lullabelle

I have three - THREE - decent people out of fifteen. That's decent. Not good, not particularly talented, just decent.

The rest are backstabbing little ****ers who haven't a brain cell between them. I've had to deal with total incompetence, breathless uselessness and astonishing egos. One guy told me last week that he couldn't make meetings because he was a genius. Really. Another actually sabotaged an edit in a misguided attempt to make me look bad. My news producer (ex, since Thursday) thought two week old stories were news and frequently got the story completely wrong anyway.

I'm thinking of designing a t-shirt with "I'm with stupid" on it and arrows pointing in all directions, including up at my face for agreeing to work with this bunch of reprobates.

Whilst moaning on about this to my mate, she claimed that this was normal in the middle east...

Is it? I'm intrigued to know. Cos Ive certainly never come across such monumental crapness in my entire life.

auzdafluff

It is. I'm always asking myself whether being made to work alone on a magazine is a blessing or a curse. In the UK, it'd be a straight curse. Over here though, I'm not so sure.

The Dean

Nationalities?

flares

stereotypes exist for a reason

twisty100

BRILLIANT.. Welcome to Dubai...

guuuude

Not only dubai, welcome to Doha as well ,-)

NurseNinja

not wanting to badmouth an entire people : but one might say their is a void of work ethic here

lullabelle

The crap people broken down into nationalities in order of crapness

Iranian
Pakistani
Filipino

I would say the Iranians fall into the "backstabbing sabotaging *genius* category.

The Pakistani's and Filipino's into the "bloody useless, no initiative, no sense" category.

But my three best ones are from Iran, Pakistan and the Philippines. So you cant really generalise on nationalities.

guuuude

its also depends on the industrie where they work in. Eg Philipinios have a good knowledge of CNC machinery some of them are able to work in europe!!

iamthestig

Count yourself lucky you don't have to work with Lebos and Egyptians...

The cherry on the cake is our HR department which is almost entirely staffed by locals, a more useless bunch I have never come across in 30 odd years of working. I haven't been paid on time once, lost passports, screwed up iqama, no health insurance for months, 10 months wait for expenses to be paid... I reckon 15% of my total working time here has been wasted trying to get things sorted out in HR.

LaLaLayla

Yep. It's normal. When I worked at a certain Sovereign Wealth Fund you had one person for one job. The same job that they had been doing for 15+ years. And they were still crap at it. And when they were off, the job wouldn't get done.

Useless. Lazy. No accountability. Welcome to the UAE

lullabelle

My old HR department was mostly locals apart from one poor overworked guy.

They were entirely useless.

One of them spent the entire month putting together the email which featured pictures and mini biogs of new recruits. Maybe 4 or 5 people each month. She still managed to spell my name wrong, mix it up with someone else's, and claim I'd learned lighting design in the Phillipines (errr.... not me guv)

Robajob

The guys that work for me aren't too bad, apart from a moments of intense stupidity..

The Dean

You all seem to be assuming that these employees are "useless", "incompetent", etc............ thus implying that they don't know any better.

I actually have a theory that it's deliberate.

lullabelle

It is. But having seen their body of work before I joined I can confirm that they have always been pretty crap.

Anyway, had enough. Going home. This lot and the shoreline saga has finished me off. We're outta here by end of Jan I think.