A video of two security guards manning the security posts of a Chicken Republic restaurant has been trending. In the video, the security boys were seen abandoning their duty posts and happily engaged in a dance battle amongst themselves inside the chicken republic restaurant and video recording it for tik tok and instagram views.
After the video started trending across the social media, the management of the chicken republic food spot fired the two boys for lack of discipline, being indolent and dancing while on duty.
People have been airing their opinions which is mostly criticism against the decision of the management of the chicken republic to sack the “merry go round” security boys for dancing on duty; some critics even claimed that the boys dancing with their full security uniform inside the chicken republic restaurant is a PR for the restaurant and also a PR for the security guard company that the boys were hired from.
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Can you in all due diligence as a boss of a company hire or keep a security guard who you know is undisciplined, insubordinate and all he does is to leave his security duty post and dance all day to make tik tok videos?
You can keep the answer to yourself!
While we all try to be humane and have a figment of human empathy, we should never let the fact that we are empathetic make us paint what is wrong to be right. Security guards dancing in their full attire on duty is wrong and it’s intolerable anywhere and everywhere.
How can you as a security guard be dancing and making tiki tok videos while on job during working hours with your full security outfit inside the workplace and you expect the management you work for to pat you on the back, clap for you and give you a raise.
This brings a bad image to the security company that the boys were hired from as it shows lack of discipline on the part of the securities, it shows irresponsibility, indolence and insubordination.
Those that have been calling out the management of the food company for firing them should instead hire the boys if they are okay with having security guards that would be dancing and making tik tok videos on duty or they should recommend the boys to another company to hire them.
Nigerians just have a way of justifying what is wrong and painting it to be somehow right and always supporting the victim even if the victim was wrong of his or her action, if not how can any one justify a worker abandoning his work to dance around and make videos, not just a worker, but security guards on uniform. If these security boys are claiming to be entertaining customers with their dance, is that what they are employed for? And of all people that will engage in entertainment of customers will it be reasonable to be security guards?
The dancing alone is constituting a nuisance to the food place and disturbing customers, it’s a food restaurant and not a concert hall.
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Big man. Abeg, with all due respect, please move. How many security guards are out there vividly angry and doing their jobs with much contempt? How much worse to have that than have two boys who refuse to have their moods dampened? Sir, you’ve had a lot more opportunities and probably many more reasons to rejoice than these lads. Yet, you yourself know that you get frustrated from time to time. These boys decided to turn frustration into a reason to be glad. It is not insubordination, it is a coping mechanism. They’ve been fired and that’s bad enough. Probably a lesson learnt for them. But if you’ve got nothing nice to say, you don’t have to say anything at all. Kind regards.
Who wrote this nonsense? Abandoned their duty post indeed. Wasn’t the slimmer one the door man, even while dancing he was still opening the door. You are a bloody Lie Muhammed.
This is a very shameful writeup from a supposedly enlightened mind. You don’t have to lie to make a point.
You know our people all make that proverb that when you want to kill an innocent dog you first of all give the dog a bad name.
The indiscretion, if that is what it is, does not deserve an outright dismissal. A reprimand would have been in order if the companies felt so strongly about it. But on the other hand, if their marketing instinct had been allowed to come to the fore, they ought to have cashed in on the popularity of the act and made some gains out of it. An eatery is not a banking hall for goodness sake and I am sure some smart lawyer can probably make his day in court for these two young lads if the terms of engagement of the security company were to be scrutinised.
In the middle of insanity, hero shall be the one who refused to join multitude but remain pragmatic and honest even when million detaste the truth. The boys were wrong, undisciplined and unprofessional and deserve to be sacked. Unfortunately this is a society that celebrates ineptitude and awards chieftaincy titles to thieves in public services
This is a negative write-up. This is a relaxation center and people come there to be happy. Dancing is not an issue when customers are enjoying the music and the dancing steps
This is most likely a sponsored write up to justify the obvious goof of chicken republic. You will observe that the security man still performed his duty by opening the door for a customer, even while creating a lively and fun environment for customers for free.
The issue of indiscipline and insurbodination raised by the writer is just an afterthought.
Chicken republic should accept their lack of flexibility and inability to think out of the box – and get strategic thinkers into their team.