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[veiledsentiments]

Would anyone who applied there be considered a 'dumb cluck'?

(according to your grandmother...)

VS

[MuscatGary]

Do you have to be able to teach pidgen English to work there?

[Pikgitina]

I bet the students there never stop cackling.

[Didah]

If ever there was ESL Hell on earth this job would be it:

http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=31355

Can you imagine teaching/babysitting young saudi males at the Al Watania Poultry Institute of Technology located in the remote city of Qassimin in the tragic kingdom? I've been to Qassim and it is about as remote and desolate as it gets. Just being there is bad enough, however, teaching at the poultry institute would be a living hell. What kind of vocational English would chicken pluckers need anyway? And besides, I thought the saudis hired people from other countries to do that. I also didn't realize the plucking chickens was so high tech.

Just to recap, as you have buyer's remorse over your salary in wherever you are in the world, at least you are not teaching English and plucking chickens in Qassim while getting a free wake-up call from a dozen dueling mosques blasting the morning prayer call into your squalid little compound apartment around 4 a.m. if you are lucky enough to be put there as opposed to an air conditioned chicken coup. Seriously.... This has to be ESL Hell or one really bad joke that should brighten up anyone's pay day. This is the time when mental health trumps the sand box salaries which are not that great anymore. Just thinking.

[2buckets]

What's the salary like?

This is a good place if you're in a witness protection program.

[plumpy nut]

Please don't say to many bad things about Al Watania on the board here, you wouldn't want the chickens to come home to roost

[plumpy nut]

[plumpy nut]

[veiledsentiments]

I'd assume that any member of the board that chose this position would soon be back here squawking...

VS

[lcanupp1964]

A poster asks, “What kind of vocational English would chicken puckers need anyway?”

Well, in English, they could (at least) tell someone, “No! I’m a chicken p-l-u-c-k-e-r, not a chicken f – oh, never mind”.

My great, great, uncle worked at a winery in the Trentino-Alto Adige region located in northwestern Italy. He was in charge of bottling and his skills were known throughout the region. He used the finest corking techniques and got all his corks from the Quercus Suber, or cork trees that grow in Spain and Portugal.

The longest step in the bottling process is making sure the raw cork is soft enough to shape into wine corks. The soaking of corks could take weeks, even months.

My uncle was the best Cork Soaker in all of Italy. He could soak any cork he came across. If you had a cork, my Uncle Piero would take it in his hands and start gently soaking it. It would swell to twice its size and pop! It would be ready for insertion in the opening of the bottle. My uncle never saw a cork he didn’t like and want to soak.

I guess my question is: would you rather be a chicken pucker, or a cork soaker?

[trapezius]

If I told my family I was working at the "Al Watania Poultry Institute of Technology", that would be getting on my face.

[johnslat]

There might be some mishearing of the job title, especially the word "plucker," which could be extremely embarrassing.

Regards,
John

[trapezius]

^ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Cletus]

While attending the great University of Georgia, I took a job in a nearby city, Gainesville, as an office worker. What a dirty job. Most of the employees were Spanish speakers and dirt poor. The plants smelled, roaches were as common as beer at a frat party and the smell.

I worked in Qassim for awhile and I think this is a match made in Paradise.

[jaffa]