Imagine someone came back from leave and I complimented her that, “Oh, she’s looking good…That, oh, she has added some weight.”
Do you know that they tagged it another thing, body sh@ming? Do you know that this lady, she started crying before I could know it, eh, she has already reported me to the management.
“They called a meeting. No, no, be small matter. They called a meeting and were asking me why will I tell someone that someone is f@t? Oh my god, I was so devastated. I was so @ngry. I was explaining to these people, I said, please, in my country, hmm, this is a mere compliment.
These people, no gree hear me o. Na so these people say, make I, they go house, say, until they decide I go come back. But me, I know, say na…”
– A Nigerian woman has shared the culture-shock experience that she says cost her a job in the United Kingdom.
