Female boss sacks young man after he said mum is illiterate, can't speak English

A Twitter user with the handle, @lollypeezle shared his unbelievable ordeal of how he got fired from his job on Saturday, January 23, 2021.

According to him, while on the phone with his boss, she requested to speak to his mother who was with him at the time.

He humbly told his boss that his mum is illiterate. He further asked his boss to speak Yoruba with his mother.

He said:

“Ma, my mum is illiterate, please speak Yoruba to her instead of English.” The man lost his job after he told his boss to speak to his mum in Yoruba.

That particular statement angered his boss who told him that how dare he talk about the woman like that when his job is to polish her up.

The woman asked if that is the way the worker goes around talking about the company’s clients. After an abrupt disconnection, the man’s contract was terminated via an email.

Read the thread below:

As at the time of writing this report, the tweet has gathered many reactions from Nigerians who thought the boss' reaction was exaggerated.

@dee_praize said: "I don't think it was any fault of his. The boss has an issue with temper and rushing to conclusions. Seems to me like someone who's hard to please. If it were an office setting, then she's on her right but in his own house again. It has to be ment!"

@KingDharmie_ said: "Now the mum will suffer from the unemployment too, in a place I worked many years ago Oga legit fired someone because he met him in a joint drinking on a Sunday night. Like Oga you came to drink too and how does that affect your job abeg."

@duchess_kk said: "Me that asked my mum, 'kilefe" when i saw she was looking for something just to help her...she changed it for me...said its an insult to ask agbalagba "kilefe"... Nigerians."

@wealthy_yute said:"Saying his mum is an illiterate is actually not cool. He should have said his mum only understood Yoruba and not an illiterate. Well, I no know wetin join him and hin boss before."Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a lady turned down an offer of a very good job because she is scared of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos state.

A Twitter user, Lola Okunrin, made it known on Wednesday, December 2, saying the job was going to be paying a salary of N190,000 every month, according to Legit.ng.

When the lady applied for the job, she thought she would be working at the mainland branch of the company.