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[pearl_1212]

Hello,
I just got offered a position in Ibri Oman. Unfortunately I can not find information about working there, the expact community there and more importantly housing. I have worked in the middle east before but housing ws provided. With my offer now I am given an allowance and I have to find a place. Could someone tell more about the cost of a 1 bedroom? And something close to the college of technology.
Also, while working in Saudi my employer would take our passports and return it to us when needed. Is the case in Oman as well?

[veiledsentiments]

Employers don't hold the passports in Oman (with a few exceptions that are private employers). There haven't been any complaints here about recruiters trying to hold passports. They will take it for a bit to get the visa stamped and the labor card.

Did you try a search here? Use the one near the log in area, type in Ibri and whatever else... housing... flats... Then tick "search all terms." Choose Oman on the drop down and you should find a few threads. Normally you start out in a hotel, and I'm sure that the college and your fellow teachers will assist in finding flats. From what people have posted here, prices are pretty reasonable.

VS

[pearl_1212]

Great thanks, that was helpful
If anybody there now, or was recently there any information would be appreciated.

[hashim99uk]

[airapets]

TATI was my contractor and they paid for two weeks at the local hotel. In the end I sub-letted from a coworker. There are two or three agencies in the town that help find rentals for people and they do speak English. I visited one which was on the main street, which goes out to both colleges. There is another opposite the big mosque and a little north. This was three years ago, but I doubt little has changed.

[aummua]

Wow a whole two weeks?

[pearl_1212]

Great thanks, for the help!

I signed my offer letter with bahwan ceyber-tech. They were so insistant on me signing it and me coming out with in the week. Now I am waiting for my contract and ticket....they said they would take my paperwork to the ministry...how long would it before they send me my final travel arrangements?

[hashim99uk]

[PattyFlipper]

[Gazoo1000]

You should talk to Antonio. He has been the HOD at Ibri College of Tech for the last 7 years or so. PM for his email.

[pooroldedgar]

Antonio's gone. Just about all the native speakers are gone. There's a few of us left, none of whom would likely recommend working here. This isn't really a school, per se. It's a holding pen. It's an Arab Spring 2 preventer. If you can get with that, you might be ok.

I come to work every day, sit at my desk for five hours, then go into a classroom where hopefully some of the students will do something that at least vaguely resembles learning. Try to do things properly and you risk the students complaining to the dean. A couple weeks ago they reported that I make phone calls during class. I pointed out that I don't have a cell phone, let alone anyone to call, but I don't think anyone was listening. Like I said, this place isn't about teaching and learning, it's about going through the motions. You might have some spirit coming in, but it'll be gone come spring.

A room will run you 150, give or take. It won't be near the college so you'll have to acquire transportation. Nothing is near the college. Nothing is near anything in Ibri. This is someone's sick joke of a town, not an actual town.

God I can't wait to get out of here....

[tmac-100]

[veiledsentiments]

What does this have to do with Oman? or Ibri?

There never was any comparability between working for a recruiter in the hinterlands of Ibri near the bottom of the Gulf pay scale and what was basically a posh Canadian government job in Doha, Qatar. Gravy Trains like that one have come and gone in the Gulf and there has been 2-3 years of warning that this was likely to happen there sooner, if not later. Sad for the teachers, but it could only have been a surprise for the totally disconnected...

VS

[tmac-100]

[cam]