27/06/2026
MY FIRST DAY WORKING IN A BAKERY WAREHOUSE IN THE OYIBO CoUNTRY๐๐
As a new immigrant in the country in 2022, survival mode was fully activated. I registered with every agency I could find. At that point, if an agency had called me to count leaves in a forest, I would gladly accept because bills were not smiling ๐๐
One faithful day, an agency called me.
Do you have warehouse experience?โ
I quickly replied, โYes.โ
My husband shock๐คญ๐คญ๐คญ๐คฃ where u get the experience from?
Till today, I donโt know which experience I was referring to. ๐ because the experience ๐๐๐ I no fit shout
Then they said, โThe job is packing food.โ
Immediately, confidence entered my body.
I said to myself, โPackaging food? Who doesnโt know how to package food? Is it not to carry food and put it inside another thing? Omor I ready ๐๐ Abia woman spirit, fully activated ๐๐
Then came the sweetest part.
They said, โThe shift is for 4 days in a week and the pay is ยฃ17per hour.โ
The moment I heard ยฃ17per hour, my brain left the conversation and started doing stupid calculations ๐๐
ยฃ17per hour. For 4days , every week, every month ha I don hammer ๐๐๐
Before the call ended, I had already bought two houses in my village in Nigeria, one in Asaba another in Enugu๐๐๐๐
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In fact, I was already planning how to financially frustrate all my village people. Especially from my father side ๐๐Wahala ontop job weh I Neva do ๐๐๐
I even started questioning my nursing masters career.
โNursing for what? If I continue this warehouse job for one year, everybody in my village go hear am ๐๐
The next day, I arrived at the bakery.
The first thing that caught my attention was the workersโ shoes. My dear brothers and sisters, these were not ordinary shoes. They looked like they were armored vehicles Abi designed for construction workers & soldiers. ๐๐๐
I looked at them and hit my chest three time, my husband no lazy i have to make him proud.๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
โI can do this.โ Na Abia woman I be ๐๐๐
5min later my complete ppe was given to me
My confidence immediately dropped from 100% to 23%.
I looked at myself in the mirror and wondered whether I came to pack food Abi I come to fight bokoharam ๐๐๐.
My first assignment was packaging sausages.
The machine was working beautifully.
The sausages were coming out neatly.โI was smiling.I said, โSee? Easy money.โ
The machine heard me.
And became angry.๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐
Everything scattered.
The supervisors started running around
โNo! Leave the sausages
โBuild cartons!โ
โNo! Stop building cartons!โ
โQuick! Quick! Quick!โ
โCome here!โ
โGo there!โ
With the way the supervisor was controlling my head . In my head I don swear both AMADIOHA and OGU more than 20 times ๐๐๐ give the man because whatโs this ๐๐
At at point I wasnโt sure whether I was packaging sausages or fighting in World War 3. ๐๐๐God abeg oo
Everyone was running like a goat that escaped on Christmas morning.
My body had submitted a resignation letter without my notice
And throughout all this, I was standing.
They gave us 1 hour break but it felt like 10min
Finally, the shift ended.
As I was leaving, Every bone in my body was speaking a different language.
When I got home, I crawled to my room like a wounded soldier returning from battle.
For the first time in my life, I climbed onto my bed and started crying Professional cry ๐๐ cry with respect ๐๐๐
The kind of tears that come with nollywood suffering background music
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The next morning, the agency called, hmmm๐ซฃ๐๐ฉ
โGood morning. Hope youโre fit for todayโs shift?โ
In my head I was like which shift abeg I no fit
โI cannot come and kill myself because of ยฃ17per.
๐ณ๐ฌโ England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
