World’s Biggest Oil Company Promised Expats Idyllic Lifestyle—Then Fire Erupted
Saudi Aramco ignored warnings from its own safety experts about the construction of a compound housing foreign workers and their families.
Please see the complete article published by Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-biggest-oil-company-promised-expats-idyllic-lifestylethen-fire-erupted-1506612788
Well if they couldnt correctly count and report Hajj fatalities why should they care about a group of foreign workers and their families?
I said it’s not sustainable but, in the short term, it reduces pressure on the welfare state which makes the government happy. Long term it will be its demise. But it is not in their nature to worry about future generations. It’s all about “me”. It shows in everything they do. Cutting in line. Running over people on the highway. This will be the new Venezuela. Only worse.
Pop quiz: How does creating jobs that produce nothing and add no value just for the sake of filling seats help a country
The number one priority for the country is to create sustainable jobs for Saudis and that most definitely includes the NOC. Unfortunately for the company, they have also created a pyramid of excess management and they can’t streamline it. Where do you put all those managers, superintendents, general supervisors, supervisors, etc. that would be displaced? So expats are not a large percent of employment and they are not the problem with the profitability of the company. Get rid of 100% of expats and it doesn’t fix anything.
The disrespect of the laughing global investment community for aramco's business policies and lack of direction is aligned with the disrespect we developed during our time with Aramco
BUT: they have successfully created layers and layers and layers of Saudis doing nothing in the organization so I guess they are fulfilling through the payroll system what they always fulfilled from the gas pumps
Disgrace? Is that what you have. Pay your taxes Biatch
What a disgrace. No respect for Aramco, recruiters, or saudi management. This shows what they think of their expensive hired help. Don't go there. Or get out and let the Saudis fend on their own with their backward ways and abstruse culture.
My president will become my favorite when he starts to enforce FACTA and you lose those blue passports your parents bought you and go back to green ones.
Definitely not a layoff. Bad call. He’s Aramco all the way.
Pretty sure that didn’t come from here. Check closer to home?
The comment was importantly delivered
I do math excellent. Midwest and other non ocean refineries have a source of crude via pipeline from regional fields and have a local market. Those that depend on imports or exports have a need to ship. No wonder you are unemployed. Just build that wall, like your favorite President requests.
Do we have a Fields of Piled Debris wannabe here? Where? Based on the tanker comment I’m betting E+ or S in the Aramco organization.
Because refineries need tankers to make money. Or you don’t math good?
Ask the wannabe FPD candidate. No wonder he got laid off.
What do oceans have to do with refinery location?
Americans would build a refinery far from any ocean. Minnesota is one example...there are others...
Aramco isn’t “freeing” up anyone. Your American expats seem to be “freeing” themselves. After all they can drill wells, make chemicals, and process crude oil anywhere they go. If a wall is needed, they can certainly build one. No need to hold passports and lock foreigners in the country without exit visas so they can build one for them. A saudi wall would be designed somewhere else consisting of a pile of materials produced somewhere else delivered by people from somewhere else on trucks, ships, and planes built somewhere else and dumped in the desert to rot waiting for a planeload of workers from somewhere else to arrive to figure out what to do and how to do it. Much like the multi billion dollar rotting pile in Jazan.
Maybe. But who would build a refinery so far from any ocean?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-aramco/yemens-houthis-say-they-attacked-aramco-refinery-in-riyadh-with-drone-idUSKBN1K8262
Does anyone know the number of American expats still left at Aramco? It has to be pretty small. Must be less than 1,000 by now and that is dropping quickly.
Saudi Aramco needs to free up expats so they can go back and build that wall...
Not going to be many businesses left for the government to steal from. What then? Swim somewhere else like all of your brothers do?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-07-19/aramco-sabic-deal-would-funnel-billions-to-saudi-sovereign-fund
Purchasing SABIC my @$$. If SABIC could be shorted this is the short of a lifetime.
Soon there will be no capital inflow to Saudi Arabia.
You need to come back howling about success when that Jazan refinery starts up - saudi. It's two years late.
Other than that, the last three years have been discussions and meetings about expansions and nothing else.
Yes the company was hiring thousands of exoats. Years ago. It is not doing so now. It is kaying off expats. The company no longer wants expats. Radium will never go away. It was a tragedy. It just has nothing to do with the layoffs occurring now which is what this forum is about. So the important attitude of the company is how they feel about having expats at all.
Radium incident has everything to do with hiring a large amount of expats without having sufficient housing at existing Saudi Aramco compounds and outsourcing. Expansion is really an indictor of success of a growing company. They may be even purchasing a portion of SABIC per latest news reports.
What happened in Radium incident, shows the company attitude towards expat employees.
Radium has more to do with how non-saudi employees are viewed and valued
This thread is about Radium. It’s interesting. You wanna police a website you need to start your own.
A moron can research Radium holdings and who owns it and who his relatives are and what else they own.
No this forum is about layoffs at Saudi Aramco and Radium has zero to do with that.
Go and ask Loss Prevention Department. This forum is not for your education purposes.
Then name a name and your source if research is so easy
Research is easy. No stunner how this happened and why it got covered.
Of course It was not a foreigner who owned that building. It was a Saudi with ties to beloved Aramco.
How can a foreigner own property in Saudi Arabia.
Ever wonder who has owned that building...? Some country and company...
As long as the firefighters met their KPIs, it’s all good. Non-Saudis don’t count.
Thelayoff takes any ads LOL. There’s an actual aramco employment ad on this site. Any takers? 😂