Go Back  British Expats > Living & Moving Abroad > Middle East > The Sand Pit
Reload this Page >

Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Old Jan 3rd 2011, 11:50 am
  #1  
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Thread Starter
 
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 13,553
The Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond repute
Default Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Why would they do such a thing? It's not as if they are living in squalid cramped conditions...........

http://en.news.maktoob.com/200900005...t_/Article.htm
The Dean is offline  
Old Jan 3rd 2011, 11:58 am
  #2  
Lost in BE Cyberspace
 
Millhouse's Avatar
 
Joined: Aug 2009
Location: Disneyland, Dubai
Posts: 15,887
Millhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond reputeMillhouse has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by The Dean
Why would they do such a thing? It's not as if they are living in squalid cramped conditions...........

http://en.news.maktoob.com/200900005...t_/Article.htm
you have broken your new year's resolution.
Millhouse is offline  
Old Jan 3rd 2011, 12:03 pm
  #3  
MODERATOR
 
Norm_uk's Avatar
 
Joined: Dec 2004
Location: Dubai
Posts: 6,370
Norm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond reputeNorm_uk has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by The Dean
Why would they do such a thing? It's not as if they are living in squalid cramped conditions...........

http://en.news.maktoob.com/200900005...t_/Article.htm
Same reason as in every other riot - frustration. Rioting is not a rational act...it's a emotive mob based action.

N.
Norm_uk is offline  
Old Jan 3rd 2011, 2:00 pm
  #4  
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Thread Starter
 
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 13,553
The Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond reputeThe Dean has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by EmiratesMillhouse
you have broken your new year's resolution.
I know............... I couldn't let the passing of PP go unavatared........
The Dean is offline  
Old Jan 3rd 2011, 3:31 pm
  #5  
BE Enthusiast
 
Squirty Cream's Avatar
 
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Living in a mirage
Posts: 606
Squirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond reputeSquirty Cream has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by The Dean
I know............... I couldn't let the passing of PP go unavatared........
Last saw Pete in The Age of Stupid, which I doubt you have seen because it's about your favourite subject!
Squirty Cream is offline  
Old Jan 3rd 2011, 8:21 pm
  #6  
hnd
BE Forum Addict
 
hnd's Avatar
 
Joined: Sep 2009
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Posts: 1,160
hnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond reputehnd has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

So not Ford Open Prison then ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...esnt-work.html

Where these poor, sad people/convicted criminals (some of them murderers) had a games room, library, gym etc and decided to burn them down because they objected to having to take breathalyser tests?
hnd is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 5:14 am
  #7  
Banned
 
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 20
Tommy All Call is an unknown quantity at this point
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

All joking aside now...Be careful friends- These slaves might revolt one day and come after you people that have been livin the good life at their expense. Don't think it hasn't happened in the past.

It's called History, look into it
Tommy All Call is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 5:29 am
  #8  
Banned
 
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 20
Tommy All Call is an unknown quantity at this point
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Seriously...I'd hate to see some of you innocent wives paying for the crimes of your husbands over there. You can only work people like dogs for so long before they break out of their camps one night and storm the town..And your soft desk jockey husbands would be no match for a mob of angry working men.
Tommy All Call is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 6:01 am
  #9  
BE Forum Addict
 
Boomhauer's Avatar
 
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,639
Boomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Norm_uk
Same reason as in every other riot - frustration. Rioting is not a rational act...it's a emotive mob based action.

N.
Even the most docile pet or human will eventually get fed up and strike out if they are routinely under duress.

Other than vehicle demolitoion, the camps were in most likelyhood barely any better before they got 'trashed', which is no doubt part of the reason for the workers lashing out.
Boomhauer is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 6:11 am
  #10  
Banned
 
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 20
Tommy All Call is an unknown quantity at this point
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Boomhauer
Even the most docile pet or human will eventually get fed up and strike out if they are routinely under duress.

