Finally got a break!

This week has been very crazy for me, some of you might have noticed that I haven't been very active here the past few days and that's because I have been busy as a bee.

In my last article, I mentioned I am currently running my field practical training (it's a form of industrial training for agriculture students) and it has been one word: hell. I barely have the time to do any other thing and the little break I get while at work, I use it to catch my breath.

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Even when I get home usually around 6pm, I have to freshen up, prepare something to eat, and before I settle down completely, it's already 9pm. I can't even use that time to write an article or interact coz I stay in an apartment with my classmates (we are about 21) and I get easily distracted by them.

So, what I usually do is that I sneak out while I am at work and try to interact on a few articles 😆 but we hardly get any breaks. The morale at the farm was dampened yesterday and it was caused by one person; the CEO of the farm.

How it went down

The CEO officially had his first meeting with us yesterday, where he talked about some issues. This is the first week we are working at the farm and we thought Saturdays were exempted (at least that was what our coordinator told us) but the CEO said it's included.

Everyone had it in mind that we will be free on weekends and some people already made plans to go to their family's home and return on Sunday evening. When the CEO suddenly said Saturdays are included, everyone's mood changed and we tried reasoning with him to see if he can change it, but he only said "I will think about it".

It was after that meeting that everyone started seeing something wrong with the CEO, I guess we have all been ignoring those things and just decided to focus on getting as much experience as possible, but the CEO is beginning to feel entitled.

The thing is, we are not been paid which is normal because we are there to get field training and the CEO is taking advantage of that by treating us as another one of his workers but in this case, it's a sweet deal for him because he isn't paying us and we have little to no choice than to comply or we will get bad reports and likely end up with bad grades.

The CEO could have shown some form of gratitude to us and some of my classmates said he should at least be providing lunch but I told them that they are even looking far ahead, he didn't even provide something as basic as water for us, we have to buy water ourselves.

It now seems like the meeting even did more harm than good, coz most of us lost the zeal to keep working. We got home later that day and still spoke more about the issue, some people said we should all boycott Saturday but one person said we should just go so we can submit our logbooks to the manager for him to sign, then we will work for only half of the day and leave by 12pm.

I woke up at about 5:30am today and noticed the atmosphere is still tense; a lot of my classmates were still sleeping! 😆 We were all supposed to be ready before 6am but it seemed like nobody cared anymore. We all got ready later on and left the house at about 7:30am, and then we arrived at the farm 30 minutes later with heavy faces looking like we were coming from a funeral.

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Then the manager called all of us together and said he has talked to the CEO and he has agreed to give us Saturdays as a day-off and we didn't have to come to the farm today. Everyone was happy, except me 😂 I was just thinking; "so, I just wasted 30 minutes trekking to the farm when the manager could have called one of us on phone to deliver the message".

But nobody was thinking of that, we have finally gotten the break we needed and everyone is just excited to go back home. Some persons already had their bags packed for their trip back to their family, so they didn't bother to follow the rest of us back to our shared apartment.

I was contemplating going back to my apartment in the university and just spend the weekend there since most of my classmates are leaving and the house is going to be deserted and the people that will be remaining aren't exactly my favorite persons.

I finally decided to just go back to the university, since @Talon said he is heading in that direction as well. I got to the apartment, did some laundry, and started packing my bags when @Talon suddenly said there has been a change of plans, that he is taking another route which is opposite the one I will be taking, which means I will be going alone.

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At that point I just gave up and unpacked my bags, there was no need for me to go anymore. I decided to just chill out in the house and use that opportunity to focus on read.cash. I interacted a bit on this platform and then I decided to play some games on my phone, but the internet connection over here is very terrible so I watched some movies instead.

Right now, we are about 9 remaining in the house and most of my classmates will be back on Sunday evening. This week is already over, so we have two more weeks before our training will end and we can all go back to the university and prepare for the second phase of the training which is going to be in Lagos. I just hope that turns out to be a better experience than what we are having right now.

Special thanks to Ate @Jane and @foryoubtc09 for their sponsorship renewal.

Thanks for reading 💖💖💖

Saturday January 8, 2022