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tacomaboywa · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 194 Location: The Magic Kingdom

ARAB NEWS
Monday 10 September 2012

http://www.arabnews.com/visa-violators-face-punitive-action

wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

Meh.

The illegal deed involving a judge and a real estate businessman was discovered following the court�s investigation into a complaint by a landowner that someone else was claiming the land that legally belonged to him...It was also reported that the judge involved in the issue requested for retirement last year. http://www.arabnews.com/judge-land-deed-fraud

posh · Joined: 22 Oct 2010 Posts: 430

They should deport EDEX. Or jail them.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Edex is one of many who uses the illegal visas. From what is posted here, it seems that the majority of new hires through recruiters/contractors are using these visas. Even KAUST was using them for their EFL teachers.

VS

AbeCross · Joined: 21 Jun 2012 Posts: 191

Shabaka in Hofuf often uses visit visas for its teachers. This occurred regularly during the 2011-2012 academic year.

In addition, this cowboy school does not bother to give the proper final exit visas for its teachers who do have valid work visas and are leaving the Kingdom at the end of their contracts.

wantok · Joined: 05 Jul 2012 Posts: 168

Interesting point, Abe.

A week or so ago there was a single post in the Shabaka Training KFU PYD thread. It has since been removed. Obviously the poster was a paid director or PR employee of sorts. This advert for Shabaka threw in all manner of compliments about management and even provided a link to the corporation's current recruitment promo brochure.

The brochure was rife with grammatical and typo errors. Never before have I read so stylistically patronizing a text catering to the young applicant.

Shabaka enthused about their housing compound, the implied "close proximity" shared by its instructors, and the free adventurous shopping and weekender trips available to all via the corporation's bus. Featured was the availability of "escapes" to a conveniently nearby entertainment capital: Bahrain. (The brochure, in contrast, bemoaned the entertainment void presently in KSA in general, and Hofuf in particular.)

"Cult" came immediately to mind.

Moreover, Shabaka several times claimed that the owners, the Saadoun brothers, are "honest" businessmen. Why make that so pronounced a point in a recruitment brochure? Have there been fractures in an assumed bond of trust in the past?

Further, is it worthwhile to state emphatically that one of the Saadouns is a member of the "Saudi Senate"? Implied is his political ability to manipulate matters in favour of his business interests which evidently -- see brochure -- extend well beyond the higher education sector.

More questions (in the interests of transparency and accountability toward potential applicants):
1. By what means was a Saadoun brother awarded a seat in KSA's "Senate"?
2. Describe the process by which Shabaka Training was awarded an initial contract with the university and how, over the years, the Saadouns have managed to maintain (or "nurture") it.

Grendal · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

I used to work for the hockey coach in Hofuf in 2009-10 school year. It was sort of ok until ......
Well it was never ok. I was earmarked by the idiot Saudi department director of PYP as potentially not of caliber for teaching at K. FU. Never got my contract renewed. 13500 riyals back then was better than a kick in the head. The salaries went down the next year as did the moral of most of the teachers there. The dictatorship of the siblings came into fruition and all hope was lost for Shabaka by then. The only ones that kept their jobs were the real ass suckers that didn't mind the smell of dung.

Personally it is no great loss for K FU if Shabaka doesn't get the contract. Good riddens to them if they go. Some other contractor should compete for that university. Maybe EdEx? Ha.

Grendal