moonbase51

hello does anyone know if ther is any jobs for plasterers in Dubai please I'm a fit reliable 35yr old with 16 yrs experience I take a lot of pride in my work and I'm very clean I have a full driving licence and my own tools and can start straight away

Millhouse

impossible for you mate. What you earn in a day in the UK, an Indian will work a month for.

co durham boy

Daily rate i'm paying Masons / Plasters at the moment is 90 QR / AED per day . About 15 quid is real money .

Millhouse

Good on you mate. That's about 2-3 times more that I thought they would be getting.

co durham boy

No overtime though , flat daily rate . I'm not here to give the firms money away !

moonbase51

15quid a day wer do they live and what do they eat surely could pay them more Dubai is richest country in the world lol

Meow

Have you done any research about this region?

Dubai isn't a country for starters and it isn't actually that rich. Some companies and people might have lots of money but that's not the same thing.

I can set out deckchairs if anyone wants to explain further...

moonbase51

get away I've been and watched loads a documentarys about it
it became the richest investment manmade City in the world within about 3year it was only desert 😀

moonbase51

sounds like it lol bloody slave labour that
thank you 😀

scot47

In the 1970s I remember that there were some British tradesmen in Saudi in the building trades. In the mid to late 1970s they disappeared, to be replaced by much cheaper Filipinos, Indians and Pakistanis.

I think there are no jobs now anywhere in the GCC for British building trades.

Meow

Technically speaking a slave wouldn't be paid at all but the salaries for manual work are low as there seems to be an unending demand from people from the Indian sub-continent to take these jobs. The companies then take advantage of that. The wages that seem abysmal to Brits are more than most can earn in their home countries and most send a significant proportion back home to support their families.

It's not nice but that's capitalism for you.

Most Brits here are professionally qualified, experienced in a particular field and/or work in a niche area. Many earned good money in the UK too. Of course there are always a few chancers... *looks around the board*

Anyway, I saw this documentary about plastering once so I am now an expert on that apparently. Who knew?

Millhouse

I had to plaster a bathroom when I was in the UK. It's not that hard. A you-tube video was enough for me.

Mix up the shit a lot thinner than you think would be right. That's the trick.

Tockalosh

Rates are better here than in India !!!
Had to let one of my chaps go this week and our Indian office wanted to snap him up
At 30% of his Saudi salary
Now that is closer to slavery. Having to live in those horrid slums for **** all rupees and an arsehole Indian boss

Tockalosh

Dubai would be unbearable if it was polluted by a ruck of plasterers from the north east. Let's keep telling them the rates are shit so they don't come

moonbase51

what a poor reply 😀