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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Who wants to shasre their experiences of the best job they have had in
KSA ? And the worst ?

I have had 5 spells in KSA. Best job I have had is the one I am in now. I am not just refrring to the ackers in that paycheque but to everything. The worst I have had was my first when I worked in a sceondary school - in the days when government schools still hired British teachers.

Of course I am sure that we will have the nabobs of negativism say now that ALL jobs in KSA are bad. For them I suggest a school year teaching somewhere REALLY difficult ! Lagos ? Airdrie ? Bethnal Green ? A Language School in Spain ?

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:09 am Post subject:

The Best...subcontracting for Boeing at Riyadh AB Very Happy

...tho, with the WORST Scottish boss (sorry Scot) in history...a BAe vagabond who used to manage swine in Rhodesia. Evil or Very Mad

The Worst...King Faisal School...hands down! Evil or Very Mad

NCTBA

tudodude · Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 82

Sub contracted to Sabic and another to BAE were the best.
EF and Language solutions take some beating for the worst

007 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: The Best and the Worst

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

Well, I only had one job in the Kingdom and I was more than satisfied. Good salary, 3 flights a year, shared car and free petrol. I liked my compound, too. But, and it's a big but, such boring work. Pleasant young students but so f***** boring! The country itself is the pits.

johnslat · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

Like some other posters, I had only one employer in the Kingdom: the Institute of Public Administration (IPA.)
Since I stayed with them for nineteen years (five in Jeddah; fourteen in Riyadh), clearly I thought (and still think) it's a good outfit to work for.
In my opinion, the IPA and KFUPM are two of the best - though you can probably make more money working for, say, BAE (I think it's called that now, rather than BA) or Aramco. It's tough to get hired at those two places, though.
You might also make more working for some others teaching the Saudi military - but the trade-off there is the work itself is usually deemed to be tedious at best and soul-killing at worst.

Arab Strap · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 246 Location: under your bed

That's easy I only worked at two places in my 5 years in the Sparkly Kingdom, Berlitz and JIC.

Baretitz Riyadh were easily the worse employer I've had anywhere, they still owe me 8000SAR and a ticket home (that was back in 2002, hope for the sake of anyone working there that they've finally got their act together).

JIC was a decent employer and treated me pretty well, no complaints there.......the reason I left was down to Jubail not JIC.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:

Dear NCTBA,

Thanks - a rose (or other entity) by any other name would smell the same.

Regards,
John