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Having spent 6 years in UoN studying engineering and graduating late 2019, I thought 2020 was the year ya kuomoka till Rona happened. I'll do a thread of my experience in job hunting in 2020 and how I ended up kwa Mhindi packing bottle tops 14hours a night...
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I feel for every young Kenyan man, it's crazy out here. For everyone looking for a job or in a bad one, sending some love ❤️ Hang in there, we hope for better days.
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Daamn!! I didn't expect that thread to blow up like that. I wish I could respond to every one of your mentions & DMs. Thank you all for the messages, the support, the love and the banters too😅. For those calling me and texting me, I am okay. I want to communicate a few things...
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Guys chileee... I didn't do this😂😂😂
FIRE FIGHTERS battle huge blaze near Lunga Lunga Square in Industrial Area, Nairobi.
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Due to the harsh economic conditions, we are closing
@TheGarrisonKe
for good. We are clearing all items on this thread. All items are in good condition- one year old. All prices are negotiable. DM if interested.
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I wonder how many people in Industrial Area work under these conditions and probably worse. I am lucky I don't have a family so I can survive till the next opportunity comes up. That's high-key modern day slavery if you ask me.
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I slept the whole way kwa matatu, I actually felt I needed an ambulance tbh. I arrived at home around 9am. I took breakfast and slept for two days😭😭😭 Today 5 days later, I am still recovering.
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January 2020
After graduating in Sep2019 and landing an internship immediately things were going very well. In Jan 2020 everything seemed promising, it was the year I was going to land that dream job. Opportunities were in plenty Total, Schneider, EABL, Baker Hughes all had...
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With 4 lines of Fabrication you can only imagine the amount of money those guys are making. These "small" companies in Industrial Area make lots of money but the working conditions there are horrible. They don't care at all about their workers. I don't understand how someone...
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The "supper" was 2chapos na ndengu, very shitty food, which was tobe deducted from your salary.
As I was talking to the guys, they told me that day was a slow day. There's a day they worked 18 fucking hours a night. You clock in at 6pm & leave next day at 12noon. That's madness
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is expected to work 14 hours a night with one 10 min break for 6 days a week and when the demand is too high the off-day is deferred to a later day. And to switch from night shift, you have to work 18 hours with no compensation.
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graduate programs and not forgetting other entry level engineering jobs and internships. I landed two interviews in the first week of January. One was at Kapa Oil for an internship position. This is the first Mhindi company I have ever come across. The interview was great...
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The offer was a 6-month internship, no pay, had to pay for my own lunch in the vegan canteen, I took it. After two days there, I got a real job offer in a bakery till Rona hit and I lost the job after 6 months, had to start tarmacking again...This is where my nightmare started...
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In kenya shillings that's 5 bob per piece, which means in 7 hours the cost of all of that was fucking 2.6m. By the end of the night I did 1.2m pieces which translates to almost 6 million Kenyan shillings. The guy next to me did 2.6million pieces which is roughly 11m Ksh
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The following week, I went for the interview. They gave me an aptitude test, easy basic Engineering maths and some stuff about compressed air and how to read a vernier caliper... I did well and at the end they informed they will give me the job but I had to show them...
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They didn't offer any transport or any additional allowances. For those who know the Likoni Rd-Lunga-Lunga Rd route, the only available matatus are the old Outreach Sacco (Idk how those things still work) in Muthurwa.
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Their bargaining power is that so many people don't have jobs so when you go to the interview they will utilise that to get you signing up to really bad terms cause you don't have another option. I am sure they have already replaced me with someone else and the cycle continues.
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That supper break was the only break, for the rest of the night you're expected to work till your shift ends. By midnight, my legs and hands were shaking, my back couldn't hold anymore but I had to keep going. The speed of the machine was crazy....
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On 30th June
that was the last day on my old job, I got a call from the company's HR, a very nice and calm man, he invited me for an interview. I was lucky I mean I haven't even spent time tarmacking. I was very excited.
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At 10pm, a "supper" break came to my rescue, it was for 10minutes but I got time to talk to the other guys. I asked them how they manage to do that job every day. Most of them had joined like three weeks earlier and they don't have an option they have to do it for their families
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up to 5 stacks... drag the pallet to the storage, come back with another pallet and start the same cycle... The first 30 mins I was already sweating but I thought probably after some time I was informed I had to keep doing it till my shift was over... By 9pm I was so exhausted
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So if you're coming from the other side of town, you have to walk to catch a matatu at Muthurwa every single day to and from. This means if you live a lil bit far you have to add 4 hours of commute to your working hours.
This means the job is taking between 17-19hours of your day
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0n 29th June, UoN Career Services posted a job advert and it was forwarded on WhatsApp.. They wanted Mechanical and Engineering graduates and I knew this is it I mean UoN career services gotta be legit.
