This is another experience I can never forget in my life because it was the worst experience for me being the first time I took a teaching job where I knew I would be receiving a salary. One sad thing about private schools is that they will use and drain you to the extent that you start thinking about your life if you truly deserved this treatment. How much do they pay? They pay less and it's meagre that can't even sustain you throughout the month before expecting another salary.
Thank God I quit at that moment even though my aunt begged me to return, I made up my mind not to go back to my vomit because it didn't pay me at all. It was obvious the woman wasn't considerate at all and was a selfish being who would take advantage of such a situation.
I just finished my academics at the college of education in the year 2015 and I went to stay with my Aunt. It was around August and I got a teaching job after submitting my CV to different schools. Thank God, this school was just a stone's throw from my house and there was nothing like transport fare. This headmistress needed another teacher and I helped her contact my friend we both graduated together.
My friend's house was very far and she would be spending over #300 ($0.42) each day and we were being paid #12000 ($17.1) then. It was still okay for me since my house is not far but I was pitying my friend.
The first day we started work, we only met just a staff and we started noticing what happened because the other classes weren't having any teachers. She was the only staff where she exposed a secret to us because according to her, she doesn't want us to go through the stress. After all, she was leaving that same week and was finding a way and she wasn't going until she is paid her salary (she was owed four months' salary) and the headmistress refused to pay her.
The only opportunity this staff got was when a parent came to pay her two children's school fees and she absconded with the money. Later the following day, she called the headmistress that a parent had come over to pay but she used it as her salary she wasn't paid for four months. The woman begged her to resume because there was no teacher on ground but she refused.
It was I and my friend remaining and the workload was on us. We both were taking three classes each and there was no time to rest. Even if we want to take a rest during the break, this woman will find something for us to do just to keep us busy.
The first month ended and we weren't paid our salaries. We remembered what the staff told us and we decided to endure and be patient with her. After three months of staying without being paid, a secret was leaked. The owner of the school is a professor at the University of Ibadan and would have sent the salaries of all teachers before the end of the month to her but she would use it to pay for her degree education then.
When we got to know about this, we both decided to come to school that day but we won't be teaching any classes so that she would know we meant business. We were ready to tell her to pay us that day or else, we would leave the school but that doesn't mean we won't be collecting our salaries because to us, she was cheating us. The professor never knew about this because no one had his contact to explain things to him.
We got to school very early in the morning, did an assembly for the children and they all marched inside. I and my friend stayed outside because we were ready to confront her and collect our salaries. The woman was so inconsiderate and we were surprised at such behaviour from her. We needed money, that was why we went for job hunting and got one. Don't we have plans of furthering too?
This woman saw us outside and told us to go inside and start teaching. No one answered her. We already planned to quit even if she paid the money because we can't continue with a selfish headmistress.
To cut the long story short because the drama we acted for her that day, she never believed it, we confronted her and made her know her tactics of using our salary to further her academics while she was starving and cheating us. She tried to defend herself but she couldn't.
We didn't teach any children until she paid all the money she was owing. She paid somehow and we saw it was complete. We managed to teach the kids for that day and never resumed the following day. She knew where I was living and came to meet my aunt. Thank God I had explained all to her. Though she begged me to pity her because she told my aunt there was no teacher again. That didn't move me at all and I quit the job that day.
Thank God I quit the job and I was able to find a better teaching job in another state. Though I wasn't paid much, I enjoyed my moment there because the woman was always constant in paying our salaries and would even give us tips at the end of each month.
When I was leaving the school after gaining admission in the year 2019 because I spent three years there, the woman felt sad because I was leaving but she had no choice. I got a lot of gifts from her. We still talk to date.
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