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

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

yes I have on a few occasions :)

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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:

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

MM, xx

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think he meant that his post was an attempt at dry humor...

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oh, really...sorry, i'm clearly having another blonde moment, lol...

MM, xx

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to londoners...

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Sorry i should have stated, i have been out with the guys from work on many an occassion...they have been in my house etc.

does that help...

my original line made it sound as if i took them out on expenses..

apologies

Londoners are still twats..period

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I never said anything bad to you

Gett stuffed!

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gett a gripp and ssorrt outt yourrr stutturr

im only kidding FFS.

i watch Eastenders every day

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Its funny how no one here ever considers themselves to be the idiots claiming to be the CEO/Director/Top Brass.
Are you all just the nice average Brits, as opposed to the loud, boozy brunch, look at my huge villa and two 4x4's Brits?

I socialized with 2 accountants, a manager and a financial controller at the weekend, no CEO's or shop assistants in sight.

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i socialised with an RAF squadron leader, a USAF colonel, a lecturer, a VP of Ethiad an aircraft controller, a combat medic..

not a financial person in site...bliss

actually i live in a villa and have 2 4x4's

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I didnt understand one word of what you just said, must be all the acronyms.

I only understand numbers.

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check with your husband when he returns from work

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Gay marraige isnt allowed here, but i'll be sure to let you know if that changes.

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Thanks to Mr. Hogie
and the people at EY there seems to be VP in most departments
and none of them do much !! so i am told by a mate in EY.

For the not so clever folk EY =Etihad.

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thought you were a female emirate pilot?

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and your point is? i didnt say i was sucking his knob because he is a VP at EY did i?

:D

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Since when does anyone tell the truth about their real job in Dubai?!

Im actually an Indian gardener/carwasher, i stole the laptop im using from one of the idiots that keep leaving their houses unlocked because "its Dubai, OMGAAAAAWD, its so much safer than home!"

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hahaha true!!!!

even lazy expat wives with no real purpose on earth still make up a title/job to self importance themselves..

its usually around charity:D

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I am a professional Social Networker I will have you know


:rofl::rofl:

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I fed a stray cat once, does that count as charity?

I couldnt give it a home though. Well, it was poison i fed it, so no real need for a home then.

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Yes, now you can put "VP EMEA of Feles Cuisine" on your LinkedIn page.

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Ah yes LinkedIn - now there's an interesting site! Half the construction people we know on there have very interesting titles :rofl:

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surely a construction company is 90% people on the tools and 10% people at head office with shirt and tie?

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Lots of Directors in a certain company you know and they don't all wear shirts and ties. I love the job titles like Sustainabilty Manager etc that people add on to their jobs when they don't really do any of it!

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I don't have a lot of time for the Brit expats who have noses higher than their foreheads...especially since many of them are hardly aristocracy back home to begin with anyway.

I'll go out with almost anyone, especially if they drink and can hold a conversation about anything remotely interesting. I even had a drink with a Frenchman once...;)

N.

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i take my lads out every now and again,its actually great crack watching these boys guzzle pints like theres no tomorrow.
its like when your 17 and in the boozer just getting aquainted with the finer things in life.
like every 17yr old the non-return valve doesnt seem to work very efficiently so you really have to know when to shut the supply off.
watching there faces in the morning is another great sight as well a kind of cross between bubonic plague and dementia !!

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You also see a lot of Quality Assurance Managers these days