Qatar World Cup. What are your thoughts?
Discussion
Percy Cushion said:
Thankyou4calling said:
I’ve quite a few distant relatives working as “Slaves” in Qatar. They absolutely lap it up. Work 6 days a week, live in company supplied dormitory accommodation, meals and uniform all included.
They take home £500 a month.
Driver101 said:
Is there a woosh parrot coming for me?
£500 per month for working 6 days a week is a good deal?
Accommodation and food provided, but how can anyone live a life spending £90 per month?
I assume the food and accommodation will reflect the wages.
I’d suggest the vast majority in the UK don’t have £490 a month left over each month after all bills are paid.£500 per month for working 6 days a week is a good deal?
Accommodation and food provided, but how can anyone live a life spending £90 per month?
I assume the food and accommodation will reflect the wages.
No income tax
Full healthcare
No electricity bill
Gas bill
Travel costs are pennies (free to work)
No council tax
Food supplied
Uniform supplies
No water bill
No car costs
It’s a VERY good deal indeed and even with a social activity once a week you can save £400 a month.
In Kenya (other countries are available) MILLIONS sit at the roadside selling fruit, secondhand clothes or bread for £3 a day.
I’m employing tradespeople at present, I’ve 12 working on a house and the wage bill for all is £120 a day TOTAL not each.
Maybe I’m a gang master?
As Mike above says, we mostly haven’t a clue what life’s like for someone in a Third World Country.
There’s no benefit system or safety net, no healthcare provision, pension, no leisure centres or libraries just get up and try and get through that day.
A job in Qatar is a dream.
Edited by Thankyou4calling on Sunday 6th February 05:08
Thankyou4calling said:
Driver101 said:
Is there a woosh parrot coming for me?
£500 per month for working 6 days a week is a good deal?
Accommodation and food provided, but how can anyone live a life spending £90 per month?
I assume the food and accommodation will reflect the wages.
I’d suggest the vast majority in the UK don’t have £490 a month left over each month after all bills are paid.£500 per month for working 6 days a week is a good deal?
Accommodation and food provided, but how can anyone live a life spending £90 per month?
I assume the food and accommodation will reflect the wages.
No income tax
Full healthcare
No electricity bill
Gas bill
Travel costs are pennies (free to work)
No council tax
Food supplied
Uniform supplies
No water bill
No car costs
It’s a VERY good deal indeed and even with a social activity once a week you can save £400 a month.
In Kenya (other countries are available) MILLIONS sit at the roadside selling fruit, secondhand clothes or bread for £3 a day.
I’m employing tradespeople at present, I’ve 12 working on a house and the wage bill for all is £120 a day TOTAL not each.
Maybe I’m a gang master?
As Mike above says, we mostly haven’t a clue what life’s like for someone in a Third World Country.
There’s no benefit system or safety net, no healthcare provision, pension, no leisure centres or libraries just get up and try and get through that day.
A job in Qatar is a dream.
Edited by Thankyou4calling on Sunday 6th February 05:08
£500 per month is a very good deal for working in Qatar?
Thankyou4calling said:
Driver101 said:
They aren't in Kenya. They're in Qatar.
£500 per month is a very good deal for working in Qatar?
I’ve broken it all down for you and you can see that workers are absolutely fine on that money in Qatar. £500 per month is a very good deal for working in Qatar?
It's not fine to have people living for years in dormitory.
Giving a worker a uniform is hardly a massive thing.
popegregory said:
Countdown said:
TEKNOPUG said:
You're paying people £10 a day to build you house?
You need to take things like cost of living and purchasing power parity into account. That's the thing that some people appear to be missing. Whilst £10/day may not mean a lot to us, for many people in the world it's extremely good pay, and far more than they would earn otherwise.
That’s right Countdown.
I live in Kenya, a police officers salary is 30,000 ksh a month, £200.
So £10 a day for a labourer is decent money and £500 a month tax free plus meals and accommodation in Qatar is phenomenal.
How do people think a newly landed immigrant in the UK gets by on minimum wage? They don’t rent an apartment in Chelsea!
As I’ve said £500 a month in Qatar allows someone to send A LOT of money home and set themselves up for life.
Likewise £10 a day allows you to live fine here in Kenya.
I live in Kenya, a police officers salary is 30,000 ksh a month, £200.
So £10 a day for a labourer is decent money and £500 a month tax free plus meals and accommodation in Qatar is phenomenal.
How do people think a newly landed immigrant in the UK gets by on minimum wage? They don’t rent an apartment in Chelsea!
As I’ve said £500 a month in Qatar allows someone to send A LOT of money home and set themselves up for life.
Likewise £10 a day allows you to live fine here in Kenya.
I lived in Qatar for 5 years and I hated the people and awful misogynistic, racist, homophobic laws.
I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A s
t hole with a mentality from the dark ages.
I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A s
t hole with a mentality from the dark ages. lrdisco said:
I lived in Qatar for 5 years and I hated the people and awful misogynistic, racist, homophobic laws.
I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A st hole with a mentality from the dark ages.
With all that said, what did you make of the place? I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A s
t hole with a mentality from the dark ages. 
lrdisco said:
I lived in Qatar for 5 years and I hated the people and awful misogynistic, racist, homophobic laws.
I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A st hole with a mentality from the dark ages.
But you were happy to roll in the ££££ and overlook all of that. I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A s
t hole with a mentality from the dark ages. Says more about you than anything really.
clio007 said:
lrdisco said:
I lived in Qatar for 5 years and I hated the people and awful misogynistic, racist, homophobic laws.
I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A st hole with a mentality from the dark ages.
But you were happy to roll in the ££££ and overlook all of that. I stuck it out for the money but you never forget you belong to your sponsor.
You can not leave the country without their permission.
Being British or western means nothing. You have no rights.
Fire in Villagio just brushed under the carpet even with 15 toddlers dead.
British teacher raped, murdered and her remains burned. A slap on the wrist for the perpetrator.
Many housemaids beaten and raped. Locking them in whilst their sponsors go away for 2 weeks on holiday.
What about when there was a fire in the Qatar airways female cabin crew accommodation and security tried to push the women back in to die rather than let them into the street in their night gowns. That’s ok though.
Or the CEO who is well known for sexually abusing cabin crew?
All Muslim brothers apart from the workers who have to worship in sweat box mosques or Qatari only mosques. No external signs but very much known.
Go to a mall on a Friday as an Asian male and there’s no chance you will be let in. Or in the old new souque? Beaten just for daring to go there as an Asian male?
A s
t hole with a mentality from the dark ages. Says more about you than anything really.
Better accomodation ,more showers/wc's, free wifi, days out, basket ball hoops, cricket matches and table tennis, safety inductions and training. Everything possible that I could do within the fiancial restraints I was under.
I left the minute I could. I arrived there after suffering a £75,000 fraud loss in the UK and was desperate to look after my family.
Dont forget that the Qatari government owns huge parts of London including the Gerkin building and Harrods. Thats OK though because people dont see the crap in the background.
I went for the money as does everyone out there but if even in a small way I improved the lot of the people I worked with.
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