Thread regarding Saudi Aramco layoffs

the first lady also has a hard life

arguing with a clueless idiot is pointless

Quick check: No, the immigrant I married gets treated no differently.

Oops. Another fail. I'm the wrong person for you to float your BS through.

Our last president's father was a non-immigrant. Student visa. You wouldn't have even issued him a passport.

California governator - immigrant.

The list is millions long.

Move on saudi. You do not belong here.

Haha, go ask a Mexican or immigrant if he/she gets treated the same as an American in the USA. You might market the US as free and fair, but the reality is different. If you ever worked for Saudi Aramco, you were for sale, and if you did not work for Saudi Aramco, its YOU who must explain why you are here being derogatory to the company.

9 years of my life were never for sale to you nor did you ever have enough money in your piggy bank to buy them. So get your hand out of your pants and the vacant grin off of your face while you're imagining that you did or that you laid me off.

No company on the planet keeps their lowest performing and least productive employees on the payroll while engaging in layoff by nationality. In the US we get to compete side by side with everyone and I like it that way. We also don't have to work with or work for retards whose only qualification is their family name. So guess again.

To review: You are not welcome in here and you will continue to get proctologist appointments for stitches until you leave. So go now or go later, no difference to me but you might heal up faster if you bow out and find something better to do.

Makes perfect sense. That’s why appraisals are yearly at most companies around the world. Do you know of a US company that does not have an annual performance appraisal review? You know of a US company that does not lay off people? Majority of retirees visiting are pleasantly surprised at the changes and the happy memories that their visit invoked. You stayed 9 and a half year and only discovered them you hated it? You appear a bit slow.

Yes westerners who worked 9 1/2 years were let go because of "performance" or "trouble fitting in". That makes sense? Or, like the GOSI robbery maybe they just got robbed.

The retirees who visit the camps with fond memories are not visiting the Aramco they remember. In a two year period Aramco took a nosedive. You might think about that before you compare your apple to someone else's orange.

Quite a few Westerners are not bitter about Saudi Arabia. They have fond memories of the place, even retirees come back and visit the place, stroll around the camp, etc. There are even Saudi Aramco reunion groups in North America, Europe, Asia. Sadly a few bitter expats who are bitter at not being able to fit in and were let go have polluted this website with their bitterness. Sad.

I am a westerner but my observation is that security is not making things worse. I believe they do a really good job and are respectful at all times. I think they are enforcing rules written by someone new in his management position. The cameras by gate 34 are an example. But those cameras will reduce Saudi employment. Now guard needed by the ATM machines. No guys in green jackets to enforce the HOV parking. Okay that was sarcasm. But seriously, I believe Aramco security do a great job and I am happy they do it for me. As far as life on camp, it is changing but so are the demographics. It is what it is. So if you are lucky enough to be on camp, just say thanks and greet your guard with a smile.

anyone ever heard of a westerner who was bitter about getting out of saudi arabia?

Servants bring things to Saudis...foreigners in Saudi Arabia are the hired help. Don't like it? Then don't come. Yet you appear bitter at being thrown out.

Every single thing that a saudi does, has, and enjoys was brought to him by a greedy guest.

Very simple. They were American. Now they are Saudized. So now it is like a prison.

Guests leave nothing behind. Everything around you was left behind by your so called guests. Squatting on it does not mean you built it. Squatting on it and claiming it means you must be Saudi.

Haha so they are “American”, yet it’s like a prison camp according to the comments of n this thread...such desperation to justify your bitterness, you should seek help. The greed is expecting things to be all your own way when you are only a guest.

Greed is taxing working expatriates to fund citizens accounts for non-working saudis.

That greed will eventually take you where the same greed took Caracas.

They're american houses in american built camps that get assigned, no choice, to american families. Where is the greed in this again?

They still don't have to live on camp. They can spend their own money if they hate living on camp so much and forego the benefit of living on camp. I suppose greed takes over.

aramco does not pay the rental allowance to american employees due to a tax agreement with washington, guess for them they will still have to live on camp

Actually you have a choice. You can live in the local community and get a housing allowance.

It was a serious question yes.

We are put behind walls and segregated apart from them so that their communities (and all but a little sliver of their whole country) are free from us and the dirt and germs we probably bring in with us.

It is their country but it seems very stupid to segregate people away then go to where you segregated them to mingle and visit and howl with your family all night.

R u guys serious? When are u going to stop complaining. Dont think you r some elite human race. You are in their country so shut the hell up and be happy or leave

Effective security: A group of people who let non-residents come in and freely roam while trolling the streets harassing and actively looking for ways to help the owners mine the residents pockets.

It's a paradise. I'm afraid America probably has no interest in "catching up". Except in someone's imagination.

Great now we need to hear how great our communities are after they've been turned into weekend retreats for howling saudis and their families?

If saudi is such a great place why dont the saudis who spend the weekend in our little segregated corner of it and take their high speed train to have a nice time with their fellow saudis in their own neighborhoods?

A prison is still a prison. A cage is still a cage. It doesn't matter what is inside. Your freedom is worth more than a little bit of gold.

Haha. Must be the only prison you voluntarily sign up to in the world. Dhahran is a gated community like the US but with far more visible and effective security. Also completely self-contained with shops, fuel stations, etc. not many gated communities in the US can boast that. Never mind sometime in the future the Americans can catch up, probably the same time they get a coast to coast high speed rail system.

I applied to that contracting company that is owned by some managers relative for a new houseboy. Told them that I wanted to hire Saudi only. So far no takers. Been months waiting for that saudi to show up to make 10 bucks an hour.

Seems saudis only skim wages from the top of someone else's work. Ask a saudi to work? All you get a dull WTF are you talking about look.

Yeah they really turned on us over here. It got really bad this last year. Segregated walled prison for us, place for saudis to gather and roam around on weekends for them. Sending a message I guess.