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800,000 ex-pats have left Saudi Arabia, creating a hiring crisis
Business Insider ^ | July 9, 2018 | Ambrose Carey

Posted on 07/09/2018 9:14:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
'Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working'

They're just now figuring that out? Almost 30 years ago in college we had a bunch of foreign students. The Chinese worked hard. The Indians worked hard. The only Turk I knew worked hard. The Saudis were lazy and cheated like crazy.

21 posted on 07/09/2018 10:10:08 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is actually something Saudi Arabia needs to do to improve its economy, have work done by locals who spend it locally instead of foreigners who receive money and send most of it abroad.


22 posted on 07/09/2018 10:19:38 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Olog-hai

When women can drive, you don’t need that 500,000-1,000,000 foreign drivers who existed only for that nation.


23 posted on 07/09/2018 10:20:13 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Wissa

Just send them all those who “do the jobs Americans won’t”


24 posted on 07/09/2018 10:29:00 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Vigilanteman

I know an ex-Pat who taught STEM courses at one of their Universities. He said his students were lazy. They need to keep cutting the welfare benefits, both to encourage the locals to get off their duffs, but also because with population growing and oil revenues dropping there just isn’t the money for previous level benefits. It won’t be an easy transition even if it can succeed. And when they discover the well trained part of their population actually willing to work in tech fields is disproportionately female they’re really going to have difficulties with the crazies.


25 posted on 07/09/2018 11:38:32 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
For sure. The model which worked so well for Bahrain just isn't going to work for KSA. Arabs are natural traders and bargainers, but without the STEM people to actually produce something, there is only so much which can be done with a nation of shopkeepers.

They are going need to import their elites for the foreseeable future to fill their STEM deficiencies. But they are also going to need those on the low end of the economic scale to perform some menial type work even if it is 15 to 20 hours per week to start with, just so they gradually get used to it.

H3ll, the might need to even import one of those Jooze to show them how to grow things in a desert.

26 posted on 07/09/2018 11:55:10 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Remind me to tell a story about what happens when the oil runs out.


27 posted on 07/09/2018 2:44:09 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Please do!


28 posted on 07/09/2018 3:34:11 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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