Work

Back like nothing happened

April 17, 2010

My work colleague has come back after being away for more than three months when he went back to his homecountry where he lost his bag containing his passport (and other valuables). When he entered the office, everyone welcomed him back like we weren’t pissed with him when he told us he couldn’t come soon, [...]

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Today I want to declare back to regular program

April 14, 2010

I know I’ve written before that the work load storm has passed and I’m free to blog again. My colleague who was stuck in India promised to come back before I wrote that post. I was happy he’d come and take away some of the work load I’ve been doing – the work load that [...]

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The storm has passed, but not quite

March 3, 2010
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All is well in Dubai again after a very strange thunderstorm – the skies have cleared and the sun appeared again. I do not wish for that kind of rain again. The roads are scary and every time it rains I do not have an umbrella with me and there’s not one sold at the [...]

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The work timing charade

November 10, 2009

If the company I work for has some kind of management style akin to politics, it has to be tyranny or dictatorship. I’ve realized that these past two weeks after I came back from vacation. My work timings since I came to this office three years ago until end of October 2009 was: Saturday-Wednesday 8:30-13:00 [...]

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Caution: me working

August 31, 2009

Sorry for the erratic blog layout/background or anything uneasy and unpleasing to your eyes! I am currently working on trying out different themes – something that would make it easier and faster for everyone to load all the photos and read the posts. I know you don’t have all day and I truly appreciate your [...]

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the next time they ask, I’ll bite

February 5, 2009

A long random Thursday thought for today. I went for a job interview yesterday. In the midst of this global crisis, recession, depression or whattchamacallit dark economic trouble, thankfully, I still have a job and didn’t really need to look for another one (at least not yet?). A friend of mine showed me an ad [...]

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how would you like to work?

October 31, 2008

I work closely with a Japanese company. Aside from the 5 hour time difference and unsynchronized work days, some of my colleagues are complaining that the Japanese workers get too many vacations than we do. In Dubai: we work Saturday – Thursday we only get 1.5 days off: afternoon of Thursday (but considering the heavy [...]

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Back into the swing of things, 3 hours short

September 16, 2008

Surprisingly, I didn’t have the “first day back to work” blues today. I spent half the day downloading hundreds of emails, writing forms, submitting my passport back (employers keep our passports here) and giving all the gifts I bought to people who had been good while I was away. It’s the holy month of Ramadan [...]

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