Adebimpe The Facebook Girl ( Season 3 ) … Part 15
It was monday morning. I woke up very early as usual to prepare breakfast, had my bath and prepared for work.
As my manager wasn’t around, I took enough time to do some things and was eventually late to work as a result.
I got to work by 8:30am, I met the factory workers and the packaging boys at the production room. I waved at them as I passed by with my folder in my hand and one of the boys said “oga, e be like say you get visitor oooo”. “Really?, who is the person? And where is he?” I replied the boy, and he said “oga, na lady ooo, she don sit down for your table”. I replied “ok, thank you. I wasn’t sure who the visitor was until I walked to the table and met my lovely lolade sitted at the visitors seat infront of my table.
LOLADE: **smiled*** good morning sir!
ME: **smiled too** my wife, good morning.
LOLADE: ha sir!. Your wife kee?, you want to put me into trouble sir
ME:*** pats her shoulder as I walked down to my seat*** which trouble dear?
LOLADE: you know I’m just new here sir “e ma je ki won so mi lenu oooo” I don’t want to be implicated.
ME: you are funny dear.
LOLADE: **smiled**
ME: yes!!!, Manager called me this morning that he won’t be around today and tomorrow, so he told me to tell you that you should wait till wednesday when he would arrive so that you can obtain your guarantor and referee’s form and also process your ID card.
LOLADE: ok sir.
ME: alrite, I will give you a 60leaves note now. And I will attach you to the driver whom you will be working with. You are expected to make a record of all daily sales inside the note and indicate the dates everyday. The note will contain the number of packs loaded before leaving every morning, number of sales, credit purchase from customers, and number of packs returned in the evening if you couldn’t sell all.
LOLADE: ** stared at me in silence***
ME: ***raised up my head and noticed her*** ololade, what is the problem?, why are you silent?
LOLADE: sir!, I don’t understand any of your explanations, I don’t know how to go about it.
ME: haaaa!!!, so if my manager was to be the one telling you all these, you would tell him that you have no idea?, and you would inturn implicated me for telling him that you had pure water sales experience?.
LOLADE: **faced down and sad*** I’m sorry sir.
ME: **stood up from my seat and walked to meet her and placed my hand on her back*** its ok my dear, you don’t have to be sad. I understand that you don’t have any experience, that’s why I gave you the cv over the weekend to study it through.
LOLADE: I did sir,
ME: ok dear, its ok, my manager’s absence is really a blessing in disguise. I will seize the opportunity of his two days Absence to train you on so many things, so that you won’t Bleep up and disappoint me when he returns
LOLADE: ok sir.
ME: it means you will have to wait for few minutes after closing so that I can have chance to put you through the steps and procedures.
LOLADE: ok sir.
I drew a table chart inside the note and explain few things to her about it. I told her to always report to me at the end of the day for assessment and accounting. She left and I was looking at her swinging @zz through her small pant skirt.
I attached her to the new driver, I told one of the other sales rep to go with them so as to introduce them to the new market and they drove off after packing packs of water into the new van.
“Chaii, onihaxy, you get sense ooo”
“See as you tell her to wait after closing and she gree”.
After their departure. I told all the factory boys to go home at exactly 5pm to rest for the day instead of the regular 6pm. They were so happy and joyous. I told the other sales reps that they should all return before 5pm so as to attend to them on time because I must leave by 5pm.
They were also happy because they would be leaving an hour earlier. It was 5pm in the evening, the boys had closed for the day as instructed earlier, I went through the records of the other 4 sales representatives and collect money from them and I was through by 5:20pm and they left. At 5:45pm, lolade arrived with the new driver and the person I sent to assist them.
I dismissed the driver and the other lady immediately and I told lolade to wait behind for me to go through her sales records.
When I noticed that others had left, I took the spare key of my manager’s office and I told lolade to come inside with so that I can go through a sales for the day and also train her on what she needs to know, she nodded and smiled at me as we both walked inside the office and I locked the door from inside.