Britsh waiter, John McDougall now of Doha, Qatar has just been awarded the Middle East's most overpaid and overpromoted expat award for 2012 by the Prestigious Dubai Management Excellence Chamber for Betterment.
John who previously in the UK was a waiter in the restuarant chain of Haram Halal foods of Bradford is now a GM of a large local conglomerate in Qatar specialising in precision engineering techologies. When approached by the Gulf-Penisular he stated 'I'm as shocked as you that my salary is 200,000 QR a month, plus a villa in west bay lagoon, but I couldn't turn it down. I only came out as manager of one of my sponsors resturants on the Pearl but he decided I was the man to run his engineering division. I put it down to the fact that I was the only one of his staff that spoke English he could understand.'
When asked how long he would stay he was quite defiant, 'go home? You must be joking, I now have 2,000 highly educated asian staff who do all the work for me as I can sip G&Ts round the pool with my new young Filipino wife. I found the position in life that was meant for me'
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ReplyDeleteSome people can dream it only!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he wants more than one wife?
ReplyDeleteA story so true it could almost be real......
ReplyDeletewhat do you mean could be real?!...truth is stranger than fiction my friend! :)...
ReplyDeleteI know this guy...except he's Australian and was a caterer and now he's in real estate investment/development...wait, maybe there's more than one!
ReplyDeleteI think there are lots... Especially the Aussies......
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