Doing business

brianbennett863

I run a manufacturing business and a trading business.
The biggest problem in my manufacturing business is not power or infrastructure, the biggest problem is finding honest staff. Everyone we hire seems eager to steal as much as possible. Inflated invoices that reflect less than the actual number of units produced. The worst thing is that all the fraud that we have uncovered is not committed by one person, usually many employees collude with each other, starting with production, ending with sales, finance and even top management. There was a year when I reviewed the management 3 times a year.........

But I, I found a solution, sha, now I use Indian management. So competent, so honest and so straightforward. At first I thought they were expensive with all the visa fees, accommodation, home staff, but now that losses due to staff theft have been minimized and efficiency has increased, the Indian leadership has turned out to be cheaper than the previous African leadership. Now all the delicate positions related to money are transferred to the Indians. Africans are allowed to occupy only non-sensitive positions. I used to criticize companies like Dangote Group that hire so many Indians when there are many unemployed Africans, but now I understand their decision.

My biggest problem in the trading business is the same - to find honest staff. The form of trading takes place on the open market and assumes that employees have access to huge amounts of money, reaching up to several million. I know how much I pay security companies to provide staff escorts, not to prevent a robbery, but so that employees go straight to the bank to deposit money after the day's sales, and not disappear with my money. This money spent on security companies is even enough to be declared a profit. We have to spend money on video surveillance, biometric scanners and other things that would not be needed if the staff were not looking for the slightest opportunity to steal.

At some point, things got so bad that my main criterion for hiring staff was no longer competence, but honesty. At least competence and skills can be learned, but once you are dishonest, you are dishonest.

We always complain about the economy and that there are no jobs. I know people abroad who would like to set up a job creation business in Africa, but they can't because they can't find a reliable person to run it.

I know people in Africa who have so much money that they want to open factories and other businesses that create jobs, but they can't because they are busy elsewhere and can't find a reliable person to run the business. Therefore, instead of investing in the real sector and creating jobs, they will simply buy treasury bills, while thieves shout that there are no jobs.

Many large enterprises would be born in Africa if we could enter into partnerships, but we can't because you can't trust anyone. This is one of the advantages of Indians and Lebanese over us in Africa. They can pool resources and engage in mega-business, unlike Africans, who, since only one person has to do everything, since we cannot cooperate, end up creating small, tiny enterprises.

Get a bird and they will steal your eggs. Some will even go kill chickens to be allowed to take them home.

Launch an entertainment/viewing/gaming center and they will pocket your money. On the days when you are in business, the money earned will be 10 times more than the money earned when you are not around..... Because they eat up your money.

Rent a car to the driver for use and watch him finish you off.

Open a restaurant, the same thing will happen. More than half of all food ingredients will end up in their personal kitchens.

Even in an ordinary grocery store, they will find a way to steal.

You will see them with this their evil, evil saying "at the place where they work, at the place where they work, at the place where they work, at making them work in the workshop/workshop"...... Just imagine justifying theft at work.

And you will see how these people point their crooked fingers at politicians when they are no different. I usually say that the reason most Africans haven't stolen billions of public money is simply a lack of opportunity.

amadsecca

it has always been interesting if people really make money on such things or is it a hoax

drakeheyman093

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