A coworker died yesterday morning😭.
HR knew by 9 :00 AM, but they kept us working all day. They finally told us around 4 :30 PM, then had the nerve to say, "You can head home early if you need to"—knowing we all finish at 5: 00 PM anyway.
This morning, it’s back to "business as usual." Some of my friends are literally sobbing at their desks, but they’re expected to work and be productive. No time to grieve.
It’s a cold reality. Within a week, the company will have his job posted online. Within a month, someone else will be sitting in his chair.
But his family ,his children will still talk about him every day,they will ask where is daddy , His wife will mourn him for ages ,he was the love of her life .
At work, we are just a "resource" that can be replaced in a week. At home, we are the world. Stop giving your best energy to a desk that will forget you, and giving the "leftovers" to the people who never will.
Dear average Ugandan,
don’t fall victim for that social media pressure.
All they post is Highlights!
In real life people go to work, businesses fail, losses happen, that ‘fancy’ food isn’t eaten on a daily, no one gets to vacation every weekend. Everyone is out here silently trying to survive.
Let’s get to work. There is always a price to pay✌️.
The year was 2005.
Museveni pushes an amendment requiring electoral aspirants employed in public service to RESIGN their jobs three months to nomination day. (Before, one applied for leave of absence without pay). The target was Kibirige Mayanja who had returned to his job at Makerere after 1996, 2001 elections. They wanted to deny him livelihood after challenging the all-powerful incumbent.
Well, Kibirige didn't stand in 2006.
Twenty years down the road, the fruits are all around us in different versions of Bad Black, Fresh Daddy, Panadol, Sobbi, Boda-Boda 2010 as our legislators: never employed, and unemployable people; failing businesspeople, retirees & chaps in private work who can simply close their businesses.
In effect, we not only locked our best out of elective politics, but turned politics into a most lucrative job – ironically, for not the best from amongst us.