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2. As much as many people say why not start a business?? Many young people especially graduates are brilliant and have so many ideas but capital not so much. Many opt to seek employment to get their life together and save some capital to start investing and setting up businesses
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3. Those calling out privilege, I might be a little privileged that's why I am here tweeting about it. If I didn't quit, I would be trying to get some sleep to catch the next shift. So think of the not-so privileged still working in Industrial Area.
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The guy demonstrated for 5 minutes. The job was first forming the cartons in to a box, then fitting a polythene bag on the box, fill up the box with the metal crowns, shake the box for the crowns to settle, you seal the box, label the box, put it in a pallet, stack up the pallet
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So I started tracking how much working I was doing just to distract myself. One box of the metal crowns was 10,000 pieces and by midnight I had done 60 cartons. That's 600, 000 crowns. The price of metal crowns i.e wholesale is 0.01$-0.04$ (Source: Alibaba)
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The guy gave me an overall and told me "I hope huogopi kazi". No orientations, no introductions the guy took me to the machines.. They produce metal crowns/glass bottle tops for soft drinks and beer. He gave me some other guy who showing me how the job is done.
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After all that, I signed the agreement and I started asking about the terms of the job.
First it was the working hours, the job was a shift job 12 hours day shift and 13 hours nightshift. During shift changes (switching working from night to day), you have to work 18 fucking hrs
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registration form and then before I had finished gave me a contract agreement to sign that I would give up my first full month salary. I asked why they showed me the service charge sheet which I felt it was robbery since they played no part in getting me the job.
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This was the job description... The company is called Metal Crowns Ltd...the job looked good on paper, it's operation of automatic machines.
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my previous job's contract. This was a big red flag but I told them they have to match the terms of my previous contract and they said okay. They said they will call back after a few days so I went home.
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What these consultancy companies do is that you register with them, pay some registration fee. They have some clients i.e. companies that hire them to provide labour. When an opportunity comes up they get you an interview and if you get a job you pay them a...
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The second thing was the salary, they said I can't get what we agreed with HR I have to settle with 30k and in this 30k they deduct lunch and supper they offer in the company( which is terrible tbh). For me money wasn't the biggest of priorities so I didn't complain too much.
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Another thing was lateness, I was to join the night shift and I was supposed to report at 6pm. If anything happened and I was late for 30 minutes I have to go back home and no pay for that day.
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% of your first full monthly salary. In this situation I hadn't even heard of PeopleLink and wasn't even their registered member. The company didn't want to hire me directly so they used them (it's easier to get rid of subcontracted workers) to hire me. First I had to fill a...
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I was confused because in the interview they didn't mention anything about subcontracting me. I went anyway to see what they were offering and see if they matched what we discussed during the interview. When I got they gave me some papers to sign and fill my details.
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and being self employed doesn't necessarily mean you're not struggling.
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6. For those sending opportunities my way. Thank you ❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾 I really appreciate it. And if you know anyone in a bad situation and you can help them, please make sure you direct every help you get their way.
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I didn't waste any time so I sent my CV to UoN career services and they confirmed. All I had to do now is wait.
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4. Take this opportunity to call out bad employers. If you have any bad experience feel free to share. It's about time we called out bad working conditions.
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After getting all this information I still took the job, I was to start on the night of August 5th. The reporting time was 6pm so I left home at 4pm and arrived a few minutes to 6pm. They did the security checks and linked me to the team leader of the shift.
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After about two weeks a lady calls and said she was from a company called People Link a consultancy company that the HR gave them my number I am supposed to go with my certificates at Corner Hse in town and sign some papers.
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How can a company take 18/24 hours of your time.. means you have 6 hours personal time and you haven't even slept. and to think of the money they're making, it's just inhumane. I don't even know that's legal.
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Anyway, I clocked out at 7.08 am. I was feeling sick so on my way I was checking the job description and I realized they said they required someone with "physical stamina and strength", which clearly I wasn't. I was never going back to that place.
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5. To young graduates: Don't give up yet. Infact, never give up. Better days are coming.
To students(especially UoN): Don't let that afternoon stop you from doing your side hustle. And keep in touch with things kwa ground.
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1. I did this thread to raise awareness, it's just one of many stories that many Kenyans are going through every single day and they don't have a platform to channel their experiences. From the replies it seems it's not a one-off thing.
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I don't have a problem with the salary but doing that kind of work for 14 hours needs superhero powers not someone who was used to mandazi for lunch and chapo ndengu in UoN.
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Anyone with an opportunity send me a DM. Some might get post in the comments.
Thanks again for the messages and the support. It's overwhelming.
