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Old Jul 22nd 2012, 4:44 am
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I arrived at 8am. I was the only one (this is normal)

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I arrived at 6.30 and there's me plus the chai wallah .
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about 20% down- most are on annual leave or business no AWOLs.
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Originally Posted by kittycat1
about 20% down- most are on annual leave or business no AWOLs.
Our office should hold 55 people. I'm expecting no more than 10 today.
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Default Re: How many people in your office?

I got in for 0724.

There was me, the lad I give a lift to and five others.

By 0825 there was 17 plus a few in a meeting downstairs.

We'll be full capacity bar a couple on holiday.
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millhouse- do you work with a lot of muslims? and will it be like that for the whoile of Ramadan?
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To answer the question, there are presently 3 instead of the usual 4 but he is on one month's leave. We have no muslims here.
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millhouse- do you work with a lot of muslims? and will it be like that for the whoile of Ramadan?
Now at around 15 people. I think we have peaked

The office is around 60% Muslim - a 50:50 mixture of Pakistanis and Arabs from all over the Arab world. The balance is probably 25% Indian with the remaining 15% being a mash of Europeans/ South Americans/ Americans and a chink. We are split around 70:30 men:woman.

It's beautiful.
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Now at around 15 people. I think we have peaked

The office is around 60% Muslim - a 50:50 mixture of Pakistanis and Arabs from all over the Arab world. The balance is probably 25% Indian with the remaining 15% being a mash of Europeans/ South Americans/ Americans and a chink. We are split around 70:30 men:woman.

It's beautiful.
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I'd be slightly worried if anyone else turned up, seeing as how I'm working from home at the moment.

The company's office is usually very quiet anyway; about 70 per cent of our staff are sales, so they're out on the road most of the time anyway.
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Only one muzzie of around 10 of us here and he's quite a tame one, so business as usual here.
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Just me as usual. Occasionally joined by a cat.

Coffee and toast at my desk right now too.
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Originally Posted by Meow
Just me as usual. Occasionally joined by a cat.

Coffee and toast at my desk right now too.
snap, minus the toast
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What do you actually do? Is twitter,blogging and posting on inanely boring expat forums a source of income for you or at best does is get you a free curry at a shithole in Barsha with the twaterria or however you pronounce a group of geeks.
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What do you actually do? Is twitter,blogging and posting on inanely boring expat forums a source of income for you or at best does is get you a free curry at a shithole in Barsha with the twaterria or however you pronounce a group of geeks.
I am not even going to bother answering that
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