CAN YOU GET FIRED FOR THAT?




“Your papers are fine; the 5 years of experience we required has been attained. Your language, both written and spoken if I was to say is more like my former English tutor’s, and my former English tutor is among the best authors of creative writing of this continent (he names a few of her works and immediately I’m amazed). But the only thing hindering you from retaining your position, is the fact that you do not know how to speak to your superiors,” (people with money in our midst).

Those were the exact words, the manager of some certain company had used to put me down, just two weeks into my new job.
 But in utmost truth, I would not have said a word if he threw me out for being too tidy or even exceedingly hardworking for I had given this job my all. What I really wanted to find out was exactly where these allegations were coming from. I mean, how could I be rude with a parent that smacked me for even the slightest of faults (I almost lost a tooth for looking at my father’s throat while he gulped down his yams).  TO BE CONTINUED.

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