Work and Anxiety Attack

Story by Susan, The Work Place

Susan was the face of the company where she worked at a time.
She welcomes everyone with a brilliant smile as she attends to customers as a matter of fact Susan was the best customer service personal at De-Hasstrup communication. The marketers love her because of her positive and quick response time to their calls and complains which makes her extension phone rings non stop.
DCL Good morning / Afternoon, her voice echoes each time she picks her call.
But what a lot of people didn’t realize was Susan was dealing with Work Anxiety attack. Each morning she wakes up with fear and afraid to face the day. She always have the fear of losing her job..
Sometimes she would cry and cry and her husband would console her. She would come up with many excuses on why she shouldn’t go to work, she would cry and say “Mr. PAT hates me and wants me out of the company Juwon my colleague is too hostile, I can’t even approach her when I need help with my work. She is more experienced but yet she won’t help or direct me. She will wait for me to make mistakes and then she would broadcast it to everyone. Please my husband let me resign and stay home to take care of our children she would plead every morning”.
But, her husband would not listen to her pleading rather he would allay her fears and encourage her to go back to work. “You can’t become a career woman that you have always wanted to be if you keep quitting your job because your supervisor doesn’t like you. I will help with the childre , I will leave work early to pick them up from school and I will make your favorite Egusi soup don’t worry I got you baby”. With all that Susan would get up and leave for work. As soon as she walks into the office, She puts on that smile and wait for Mr. PATs …

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Working mum part 1 – Susan M

Story of a working mum

A working mum, Laide has just been relieved of her job for resuming late and not being consistent at work for the last 5 months. She had been a dedicated staff of that organization for the past 8 yrs. She has been married for 9 years and just had her set of twins 6yrs after marriage.

Balancing work and home wasn’t such a problem until her mum, who was a great support system with the twins passed. She was left with her 12yr old maid who also went to school. She hadn’t been lucky with house helps so she decided to settle with Tosin her 12yr old maid. Tosin’s mum fell sick and she requested that her daughter return to take care of her. Now Laide was left with her 3yr old, her home, and her work to manage.

The schedule

She would wake up as early as 4:30am to get her children and husband’s breakfast and lunch ready. Get the children ready, drop them off at school by 6:10am and head straight to work, from Ikeja to Victoria Island to resume work at 8:30am. She sneaks out of office at 5pm to meet up with the daycare center at 6:30 to pick her children. This has been her routine for the last 6 months.

The result

Stress was beginning to take its toll on her and she started waking up late the twins were also stressed and they fell ill too. She started going in and out of hospital, calling in sick and missing out on important meetings and missing deadlines. The HR had out of concern given her concession to resume 9:30 but she still wasn’t meeting up with work deadlines and management had no other option than to let her go because they were beginning to lose out on deals due to her absence from work and inability to meet up with deadlines. Its was a tough decision but they had to let her go.

These are challenges mothers, especially new mums

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Frustrated Project coordinator using Laptop

Stories

Life of a project coordinator – Susan M

Project coordinator and The one man squad

“Shade, you are a hard working lady but management is not pleased with you”. This report was shocking news to Shade, considering she had just delivered on a project that everyone declined because of its complexity and worse, short delivery time line.

Shade had been tagged “A crazy deliverer” or “The Deliverer”. She earned that name for her doggedness. She didn’t know how to say NO. Shade could take up two or three projects at a time.

The task

On this particular task, she was to build an exhibition booth with a complex design and delivery date was in one week. Everyone gave an excuse that they were all busy and couldn’t take up another project. The project brief eventually landed on Shade’s table. Shade was advised by the Business Director to send the client away with cost and other means. She acted as instructed by inflating the invoice but the client wasn’t moved or scared by that, instead, they negotiated for a 10% discount, Shade told them they could only do 5% which they also agreed to. This client was not ready to back down, they want to make an appearance in this year’s exhibition and a big appearance at that.

Deal closed!

Shade closed the deal. From her estimate the company should make a very reasonable profit of about 150% for a one week project! She commenced plans for the project with her production team and partially put her ongoing projects on hold for 6 days and they commenced production.

She raised her budget and took it straight to the Business director for approval. He was shocked and asked “Shade why she took up the crazy project?” she reminded him “our company is a 460 degree company, we can’t back down else the client, who is approaching us for the first time will be disappointed with the organization”. The MD secretly admired Shade’s courage and can do spirit. “That’s why I brought the budget myself for approval and

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