scrubbedexpat141

Amen.

sonlymewalter

what would you do if you saw this kind of crap happening?

Surely you guys can't work for people who behave this way

scrubbedexpat141

Working in the Middle East, even the likes of Dubai, requires you to sell your soul and accept, to an extent determined by you, that where you live and work are buildings built by what can only be described as slave labour. Your lunch is made/delivered by people earning less in a month than you can spend on a round of drinks and that nothing you do will be able to bring any fundamental change to the standard of living and pay that people from the sub-continent get.

Now, I know that there are plenty of folks on here who have and do work with charities to try and help and who do treat everyone with respect, dish out tips to the petrol station guy etc etc.

BUT fundamentally, I've accepted over the last 2.5 years I've been here (that's mental by the way), that this isn't going to change, we are not able to influence it and let's face it, 99.9% of people are inherently too selfish to influence it for a fear of reprieve and punishment, but also sheer laziness and turning a blind eye.

BTW - The fear of reprimand is true, a guy uploaded a video of a local beating a delivery driver after they had a bump. Proper beating, people generally stood around doing **** all, one guy stayed in his car, filmed it and posted to the Police and youtube. Not sure what happened in the end but there were calls for his arrest and the po-po said they wanted to punish him as the guy filmed demanded they press charges etc.

It's a shitty situation.

Ethos83

I flew back from a work trip to Doha not long ago. Business class (how kind of the company). A fat Qatari family sat in the row in front of me and during the fight the mother (fully covered down to a single slit across her eyes) must have called for the maid at least half a dozen times and lots of sharp orderings sounded from her row and the kids were spoiled brats who couldn't sit still and kept calling for the stewardesses.

When we arrived in Heathrow and queued to get off the plane the family was quite slow (as would one expect) and with their massive luggage was taking up the entire width of the walkway to the terminal so I got fed up and tapped the fat cow of a mother sharply on her shoulders then elbowed her even sharper as I passed her and said 'bugger off you silly ****, you're slowing down everyone' and stormed off.

Lots of loud exclamations emanated from her but thank god for good ol' UK soil.

Very rude, I know. Before you jump to conclusions I'm normally never like that but there was something about that family that made you want to take them down a peg or two. This isn't to imply that all Gulf families are like that but the sheer arrogance of some of them is simply mind boggling.

scrubbedexpat141

Yeeeaaah! 1-0 to us!

I'm with you on that, nothing like being nice and polite and subservient but getting your own back when you're on top.

Well played pal.

Patsy Stoned

I am working with (their charity side), and supporting, this company FSI Worldwide, they are slowly undermining the unethical recruiting agencies and are doing amazing work to try and end that dreadful practice where the agencies make the workers pay to get the job... that results in the workers being 'bonded' to the agency and the knock on effect to their families are terrible.
FSI also has a charity called Freedom Matters which builds schools and helps trafficked children.
If anybody is interested this is the link to FSI
http://www.fsi-worldwide.com/index.p...y#.UnDK4lM2OsE

and this is the charity.
http://www.freedommatters.org.uk/

britexpat76

I know of someone that offered to help two particularly arrogant obnoxious Saudi's when they jumped off the plane in Heathrow. He politely offered to take their passports to his friend who would let them pass through immigration without having to queue with the plebs...........10 minutes later they were in the bin somewhere between immigration and baggage collection.

scrubbedexpat141

That's so ballsy it's brilliant.

britexpat76

I do often ponder what happened to them though. I wonder how they liked it not having access to their passports and talking to someone who doesn't give a shit who they, their father or their uncles are.

scrubbedexpat141

Yeah. In basic principle I feel sorry for them, the punishment must outweigh being arrogant, ignorant and rude.

BUT still, it's nice seeing all their cars getting towed and shit like that, because it's how the sensible world works, you can't buy / blag your way out

Blue Cat

Years ago I was on a flight to Heathrow, a female Emirati was giving me filthy looks in the departure lounge and muttering under her breath etc. She changed out of her garb into Western gear as soon as the flight took off. When we were in baggage re-claim I approached her and questioned her about why was staring at me etc etc. I pointed out that she was now in my country and that I would stare at her and make her feel out of place and if she didn't like it she could call security. Needless to say she apologised.

jam25mack

Ha ha ha ha! Awesome!

Alexa

Lovely...tempting...very, very tempting.

OleJanx

Oh, isn't it just! There's a multitude of urban legends about this kind of thing, but there's always a part of me which thinks ' Oh I wish it was true!'

Alexa

Not only that..I'd LOVE to see it !
I am actively trying to figure out the logistics of doing such a thing...something in the planning for my exit flight.