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Apparently I have, it occurred thrice, in two different cases as a teacher and the other after helping someone to pass an exam. But I'll just state one.
There was a school my friend and I were teaching before we gained admission into the university. They called us to come and help out. They were actually lacking teachers and then my school and that of my friend were on vacation.
We were actually spending most of our time on steemit. So we saw it as a plus to keep ourselves busy.
We honored the call and they gave me two subjects (Computer Studies and Cultural and Creative Art) to teach 3 classes, JSS1-3, and my friend was given three subjects (Social Studies, Civic Eductaion and Christian Religious Studies) to teach 3 classes also, JSS1-3. We didn't bother to discussed our salary because our thought was on our previous salary before we left.
We started teaching wholeheartedly. At the end of the month we received an alert, to our greatest surprise the amount was N5000 (five thousand naira). We couldn't believe it. Fortunately it was a working day, so we quickly went to the head teacher's office to lay our complaints. She was surprised also to see the alert because it wasn't coming from her. So she promised she'll talk to the director to let her know we didn't start at the middle of the month if that's her thought. Later on everything was sorted out and extra N9000 was added to me and N5000 to my friend. It was still somehow because my friend was taking 3 subjects while am taking 2 subjects, so the whole thing was confusing.
We requested for salary negotiation so as to have in mind our next payment. The director said we should do our best, the higher the topic we've covered will determine how much will be paid.
To cut the long story short, we did everything a teacher will do in a term including setting and markingbcontinuous assessment. And exams, except for conducting and marking which I promised to come back and carry out once they start since we will be going back to school.
When it was time to leave, the director said she'll transfer the money to us. We were paid N15000 for a job a teacher will do for 4 months.
Unfortunately, we couldn't go back to lay our complaints because we've left already.
We were embittered and it downed on us that we've just been used.
