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| Work by Quétinbec 04/20/2010, 8:23am PDT | ||||
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| I thought I'd tell you a bit about my job because it's probably more interesting and better paid than your job, so you can feel jealous and interested for a while.
Middle Eastern universities don't fail students. Quotas ensure that all the Arabs stay employed, and so long as oil stays above $55/barrel, no one pays any tax. It's a great system that a person like me thrives in. What you get, though, is a shit-ton of Arab retards doing jobs they're miles from being qualified in. The easy solution is to bring in foreigners to do those jobs, so they do. Only 20% of the population of Qatar is Arab now. Bahr*in is about 40% Arab. Even so, if you're a company, you've still got to meet your Arab quotas and there's only so many security, admin, and "maintainance" staff you can cram a place full of. Remember, Arabs won't do 'demeaning' jobs involving physical labour, retail, or cleaning. There are Indians and Filipinos for those jobs. Also, you have the children of rich Arabs who're only working because their friends are working. Some of them are on ~50,000BD yearly allowences from their parents. They're only working to keep up appearances. They need a job with a title, so lots of foreigners who do actual work have a vice- or co- Arab to annoy the fuck out of them. I met the owner of Cantonese restaurant here through Claire. He's lived in Bahr*in for 31 years but still has to pay a "sponsor" an undisclosed portion of his earnings to stay in the country. He has 12 Filipino and Nepalese staff and 6 Bahrainis. He pays the Asians 100BD/month to work 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week. He pays the Bahrainis 400BD a month to stay home and pretend to the ministry of labour that they're working kitchen management jobs. Anyway, in bigger companies, you can't keep all these Arabs out of harm's way. Some of them are in positions where they do reasonably important work and have to interact with people outside the company. You can't rely on outside institutions to get them to a level where they're not making fucking idiots of themselves because they can buy whatever qualification they want over here, so there's a lot of in house training, which is where guys like me make money. Apparently, we're a huge step on the private universities. Yay! For the last two months, I've been teaching presentation and team building skills to Bahr*ini IT staff. It's not your typical IT crowd because a shitload of females get dumped there. Engineering doesn't want anything to do with them because what can a female Bahr*ini even PRETEND to do in engineering? They're not allowed to get their hands dirty. So, girls too 'good' for admin come to IT. About 2/3rds of my students are female. They're young. The oldest is 26. Old staff have usually either discovered something useful they can do, got good enough at hiding their fuck ups, or just know the right people. They don't need further training. So anyway, it's just me and one other guy teaching this course and we're only checked up on by management every 6 months, so as long as an activity helps students' with presentation and team building skills, we can do whatever we want for 14 hours a week. We got sick of coming up with stuff to do, so, we divided them in groups and get the groups to teach two hour 'classes' to our students while we sit back and 'monitor' (have I mentioned I make 6 figures tax free?). What better way to teach team building and presentation skills than getting them to teach a bunch of rowdy, spoilt fuckers something? The classes can be about anything, but they're usually either games of some sort or videos. The games are the most amusing because it's always boys vs girls because they're not comfortable mixing genders. The girls talk shit from behind ninja veils and the boys yell and scream and kick around push chairs. I step in to stop violence or abuse that looks like it'll make someone cry. Otherwise, I do fuck all. Today, they were playing Jeopody and someone in the girl's team was talking to one of the presenters. A guy accused her of cheating and when she denied it, he jumped out of his chair, pointed a finger at her, and shouted, "YOU'RE A LIAR AND YOU'LL BURN IN HELL!!!!" which was hilarious because he was dead serious and everyone went quiet because in the heat of the competition, we'd forgotten about religion, and the presenters were using some flash app which was playing the Jeopody theme and it was all you could hear until guys got up and started pushing the angry guy back into his chair. |
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Work by 04/20/2010, 8:23am PDT  Cool! Are they hiring? Will you be my mentor?!?! by 04/20/2010, 10:03am PDT Re: Work by 04/20/2010, 11:00am PDT You don't like Arabs? by 04/21/2010, 7:37am PDT I didn't think I hated them until I saw that picture NT by 04/22/2010, 6:43pm PDT Walk this way by 04/22/2010, 6:48pm PDT How's your brother doing? NT by 04/21/2010, 12:58am PDT Or your dad? NT by 04/21/2010, 6:43am PDT Fine thanks, MM. NT by 04/21/2010, 7:38am PDT Woah, fuck your boring minimum-effort job, how'd he get out of the loony bin? NT by 04/21/2010, 10:18am PDT He stopped doping himself and got a job in the mines. NT by 04/21/2010, 11:22am PDT Why doesn't Tarot Dad get him a better job? Are you the favoured son? by 04/22/2010, 9:21am PDT |
