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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 12:30 am Post subject: Re: Absolutely NO Shared Acccommodations will be tolerated! |
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As to photos, I have never heard of employers providing photos of housing. AUS in the UAE used to have photos on their website, but they are an employer that one doesn't have to worry about every detail of your employment.
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PNU provided photos of their on campus housing, so it is not unheard of. |
Isn't PNU the place where so many teachers were posting on here about the housing being so bad... and not what was promised?
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myohmy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| PNU housing is more than fine and exactly as promised. |
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DLIguy
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Location: Being led around by the nose...by you-know-who!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| myohmy wrote: |
| PNU housing is more than fine and exactly as promised. |
myohmy! |
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Expat101
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| myohmy wrote: |
| PNU housing is more than fine and exactly as promised. |
The big question is, 'do you have to share?' It's NOT FINE, if it's shared. It's terrible! |
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myohmy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, shared but spacious. I got lucky with my roommate but know of others not so fortunate. |
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Grendal
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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Location: Lurking in the depths of the Faisaliah Tower underground parking.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:52 am Post subject: |
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They want us to share our personal space with complete strangers and looking out the window from these shared spaces you will see 4000 metre square properties with 3 metre walls and surveillance cameras looking back at you. This gives one the feeling of hypocrisy or disillusionment. Living behind these walls are three or four generations of families with a building for each of them. And they see it proper for us to live in cramped quarters with total strangers. Just sayin that's all....
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bertonneau
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Location: Colorado USA
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:31 am Post subject: Good on you |
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| Well I know there are some places that hire and don't do shared accommodation. SPSP is one of them and from my friend's experience they treat him like a real person. He had the option of living in Bahrain and so he does have an hour commute each way his place is sweet on his housing allowance. Yes, there are so many dirtbag employers over here and no they really don't give a ...... There are many folks juts desperate for a job. I work with the biggest group of clowns in their 30,40s and 50s I have ever met. I have one month more and although at this point I do have my own accommodation for a short time most of it has been with some real weirdos. More people like you need to stand up and get these lazy people to improve their quality of everything, but as long as so many people here accept the pathetically low standards often given them I seriously question that this willl happen. Go on you though for trying. There is a reason that all institutions here are usually screaming for employees the overall conditions and management are garbage. Good luck to you nad I hope you manage to get on with an outfit that will manage to give you what you want. They can definitely afford it, simply a matter of a lazy culture that tries to nickel and dime in everything they can get away with. |
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rollingk
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There are many folks juts desperate for a job. . . . More people like you need to stand up and get these lazy people to improve their quality of everything, but as long as so many people here accept the pathetically low standards often given them I seriously question that this willl happen.
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Standards here are often lower than represented by employers and employees. Bertonneau, I agree with you about the place and many of the folk in it, but there is one particular dynamic that makes change particularly difficult here.
One peculiar problem in KSA is that many "established" folk here distort the view of their workplace and living arrangements to look more like what they'd like them to look like, or what they think is deserved. These folk are often well qualified. They frequently remonstrate over the weighting of credentials and professionalism even as they are working where these usual assets clearly have little or no intrinsic value. As such those who are given lousy housing or lied to, will in their estimation probably deserve it. Such self-deluding antics help perpetuate the state of affairs here. This is one specific subgenre of the "weird" people here.
Those thinking of coming here should indeed do their homework carefully. They should remember to use discernment in taking advice, as the tone of the advice may tell a lot. |
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Solar Strength
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: The detective.... |
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Probably only ever unheard of if....
You haven't heard of it before...
Would be my guess...
Time for a break,
Time for an unheard of
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You're quite eccentric, aren't you.
Or high or drunk? |
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scot47
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| The demon drink. I recognise the symptoms. I suspect this is a poster who has been banned under previous user-name(s). |
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Solar Strength
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| Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| The demon drink. I recognise the symptoms. I suspect this is a poster who has been banned under previous user-name(s). |
Yes, I think you're right. Likely posting drunk. Also, I think he is using more than one handle on the forums at the moment. |
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DLIguy
Joined: 29 Jun 2013
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Location: Being led around by the nose...by you-know-who!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Solar Strength wrote: |
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| The demon drink. I recognise the symptoms. I suspect this is a poster who has been banned under previous user-name(s). |
Yes, I think you're right. Likely posting drunk. Also, I think he is using more than one handle on the forums at the moment. |
I reshemble that remark... |
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CANDLES
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Location: Wandering aimlessly.....
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I'll be sharing soon my wondrous villa with 2 unknowns....please God don't let them be insane, religious or downright dirty people or the ones who nick the milk and never replace it...amongst other things...
Too bad I can't have the place to myself unless I change to another recruiter, but then more problems...out in the sticks.....blah, blah, blah!!!
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DLIguy
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I'll be sharing soon my wondrous villa with 2 unknowns....please God don't let them be insane, religious or downright dirty people or the ones who nick the milk and never replace it...amongst other things...
Too bad I can't have the place to myself unless I change to another recruiter, but then more problems...out in the sticks.....blah, blah, blah!!!
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Sounds like CANDLES will be burning on B0TH ends!!! |
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CANDLES
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Location: Wandering aimlessly.....
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I know.....!!! When will I get time to teach?  |
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