On June 2021, Terry Gatugi 20, (not her real name) left the Kenya Institute of mass communication to pursue pleasure from a love trip in Mombasa. At this moment of her two weeks trip, school was ongoing but she was not intimidated. Her esteem had vanished when her brother in one of the countries premier media stations promised to connect her to a job. And her passion to toil in the mastery of skills was killed, so the promised chance waits upon a Terry with no skills.
As she confidently advanced out of the azure gates leading to the countries premier media institution, her final utterances would thereby alert me of a trend in the job sector where incompetent folks like Terry, reign. For her, the precondition that you must have certain skills to earn a job have been replaced by family linkage, which those who don’t have are left to tarmac searching for jobs.
It has never dawned on her that taking her studies seriously, would ever be rewarding. She firmly believes that university education is meaningless if one has no connections to the job sector.
Despite the solid facts that sacrifice and patience are the major beginnings in finding a job, connections have affected the validation of that adage. The Kenyan employment sector once a niche for only eligible employees, is devoured by the rise of incompetent folks hired through what is commonly known as connections.
Prominent organizations in the country have turned into safe havens for incompetent people to not only thrive but reap a living. The passion from a relationship easily confuses the managers decisions as the make their recruitment. As a slight misstep, the consequences cause collapse of some very promising enterprises in the country.
They introduce uncouth habits that slowly consume the organization. On their personal life, you find they are the type of workers who flaunt their job on social media- aiming at announcing their new reputation. In the office, they loiter sightlessly, easily engage other employees in gossips and are always up to date with transformations in the office. Players in the game are also blinded by the dismay of watching their allies struggle with the brutal process of job seeking and result falling prey to their feelings. Hence wield their chances to convey relief.
Although students at this premier media school work zealously to remain at the top, likes of Terry are wholly nonchalant. But not disturbed by what her response will be when called to deliver a task, she will join a procession of folks in a lot other organizations in the country, who’s nonexistent skills, were not the hiring factors in their absorption into the job.
the disgrace that that arise due to intake of incompetent workers encourages hiideous way that affect the workplace.
In the majority of bureaus the practice has growed and has become sort of acceptable.
The trend is also touching on the objectives of the organizations through family love conventions in some cases where over four relatives unite in one workplace. In a rare case reported in one of the countries premier organizations, a manager engulfed in family passion had over a certain period in time of agreement , hired workers of the same tribe- his deputy, senior workers and junior workers and even to security guards. At the final days of the organization’s deterioration, it was learnt that the majority workers were unskilled and had been hired for their close relations with the senior workers.
It’s participation in weakening a workplace
For some mistaken facts, family ties are believed to have the most affection. Built on firm poles like having shared a big part of life with him or her, it can be sickening to watch a brother or a sister get desperate with search for work while you bask in a comfy office seat. For the sake of the individuals sentiments, family is family .and the workplace should not change that..
But as the family passion is made unrealistic by the fact that one shouldn’t accept employees based on relationships, the workplace too becomes unrealistic once employees are obtained based on relationships. If the passion is avoided, the workplace survives and thrives. But if it’s retained it submits it the organization for failure and inconveniences. The connected fellow is not beneficial to the workplace as they don’t have skills needed to improve the workplace. They receive payments for minimal contributions and proceed to bring downfalls as a result of unfinished dealings in their transmissions.
Given that they don’t have skills needed, their biggest task in the office is scheming fraudulent measures to hide their incompetence. Upon being given tasks they either deliver crappy work or get it done by other people. Their wo is mostly one that is submitted days after the deadline yet accompanied by a thousand excuses to justify their void.
In their pursue to not be marked as pathetic, they engage in hideous habits as their survival stunts. When this creepy occurrence allegedly fates the workplace a decline is recorded.
Some time this year the institute which is so strict upon students mannerism learnt about her absenteeism and expelled her.
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