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2018-07-10 Arabia

'Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working'

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 'Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working'

...I've been there. The employers are right.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-07-10 05:04|| 2018-07-10 05:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Guaranteed income mentality.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-10 05:27|| 2018-07-10 05:27|| Front Page Top

#3 They’ve never had to work. But I’ll bet auto sales are booming.

Posted by ClemKadiddlehopper9000 2018-07-10 10:55|| 2018-07-10 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The parallels between SA and California continue -- where the work is done by foreigners, and the local princes and princesses lift nothing heavier than money. The difference is the SA leader cares.

Posted by regular joe 2018-07-10 11:03|| 2018-07-10 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 'Employers say young Saudi men and women are lazy and are not interested in working'

True 40 years ago, true today.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-10 12:36|| 2018-07-10 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Their is also the problem of generations after generation of cousins marrying each other. They have to find "safe" jobs for retarded princes for instance.

Posted by Bugs Thud4877 2018-07-10 14:23|| 2018-07-10 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Sir Richard Francis Burton sneaked into Mecca in 1851-53 and recorded his observations on how the Locals viewed farmers and laborers as trash little above slaves. The desert bandit Wahabbis were much more glamorous -- they could go on Jihad! and be rewarded(Do Not Pass Go! Do Not Collect 200$! Go Straight to Heaven and Collect Virgins!) for it.
So no real change in over a hundred years...

Posted by magpie 2018-07-10 14:38|| 2018-07-10 14:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Sir Richard Francis Burton also remarked that all of the inhabitants were entitled to "charity alms" from the Ottoman Caliph -- the only "catch" was that they had to travel all the way to the Sultan, with proof that they were a legitimate inhabitant, to get the money. So being a "welfare parasite" and living in Mecca is also a long established custom.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-10 14:45|| 2018-07-10 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Lazy people don't worry me. I really don't want a dentist, airline pilot or investment counselor who isn't motivated...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-10 15:00|| 2018-07-10 15:00|| Front Page Top

#10 The Saudis have several generations-long tradition of being the figurehead local at all levels of management while foreigners did all the working and managing, whilethey thought that was work. It will take a bit of time for the younger generation to come to terms with the new requirements — many of their elders may never be able to do so.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-10 15:21|| 2018-07-10 15:21|| Front Page Top

#11 In my experience, there seems to be an entitlement mentality within this group.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-10 17:24|| 2018-07-10 17:24|| Front Page Top

#12 In other news, water may, in some conditions, be wet.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-07-10 21:39|| 2018-07-10 21:39|| Front Page Top

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