Muskoka

Friend just phoned me advising they've been offered a job in Dubai. Can anyone clarify any suggestions please? Apparantly the job offer is selling property on a commission only basis. Flight out is paid.

I thought this was where they put you in jail for whatever & that its been on tv about people leaving their cars at the airport & leaving Dunai cos they're in debt??

Any advise I can pass on, would be greatly appreicated. Thanks in advance

Victor Meldrew

A job offer in Dubai selling property on a commision only basis?

No accommodation? health care? yearly flights?

I wouldn't touch it.

Millsyisland

Advise them to say no.

auzdafluff

Yeah, don't go near it with a barge pole. In the past, when it was a sellers market, commission only wouldn't have been that much of a problem.

However, this is now a buyer's market, and there aren't an awful lot of them around at the moment.

Blue Cat

definite no no

co durham boy

They just keep coming......

Muskoka

ok thanks very much. This is what I thought. I'll direct him to this thread & hopefully he will see sense.

jackthehat

You could put another 'Slant' on things, and consider starting a 'Repossession and Recovery Company!' - This will probably be the next 'Boom Industry!'

mission

seriously how effing dumb is your mate? he/she gets a so called job offer out here and they are asking you about it and you don't even frigging live over here you sure this isn't about YOU? lol.

Muskoka

Err, no chance not me. I just bought a house with a secure job. Dubai is one of the places that has never appealed to me.

Just phoned him. Seems most of his friends are telling him to give it a miss, barring his partner who is all for it.......ah well, I've done my best. Its up to him. Feel sorry for him though - its only because he's so desperate to get some/any work. It is tough on some people. I can do no more.

Hello.Kitty

aww, bless him! I've got a funny feeling his partner may have been wowed by the glitter!

The job would be like living in London on commission-only, apart from you don't get any free healthcare, no help from the government if things go pear-shaped and if you default on a credit card or loan, well, what you've heard is pretty much true. There are no safety nets here.