Boss Catches Cleaner Taking Selfie in His Office, Encourages Him to Follow Dreams
- A man known as Oluwanishola Akeju has inspired many with how he responded to his cleaner taking selfies at work
- Instead of reprimanding the man, the boss asked him to strike a comfortable pose on his chair as he took shots of him
- Oluwanishola said he did that so that the cleaner knows anything is achievable in life, no matter how big
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A man, Oluwanishola Akeju, on Friday, July 2, narrated a significant encounter he had with his employee.
The Itsmy Hq CEO on Facebook said he saw his cleaner taking selfies in his office as he walked in one morning. The worker had to quickly hide his phone when he saw him.
Source: Facebook
Sit on my chair, feel like the boss
Oluwanishola said he requested his phone and asked him to sit on his chair. When the cleaner did that, the CEO took proper shots of him.
After the shots, he told the cleaner nothing is impossible in life. The boss said he hopes the photos do not end up on social media but become a motivation for him to go after bigger dreams in life.
His post partly read:
"I hope it won’t only go to his social media updates but rather, a picture he would constantly look at, driving him to be someone better in years to come."
Read his post below:
At the time of writing this report, the post has gathered hundreds of comments from Nigerians with over 2,000 likes.
You inspired him!
Briefly News compiled some of the below:
Bademosi Martina said:
"You have just told him he can go as far as he sees himself, I pray he sees himself doing great things. God bless you for your kind.heart. You will go places on Jesus name."
Damilola Oshadare said:
"You're my inspiration. Thank you. I hope the world or people inside can be as kind as you're; this world would've been a better place."
Godwin Onyekachim Benjamin said:
"Thank you for inspiring and renewing hope in the cleaner. Yes, it is possible."
Orfe Alogaga said:
"You just have a way of inspiring me baba Desire. He will never forget the day he thought it was finished for him only to discover that it was a temporary seat of honour and motivation."
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Cleaner shows a good example
Meanwhile, Briefly News earlier reported that a man, Obiefoh Sunday, who is a housekeeper at the Lagos Continental Hotel, showed true honesty in his work.
His boss, Muhammad Ashraf, on his LinkedIn page wrote about how the young man found some wads of US dollars in one of the rooms he went to clean after the guest had checked out.
Immediately he saw the money, the cleaner alerted the hotel management of the situation and the money was quickly deposited into the organisation's lost and found account.
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