After two years of polytechnic education, I completed my I.T, or industrial training, for a year in a restaurant where I was a waitress. The manager was satisfied with my work, so he promoted me to another department where I worked in an ice cream shop and also slightly increased my pay to what I had been paid before...I was pleased since the area is lovely and has air conditioning, at least with that one can cool down from the sweltering northern (Nigeria) heat.
We live in one of the local government areas of the state, so the environment is so lovely decorated with lovely garden flowers even his Mansion at home is amazingly beautiful indeed he has good taste. The first day I went to his house to make ice cream for his wife since she loves ice cream a lot, I couldn't believe my eye I never knew is house is as beautiful as the eatery that students frequently go there to take pictures.
Everyone who works there gets along great, almost like family. We had fun, laughed, and were cheerful. It was easygoing and tranquil. One fateful day an idea was brought from one of the staffs she suggested that since we work together and relate well with each other she suggested we can save up for the future by contributing every month through our monthly salaries she suggested five thousand for each month per person, I was not in support of the idea because the salaries are barely enough to take care of our needs...she kept encouraging and convincing me that I can do it and before I knew it I would have saved up alot of money by the end of the year, I calculated the money five thousand for a year that will be much I was impressed too so I decided to join even though I know is was going to be difficult for me, my salary then was really not enough to cater for my needs and I do support my mom financially but with the monthly savings I can't do that anymore...but I thought within myself the turnout will be great after all and I decided to give it a try since I was having it difficult to save up on my own at least that will help alot and moreover I trusted them so much. I then began saving with them by handing them $5,000 each month. I started off doing some internet commerce. Before they suggested saving every month, I was still expecting it would soon pay off.
I therefore kept setting aside money each month. Since there was a coronavirus pandemic breakout, the restaurant was closed till further notice out of concern for the disease's spread. The woman who proposed the idea claimed that closing the restaurant was only a temporary measure and that it was still early in the year for the general collection of all the savings. I rejected the idea and requested a refund, but she persisted and assured me that we would return to complete the task at hand. I continued phoning to ask them to pay my money back after many months passed and the restaurant had no intentions to reopen. From 2020 to 2023, they never stopped telling me tales. 3 years have passed since this began. I couldn't see them or my money, and nothing was heard of them.
Is truly painful, and whenever I think about it, I become depressed. I kept blaming myself for having trusted the wrong people. I regret having joined the internet business and that donation. That was the first time in all of this that I heard anything about them again, and I felt deceived.
Hope I made the right choice in deciding to let it go? Thank you.
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