GidiWriter

When I saw Joe* my stomach lurched. The last time I'd seen him was 5 years ago. The day I fired him. Time is unkind to all but seemed especially unkind to Joe. His face was etched with lines and his eyes, once bright, were flat and lifeless. He shuffled over and I hesitantly reached to shake his hand. "Hi Joe," I said. "How are you?" He glanced away. "I guess I'm doing all right," he said. Then he asked to borrow a thousand naira. I was the Human Resource Manager in 2010 when our department implemented an employee-empowerment program designed to shift as much responsibility as possible down to the team level. In time, employee committees became responsible for scheduling vacations, evaluating team members, and making hiring decisions, and we became coaches and "facilitators" rather than managers. I definitely supported it. I started on the shop floor, so I know employees at every level are always capable of handling...

I used to find it hard to believe when people tell their stories of how they met their partners on social media, I just YINMU at them and say to myself this is never going to last. I remember back in the days at my church (Olorunda Methodist Church), there was this lady who got married to someone she met on facebook. We gathered after the church wedding ceremony to gossip about her, of how extremely handsome the husband is, how he might have married a white woman and how he might just be a scamer who lives in the UK *chei* may God forgive us (Amen). Fast forward to 2010 and my views about social media dating has changed. *covering my face* Yes back to the topic for today's post. I met him on a Facebook group that later evolved to a blackberry group. In the group we talk about everything from politics to relationships, marriage, family, education, entertainment, career, health, sexuality e.t.c. He was more or less the class clown. He never takes any issue apart from politics ...

Dear Dairy, I’ve never really been the one to write about myself as I find writing too tasking but with my current employment position, emmm let’s leave that for another day. Get to meet me first and see if we can be friends… My full name is MARIAN OLAYINKA JOHNSON. I grew up with my ever loving and ever caring grandma; I call her my Gramzy lol….  Accustomed to being around primarily adults, I was always mature for my age so much so that even my friends often annoyed me during my adolescent years. I did well at school and also excelled at my favorite hobby singing back then. I am career oriented, I love to pass knowledge across and I derive joy in giving a helping hand no matter the situation. I am a no nonsense person, I love to be around smart and Intelligent people and just so you know I’m a bully. It’s one of the things I do effortlessly; this skill got me the name “HEADMISTRESS” at work. I hate it when people take my niceness for stupidity but at the same time I cannot allow...