignity. Do your work diligently and trust that one day, “good must come”.
justveee :) 