Up the workers!!!
 

Has any ex-pat met someone who is either a seamstress, works in a cafe or a manual worker since they been in Dubai and that person has become a good friend?


TM - LB
Commercial Director

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

what you are asking is have we become friendly with someone from our Asian Workforce? yes?

yes I have on a few occasions :)

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

They're surprisingly normal people really.. Yeah I know, shocking:rofl:

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look at Euc for example, he used to fill up my car for me :p

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Exactly, Sonapur isn't all that bad either :thumbup:

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

you could ask the same question to anyone from london, or anywhere else for that matter...not quite sure what the point is...

MM, xx

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

Oh my. You will be asking next if anyone has become friends with one of those ghastly taxi drivers.

It will be the end of the empire when we start to become friendly with these savages.

FFS

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

Used to work in shipyard and we took our lads out a lot. These were of the slug mustache south indian variant

Why wouldn't we?

Commander

Human Being

And I'm also a 'worker'

No wonder londoners are universally hated

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good on you for 'taking your lads out'...

I think that it's normal in every society to socialise or become friends with people from your own social background or circle...simply because you have more things in common with those people, because you are more likely to meet those people and because it's easier to do things together. You go to the same kind of places, you have the same sort of money to spend on activities or when going out for a meal for instance.

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

I think the OP is probably trying to point out that it's very hard to make friends with the "working class" here.

At home my two best mates are a plasterer and a postie, it is very unlikely that I would be able to socalise with people doing those jobs here - For all the reasons MataHari has pointed out, yet in England this is quite normal.

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

Congratulations!

I was a worker for many years.

Londoners are the salt of the earth.

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Tragic attempt at dry humour.,

I never heard anyone say that "I was out with John last night and he does laundry at the Hilton hotel". The people who people seem to meet always appear to be top brass.

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

I understood ya fella.

although I wouldn't say that people here are 'top brass'. I'd say that they THINK they are top brass...

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probably cause the laundry man doesn't hang out at the same places as you do...simple as that. You don't meet cause your social paths don't cross and unless you make a real effort, you never will. And people tend to hang out with other people similar to themselves either in background, religion, financial status etc. It's the same all over the world.

Re: Up the workers!!!
 

wasn't any attempt at dry humour...i genuinely couldn't see what your point was...

MM, xx