Other than vehicle demolitoion, the camps were in most likelyhood barely any better before they got 'trashed', which is no doubt part of the reason for the workers lashing out.
..If your livin there, your benefitting from the exploitation. I do bad things too, but at least I don't go around posting like my hands are clean..I don't want to bring everybody down or exaggerate anything, but to some extent, you are all war criminals.
Tommy All Call is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 6:20 am
  #11  
BE Forum Addict
 
Boomhauer's Avatar
 
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,639
Boomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
..If your livin there, your benefitting from the exploitation. I do bad things too, but at least I don't go around posting like my hands are clean..I don't want to bring everybody down or exaggerate anything, but to some extent, you are all war criminals.
I ain't living there, left in the 90s before I was 18.

Whether one lives there or not is a moot point regarding criticism or disgust at the situation because thats like saying an abolotionist shouldn't criticise slavery because they indirectly benefited from the wealth created by slavery.

It is unavoidable and inescapable that anyone with direct knowledge with living conditionts on the ground would have benefited in some manner from the slave like labour there, so does this mean only foreigners who never set foot in UAE can criticise the local situation? Ofcourse if you think so then the locals could easily retort back that said foreigners don't have first hand knowledge so their criticism is not accurate. You also end up aiding the apologists by removing eyewitness accounts and first hand expereinces of persons on the ground.
Boomhauer is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 6:25 am
  #12  
Banned
 
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 20
Tommy All Call is an unknown quantity at this point
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Boomhauer
I ain't living there, left in the 90s before I was 18.

Whether one lives there or not is a moot point regarding criticism or disgust at the situation because thats like saying an abolotionist shouldn't criticise slavery because they indirectly benefited from the wealth created by slavery.

It is unavoidable and inescapable that anyone with direct knowledge with living conditionts on the ground would have benefited in some manner from the slave like labour there, so does this mean only foreigners who never set foot in UAE can criticise the local situation?
No, but you have to admit that you're crawling over other people to make your living. Don't act like you have nothing to do with it.
Tommy All Call is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 6:35 am
  #13  
**** it we'll do it live
 
shiva's Avatar
 
Joined: Oct 2004
Location: Dubai
Posts: 7,892
shiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond reputeshiva has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
..If your livin there, your benefitting from the exploitation. I do bad things too, but at least I don't go around posting like my hands are clean..I don't want to bring everybody down or exaggerate anything, but to some extent, you are all war criminals.
do you own any electronic goods?
do you own any clothes made in asia?
do you own any sports gear made in asia, central or southern america?
do you ever eat food that may be sourced in asia ie rice, tuna, shrimp etc?
do you ever eat any chocolate or products containing chocolate extracts?

you cant answer no so you might as well accept it that you too actively support the exploitation of others from countries less economically powerful than the one in which you live. apparently you do post as if your hands are clean
shiva is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 10:19 am
  #14  
BE Forum Addict
 
Boomhauer's Avatar
 
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,639
Boomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond reputeBoomhauer has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
No, but you have to admit that you're crawling over other people to make your living. Don't act like you have nothing to do with it.
I am not contributing to the misery.

So if I don't show any sort of sympathy or compassion , would that be better?So not only are the workers being treated like shit but now none should even take their side.
Boomhauer is offline  
Old Jan 4th 2011, 12:58 pm
  #15  
Hit 16's
 
Bahtatboy's Avatar
 
Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine
Posts: 13,112
Bahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond reputeBahtatboy has a reputation beyond repute
Default Re: Workers trash labour camp, then strike......

Originally Posted by Tommy All Call
..If your livin there, your benefitting from the exploitation. I do bad things too, but at least I don't go around posting like my hands are clean..I don't want to bring everybody down or exaggerate anything, but to some extent, you are all war criminals.
You're a complete twat. By living and working in AD and ensuring that I treat everyone fairly, ensuring that my company doesn't discriminate unfairly, I'm doing "bad things"?

Your problem is that you go around posting like the complete twat you are. Now kindly eff off back to your miserable, unimaginative life.
Bahtatboy is offline  

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.