Oliver Samuels Show Preview 14th November 2016
Life of Comedy turns into Reality
Since my life has been turned upside down right after returning from Jamaica on the 8th July 2014 to attend my mother’s funeral. I have had to deal with some real life issues that changed the course of my life in the workplace that I was always proud thinking I was part of a valued team. Soon after my return from Jamaica, where I experienced a number of transitions throughout 22nd December 2013 to 8th July 2014, I was to face discrimination that deprived me of my Human Rights. This ill treatment started soon after I transferred from Luton Street, Edgeware Road, North West London to Bird in Bush off the Old Kent Road South East London.
I started working with London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) on the 1st September 2009 and as can be verified from my contributions to making the organisation a beacon in the early years sectors. I was flabbergasted when in October of 2014, the same month LEYF gave me a CEO Long Service Award, the BIB team set about terrorising me at the instigation of the area manager Hilda Miller who was new to LEYF, same as the BIB that were a new acquisition after the takeover. By the time of my attending the wedding of a former colleague on the 4th January 2015 I was literally a “sitting duck in the pond because I did not learn to swim” resulting from my childhood traumas that led to my “hidden disabilities” that was to change my life for the next forty six (46) years.
My #FIGHT4JUSTICE is already partially documented about the discrimination I experienced at LEYF from October 2014 to date. But LEYF and their corrupted cohorts that have set about to directly and indirectly discriminate against me will be in for a shock now that I have received the documentations and is able to put all the evidence together and will be putting them in the public domain. My main reason is so that LEYF do not think they can get away with treating their employees less than an animal the way they have done me, and think they can get away with it. Because they have friends in high places who will turn a blind eye and take their money to help them cover up breaches of the national laws, home country legislation, codes of practices and conducts.
Change of Lifestyles
I have been forced to change my entire lifestyle because of LEYF discrimination when my life was turned upside down and my disabilities exacerbated. Instead of been unbiased, none judgemental, respecting my rights not to be discriminated against, LEYF joined BIB to make my life a living hell from 5th January 2015… As a result of LEYF determination to ruin my life by fair or foul means I have been out of work since 27th September 2015. Despite my best efforts to get back into work by embarking on studies, etc., I am still not successful because of the networking and blacklisting against my name from I was proactive in ensuring I am discriminated against. Being out of work is one of the hardest things I have had to deal with for reasons that I shared with LEYF. But that did not seem to make any difference when LEYF set out to deny me of my rights.
Not having a job means that I have got to alter my entire life to suit the circumstances I am now in through no faults of my own. The SYSTEMS that I thought were in place to support and advise me for a variety of reasons: paying my tax, paying the trade union dues for when I should find myself in this situation again. Only to be let down at the final hurdles like what have been happening to me from 2004 when I was defrauded. These days I don’t have the resources nor the inclinations to be the “Social Butterfly” I was before LEYF changed into the “Corporate PSYCHOPATHS” that set about destroying the life of others that they view as threats to their incompetence.
In order to go to the theatre these days is like a treat that I have to save up for like the “Christmas presents my Parents used to save for to give us” when I was growing up. Therefore I have to be “picky and choosy” these day about going out, so that’s why I now stick to well-known names like Oliver Samuels. Yesterday at The Broadway Theatre & Studio at Catford, I was experiencing some of the realities of my life played out in comedy by the casts of “Guilt Trip” in live and living colours. Since some of the comedy was centred on Westmoreland the parish of my birth and where I spent all of my life before coming to the UK, I could relate to the play unfolding before my very eyes.
I can testify that the comedy resonate with me for so many reasons that it was uncanny and I had no options but to get into reflective mood even when I was sat in the theatre and enjoying the comedy unfolding. I would entreat anyone of Jamaican heritage who would like to get an insight into the many issues that might affect us throughout our transitions through life to get a hold of it. This is a true life story about life in Jamaica from “Cradle to the Grave”, and how much we are affected by issues that sometimes are none of our making. My old folks used to say “Once a Man, Twice a Child” and now that I have had the opportunity to live away from Jamaica, I can relate to a lifestyle that is totally different from that which I was used to in Jamaica.
Seeing the comedy played out on stage at the Broadway Theatre, Catford SE6 4RU by these actors and actress, who could put their personal touches to making the scenarios come to life. Serves to help me reflect on my life since I got back from burying my mother in July. Because since I arrived in Jamaica on the 22nd December 2013, my second son’s birthdate, I have had the opportunities to make the most revealing discoveries that changed my life for good. I went to Jamaica to attend my son’s wedding on New Year’s Day 2014, the son I had despaired was ever going to settle down. During my time in Jamaica, I spent quality time with my “mother who had dementia that I diagnosed” years previously.
I learned more about my mother in four (4) weeks than I had known about her before. Although she did not recognise me, I knew the day when I was leaving to come back to the UK and she came around telling my son she didn’t come to say goodbye, that I would be saying my final goodbye then. I kept abreast of everything happening with mum over the next few months and on the day she drew her lost breathe, although I was here, it was like I was at her bedside. I returned to bury my mother, attended my grandson’s graduation. My grandson was the valedictorian and got a scholarship to one of the most prestigious high schools in Jamaica – Munro College.
Despite my recent bereavement, work kept me going so I went back to work after my transfer was granted. I made valuable contributions as per usual, so it was a surprise to me when history repeated itself and the BIB team started to mistreat me. When I relied on my employers for support, they joined in to discriminate against me and destroy my health. My story is been told all over Social Media as I refuse to go away and let LEYF get away with what they have done to destroy my career and health in the process. I think it is important for me to share my experiences with the world about the way I was treated by LEYF so they don’t get away with putting another employee through what they done to me right after I got back from burying my mother.
“Oliver Samuels in Guilt Trip” for me is comedy replicating real life. My advice to LEYF is that they get some real life scenarios life the show I went to watch last night to give them an insight in the real world. I was instrumental in using my “Intellectual Properties to making LEYF a beacon of best inclusive practice” from 1.9.2009 to 27.9.2015. However LEYF changed into the PSYCHOPATHS I am unable to recognise once they decided to be the biggest in the early years sector regardless of the consequences to the children who deserve much more and the parents that expect quality instead of the quantity LEYF is offering.
My #FIGHT4JUSTICE goes on!
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