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PS5 Standard Edition
with FIFA 23, MKII/NBA2K
2 pcs available
Price : 70k
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PS4 Slim Edition
with FIFA 23, GTA V/NFS
2pcs available
Price: 25k
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I am speaking to some people and see how we can see some actions and reforms.
Have a good day everyone ❤️❤️
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UPDATE: I didn't mean this to go mainstream like that. Due to the high demand, the prices are now locked and we'll have to do a booking with half the price (🥲 Sorry guys).
Mali iende fast.
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Hisense Smart TV 50"
Frameless 4K Ultra HD
2pcs available
Price: 45k
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Started a supervisory role today in a new company. I feel already part of the team👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
2023 has been tough but we gotta celebrate this win.🥂🍾🍾
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I had a good chat with this gentleman this morning. He is willing to work with me to get the actual data of the working conditions of the companies in Industrial Area. We welcome any ideas of how to do it and anyone willing to help in any way to contact me.
I have enjoyed speaking to
@wyregi
on his experiences on this thread today. We wondered how we would find out the terms of employment on more companies in Industrial Area and see how widespread such terms are. We would be happy to hear more ideas.
#DecentWork
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For the past two weeks I've been posting with the hashtag
#DecentWorkInitiative
and it's about time I explained what it is all about.
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Guys do your thing😅😅😂😂
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I have been getting comments about entrepreneurship. I would like to share details of our business, me and my friends started late last year. It's still in incubation stage and we need help in funding and getting clients.
#IkoKaziKE
@IkoKaziKenya
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So I've decided to try this business thing...
Tomorrow we officially open The Garrison Gaming House, Donholm..... Come play FIFA 23,NBA2K23, MK II on PS5 and we'll be giving opening-weekend bonus games.
Location: Donholm Road, Off Outering Road behind Mates Hotel
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I am looking for 10 ladies and 10 lads to volunteer for a 3 day data collection exercise
#DecentWorkInitiative
in Industrial Area.
Requirements:
1. Recent graduate or university student
2. Own a smartphone
3. Resides around Nairobi
If you're interested please hit my DM.
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Someone explain what he's saying.
A true worker fights for better governance that can protect workers rights and respects terms and better conditions of work, fix governance and get it !
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An internal interview for another job today. Pray for the mandem to bag this one.🙏🏾🙏🏾🛐🤲🏾🧘🏾♂️🧘🏾♂️🤞🏿🤞🏿
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fast forward 2022
looking back quitting was a really good decision.
I've had two positive job changes since then and I am in a good company where I can say it's promising for my career.
I know things are bad bad but there's hope. When you hit rock bottom the only way is up. 💪🏾
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@Brian_Tallguy1
Can confirm... that cunt is a scam..he did this last year..luckily I gave out tickets to someone else when I realised he bailed out
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Back to where all this started 😂😂😂 the sounds of pekelee and sight of it triggering my PTSD... we had a chat some of the guys around here.
#DecentWorkInitiative
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Decent work is having a good and safe working environment that allows for personal developmet.
Wairegi did not get that. And so do many Workers in Kenya's industrial area.
#OverExposed
#DecentWork
#UN75
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I will be featured on
@thea_dacitypodcast
... Listen in on Friday to hear my full story ...not just the pekele story 😅😅
Yes guys we have
@wyregi_
on the show. Who is he you ask. His story was trending on twitter last week and we have him on
@thea_dacitypodcast
because we are cool like that. Okay check out his full story on Friday
#schoolsreopening
#googlepodcasts
#anchorpodcast
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"Niko hapa tu Ngara, ndio naingia tao"
ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
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Studying in UoN is an extreme sport:
-Wait for an year before join campus.
-Take almost 6 years to reach 5th year.
-More strikes than academic trips in those 6 yrs.
-Wait for your exam results for almost an year.
After all that shit, I am finally going to 5th year. call mama! 💪
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Another year done!!! been a rough one but here we are... To more life and happiness and more money.... 💉🎂🎂
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My grandma just passed. So devastated 💔💔💔 don't even know what to feel...😭😭 May her beautiful soul rest in peace.. I wish we had more time together... Those 13 years of my childhood together were the best. I will remember her every day. Fuck cancer!
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You missed a chance to say "Young Müller Baby!"
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Today marks 1 year since this happened, honestly it feels like a decade. All I can say I don't regret this decision.
I wouldn't be where I am if I didn't say fuck this shit.
Having spent 6 years in UoN studying engineering and graduating late 2019, I thought 2020 was the year ya kuomoka till Rona happened. I'll do a thread of my experience in job hunting in 2020 and how I ended up kwa Mhindi packing bottle tops 14hours a night...
Thread 1/many
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