Expatwifesa

Hi there Colin, If your out on site with Mike he Knows of a welsh guy married to a german lady who does that border trip every month cause she doesn,t want to do the whole UAE residence thing,she just get,s on the bus stays there for the afternoon and returns with the 30 day entry again.I could be going on the bus with herI know how you feel it,s a lonely time out here on your own Mike felt exactly the same.Hope you come right, thank god for busybee ey what would we have done without him and all our problems.I think we all owe him a pint

expathopeful

I always thought busybee was a she..... I even had a thing for her.... how awkward do I feel

I'll let you know how I get on, and yes I'm at site for 4 days starting tomorrow. We had a new arrival last night, dizdiza86 or something like that, cant remember exactly. Didn't get the chance to meet up today, im sure we'll bump in to each other at some point.

Expatwifesa

Haha maybe busybee is a lady,then a glass of wine instead of a pint .Colin take some long sleeves they won,t let you onto the plant without and there,s still no uniforms.Have a good one.

expathopeful

Thanks, but I wont be going to the plant until next year, im on fire response for the camp about 15km away. Until the commissioning is complete that's my job :-)

Expatwifesa

well I hope you and your hose do a wonderful job on the camp HaHa.

busybee2

no a prob you just do a border run over to oman via al ain or hatta etc, just takes a few hours. go to hatta fort for the day and that solves the problem, you can pay at immigration once to extend the visit visa but it costs more, remember that it is different for different countries, uk is fine, south africa may be different.

busybee2

i think its more than 500dhs now.

nawallove401

best of luck I hope you get the job

expathopeful

tonysom

It's very quite?????? Again in waiting game, it's been 10 days submitted the final doc. They said 2 weeks let see, coz at the time of interview the told 8 weeks but it took 6 months to receive the offer, so now how many days?

Second thing it's Ramadan month so it will go slow then normal.

expathopeful

Chill Winston!! As you said its Ramadan, so yes things are going slower, one thing I will repeat is what other people have said on here. This is good preparation for what its like when you do get here. Ive been here nearly 6 weeks, and 3 of those ive spent sat in a chair somewhere waiting for something to get done.

On the other hand though, all the people out here now have all said how much we badgered the departments in getting us out here. It seems the more you phone, the more you press them, the quicker you get out here. So don't write on here, write to them. You will get out here, that's for sure, but there are some people on here who would give their left arm just to be at the stage youre at as they've not even been given offers.

TBH, theres no great rush to get out here now anyway because theres not much you can do in Ramadan, you'll have a lot more waiting to do at certain departments.

Email the guys at Al Hosn, and then phone them, but like I said, it will happen, just when theyre ready. See you soon mate :-)

busybee2

yes very very very very slow....

busybee2

yeh its very very very hot at like 52 degrees! and ramadan so really there is no rush.... not fun time to be trying to sort out anything like paperwork with governemnt offices on shorter hours etc...dont want to be looking at properties in the heat

Bright_Darkness

Wow! I've just stumbled across this thread...!

My experience has been much like most of the people here. Going through the interviews back in Jan and getting an offer after a very long time waiting.

The offer was rubbish and was dismissed straight away. I founded my rejection on long research (which I would have shared here, if I knew about this thread).

What I can tell everyone is that ADNOC are generally known in the industry as not-the-best-payer. They rely on the mass applicants to fish out one that bites on the cheap bates.

I would be really interested in knowing what are the engineers' experiences, grades they signed to, experiences they've endured, work situations.

I was thinking about relocating my family with 2 children (schools are important).

I understand that the position will be site based. What happens if one had to return home on en emergency? are there shuttles? Company Cars? own cars? (the contract wasn't clear about travel allowance)...

don.govender

I think the important thing here is that the positions are family status positions..yes the salaries are not the best but if you factor in the benefits like housing and schooling etc..then it starts to make sense... more importantly these are in effect permanent positions if you prove yourself...unlike most other companies offering single status and only 1 year contracts..just my 2cents...I will be flying out tomorrow to land in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday morning...see you other guys out there... I'm South African Indian...have to make it known to the people that I'm not from India ;-)