[2ndDivisionVet]

FULL TITLE: 800,000 ex-pats have left Saudi Arabia, creating a hiring crisis: 'Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working'

[Olog-hai]

Didn’t know there were 800,000 former members of the New England Patriots out in the K.S.A.

[Wissa]

Saudi businesses are complaining that locals don't want to do "low-status" jobs that many expats worked

Same thing I see in the American media about how bad it would be to kick the illegals out of our country. Business Insider is using the Saudi example to subliminally reinforce the message to Americans.

[Salgak]

Except that most of the expats are either in-home servants or grunt construction labor, based on my one visit to Riyadh, years ago. There USED to be Aramco and other oil-worker compounds, but didn’t see any of them. . .

[House Atreides]

Well...Europe can send them their “migrants” and Syria can send them their Sunnis. Problem(s) solved!

[yesthatjallen]

How about hiring all the Africans and Middle Eastern refugees flooding Europe.

[Kozak]

LOL. When I worked in Saudi a couple of years ago every Saudi wanted to be the boss. And if you actually needed anything done you found their Ex Pat assistant to do it.

[BenLurkin]

Muslims sure do love slavery.

[FLT-bird]

In the Persian Gulf countries - and I assume it’s the same in Saudi Arabia - the high tech and technical stuff (doctors, banking, engineers, those running the infrastructure etc) were all Westerners. The shopkeepers, factory workers and construction crews and those who did the tough dirty work were from the Indian subcontinent. The Arabs didn’t do much of anything except soak up government handouts.

Oil is not going to last forever and as their population grows, the benefits get less lavish anyway. If they’re not to experience a brutal crash in their living standard in the next generation or two, their own people are going to have to get off their asses and start working. They’re going to have to admit to themselves that memorizing passages in a 1300 year old book is not “education” and does nothing to prepare one for the modern world.

[JoeFromSidney]

One of my father's cousins was a welder. He worked for an oil company in Saudi Arabia. He left when a mob started throwing rocks at him. I didn't blame him. He spent the rest of his days as a welder in The USA.

[JoeFromSidney]

One of my father's cousins was a welder. He worked for an oil company in Saudi Arabia. He left when a mob started throwing rocks at him. I didn't blame him. He spent the rest of his days as a welder in The USA.

[BobL]

How do you teach welding to someone who’s entire uniform will immediately burn up if a single spark should hit it?

[KarlInOhio]

'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.

[tbw2]

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.