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zoukla

Mar 20th 2013 9:16 am

Faking it

http://www.constructionweekonline.co.../#.UUl9CzfAMhA

Wonder how long before the UAE starts its own investigation...:sneaky:

jam25mack

Mar 20th 2013 9:42 am

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Mines attested so I don't care!

Beakersful

Mar 20th 2013 2:59 pm

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3 months and/or 10,000AED fine for this, isn't it? I couldn't imagine an engineer from S/SE Asia would have earned (and therefore saved) enough to pay up the fine, so just how many cell spaces are there for them?

Boomhauer

Mar 20th 2013 3:17 pm

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How do the fake engineers do their job:confused:

Sandboy

Mar 20th 2013 3:44 pm

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Originally Posted by Boomhauer (Post 10614764)

How do the fake engineers do their job:confused:

badly ?

Bob	Mar 20th 2013 4:54 pm

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Originally Posted by Sandboy (Post 10614799)

badly ?

Would it be noticed?

OleJanx

Mar 20th 2013 5:00 pm

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Originally Posted by Bob (Post 10614931)

Would it be noticed?

In Saudi? Very doubtful...

weasel decentral

Mar 20th 2013 5:30 pm

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I think I have worked with all of these fake ones at some point:blink:

How do they get away with it? Mainly because the term is over used, every site supervisor or labourer seems to start with the default title of engineer.

Its fairly hard to fake in design roles but when you just have to inspect some block work or watch concrete being poured its easy to carry it off.

In my experience its prevalent mainly with Indians and Egyptians

Boomhauer

Mar 20th 2013 5:59 pm

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Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 10614988)

I think I have worked with all of these fake ones at some point:blink:

How do they get away with it? Mainly because the term is over used, every site supervisor or labourer seems to start with the default title of engineer.

Its fairly hard to fake in design roles but when you just have to inspect some block work or watch concrete being poured its easy to carry it off.

In my experience its prevalent mainly with Indians and Egyptians

That explains it, because how do you fake being a Mech.Eng., Structural Eng., Electrical Eng. etc... These professions require Uni/College level proficiency in advanced Math and Physics courses.

Beakersful

Mar 22nd 2013 8:52 pm

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The medical ones are worrying too. Is the radiographer qualified? Are we getting hit with 500x the dose of x-rays we're supposed to be?

scot47

Mar 23rd 2013 3:54 pm

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Wimp ! X-rays are GOOD for you !

OleJanx

Mar 23rd 2013 4:40 pm

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Originally Posted by scot47 (Post 10620017)

Wimp ! X-rays are GOOD for you !

Yes, the un-natural, and rather sinister green glow in the dark is splendid!

gottheTshirt

Mar 23rd 2013 6:31 pm

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Originally Posted by Boomhauer (Post 10615039)

That explains it, because how do you fake being a Mech.Eng., Structural Eng., Electrical Eng. etc... These professions require Uni/College level proficiency in advanced Math and Physics courses.

In KSA I found 70% of my staff had fake degrees, including the design staff,: I went to India and Pakistan to check the staff being recruited. I had people with very convincing degrees from the university of Woolwich. Phds from the university of Panama. I had Pakistanis with one certificate shared between a whole family. They manage to fake it because those with genuine certificates do not know much more that those with faked certificates.

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