Address the improper tithe
The MegaNet
Resource Limited (MRL) saga continues as changes are made to their website and
more emails come into my possession with atrocious grammar and excuses that
still do not address some of the fundamental questions I asked in my first
blog.
For all that
MegaNet Resource Limited has written to date; they have not touched on this
particular portion of their original letter.
“Note
that, there will be a reduction of 10% of your salary for the first month which
will be in a written agreement between you and MegaNet Resource Limited, after
that you will have no business with us.”
A justification cannot be found
I am yet to
understand the reason and justification for filching the tithe of the
applicant’s first month’s salary and whether the clients that have presumably
engaged MRL are aware of this arrangement made as part of the contractual
process of engaging new employees.
This arrangement is
not only improper, it is reprehensible and no organisation should be party to
having recruitment agents dip into the salaries of new recruits as the
compensation for recruitment services.
A strange medical
I am still not
happy with the idea that applicants need to pay up front for a medical before
consideration when what should happen is that applicants first get a
provisional offer subject to passing a medical examination wherein the offer
becomes substantive leading to a probationary period of work that might include
inductions and training.
As for the latest
letter to come into my possession I will suggest MegaNet Resource Limited find
another language for business in which they can be grammatically correct and
plausibly coherent, this is a shame.
An “English” letter?
From: MegaNet
Resource Ltd
Date: Sat, 2 Mar
2013 06:50:55 +0100
To:
Subject: Chat
Rescheduleing
Dear Applicant,
Your recent chat
invitation with the HRM of MegaNet Resources Limited has been rescheduled to 5th March 2013 (Tuesday) as a result of the
questions and answers that arouse from the invited applicants that was
were selected for a CHAT with the HRM in other
order to verify the credibility of the company/job due to the FACT that a N2,
200 (Medical Fee) was imposed on them.
We are a Human Resources Consulting Organization with RC
1523321. Our head office is located at 26, Church Rd [Which I
note is once again different from 26, Alagomeji Street, Church Rd. And
different from the address that was there yesterday – can these people get
anything right?], Ikorodu Lagos State. We recruits for banks and Industries Nation Wide,
but right now we are recruiting for Unilever Nigeria Plc.
A questionable ploy, still
The reason why the
N2, 200 Medical fee was imposed on you is for a
Medical Test that is compulsory we carried
out on every qualified Applicant we are to post to Unilever Nigeria Plc. and
the money can’t be paid at the venue because Unilever does send an investigative panel to monitor the recruitment exercise
and we wouldn't like a situation whereby they will
think we are extorting money from applicants.
The purpose of this chat is to screen the original copyies of your credentials before being posted.
Under normal
circumstances, you are supposed to be given a
written test then an interview follows, but due
to the urgency of the
request of for staff from Unilever
Nigeria Plc we couldn’t achieve this that is why your CV/NYSC certificate was
randomly screen regionally and an
invitation was sent to 40 qualified 40
applicant Nation Wide knowing full well that as
a Nigerian Graduate you will be able to cope with
since an in house training that will be
giving given to you.
Therefore, if you
are one of those that was selected I will advise you to pay your medical fee
and follow all instructions been giving being given to
you oin
the previous invitation letter to enable us to
complete the recruitment process. It’s for your good and ours.
Yours Faithfully,
Dorcas Bode
Sec. [Now the
secretary has upended the Human Resources Manager?]
Phew!
Bunglers beyond belief
After all the blogs
I have written about MegaNet Resource Limited and the actions they have taken
to-date, we can safely say they are bunglers of the first order, unprofessional
to a fault and incapable of paying attention to meticulous and essential
detail.
We met here with a
situation where a company that may well be genuine has operated on the fringes
of legality that it is almost impossible not to consider their speciality
scamming.
When I compare they
are doing to the activities of a similar but better organised recruitment
activity by TrippleLink Global Solutions
Limited who are organisers of the National Recruitment Fair
2013, MegaNet Resource Limited plays charlatan without dispute.
Pages, charges and videos
That is not to say
I do not have some issues with the TrippleLink enterprise considering they have
a website that has no detail of their business especially no indication of
their Upcoming Events.
If you are going to
put a webpage up as a business, make sure it promotes what you do rather than
show your business practices as sloppy, uninspired and amateurish.
They will also be charging N3000
for applicants to attend, however, that would be for conference materials and
other needs at the fair.
Then as we pay
tribute to the inferiority complex that so easily impresses us of foreign
things, they published a YouTube video
that includes a Text-to-Speech voiceover with an American accent. Shame on
them.
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