Originally Posted by spart (Post 7737701)

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/56126...-for-labourers

I'm suprised this didn't get a run on BE earlier.

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 7737936)

The bit about using the rear entrance near Carrefour is shocking.

"Yes, we want cheap labour, but we don't want to see it or interact with it."

Ladies and gentlemen, segregation and apartheid are alive and well in 2009.

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 7737936)

The bit about using the rear entrance near Carrefour is shocking.

"Yes, we want cheap labour, but we don't want to see it or interact with it."

Ladies and gentlemen, segregation and apartheid are alive and well in 2009.

Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 7737982)

bunch of TWATS.

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7739220)

Would both of you be happy to share a cab with a labourer, or go into a toilet which is used by a labourer, or, go to McDonalds and sit down and have lunch with a labourer???

I know I wouldn't and i am pretty sure none of you would...

Hence I don't see why we get upset and angry at such a subject...

The issue is labourers coming into shopping malls, would we go to a labourer's shopping mall and hang around there, Grand Shopping Mall in Al Quoz is an example, without running out of there within 3 minutes???

I don't think so...

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7739220)

Would both of you be happy to share a cab with a labourer, or go into a toilet which is used by a labourer, or, go to McDonalds and sit down and have lunch with a labourer???

I know I wouldn't and i am pretty sure none of you would...

Hence I don't see why we get upset and angry at such a subject...

The issue is labourers coming into shopping malls, would we go to a labourer's shopping mall and hang around there, Grand Shopping Mall in Al Quoz is an example, without running out of there within 3 minutes???

I don't think so...

Originally Posted by Madam Medusa (Post 7739261)

omg, i'm actually speechless...these are human beings you are talking about, not "things"...

MM, xx

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7739268)

Elaborate further so that I can defend my point of view...

Originally Posted by Madam Medusa (Post 7739271)

your view was quite clear...and we will never see eye to eye so no point wasting my breath...

MM, xx

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7739276)

No...You should waste your breath...

Would you do the having lunch/mall visit/share a cab/etc with a labourer???

I will shut up if you would...

Originally Posted by Madam Medusa (Post 7739280)

but that's not a valid argument...i wouldn't have lunch with/share a cab with any random guy whoever he was...but would i mind if they sat next to me in a restaurant or whatever, no, i wouldn't...and as for them just going to a mall, geez, it beggars belief that they have been banned...

MM, xx

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7739298)

Those were just examples of situations from the back of my mind...

I do also fight for the rights of labourers, any profession for that matter, my argument is that we all get upset when a group of people is mistreated, yet we don't personally put members of that group in equal terms with ourselves...