Reply to: GrooveRider's draw in Doobai

[basshead]

In the IT sector?
What skillset?
Any indication of rates/salary?

Been toying with looking for work out there.
Have a couple of friends out there (not IT sector) who are having a ball.

Unfortunately I only met people in the oil game, wasn't there long enough to scope out the IT market.

[Clippy]

I had a great time in Dubai and Fujairah Grooverider should have been more careful, its no excuse these days not to know exactly what is in your bags and about your person when you fly, especially when you're flying to UAE.

There is much money to be made in UAE though, met a few expats out there coining it in.

In the IT sector?
What skillset?
Any indication of rates/salary?

Been toying with looking for work out there.
Have a couple of friends out there (not IT sector) who are having a ball.

[EternalOptimist]

I heard that you work for 4 years and they pay you just 45p. Thats right 45p for four years hard labour.
And they dont even pay you in currency, when you go in, your @rse-hole is the size of a 5p piece, when you come out its the size of a 50p piece.

[Clippy]

I can't understand the attraction of going to the Building Site that is Dubai? It tends to be people with no imagination who holiday there. Much better places in Europe and the USA.

Hello RRH.

Hanging out here now that your playground (CC.net) has closed.

[HRH]

I can't understand the attraction of going to the Building Site that is Dubai? It tends to be people with no imagination who holiday there. Much better places in Europe and the USA.

[Xenophon]

Xeno, there was a time that I would have agreed, but now I feel different. Weed doesn't just end up in your pocket for £15 1/8 ... there is a whole crime chain behind the production and supply of narcotics. This underworld causes more grief for society than we are able to see.

We hear about the gangland shootings and the turf wars (all to gain market share for the selling of drugs) - but there is more, including prositution, people trafficking, broken homes and economic costs to the nation.

It might be different if the law chose to legalise the weaker drugs - if it could ever be proven that they are at least only as harmful as alcohol or cigs. But as it stands, every narcotics consumer is helping to drive crime in many different forms.

The greater good. I like that. I am more selfish.

Peace.

[Swiss Tony]

I'd much rather have near-zero crime rather than the freedom enjoyed by criminals here.

Even when criminals are put away here, they live in near luxury with satellite TV, gyms, training courses... not to mention all the narcotics they smuggle in. FFS they're criminals, give them 50 lashings and leave them to rot!

If he was in Singapore he would have been jailed and caned - Dealing with drugs : At least fifteen strokes. Thats got to sting!

[ChimpMaster]

My view:

It is nobody's business what I take into my body, unless I harm another person on this planet.

HTH

Xeno, there was a time that I would have agreed, but now I feel different. Weed doesn't just end up in your pocket for £15 1/8 ... there is a whole crime chain behind the production and supply of narcotics. This underworld causes more grief for society than we are able to see.

We hear about the gangland shootings and the turf wars (all to gain market share for the selling of drugs) - but there is more, including prositution, people trafficking, broken homes and economic costs to the nation.

It might be different if the law chose to legalise the weaker drugs - if it could ever be proven that they are at least only as harmful as alcohol or cigs. But as it stands, every narcotics consumer is helping to drive crime in many different forms.

[Xenophon]

My view:

It is nobody's business what I take into my body, unless I harm another person on this planet.

HTH

[ChimpMaster]

I'd much rather have near-zero crime rather than the freedom enjoyed by criminals here.

Even when criminals are put away here, they live in near luxury with satellite TV, gyms, training courses... not to mention all the narcotics they smuggle in. FFS they're criminals, give them 50 lashings and leave them to rot!

[TheFaQQer]

I love the line

"I must have forgotten the spliff," he said in the interview. "It was a small amount. Back home I would not even get prosecuted."

Of course, the key thing was that he wasn't "back home".

Fool.

[basshead]

I had a great time in Dubai and Fujairah Grooverider should have been more careful, its no excuse these days not to know exactly what is in your bags and about your person when you fly, especially when you're flying to UAE.

There is much money to be made in UAE though, met a few expats out there coining it in.

[swamp]

I for one don't want to be in jail for four years because I stood on a poppy seed at Heathrow.

Stay clear of Dubai.

[Gonzo]

It's put me off going to Dubai, or even stopping on transit.

Do you have stashes that have fallen through your pockets that you have forgotten about then?

If you ask me, you need to be respectful of local laws when you travel and ensure that you do not fall foul of them. You would have to have been living in a cave for the last decade not to be aware that there are many countries with very draconian drug laws.

Of course, I am just jealous. I have been a good boy for five years now, but in the olden days there is no way that I ever had so much stuff that I would mislay any of it.

[swamp]

It's put me off going to Dubai, or even stopping on transit.