I have no problem trying, it's the challenge that excites me, if I stop, I didn't fail, it failed to excite me, when I finish, it's not the result that excites me, it's the knowledge that I can do it again anytime I want!!
When I left my former company, I was supposed to give a one-month notice. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, I could only give them a two weeks notice.
I sent my resignation mail to HR, explained I would be exiting in two weeks and assured them that I would complete every necessary handover and carry out my responsibilities properly before leaving.
HR acknowledged the mail and informed me that I would not receive my full salary because I would not complete the one-month notice period.
I accepted it in good faith and focused on doing the right thing. I completed my handover, submitted everything required, and ensured there was a smooth transition before my exit.
Then on payday, I received my full salary alongside a thank you message from HR.
I didn't believe my eyes when I got the alert.
@TheDumbTechGuy โSomeone wants to charge me 700ghc to clean my house, I think a romba can do it, will supervise one over the weekend to get it doneโ
Same logic
My father's best friend was a man called Uncle Bayo who disappeared from our lives without explanation. I was 12 the last time I saw him. He came to our flat in Gbagada, argued with my father in the bedroom for an hour, and walked out without saying goodbye to me. My father never spoke his name again. Neither did my mother. Uncle Bayo became a silence with a shape.
Twenty-six years passed. I was in Philadelphia for a conference. A networking dinner at a hotel downtown. Across the room, a man about my father's age caught my eye and held it too long. He approached me during dessert and said my surname like it was a question he already knew the answer to.
We sat in the hotel lobby until 2am. He told me the story my father never did. They had started a construction company together in the early 90s. It had failed because of a contract dispute with a senator. The senator had paid only half the money and refused the rest. The debt had crushed them. Uncle Bayo had blamed my father for trusting the senator. My father had blamed Uncle Bayo for not reading the fine print. The friendship had shattered. Two men who had been closer than brothers had become strangers over something neither of them could control.
Uncle Bayo had moved to America after the falling out. He had built a new life, a new business, a small contracting firm in West Philly. He had married a Ghanaian woman and had two daughters. He had never returned to Nigeria. He had never called my father. He had assumed the silence was mutual.
I asked why he approached me now. He said he recognised my face because I looked like my father at 30. He said he had been waiting for decades to see that face again, to explain something that was never about betrayal. He said the argument had been about shame, not money. Both men had felt they failed each other. Neither had known how to say it.
I called my father from the hotel room. It was 3am in Lagos. He answered on the second ring, voice thick with sleep and alarm. I told him who I was sitting with. The line went quiet. Then my father did something I had never heard him do. He cried. Not softly. The kind of crying that comes from a place words cannot reach.
Uncle Bayo flew to Lagos 3 months later. They met at the same flat in Gbagada. They sat in the same living room where the argument had happened. They didn't re-litigate the past. They just sat together, two old men with white hair and matching hypertension medication, and let the silence heal.
My father died last year. Uncle Bayo spoke at the funeral. He said the greatest thief in life is not money or failure. It is the belief that there is always more time.
Call them. The debt is not theirs. It is yours.
This guy known as Abdulai Liman Taaza has stolen a package from my sis and blocked her.
His contacts: 050 653 4511/054ย 405ย 9728
Thank you @boltghana for suspending his account till he returns it.
I might not find him but you might meet him.
Kindly retweet till his family members see it.
@TheDumbTechGuy@kobylarry_@grok Oh yes the BZ series, a couple are in town. But if you are looking at EVs, I would recommend the BYD, EVs are all about batteries and no one does batteries better than BYD