mjaqumbay03 & ofw247: Open your eyes and look beyond your nose and you will see much. I managed a Perfumery & Cosmetics warehouse of a major company in Dammam which had a record of zero pilferage. When the management realized this, the General Manager, a British national, sent me to fix up the Jeddah and Riyadh warehouses which were being run by people from your country. Both these warehouses had many problems with pilferage being the major one. When I entered at the Jeddah warehouse, the Filipinos there joined hands and went on a non-cooperation move. They had already received messages from their Kabayans in Dammam of the type of manager I was. The head office got to know about this non-cooperation. I was told to take the next flight home. Then -- heads rolled. The first to go was the leader. At another company in Riyadh which was an Italian company and as such the top management were all from Italy (and of course were Roman Catholics), the Filipino group in the company was involved in rampant theft with items getting shipped back home. Since it was a telecommunication company, the most attractive item was cables. A Filipino car mechanic in this company even succeeded in removing and shipping during the Eid holidays an entire Toyota pickup engine that had been recently overhauled, replacing it with one from the second-hand shops (known as Tashliya). But since the management always looked the other way and took no action when they got hear such incidents, other nationals learnt to keep their mouths shut. It was at this company I got to learn that there existed a cargo company in Riyadh managed by Filipinos that collected items during the late hours of the night from the staff accommodation so that other nationals staying at the accommodation could not get to see what was getting shipped out. In Doha, the management of a company had three Filipinos behind bars as they were caught stealing cable wire. Another, in the same company was sent home as he was a not just a regular drinker but was also involved in bootlegging at the camp. Do you want anymore examples of your "proven" honesty? I have a list of them. Having said all that, there is no doubt a very good quality among the Filipinos and I really appreciate that. They blindly support each and every person from their country as best as they can. That is why one gets to see ads saying "Filipinos only," and not because they are super workers, or honest workers, or loyal workers or anything else for that matter.
mjaqumbay03 & ofw247: Open your eyes and look beyond your nose and you will see much. I managed a Perfumery & Cosmetics warehouse of a major company in Dammam which had a record of zero pilferage. When the management realized this, the General Manager, a British national, sent me to fix up the Jeddah and Riyadh warehouses which were being run by people from your country. Both these warehouses had many problems with pilferage being the major one. When I entered at the Jeddah warehouse, the Filipinos there joined hands and went on a non-cooperation move. They had already received messages from their Kabayans in Dammam of the type of manager I was. The head office got to know about this non-cooperation. I was told to take the next flight home. Then -- heads rolled. The first to go was the leader. At another company in Riyadh which was an Italian company and as such the top management were all from Italy (and of course were Roman Catholics), the Filipino group in the company was involved in rampant theft with items getting shipped back home. Since it was a telecommunication company, the most attractive item was cables. A Filipino car mechanic in this company even succeeded in removing and shipping during the Eid holidays an entire Toyota pickup engine that had been recently overhauled, replacing it with one from the second-hand shops (known as Tashliya). But since the management always looked the other way and took no action when they got hear such incidents, other nationals learnt to keep their mouths shut. It was at this company I got to learn that there existed a cargo company in Riyadh managed by Filipinos that collected items during the late hours of the night from the staff accommodation so that other nationals staying at the accommodation could not get to see what was getting shipped out. In Doha, the management of a company had three Filipinos behind bars as they were caught stealing cable wire. Another, in the same company was sent home as he was a not just a regular drinker but was also involved in bootlegging at the camp. Do you want anymore examples of your "proven" honesty? I have a list of them. Having said all that, there is no doubt a very good quality among the Filipinos and I really appreciate that. They blindly support each and every person from their country as best as they can. That is why one gets to see ads saying "Filipinos only," and not because they are super workers, or honest workers, or loyal workers or anything else for that matter.