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Anybody who transferred flights in places like Dubai could see huge asymmetry in employees of airport between natives and foreign workers mostly from south east
by saiya-jin 6y ago
Anybody who transferred flights in places like Dubai could see huge asymmetry in employees of airport between natives and foreign workers mostly from south east asia. Natives hardly do any work, look utterly bored and either chat or stare at phones all day long.
Foreigners do all the actual hard work (unless they can't like security/immigration work).
I am not surprised, after many stories how badly folks from ie Nepal are treated there. I don't see even a slight international pressure from big players like US or EU. Maybe similar reasons like with China - don't mess with important players, in this case oil providers?
Man, I sure do miss traveling...
- smabie 6y agoAll Emiraties in Dubai get paid huge salaries and as you say, do pretty much nothing. Police officers might make 200k/yr. It's pretty much a giant welfare state. Many foreigners do very well over there as well, but a much larger percent (Africans, Indians, and southeast Asians) do not. Also the number of women imported on tourist visas for prostitution is staggering.
- grecy 6y ago> Anybody who transferred flights in places like Dubai could see huge asymmetry in employees of airport between natives and foreign workers mostly from south east asia. Natives hardly do any work, look utterly bored and either chat or stare at phones all day long. Every time I go to the USA I'm shocked when I see that exact same asymmetry between service workers and the white-collar class.
- dang 6y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972311 and stop posting nationalistic flamebait to HN. It doesn't matter which country you have a problem with—you're breaking the site guidelines and it needs to stop. Please don't do it again.